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Micah2
in ADDED - Updates for DMs March 2008

You can now get an RSS feed of the latest updates to your campaign. Click on the little orange icon next to "Latest Updates" on your main campaign page.
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in ADDED - cuts and comments March 2008

Covered in "another thread":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/forums/3/topics/58
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in ADDED - Adventure Log - Titles only please? March 2008

It's in there! We added it Sunday night, as "some have already discovered":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/savage-tide As always, let me know if there are any problems.
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in Anyone interested in writing tutorials / help guides? March 2008

It's becoming clear to me that OP is pretty complicated to use, and it must be daunting to new users. They have to learn Textile (or our bastardized version of it), how to wiki-link to things, and now we're adding a "new teaser tag":http://forums.o…
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in ADDED - Adventure Log - Titles only please? March 2008

I've just checked in the code for this. I will roll it out to the server in our scheduled Sunday night / Monday morning deployment. Nothing will change until you go in and start inserting the more tags into your posts. So, if you don't want to …
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in Sorry, AvatarArt March 2008

I'll make the updates to the details page and also the green notice bar tonight. That's stuff I have to do from my home development machine. I will also (try to) update the notification so that the user requesting notification also gets an e-mail.…
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in ADDED - Adventure Log - Titles only please? March 2008

Ok, I think I've got it figured out. I will use the tag like Wordpress does. On the main adventure log page, this will display "Click here to see the full post" or something similar, which will take you to the full post. No more using wiki pag…
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in Sorry, AvatarArt March 2008

Hmm, it doesn't look overly spammy. There's no mention of stock tips, cialis, or free porn. Are you sending them from your GMail account? In other words, are you using GMail or your own SMTP server? If it's your own SMTP server, that could be …
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in Wiki counter? March 2008

I'm on the fence about this. A page view counter wouldn't be too hard to do, but they can be a mixed blessing. Sometimes it's better not to know. Anyways, it's not a high priority right now. You'll have to go by comments and votes for the near…
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in Sorry, AvatarArt March 2008

I'll try to add a note along with the notice that pops up when someone requests to be contacted. If you want, please post the message here and we'll try to despamify it! I have a little knowledge about what can set off the spam filters.
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in ...how are ads generated? March 2008

Ok, I've looked into it, and we can filter the ads. Unfortunately, it's on a case by case basis. In other words, we cannot say "block all political ads" We need the individual URLs of the websites to block. So, here's what we need: If you fin…
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in Maps as links too? March 2008

We're trying to make the maps more usable and cool, since more maps is one of the main benefits for getting a monthly subscription. _greedily rubs hands together while cackling_
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in ADDED - Adventure Log - Titles only please? March 2008

This is getting ugly fast. I just saw someone who was achieving this effect by posting the teaser as the main post, and then putting all the content in a comment. "See for yourself.":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/cliffportcaves/adventure-…
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in Maps as links too? March 2008

We're looking into adding markers to the maps that will be linkable. They would be standard google-maps style markers that you could drag into position and then link to a page on the wiki. Is that close to what you're asking for? It might be a …
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in ...how are ads generated? March 2008

Good question about the ads... There are (currently) 2 different types of ads on the site, Amazon Associates ads, and Google Adsense. I'll give a quick rundown on how they work. h3. Amazon The Amazon ads are a mixture of content sensitive …
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in Official discussion of wiki merging March 2008

Thanks to all for ... the thanks. That sounds kind of strange. I really hoped this merging would make the wikis much more useful, and it surely has for me at least. It sounds like it worked as well for all of you.
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in FIXED: Where did the search go? March 2008

We've brought back search, and tweaked it quite a bit to use less memory. We'll be keeping an eye on it to make sure it behaves nicely.
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in bug report- journal update March 2008

Excellent bug report... A part of the site related to searching crashed, bringing everything else down. We tweaked it to give it more memory and restarted everything, so it should work now. I'm glad you were able to recover all your text...
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in More Fiddly Stuff About Tags March 2008

The narrowing you're talking about is called "faceting" in the search business. It's a really hot feature right now. I'd like to be able to facetize on all sorts of things (game system, tags, update time, you-name-it). That way, you can continual…
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in Premium Accounts Discussion March 2008

You're right, it would still be nice to be able to comment. Comments wouldn't be too hard to exclude from the freeze-out. We will try that first and see how it goes.
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in I liked the search feature March 2008

Indexing and searching is a large part of what I do IRL, and it's no easy task. Currently for search on the site we're using a tool called Solr. It provides pretty good text search out of the box without much tweaking. The keyword idea you sugg…
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in Premium Accounts Discussion March 2008

I was actually talking about a different one, but the one you referenced is much better. My wife couldn't understand why I was rolling on the floor over "Shitcock", but then again she doesn't play online...
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in Premium Accounts Discussion March 2008

Good points about being easy to abuse. Seeing the Penny Arcade avatar pic makes me think of a strip a long time ago with a Venn diagram explaining Internet Fuckwads in relation to FPS multiplayer cheaters. I guess it sort of applies to the cur…
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in Premium Accounts Discussion March 2008

bq. Whats to stop people from signing up for multiple accounts in order to have more then two campaigns? Nothing, except for the hassle factor. We expect that someone would eventually get tired of signing up for new accounts, managing all those …
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in Premium Accounts Discussion March 2008

We recently got a question by mail, and I thought it might be useful for everyone: The premium account sign up page did show up for a while last night, which lead me to a question. I didn't want to throw it into the forums and make a huge stink,…
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in Premium Accounts Discussion March 2008

Yeah, that page won't be active until we re-release the subscription code. It should be very soon, perhaps within a day. It all depends on Amazon at this point...
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in Premium Accounts Discussion March 2008

*Update March 15, 2008* We've re-enabled the subscriptions. Amazon fixed the issue on their end and we're all ready to roll. -We've just rolled out premium accounts...and they're broken! Amazon pulled a fast one on us with the payments. Everyt…
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in Locations Lists March 2008

Yeah, a location list is a really good idea. Most people use the wikis for this stuff, but I don't like that. One of the founding principles of the site is that blogs and wikis are great, but they aren't perfect. Specialized tools are needed for …
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in GM-Only NPC Tags? March 2008

Ok, let me see if I can break this down. It seems like there are multiple issues here: h3. Add PCs to the list of NPCs This is a good idea, and I've been thinking about it for a while. I'd like to change the name of the "NPC Tracker" to just…
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in Links to a Page? March 2008

I actually designed the wikis with this in mind (stealing it from looking at how other wikis were designed). So, the data is there. In other words, it's possible to easily get a list of all the pages linking to a particular page. So, there's no…

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