The Glowfic Constellation

[pedromvilar]

Smol request: when someone toplevels in a continuity that has authors (for instance, Jarn creates a new post in Rapid Nova), the other authors of that continuity (in this case, me) get that thread on their Tags Owed even though they haven't posted yet.

[Kappa]

Ooh that's a neat idea and I approve.

[Moriwen]

Similar request: if I click "join thread", add that thread to my Tags Owed page.

[Kappa]

Hmm... I think "join thread" is possible to click by accident, and there isn't currently a way to take things out of your Tags Owed, so if there was a way to "join thread" that affected Tags Owed I think I'd want there to also be a way to "leave thread" that took away your reply box and took the thread out of your Tags Owed. (Which would also help with the thing where sometimes you cameo somewhere and then the thread goes on hiatus afterward and is in your Tags Owed forevermore even though you have nothing to do with it...)

[pedromvilar]

iirc the current "join thread" button is a temporary measure while a more sophisticated one isn't created (like setting authors at the start of a thread, or adding temporary guests/new authors while it's going on)

[Moriwen]

while a more sophisticated one isn't created

I don't know if this is a typo or not but it pretty much sums up programming in my experience

[Throne3d]

I think it's meant to mean "while a more sophisticated one hasn't yet been created" :P

[Marri]

Updates from Throne3d who continues to be wonderful:
- A nice new README explaining how to get set up to develop the Constellation on Ubuntu
- When writing a message, users in the recipient dropdown are sorted alphabetically
- Cleaned up empty optgroups in the character selector dropdown

Updates from me:
@Ezra take pity on my overloaded brain and please remind me. When you say "layout pop in", you mean that long names are wrapping around to the next level on the mobile layout rather than displaying to the right of the icon? Or something else?

@Moriwen
- It turns out to be easy programmatically to add Next in the Here Ends block but kind of horrible design-wise. Instead, I stuck a copy of the Previous / Next navigation at the bottom iff the post is completed and the navigation exists.
- As regards the unread problem: you seem to have marked those threads as "hide from unread", which means it does not update the unread time. So a) do you in fact see these posts in Unread or are you using the link from Tags Owed, in which case this is fixable by going to Hidden Posts and unhiding them, but also b) do you in fact recall doing this or did it possibly somehow happen accidentally, and the Unhide fix will still work but I should dig into accidental Hidden?
- Clicking Join Thread by itself does not add a post to Tags Owed, but if you click Join Thread and then also write a reply that should do it. If it does not, please link me examples :) That said, Pedro is correct both about its temporariness and, as you pointed out, the accidental summary of all programming everywhere.

@Various Added a To Do to improve switching to base accounts.

@RoboticLIN You said "I never really looked at tags owed" but also "The tags owed never updated". What is it you were expecting to update? If the problem is just that you were loading the post on page 2 and didn't realize a page 3 existed, it's maybe a layout design issue where pagination should be clearer, but I'm trying to figure out if there's an actual code-level bug with the URL /posts/owed. Also, feel free to DM me if that's easier for you than checking this thread.

@Pedro are you picturing this just being continuities you are a main author of, or also ones you cameo in? Guessing the first.

I think I'm caught up now but please let me know if I did not reply to something, it was definitely not on purpose!

[DanielH]

New bug report: the “+ Show First Post” box doesn’t actually work for me (Chrome/Linux or Opera/Android). EDIT: to clarify, this is a new report of a bug which I’ve been experiencing for a while but forgot to mention, not a report of a new bug)

Something that’s been mentioned but I think you haven’t addressed:
Shortly after you went away for a bit, people were talking about the updated mobile layout having lost some navigation functionality. Everybody seemed to like this suggestion:

For page number, would it be possible to just put a drop-down in between prev and next, so it goes like

Code: Select all

« First   ‹ Previous   [13 v] / 26   Next ›   Last »

Where the [13 v] is a drop-down showing the current page number and letting you switch to any other page?

Screenshot mockup made with Chrome

It would be nice if it could include a per_page dropdown, which I find very useful on mobile, but I can’t find a way to fit it in without sacrificing layout.

[Marri]

More things:
- I fixed it so that future images will upload to Amazon S3 with a Cache-Control header. Unfortunately this does not back-update old images, and going through and fixing them (or deleting/properly recreating them) is likely to count against my monthly update limit. I will... figure this out. Might ultimately result in me using the free BucketExplorer trial.
- Throne fixed it so messages sent without a subject will fill in as (no title) so you can still click on them.
- Throne fixed an thing where if you logged in from the page /login it would log you in then take you back to your previous page, which was /login, and would then briefly complain at you for trying to go to /login while already logged in. It now just takes you to the continuities page.
- Throne also added the Remember Me box to the /login page

@Daniel thank you for reminding me, I do in fact need to fix the mobile layout thing. It's less trivial than I'd like because I'm using a helpful built in paginator gem which does not support me mucking around quite to that level, but I'll attempt it :D As for the Show First Post bug, do you get an error in the Chrome console when you click it? It's working okay on my Chrome/Mac.