The Glowfic Constellation

[pedromvilar]

When the last character who I used to post doesn't have icons and I switch to another character, even though I can pick the new character's icon normally, its preview doesn't appear to the left of the text box.

[Throne3d]

Bug was noted by Teceler yesterday, I think (… in IRC – I apologize for not keeping people in the loop). There should be a fix soon.

[Marri]

Changes from Throne:
- Fix for the icon view thing is up
- The 'this tag already exists' check is now case insensitive
- The email-about-new-reply tests no longer require a .env file
- It's now much harder to accidentally remove yourself from a post's viewers on access list posts

Changes from me:
- The association to get all icons for a character is now done properly with Rails associations rather than manually
- Continuity coauthors and cameos now use proper Rails associations, and don't use a horrible default scope
- Post viewers for access list posts now use proper Rails associations
- Icon stats now link to a list of replies that use them.
- I did in fact fix that bug jalapeno_dude reported
- I've torn out the cache-reply-views-in-Redis code more thoroughly, since it was just overloading Redis and not gaining us much.
- Code coverage is at 81.16%, which appears to be a very tiny increase except for the thing where I just ripped out a bunch of tested code to replace it with the automatic Rails stuff.

[Kappa]

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[Kappa]

Idle thought for a thing that would be really cool but probably won't be practical for a while if ever:

Okay so, some characters are from Hogwarts 'verses and have wands, and all wands have a wood and a core and a length. And some characters are from Alethia 'verses and have daemons, and daemons have a sex and a species, or at least most of them do. Some characters are from or have been exposed to wishcoin settings, and have a a coin colour. Some characters are from or have been exposed to Reverie settings, and have a mindscape and maybe an enchanter's aura. Some Hogwarts-setting characters also have Patronuses and/or Animagus forms. Most characters don't have either of those attributes, but for the ones who do, it's useful information to have attached to the character.

It would be cool if we had 'traits' to attach to characters, and each trait had a standardized display format and set of sub-traits, like wands as "Wand: ebony and dragon heartstring, eleven inches, rigid" or whatever, and if the character has the trait then you can set its sub-traits on the character edit page and the character page will display a list of all the character's traits.

But probably that would take up a lot of database room and therefore is best saved for later.

[Marri]

Maybe short term it could live in character descriptions? Next database level up is $50/mo but will max out based on space rather than rows, which is much better for our database of mostly small integer join tables xD

[Kappa]

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Yeah, I think it could live in character descriptions.

[DanielH]

Trying to be kind to the server’s memory, my phone’s memory, and my bandwidth, I often try to load all the remaining posts of a thread (if it’s less than about 500) without too many extra replies. For example, in room of requirement, I’d read 9544 posts and had 88 left; I used per_page=197&page=unread to get everything I hadn’t read with nothing left over. I would get the same replies if I’d done per_page=9544&page=unread (which would have been easier to calculate and would have been possible if the number of replies I’d read was prime); would this have been more expensive for the server or does memory only scale with rendered replies?

[Throne3d]

… Scales with rendered replies, I'm pretty sure.

[DanielH]

That’s what I’d thought, but the one time I tried it I got an application error and thought I could have triggered some sort of memory issue or something, so I wanted to be sure before trying it again.