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Stuff that's already different about the rebuild

Posted by Kim April 18th 2019, 12:01pm
Stuff that's already different about the rebuild:
  • 8 ) and B ) will no longer automatically trigger the big eyes and sunglasses dude emoji, respectively. These are rarely used emoticons, whereas the use of these character combinations in lists is much more common.
  • When choosing what character to post as, in addition from just selecting off the dropdown as before, now you can actually type in a search. This should be super helpful for our members who have 30+ characters!
  • You can hotlink to a specific forum post by clicking the date on it.
  • You can now post as yourself (as a user) in IC forum topics, not just as characters. All such posts will be automatically marked as being OOC.
  • "report" button has been renamed to "Request mod" in an effort to make it less daunting to ask for other kinds of help from the mods.
  • It is now possible to comment directly on most help articles. My hope is that this allows clarifications or requests for advice to take place publicly, for the benefit of all.
  • If you're logged in but you can't reply to a topic for any reason (banned, blocked, site closed for maintenance, etc.), the "reply" button simply will not appear, saving you the hassle of a wasted click or writing a message only to be told it can't be posted.

You know, I did a bunch of stuff before ever starting this thread. Let me see what I can remember about what I rebuilt earlier in the year:
  • Viewing news posts
  • Commenting on news posts
  • For me: creating, editing, scheduling and deleting news posts
  • The BBCode parser that outputs your prettified text, and nearly all the bbcode tags that you already know and love
  • Backwards compatibility for old-style of dice rolls (there's a new dice roll system on the way!)
  • Major conversion of the User model to work with this new version. This probably doesn't mean anything to almost anyone, but it was a big, beautiful deal.
  • Handling for deleted users
  • Handling for deleted characters
  • Login
  • Logout
  • Display of public forums
  • Display of public topics
  • Starting new topics
  • Replying to topics
  • Bump filter for forum topic replies
  • Requiring and taking the forum pledge for public forums
  • Show/hide the LFRPAO forum and its topics as appropriate
  • Editing posts
  • Hotlinking to specific posts
  • Detecting which "entity" was last used to post in a particular thread, and auto-selecting that character for further responses to a topic
  • For mods: locking/unlocking topics, stickying topics, the mod center where we track cases and many of its attendant tools. This is like... a crapton of stuff and represents a few weeks of work on its own, and we still have more to go.
  • Subscribing and unsubscribing to topics
  • Set up the shiniest, newest version of the text editor the RPR uses (the buttons for bold, italic, text-size, lists, etc.) for easier text editing and a goodbye to many of the bugs we're dealing with in the older version the current site uses
  • Letting users block each other, view who they've blocked and why, and unblock
  • The help center, its various articles, and how I create/edit them
  • Help article subject tags that enhance searching for help articles
  • Help center search
  • A LOT of work on settings pages for user accounts, trying to make it easier and less overwhelming without removing controls
  • The ultra-super basics of characters like name, gender, and who owns them
  • Most of the current features of user profiles (not counting epic member recoloring)

And of course... huge, excessive amounts of staring out of windows grimly considering the rebuild of character/group profile creation interfaces and all its attendant obstacles and glories.

Oh god. It's going to be so good. Or it's going to kill me and steal my soul in the attempt. It's a Targaryen coin toss.
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