Welcome to the MUD Portal

More
12 Aug 2013 15:01 - 12 Aug 2013 15:04 #21 by Lyanic
Replied by Lyanic on topic Welcome to the MUD Portal

plamzi wrote: Are you by any chance pasting text from a text editor like Word? If so, try to paste the text into Notepad first to strip any HTML formatting it's going to try to generate when you paste.

No. When I submitted my game listing, I first tried copy/pasting directly from another MU* listing, but I saw immediately how that broke the formatting. So, I copy/pasted it into notepad, then from there copy/pasted to the editor on here. The final posted format still differed from the way it appeared on preview. With the God Wars II review I submitted, I typed that in completely by hand - formatting again wonky. Is there even a way to edit reviews once they've been posted?

plamzi wrote: Do you mean the number displayed under a user's avatar inside a thread?

No. I mean the number displayed in the top right corner of each post. For instance, your post that I'm replying to is "#40", which is the 40th post on the site, but not the 40th in this thread.

Edit: Nevermind on editing of the player reviews. I found the button and edited it. Also, it looks like that one had the formatting changed manually to insert a page break and split the paragraphs in a different way.
Last edit: 12 Aug 2013 15:04 by Lyanic.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • plamzi
  • plamzi's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • Administrator
More
12 Aug 2013 15:22 #22 by plamzi
Replied by plamzi on topic Welcome to the MUD Portal

Lyanic wrote:

plamzi wrote: Are you by any chance pasting text from a text editor like Word? If so, try to paste the text into Notepad first to strip any HTML formatting it's going to try to generate when you paste.

No. When I submitted my game listing, I first tried copy/pasting directly from another MU* listing, but I saw immediately how that broke the formatting. So, I copy/pasted it into notepad, then from there copy/pasted to the editor on here. The final posted format still differed from the way it appeared on preview.


How did it differ? Was it a question of fonts or the automatic layout of the image, or was it formatting you did inside the editor not showing up or showing up incorrectly?

Lyanic wrote: Is there even a way to edit reviews once they've been posted?


You found out that you see an "edit" link below your article body when you navigate to it. I'll soon add a page where you can edit all your articles in one place.

Lyanic wrote:

plamzi wrote: Do you mean the number displayed under a user's avatar inside a thread?

No. I mean the number displayed in the top right corner of each post. For instance, your post that I'm replying to is "#40", which is the 40th post on the site, but not the 40th in this thread.


Good eye. Changed.

Lyanic wrote: With the God Wars II review I submitted, I typed that in completely by hand - formatting again wonky.

Nevermind on editing of the player reviews. I found the button and edited it. Also, it looks like that one had the formatting changed manually to insert a page break and split the paragraphs in a different way.


I made some edits to the review prior to publishing it.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
12 Aug 2013 15:42 #23 by Lyanic
Replied by Lyanic on topic Welcome to the MUD Portal

plamzi wrote: was it formatting you did inside the editor not showing up or showing up incorrectly?

Yes. It seems to strip out some whitespace (like tabs) and EOL characters. I'm not running into the issue anymore, but the second time I edited my game listing, it looked fine in the preview function, then when it posted - it was very jumbled. I've fixed it for now.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
12 Aug 2013 15:53 #24 by Lyanic
Replied by Lyanic on topic Welcome to the MUD Portal
I found another 403 when I click on Find A Game -> Theme/Sci-Fi.

Some suggestions:
1) Link reviews to the game they belong to so they appear on search results for the game.
2) Add some additional searchable options to game listings (might require some more discussion).
3) Would it be possible to support RSS feeds for subscriptions instead of e-mailed alerts/summaries?

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • plamzi
  • plamzi's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • Administrator
More
12 Aug 2013 16:43 #25 by plamzi
Replied by plamzi on topic Welcome to the MUD Portal

Lyanic wrote: I found another 403 when I click on Find A Game -> Theme/Sci-Fi.


Got that one, too. I guess I have to unpublish the menu item until there are some listings in that category.

Lyanic wrote: 1) Link reviews to the game they belong to so they appear on search results for the game.


How did you search for the game? When I added the meta keywords "godwars" to your review, I was able to see it in site search. "God wars" was already matching it.

Apparently, the component I'm using to handle MUD listings doesn't let me cross-link to articles from listings very easily, the way I can add external links. Will have to be coerced a bit at some point.

Lyanic wrote: 3) Would it be possible to support RSS feeds for subscriptions instead of e-mailed alerts/summaries?


Looks like out-of-the-box there is only one global RSS feed for the whole forum. Unfortunately, something seems broken about it. Will look into it.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
18 Aug 2013 18:06 #26 by rudeboyrave
Replied by rudeboyrave on topic Welcome to the MUD Portal
I'm really liking this site. Once again a big thumbs up to the admins. :cheer:

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.