The Syndicate

Thanks, Boo.

Yup, glad it had that fix in it.

That's everything updated correctly now. I had to update more then half the extensions we use, so if you notice any acting in ways they didn't used to, let me know. I kept backups of all the previous versions, so if it's especially bad I'll just revert, if not, I'll look at fixes in the newer version.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:22 pm @Jackofhearts2005

There's no ghost tag hanging around! Ahh!

boo wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:26 pm That's everything updated correctly now. I had to update more then half the extensions we use, so if you notice any acting in ways they didn't used to, let me know. I kept backups of all the previous versions, so if it's especially bad I'll just revert, if not, I'll look at fixes in the newer version.

What else did you clean up today?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:49 pm

boo wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:26 pm That's everything updated correctly now. I had to update more then half the extensions we use, so if you notice any acting in ways they didn't used to, let me know. I kept backups of all the previous versions, so if it's especially bad I'll just revert, if not, I'll look at fixes in the newer version.

What else did you clean up today?

Besides the mention tags? More up-to-date versions of: header banner, post numbers, who posted that, and... one more I can't recall off the top of my head. I can't imagine any of those resulted in any changes that should be overly noticeable, it's mostly just future-proofing so they'll still work when the phpbb version is updated.

As... someone who's recently come out, I'm realizing that perhaps our gender / pronouns options here while at least better than they could be are... certainly less than ideal.

Would it be possible to change the gender section to something open-ended, or perhaps provide a much more exhaustive list of options similar to the ones available on MU? One thing that might be particularly helpful is a combination option, like she/her + they/them.

Thanks!

M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:04 am As... someone who's recently come out, I'm realizing that perhaps our gender / pronouns options here while at least better than they could be are... certainly less than ideal.

Would it be possible to change the gender section to something open-ended, or perhaps provide a much more exhaustive list of options similar to the ones available on MU? One thing that might be particularly helpful is a combination option, like she/her + they/them.

Thanks!

Oh wow, congrats!

I can look into that. I believe making it so those are blanks people can enter their own answers into rather than a drop-down selection should be doable.

That's been changed, so it's a textbox that lets people put in what they want rather then having presets to choose from. It did require deleting what was there, so everyone will need to go into their profile and change it.

Options are nice.

i like epi's new pronouns. very fitting to his character and persona imho.

and as always, thank you @boo !

Thank you so much, boo, I cannot express how much I appreciate the simple things like this too.

That rhymed unintentionally!

I feel like a big whiner every time I ask for an improvement because Boo has done such a great job fixing everything lately. It's really appreciated.

So with the announcement of the preferred pronoun stuff, I just wanted to point out that it isn't showing on mobile.

Basically all of this is missing on mobile to keep things looking cleaner/smaller.



I'd suggest the "isolate posts by" link and the preferred pronouns be added to the mobile interface. Depending on how the coding is, it might not even increase the size of the post headers since there's currently a bit of blank space to the right of the username on mobile.

Thanks!

My mobile display has had all of that for the last few weeks, but boo did not take credit for that fix. It seems to have just happened on its own. I wish I knew what caused some of us to have it and some us to not have it. But I do not.

Yea, it's just because phpbb styles are all required to be responsive now. The exact nature of how that will display on mobile/tablet will depend on the device, and can change based on updates they get. If I remove the coding that makes the style responsive, it would break the extensions that are used, as those all rely on being part of a responsive style. So no great way I can think of to change it.

Oh well. I’ll just be personally careful.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:00 pm Oh well. I’ll just be personally careful.

I dunno if this helps you, but those data texts show up on my mobile device in landscape mode (and not in portrait)

The only slight difference between mobile and desktop for me now is that every once in a while on mobile the top/bottom arrows will be displayed too low on the page so that they’re inaccessible. It is not a big enough deal to require a solution.

MU has a toy that I’m jealous of: bookmarks. You can mark posts in thread and leave notes for yourself, add color coded highlights, etc.

Would that be an easy addition?

Annotated Mafia.

Yikes.

I wouldn’t have to post all my thoughts in the thread anymore.

When Sloonei is an English teacher he will have his students reading Mafia game threads and highlighting them in five different colors.

WOW that would be nice!

I probably wouldn't use it, but I probably would actually

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 2:52 pm When Sloonei is an English teacher he will have his students reading Mafia game threads and highlighting them in five different colors.

I have sincerely dreamed about being a teacher and having my students play mafia as an exercise of some sort. I just need to think of an excuse to say it’s constructive in an academic environment.

If I ever teach intro psych in a small enough classroom, it might well happen.

Ok, I've got one. When I use the new multiquote feature, it works like a dream, BUT, after I hit "Quote (5)" or whatever, and make my long post, the "Reply with selected quotes" popup still appears. Ideally, it should disappear after the button is pushed, right? I have to press the trash can icon to get rid of it.

And another "out there" idea that may have been discussed before already... a simple Like button for posts?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 2:30 pm MU has a toy that I’m jealous of: bookmarks. You can mark posts in thread and leave notes for yourself, add color coded highlights, etc.

Would that be an easy addition?

