Next (next) release

Qol3 was predominantly for existing users and power users: gm sheets, search, @mentions, npcs etc.

This release (QoL4) is awaiting deployment. It's bug fixes and tweaks.

I'm interested in what you think is the most important issue that we should address for the next release. Who's the next release for?

Me? I think we need to improve the onboarding and help new users. But that's just me.

There are some thing that behave differently in character sheets to in posts. This can be confusing (and a source of bugs if there is different processing code in those places).

[ 2column] and [ abilities] do not appear to work in posts.

Also, [ snippets] seem to break [ abilities]. I had a [ spoiler] in an ability to hide part of it that was not yet enabled, it worked fine, but pasting it into a post (via the integration) puts it in another level of [ spoiler] and they do not nest, so I changed it to be a snippet in the sheet.
It does not seem to properly close the [ /snippet] and the subsequent abilities end up inside the snippet with '# name' not being interpreted.

the code in question:

[abilities="Assets"]
# Ability 1
detail
[snippet="unselected"]
details for later
[/snippet]

# Ability 2
detail 2
[snippet="unselected"]
details for later
[/snippet]

# Ability 3
third thing here
[snippet="unselected"]
details for 3 for later
[/snippet]

[/abilities]

---

Whereas this works:

[abilities="Assets"]
# Ability 1
detail
[spoiler="unselected"]
details for later
[/spoiler]

# Ability 2
detail 2
[spoiler="unselected"]
details for later
[/spoiler]

# Ability 3
third thing here
[spoiler="unselected"]
details for 3 for later
[/spoiler]

[/abilities]

So are snippets completely different than how they used to be? In games with many NPCs I like having unique colors/fonts for when they speak and loved having a way to save those and then insert them with one click when needed. Maybe a way to bundle that in with the avatar code or something similar? That is my most requested feature lol.

You could use the snippets tag for that, combining colour, font and the npc. Snippets are for, well..., collections of snippets.

[snippets="Richer NPCs"]
# Auril the frostmaiden
[b][color="blue;font-family:aniron;"]"..."[/color][/b]
[npc="Auril"]https://gamersplane.com/characters/avatars/16914.jpg[/npc]

# Copper
[b][color="Brown;font-family:cursive;"]"..."[/color][/b]
[npc="Copper Knobberknocker"] https://gamersplane.com/characters/avatars/17883.jpg[/npc]
[/snippets]

Awesome, exactly what I was looking for thanks!

Not sure how much we care...

The dice roller thinks 1.25 equals 26.
Clearly it is interpreting it as 1 and 25 and assuming it needs to add them (adding all inputs together is the default). 1.25d6 yields 26 dice being rolled when they user probably wanted 1.

I don't know how often fractions will come up, but there are scenarios where someone is halfway to earning a second dice and this would say they had 6.

I know this is probably string parsing, so it does not know about floats vs ints, but a floor function would probably be he 'simplest correct' interpretation if we can do it.

Any chance of a search users feature, especially now that we can find such great info in their profiles?

Would love that. Or just any way to make the "The Gamers" section actually useable

How about last logged in so we don't have to use Adam's nifty look-up trick? I know there has been chat about this with reasons for and against but heck, it's useful.

What's that? (Link not public.)

I think you have to join Adam's game here:https://gamersplane.com/games/3124/

This is about showing when a person was last active. It’s been requested a few times.

I believe RageRed requested it when a ghoster set up a game.

It can be frustrating for users to not have this information as they need to wait two weeks to know whether a user has left (with the zzz). Similarly, people might drop off for a multitude of heath or personal issues without being able to notify other gamers. The system providing this information before two weeks might help their game move along and reduce the inconvenience and resentment.

I’m a little concerned about privacy on this one, especially if we show the time. But last logged in x days ago might be okay.

I use it. It’s useable. QED

What would you like to see, Bowl?

Last logged in X days ago feels like a great solution. Gets rid of the feeling of being watched for example.

Yeah. I worry about showing the time.

Imagine having your missus yell at you…
"I thought you were with your mistress, but according to your profile you were on that bloody Gamers Plane again!"

'Last logged in x days ago' is a pretty common mechanism on other sites, anything more granular than that does raise privacy concerns, and does not add a lot of value in this case.

The server should calculate and send this information. I have seen other places that actually send the date/time so the browser can calculate based on its timezone, but this leaks information in a trivial to intercept way.

A search function or a way to skip to pages. If the url included the page number, that would already help

For users, having it broken down by letter or else infinite scroll would be a step up. If you want to find someone now you have to use trial and error to find them as it is now.

Even just trial and error would be acceptsble but you can only skip two pages ahead at a time. If I wanted to get to Windyridge's page, I'd have to click dozens of times to get that far into the alphabet