Glowfic platform

[Bluelantern]

haha I discovered a thing!

in the icons view of my character page, if you scroll down to Plus ("dear, sweet, squeamish, soulful Sherlock"), there is a weird Thing going on with the alignment of the next row of icons after him. I *suspect* this is because the contents of his name field are more than two lines long in the display. The same sort of shit happens on my icon galleries page when I have an especially long icon keyword.

I am noticing when posting and the character's gallery suffers the same alignment problem.

[Marri]

Ah, yes, that thing's a weird side effect of using CSS float. I'll try it again using inline block or something, might help? EXPERIMENTS WILL ENSUE. Till I fix it it'll happen where the length of keywords/character names/whatever aren't the same length as others in the row.

For those of you who had my problem today: Firefox auto updated and disabled LJLogin. If you want to use the glowfic site instead, by all means feel free; but Kappa is a miracle worker and there is in fact a way to force Firefox into turning it back on. Explanation and instructions on this Mozilla support page.

[Marri]

Okay so I put together a Javascript hack to deal with the CSS wonkiness, haven't gotten it working for the image selector when posting yet but character/template/gallery pages should be doing better. Also, have a history viewer for replies.

Fix for the image picker and history for the main post are still pending.

[Bluelantern]

On stuff that could be done before the site goes live:
*Add a way to get links for specific posts
*The ability to delete several icons at once.
*Maybe add the html codes to the post edition page, kinda like what they have on dreamwidth.

So far those are pretty much my only additions to the site. Because it is great! :D

[Marri]

Yay requests! Thanks :)

Updates:

• You cannot edit other people's posts (...oops)
• Post history is a thing now
• I decided to be lazy and just made the icon picker force to six icon rows, so now the weird CSS float thing should be fixed for that one too.

Current list of Things I Want Done Before Release:

• In addition to the icon selector I already made, still having the dropdown of searchable icon keywords as a selection option in case people prefer it
• Being able to post without an icon
• Being able to link to a specific post
• Being able to delete multiple icons at once
• Fixing the UI bug on the search page
• Consolidating the UI for displaying a list of posts (on the forums page, on the Recent page, on a character's page, etc), including page numbers if relevant, better author list, etc
• More complete profile pages, for users or characters or really whatever.
• Restricting what you can post, since right now I just let basically anything through and this is Not Safe, and then providing a list of allowed markup from the post form.
• Moiety color in post display
• Being able to lock posts within general continuities (MWF, Sandboxes, etc) to specific authors, continuity-style
• Being able to lock threads to specific authors or to specific visibilities, same as posts

Things which are also on the above list but which will go absolutely last because they will cost money:

• Being able to import existing Dreamwidth glowfic into the site
• Being able to upload images
• Optional email notifications

[Kappa]

btw, the site will be able to send us emails eventually, right? I live for my dreamwidth comment notifications, I would be a sad kappa if glowficsite did not ever start doing that XD

[Timepoof]

Thing above: make it turn-off-able. I don't like emails.
EDIT: ooh, ooh, if a post is forked have it able to do totally chronologically and grouped together by thread.

[Kappa]

What do you mean about a post being forked? Is there anyone who likes seeing the comments from multiple threads incomprehensibly intermingled? Stranger things have happened, I guess.

[Timepoof]

I think I mean a post with multiple threads but someone somewhere said something about a post being forked and I think they meant like multiple threads from the same first post? Words fail me right now.

[Unbitwise]

Request from a reader: please change the layout/style to be phone-friendly.

1. Add the magic incantation

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   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">

   to the <head> of all pages.
2. Remove both left sidebars, so the text can be read at the full narrow width. If preferred, use CSS media queries to make it either a sidebar or a header/float conditional on the available width.
3. Tweak further as needed.

If you're not a smartphone-type-person, desktop Chrome and Firefox both have developer tool options to pretend to be one.