Alicornutopia

Kappa wrote:You can murder all of my icons that are linked from Dreamwidth if you like, I bet that's a pretty big chunk of the database.

Thank you <3 All done, we're down to 6k/10k now.

Bluelantern wrote:Does new posts or edited posts make a difference?

I mean, sure, each post is a DB row and each edit is also a DB row. But as noted, Kappa's icons were like. Most of the database. PSA: don't run character scrapers on Kappa's characters, kids.

I find it odd that they measure in rows. It costs them in gigabytes.

How much do you use herokuapp-specific APIs? Would it be possible to port to a different host? I don’t know much about the options, but I know OpenShift offers 3 GB and 24/7 runtime free. For comparison, the epubs of Effulgence are about 50MB.

This is not an endorsement of OpenShift; I use them for one tiny thing and don’t know if they scale well or if they would be more expensive if the free plan was not good enough.

I also find it odd they measure in rows, and also annoying because most of my rows are tiny. But alas, I do not control it.

I don't use Heroku-specific stuff much at all, honestly, and the lure of MySQL is strong. I'll have to go through and investigate the addons (email and image uploads are the main concerns, since I know how to do those with Heroku but not OpenShift) but I'm not opposed. I can look into it. Thanks for the rec :)

I broke something! I think?

Whenever I go to my icons page, or try to add new icons, or try to gather icons into a gallery, I get a "We're sorry, but something went wrong." This happened in the middle of me trying to add some imgur-linked icons. Depending on what exactly went wrong, I might have ended up adding them a bunch of times.

Marri, why is there a "Hollow-Art.com" banner on the bottom of my picture?
Also, how do I do italics in glowficsite?

I think you italics in glowficsite like so: <i>italic text</i>

And the banner is probably because you're linking the image directly from Hollow Art. They don't like it when people do that. If you download it yourself and upload it to somewhere like imgur, it should hopefully solve the problem.

Marri, what's the status of this request? Planned, rejected, already available and I have to find it, something else?

Ezra wrote:For mobile layout, I think I'd prefer to have the names to the side of the icon and the text full width below, versus the current layout with one column of icons and names and another of text.

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I've been helping Marri out a bit with some layout reconfigurations which may or may not turn out to fit your specifications. There might also eventually be multiple layouts available but that's probably a distant future thing. (Some site features don't work in the new layout yet, which is why there's been no sign of it on the site.)

The current plan is to keep the character info on the left for web users, but in a floating box (so the post text will wrap rather than extend an empty side bar) and mobile will have character info at the top. But like Kappa said, doesn't work with the New Post form or the View Page Numbers code, so I can't deploy it without breaking everything. Soon :)

Kappa's totally right about both italics and the Hollow Art linking thing, for the record.

Updates!

• Some CSS changes courtesy of Kappa
• The list of posts for a character on their character page now includes their top level posts, not just replies
• Slightly improved post list for the Recently Updated page and the character page: it now counts replies from 0 instead of posts from 1 to match the post page, and lists all authors.
• More pages have titles other than just "Glowfic"
• Adding icons to galleries now prioritizes icons with no gallery, and sorts by most recent first.
• The Post button now disables when you click it, so it's harder to accidentally double post.
• Template nicknames appear on the character's profile page, not just the main character list page.
• There is now a page with its best guess at tags you owe.

Possibly other things but my computer is force restarting in 10 minutes and I don't want to lose track of this list. A new layout using divs instead of tables with less useless sidebar whitespace is my current project; after that probably Unread Posts.