The Glowfic Constellation

[Marri]

PostgreSQL actually has pretty sophisticated search features! And I know how to use exactly none of them xD So I will happily put it on the list but it is probably lower down, because it has more of a learning curve.

[DanielH]

Google Site Search does not seem to be that good in this case, unfortunately; it cannot find https://vast-journey-9935.herokuapp.com ... eply-75055 using any search terms I attempt, for example. You might want to put search slightly higher on the priority list than you otherwise would, because of this.

[Marri]

Huh. I've found at least a few indexed posts (searching "enjoying" with the site filter brings up four results, for example) so I'm not sure how it's indexing. I'll add SEO improvements to the list and see if I can bump up text search. (Possibly I should at minimum put it before scraping Dreamwidth, since I suspect it'll involve processing existing threads).

[PlainDealingVillain]

I don't think text search is that hard, there's a bunch of gems for it. I'll take a look, maybe I can just patch the search we have to do text search too in an hour or two.

[jalapeno_dude]

The Last button on Unread goes someplace other than the last page of Unread.

This still seems to be the case. Currently my Unread Threads page displays 19 threads (I'm guessing that either this is supposed to be 20 and it's a fencepost error or it's some sort of interaction with Hidden threads), says "Total=26", and all of the next page links ("2", "Next", "Last', which all point to ?page=2) go to a page with no threads on it (screenshot here).

EDIT: And reading one of those 19 threads has now made it so my Unread Threads page now shows 18 threads and the bottom line with "Total=" and page navigation links has vanished. I suspect that means I actually really do have 18 unread threads at the moment and had 19 before that. No idea where the number 26 came from, then (it's not the number of Hidden Threads I have or anything like that), or why this was the threshold where pagination disappeared.

[Marri]

It might be counting posts you don't have access to, and not displaying them because you don't have access? I'll take a look.

[pedromvilar]

Petty: When looking at icons in the gallery, they are ordered in alphabetical order but ignore "(" (for instance, the icon labeled "dying" is between "(d) talking" and "(e) eyelashes" here). When I go post something, however, "(" comes before all letters (so "dying" is after "(o) upset"). Can this be made consistent? Preferably in such a way that "(" came before all letters.

[Marri]

Updates:

• Tagging. Not perfectly happy with it yet, but I think it works? For now, tags are unfortunately kinda hidden on a Stats page- I request/encourage feedback on better places to put then and/or other things to put on that page and/or the new tagging system in general.
• PDV was kind enough to fix a bug in one of my old database migration files that would crash the development environment for people working on the Constellation
• I did my best to make all the places I use icons order by the gallery sorting (for the technically curious, one was using Rails sort_by(&:keyword) and one was using Postgres .order('keyword asc')). While I was at it, I made the sort case insensitive.
• Adding icons to the galleryless gallery now redirects back to the galleryless gallery instead of the main gallery page.
• Deleting icons from any gallery page now redirects back to the correct gallery page instead of the main gallery page.
• There are better warnings around trying to upload an icon if it is not a valid image type, or if it's a .tiff file (which I can actually upload just fine, but are only supported by Safari)

I'm pretty sure the access problem is in fact the unread problem. It's complicated to solve so it will go on the list for later.

I was going to do more things but it's late and I'm tired? So that's it for now.

[PlainDealingVillain]

[*] PDV was kind enough to fix a bug in one of my old database migration files that would crash the development environment for people working on the Constellation

In related news, I'll be working on the Constellation more now. (I found the bug like this kobold found traps.)

[Kappa]

<333333 marri you are good.