Glowfic Ebooks

[Throne3d]

Okay. I'm also assuming that Pedro owns "peterverse", "mswoods", "mrwoods" and "msmaxwell", and that Maggie owns "asteptotheright", "jumptotheleft" and "themainattraction". There was a little problem with the icon of chanuphis (k ~ gryffindor) and mrwoods (little curious), but that seems to be due to icon changes since the page was downloaded, and was resolved by just re-downloading the page.

Edit: Um, the new sandbox seems smaller (50.0MB instead of 55.0MB) than the previous one. Unless that's down to it growing when I convert it, I think there could be something wrong with how I'm handling the new system to create epubs. I haven't actually uploaded any changes to dropbox, just BitBucket, so you'll all be fine using that one, but I'll have a look into what's different. I mean, the table of contents seems like the new one has more (which it should), so... I'm kinda confused. I suppose I'll see if it's totally chopped off the ends of a few chapters or something? e_e

Edit2: Oh, wait, nope, could well be the fact that I unprettified another thing. Probably fine. There are slight differences in the number of lines that fit on a page, though, which is weird. It's probably Calibre's conversion slightly altering the heights. Oh well! Cool. Or rather not.

Edit3: Yep. It's Calibre's conversion. Nothing wrong. It is smaller, though, in terms of bytes, because of less annoying whitespace. Yay!

Oh, ugh, nope. A problem has been noted. I've reverted the version I uploaded, so I doubt anyone's got the new, broken version. (Threads on a single chapter that are linked separately get cached weirdly, currently. I'll fix it.)

Edit4: And I have solved the problem and the new thing is uploading.

[Alicorn]

I do occasionally update characters' icon sets if I find that there are gaps and redundancies that feel more important than I expected when I'm actually using them, so that should be a thing a scraper can handle.

[Throne3d]

Okay, well, it should do that now! If you change the icon of a keyword (and don't change the keyword), it'll update the icon. It's made it a bit slower, because it has to download the "icons" page each time it encounters a new profile, but it's not too bad. It's at least not breaking the current icons, but I'm not sure I've got the scenario where it'd actually change any icons right now, so I can't properly test whether that works.

If you change the keyword, or remove some, or something (I don't know if it lets you make all posts with a specific icon into posts with a different icon, but something like that), then it will currently probably just complain. I could fix that, but it'd probably slow it down if it ever can't find an icon for a legitimate reason, and since Dreamwidth doesn't let you edit comments with comments under them, I'm assuming it won't let you edit the icons of a post with comments under them.

[Kappa]

It is possible in Dreamwidth to change all existing uses of a keyword into a different keyword. People don't do it very often, I don't think, but it can happen and it doesn't depend on editing old comments manually.

[Throne3d]

Yeah. I just noticed that here. The keyword is "irked (maybe)" but on the icons page it's "d ~ maybe (maybe)".
I'm not really sure how to handle it, since it doesn't seem like Dreamwidth has updated the original page with the new keyword... I mean, other than just leaving it as is.

[Alicorn]

The most common icon operation for me is to:

- delete an icon, A
- juggle keywords until B appears in all posts originally using A, as well as its own
- upload an icon, C
- rearrange the keywords until they each have one letter assigned to them in approximate mood order a-o

[Throne3d]

If you juggle keywords so the icons appear, does it change what shows up when you hover over the icon of a post? For example, on this post, if you hover over the icon, it says "irked (maybe)", and I'm not sure if that's there because that's what the icon was called when the post was originally made, or if it's because that was the last time Dreamwidth updated that thing, or if it's just something you type when you create a post and it selects the icon that best matches that text, or what. If the text doesn't change, but the actual displayed icon does, my current method should (mostly) work fine, though I might have to re-do whole chapters from time to time, but if the text changes along with the icon, I'll have to re-do whole chapters more often...

I don't actually know how Dreamwidth handles this stuff, nor what's displayed to the user, and it takes a really long time to download the whole of Effulgence or the whole of the Sandbox in one go, so I set it up to only download new stuff when it sees a change on the last page of a chapter (i.e. new posts are added, more pages are added, the latest post is edited, small things like that). Otherwise I'd have to make it download the whole of each chapter each time, and if it's a chapter that has like 100 pages, it's a lot easier to just download the last page rather than the other 99 along with it. It then saves the generated thing so it doesn't have to do that another time, but I've made it so it'll alter that to have the proper icon for that text (if it can find one in the icon page on Dreamwidth, or else just the picture that was there beforehand).

I'm not really sure how to better handle this in an efficient way :\ - but thanks anyway!

[Alicorn]

I have no idea. It doesn't look like the comment has been edited, and Shell Bell still has an "irked" icon and it was never shuffled away completely (although all keywords eventually got letter ordering), so I don't know what would have caused that at all.

[DanielH]

Details for what Dreamwidth does are available here (linked to a specific question on the page, but the rest might also be useful).

I believe that happened because at one point Shell Bell had an "irked (maybe)" icon. Since she no longer does, it has switched to default. Alicorn could have made that be the Irked icon by shuffling keywords and checking Rename Keywords while doing so, but I think that fits better as the Maybe keyword (default) anyway given a brief skim of the context.

[Throne3d]

Details for what Dreamwidth does are available here (linked to a specific question on the page, but the rest might also be useful).

I believe that happened because at one point Shell Bell had an "irked (maybe)" icon. Since she no longer does, it has switched to default. Alicorn could have made that be the Irked icon by shuffling keywords and checking Rename Keywords while doing so, but I think that fits better as the Maybe keyword (default) anyway given a brief skim of the context.

Oh, okay, well... That's sort of awkward. Thanks anyway, but I think it means I have to re-download all the pages of all the chapters containing a face if that face gets renamed, if I want it to update the text in the epub, or else just leave it as is and it won't update any of the icons when there's a keyword change and then an icon change (just an icon change will be fine, and just a keyword change will mean it just pretends there was no change). Unless there's some other way I haven't thought of yet. (I suppose I could track all the old versions of the pages, see when an icon's removed, save some examples automatically, and then re-download for those and check what they're now set as, and convert all the other icons into that new thing if it's different... But that's a lot of effort, and probably very little gain, and it'll require quite a bit of rewrite, and also probably not the best way to do it...)

Oh well. :\ - I suppose I can just clear everything and re-download everything every once in a while, if there have been major changes to the icons. Or maybe get to work on that idea at some point.