I've been looking since I saw that on MU, but nothing so far. There are site-wide notes available (top menu drop down, above board index), but that just isn't the same.

Long Con wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 12:44 am Ok, I've got one. When I use the new multiquote feature, it works like a dream, BUT, after I hit "Quote (5)" or whatever, and make my long post, the "Reply with selected quotes" popup still appears. Ideally, it should disappear after the button is pushed, right? I have to press the trash can icon to get rid of it.

And another "out there" idea that may have been discussed before already... a simple Like button for posts?

It should, yea. Just a weird current quirk of the extension. It isn't a finished one though, and AFAIK, the author is going to make that change themself, so I'm waiting for it instead of digging into looking to do that myself.

I haven't seen anyone discuss wanting a like button before, but yes, that I can do. The one I've seen and would add currently doesn't have a functioning link to access the download, but there's a few others that might work, so I'll add one now and we can test it out.

I tested one and it wasn't working as expected. The only other ones I can find are out of date, or too up to date, or there isn't a working download.

Thanks for looking! It's a frivolous thing.

I'd advocate against having "Like" buttons enabled during actual mafia games. Like it's a silly detail that shouldn't be part of the game. MU has a "Thank" button on posts on the forum in general but it is disabled in games.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 11:57 pm I'd advocate against having "Like" buttons enabled during actual mafia games. Like it's a silly detail that shouldn't be part of the game. MU has a "Thank" button on posts on the forum in general but it is disabled in games.

I don't want it to be part of a game, I just want to appreciate hilarious posts easily.

It's sort of hard to not make them part of the game because people will read into anything lol. But if people really want a like button, I suppose game moderators could set their own rules for that kinda stuff if they wanted, right?

Personally I don't think dead players especially in a game should be allowed to like posts as they have likely been spoiled, but that's just my 2 cents

I think we'd need to consider the notion of Likes as a staff, because they add an element to games that some won't care for. It depends upon how easy it is to turn them off in certain forums/at certain times.

I would be totally satisfied with a laugh button, which would be generally known to have nothing to do with game content and everything to do with humour.

I only didn't say something earlier because I thought it was obvious that a "Like" style button would be disruptive. but in case it needs to be said, a "Like" button would be disruptive. I mean, if that's what we're going for I'd be totally down, but yeah.

Remember thread tags on Lostpedia? "purple woman"

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:04 pm Remember thread tags on Lostpedia? "purple woman"

*nostalgia "like"*

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:53 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 11:57 pm I'd advocate against having "Like" buttons enabled during actual mafia games. Like it's a silly detail that shouldn't be part of the game. MU has a "Thank" button on posts on the forum in general but it is disabled in games.

I don't want it to be part of a game, I just want to appreciate hilarious posts easily.

what happened to quoting the post and laughing

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:39 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:53 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 11:57 pm I'd advocate against having "Like" buttons enabled during actual mafia games. Like it's a silly detail that shouldn't be part of the game. MU has a "Thank" button on posts on the forum in general but it is disabled in games.

I don't want it to be part of a game, I just want to appreciate hilarious posts easily.

what happened to quoting the post and laughing

I want easier.

Long Con wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:54 pm

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:39 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:53 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 11:57 pm I'd advocate against having "Like" buttons enabled during actual mafia games. Like it's a silly detail that shouldn't be part of the game. MU has a "Thank" button on posts on the forum in general but it is disabled in games.

I don't want it to be part of a game, I just want to appreciate hilarious posts easily.

what happened to quoting the post and laughing

I want easier.

Hahahahaha

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Just a heads up, the we_universal style may conflict with (at least) multiquotes in some browsers. I'll leave it turned on for now, but if you prefer a lighter style over the default black, prosilver or prosilver SE should both have the same functionality as dark with the various extensions, so may be a better choice for a stable experience with the site

I have been thinking about that annotated post thing, and it would be so delicious. Even just... annotating every post with a green or red word spot decision of how you feel about it, then going back after days and tallying... wow. And that's, like, only the simplest way to use it.

Is there something out there that could be added to the polls, that produces a thread-friendly summary of the poll? Right now, we usually just copy and paste the poll in the thread, which is never all that good-looking.

How do you feel about users writing scripts against the API?

Urist wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:08 pm How do you feel about users writing scripts against the API?

Could you shoot me a PM with exactly what you have in mind?

Urist wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:08 pm How do you feel about users writing scripts against the API?

I feel really great about it.

I'd love something that allows you to see what threads someone has posted in so it's easier to find past games. Not sure if that's a thing rn

like a page you can go to from someones profile that shows all threads they posted in

Esooa wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:26 am I'd love something that allows you to see what threads someone has posted in so it's easier to find past games. Not sure if that's a thing rn

like a page you can go to from someones profile that shows all threads they posted in

would be useful yea

https://mafiathesyndicate.com/search.ph ... 2&sr=posts

this is the closest thing we have and just browsing by page and seeing the topic at the top


you get there by clicking on who you want to search then clicking on total posts at bottom right side of the profile page

https://mafiathesyndicate.com/search.php

you can also search username, Topic titles only and choose the forum