Alicornutopia

*hugs*

<333333333 for everyone

I will be relaxing as much as possible, I promise, but sometimes I spin my wheels by coding (and sometimes by fervently avoiding it) so we'll see. Today I fussed with the email some; Google's been periodically turning off email sending because of it prevents a "suspicious login" - by the Constellation servers - so I followed some StackOverflow instructions and hopefully that helps with the random email-not-working thing. Also I am setting up forwarding for Throne3d to also get error emails, with a vague goal of "someone else should be notified if things break". That's as far as I got done.

Heads up that I may need to turn off page=all for large threads; there's ways to optimize it so I don't have to, but that takes longer sooo that will come after I prevent things from timing out.

I found a while back that you can hack in arbitrary numbers for page sizes if you poke into the POST request, and switched to using 1000 instead. Maybe make that a standard option while you're switching off all.

And similarly, it might be a good idea to set a maximum per_page value serverside instead of just turning off the all option.

I do not particularly mind people setting their own arbitrary numbers, and in fact put in some code to make it handle the case better, but I added 1000 as an option. Also I made it so per_page=all now auto switches to per_page=1000 when you're viewing a thread with 5k or more replies. (I should probably make a plug here for Flat View, an option in the post dropdown, which is intended mostly for backup downloading but also likely handy for certain reading purposes. Does not affect Unread page.)

I do not actually desire to have to enforce a maximum per_page value; I'd like my server robust enough to deal. Whether I can achieve same is a larger question.

Site has been underperforming today. Throne identified a crawler bot as responsible, he fixed a bunch of meta flags on the site to improve our SEO, I changed our robots.txt to make the bot crawl 10x slower, hopefully things improve.

Unread links have ceased to work properly for me. They seem to take me to a post several back from where I actually was. (This is most obvious in my own threads, where of course I'm generally up to date on the latest post.)

For instance, the "this is the road to ruin" unread link (https://vast-journey-9935.herokuapp.com ... ead#unread) takes me persistently to this post (https://vast-journey-9935.herokuapp.com ... ply-201505) even though I've got several posts after that.

I would like site specific search.

I would like to narrow it by thread, continuity, author, and character/template.

I have no idea how feasible that is.

@Alicorn It's feasible and I think PDV was working on it; it does require a bunch of database prep so I haven't touched it yet. Definitely already on the list.

@Moriwen that's very odd. Is it still doing the thing?

Only just got internet in the new place today (can we talk about how I a) got married b) had my aunt die and c) moved apartments in the space of ten days cause let me tell you that is NOT ENOUGH DAYS FOR THIS SHIT) so I've just been writing tests. We have gone from 58.85% coverage to 61.81%. I'll get there... someday...

Hugs. And congratulations.

Thank you for all your hard work!