The Glowfic Constellation

[Marri]

So anyone remember this happened?

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. I will... figure this out. Might ultimately result in me using the free BucketExplorer trial.

Got my bill from Amazon. Image hosting costs have gone from $0.23 to $2.55. While this is still not exactly expensive per se, the order of magnitude jump is rather concerning. So I sucked it up and got the BucketExplorer trial, and after many increasingly ridiculous hoops to jump through (roughly half of which were caused by the fact that my PC claims to be 64bit and apparently blatantly lied, and roughly the remainder caused by the Amazon docs outright lying about what I need to do to give BucketExplorer access) I got everything updated. Here's hoping it makes a dent in traffic?

[Marri]

Also, to actually reply to things:

@Daniel I'll put better diffs on the list, and I'm not sure long term I'll keep the "if the last reply was edited, it counts as a new tag" thing, it's awfully technically complex for not much gain, but I'll consider better designs if I do decide to keep it.

@Unbitwise Your nickname guess was correct. I've got a To Do somewhere already to improve all the creation flows, so won't duplicate that; and setting is actually already an AO3-like tag system, but I've only properly implemented it on posts; it's due to be tied into the character text field as well but hasn't happened yet. I'll put To Dos around most of the rest of it. Should-not-assume-things question though - when you say "You'd like there to be a Description / alt text", do you mean on characters (my assumption) or icons or what?

[Ezra]

What if the edited last reply just counts as new, so it's 1 rather than 0, and so that #unread scrolls down to it, and so that if there are also posts after it it still looks new? I think that would be a better experience, and depending how is implemented might be simpler too.

[Marri]

As currently designed, the first two are probably doable if I poke at it enough, and the last one is... either maybe possibly doable with an edge case bug but very complicated, or outright brain-destroying xD

I mean... I'm sure I could get through all the time stamp math eventually? It's just not really worth my time, at the moment. (Look what prioritizing roadmap tasks at work has done to me. Send help.)

[Ezra]

Don't do the brain-destroying one, that sounds bad.

[atheistcanuck]

I agree, your brain is good and it would be bad if it was destroyed.

[Unbitwise]

when you say "You'd like there to be a Description / alt text", do you mean on characters (my assumption) or icons or what?

I meant on icons. That would actually be placed as title= and alt= in-thread. Just like DW does. (Well, DW includes the keyword and the description.) The idea is that when the keyword is cryptic you can have text that explains the actual facial expression.

Though, I was separately thinking it would be nice if characters had a freeform profile too.

[Throne3d]

… It already is title and alt, in-thread?

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<img alt="(g) point out" class="icon" src="http://v.dreamwidth.org/10138683/2484790" title="(g) point out">

That's some code I just saw in a thread…? For this icon.

[Kappa]

Throne, I think the idea is that the thing that's currently in title/alt text is the icon keyword, which is sometimes cryptic; whereas Dreamwidth had an "icon description" field where you were supposed to put a description of the image in reasonably clear and readable terms, which then went in the title/alt text along with the keyword.

[Throne3d]

– Right, yep, it says that and I totally failed to read it. Oops.