Alicornutopia

My "My Characters" page uses ~character groups~, which I desperately need because I have fifty templates and need to organize them somehow. Also, "My Templates" doesn't list characters with no template. At least not in list view it doesn't.

I do agree that there should be some sensible way to combine the two pages into a single page that does all the things, but figuring out what the combination should look like seems like it might be nontrivial.

Wait, character groups exist? I thought those were still in development!

(The time-traveling tech support strikes again? I'm starting to feel like if I were a little more glowy I would post requesting Marri eradicate malaria.)

Character groups used to exist, but Marri deactivated them because they were bad or something after Kappa got them organised and now a less bad version is in the works.

I already have To Dos in place for 'improve icon view' (#19) and 'suggest tags' (#144).

If I were to get rid of a page, it would probably be My Templates rather than My Characters; I might put the functionality of My Templates into My Characters, but as far as naming goes that's the name I'd rather keep.

We do indeed have a naming problem (part and parcel of our design problem). A significant part of that is the fact that this site is still pretty specific to this community, and is extremely not optimized for outsiders; not saying it couldn't be, but yes, it presently assumes large degrees of context.

I can't remember if I've said this already, and I looked back a few pages and couldn't find it but I could just be failing to look hard enough, but:

I think tags/warnings are another thing alongside community membership that should be possible for any coauthor of a post to edit, not just the OP. I def think collaboration with the enemy deserves a red exclamation mark of some kind but I keep having this thought when my coauthor is not online and I can't suggest it.

Hmmm, I missed chatter somehow, sorry! Pedro's right about character groups; they existed, but were broken, and were broken in such a way that if I let people keep using them it would be increasing amounts of work for me to unbreak them, so I left some of the pieces in but not the ones that let you worsen my workload. Yes, a new and improved version is pending.

In other news:
Throne fixed a thing with galleries in the character editor not displaying in name order
I made Alicorn a thing where you can, for characters with more than one gallery, set the order in which the galleries appear
I finished the post metadata thing for Kappa

Maybe more things later? But honestly, I mostly just need to write tests...

best marri!! so good!! <33333333

@ reordering galleries per character, should the little "minus" button next to the arrow buttons minimise the gallery to only its title? because if so it does not do that

It should in fact do that and… I thought I had done a fix to make it do that, but my fix used something non-standard? I can't seem to find the pull request for it, though.

I have several times accidentally clicked links on this forum which take me to a point in a GC thread later than the point I have read up to. When this happens the behavior of the "First Unread" button is not what I'd like. For example: if I've read up to some point on page 3 of a thread, and then click a link which takes me to some point on page 6 of a 7+ page thread, "First Unread" will take me to the top of page 7 when I'd prefer that it take me to the point on page 3 where I stopped reading.

Relatedly, it would be nice to have a "Mark Unread from Here" option. (It is currently possible to mark unread from page N by marking the whole thread as unread and going to page N-1, or a specific reply by switching to 1 reply per page, but this is awkward and annoying and it would be better to just have another button e.g. next to the existing permalink button on each reply.)