The Glowfic Constellation

[Aestrix]

There is also some problem for the dark layout with the color of the text in the boxes when choosing all of the new snazzy options when making a post. The drop down lists all have white text on a white background, it makes my eyes sad.

[Throne3d]

I was thinking of redoing some of my character galleries to make picking an icon easier and more consistent for me and realized my current method of icon ordering was nowhere near optimal! I wasn't sure how to order my icons (as in, 'happiest to saddest' or 'angriest last', not as in 'with numbers? Letters?') and I realized that it would be probably preferable if I could rank icons on separate scales and have them ordered in the icon picker according to this scale (a drop-down which reorders it according to a different scale, after I input values for each thing when I add the icon).

It was a vague tentative idea that I was thinking I might try writing some code for (for myself, it was going to be a local Javascript thing), because I'm not sure how easy or difficult it'd be to implement on the Constellation, and then I mentioned it in IRC and was perhaps not the only person who would like this thing?

These might be arbitrary numbers, not necessarily sequential – i.e. icons in your scale for happiness might have values of: 2, 2.5, 3.5, 3.7, 4, 6, 7.75, 8, 9.75, not necessarily 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, but I'm not sure about that – and I expect different people would want different scales available? I'd probably want "happiness", "confusion", "anger", "clothing", "scenery" (so for 'happiness' it would be high values for happy, low for sad, but for 'clothing' it would be that I assign all icons with the same clothing similar values so they cluster together), so it might be a hassle to implement, and I'm not really sure how much people would use it or how much functionality it'd add, but I'd expect that if I'm searching for "sad icon" it'd be easier to sort by happiness and pick from the low end and then for "angry icon" sort by anger and pick the high end, than to have a single scale of happiness and look for angry icons in amongst all the sad icons down the low end?

Not sure. Would other people be interested in this, have any comments on how they think it could be improved, anything like that?

[Kappa]

It seems like a really neat idea that would be useful for picking icons. I'm content with the icon sorting system I have, but I bet I'd like this one a lot if it became available.

It would definitely be important to have people able to set their own individual scales, though, I bet it would be a huge mess to try to standardize a single all-purpose set of attributes that every glowficcer wants to sort their icons by.

[Marri]

Updates:

• The content warnings now display with a space between them ("Content Warning: warning, warning, warning") unlike before ("Content Warning: warningwarningwarning").
• The unread page was too tight to display "# Unread" on one line as a header, which made the header row really tall; it now just says "Unread".
• I now use bullet_go for dark layouts
• When you switch a post from access list to anything else, it should actually delete the viewer records in the background
• Developers working on the Constellation who open code folders in Finder on a Mac will no longer see .DS_Store files appear in their git diff
• Moiety colors are now displayed in the █ box used by the Daily Report because apparently the ⬤ circle I was using turns randomly into emoji for some people. Please let me know if the box starts doing it too?
• I had previously changed it so that views are now properly destroyed when posts/continuities are; I had not gone through and deleted old views from before this change where the post/continuity no longer exists. This has been fixed. If you were seeing issues with your Hidden page, it's probably better now.
• The stats page will now only display a Setting section if there's actually a Setting chosen
• The stats page now has a cute Audience section complete with icons just cause I wanted to

Might be more things tonight but I am currently re-bogged down fighting the continuity design thing.

I will make a To Do item for scales, and then assign it to you Throne :P

[Marri]

More things:
- Continuities can now be sorted by post as well as by section, or they can be intermixed. My current design hack, all credit to Kappa, is just to put spacers between things.
- Stats page now includes board section in its breadcrumbs
- Sections now respect post visibility when viewing a continuity (credit to Throne/Kappa)
- More things are correctly deleted when you delete a post
- There was a place still calling character.gallery, which is not a thing now that characters can have multiple galleries. I removed the character.gallery method, which broke the place, which I then also fixed, hopefully no more crashing.
- I am scraping Silmaril off Dreamwidth. I'm sorry for all the crashes while it scrapes; it didn't have a last_user_id or last_reply_id set. Put in a fix for that after I scrape Elentári, the rest of the sections shouldn't crash while I scrape.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

Lintamande apparently can't open her user page right now.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

...I can't access her user page either.

[Marri]

Also can I just say that it's 3am and the crashes only lasted for ~20 minutes and in that time I got 90 error reports???? I am feeling both very loved and very afraid xD

Yeah, that was part of the scraping, should be better now.

[atheistcanuck]

you should definitely feel loved. <3

[pedromvilar]

So much love <333

(Also, I think the last posts of Leave of Absence and interplanar studies no longer make sense in the Constellation :P)

Request: interface element to go to a specific page of a thread rather than having to edit the thing in the address bar?