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Micah2
in Why are features coming along so slowly? February 2008

To all those offering development help: At this point, we're not ready to open-source OP. We're still looking at it as a semi-commercial venture. The goal is to eventually make enough money off of ads, subscriptions, merchandising, and any othe…
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in Missing Profile February 2008

I'll get on it. I think it's because there's a space in your login. We've had problems with special characters before (like space, period, plus, etc.) We also just upgraded some of our software and that might be causing a problem. Thanks for t…
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in ADDED - cuts and comments February 2008

Hmm, we don't want people to have to know tons of CSS in order to do things. The mostly likely solution will be something along the lines of showing the first paragraph or so. The other option would be to do something similar to Drupal, which al…
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in Comment Feature February 2008

Thanks to all for the feedback, and keep up the commenting!
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in FIXED: Where did the search go? February 2008

You may have noticed that searching has mysteriously disappeared. We determined that our search server (Apache Solr, for those interested...) was hogging all the memory on the server. Since the search was a very low-use feature, we decided to di…
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in Secret GM info for items too? February 2008

Items (and characters) need a lot of re-work to be more campaign specific. The original plan was for OP to be a giant character database. It turns out that campaign blogging was much more popular, so that's what we went with. Unfortunately, the s…
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in Comment Feature February 2008

I'll try to get to everything... h3. Comment count / link on main page I'd like to add a comment count to each post on the main page so it's easy to scan and see which posts have comments and how many. For an example of this, take a look at o…
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in Internal Server Error February 2008

This should be fixed. We've juggled some of the image uploading to try to make the server faster, but this made the image uploading more unstable. Hopefully it's fixed now... Thanks for the bug reports!
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in getting search tech difficulties message February 2008

We're struggling with the search right now. We might have to shut it down for a while, since it's a major piece of what is slowing down the server :( We'll figure something out eventually, but as always, thanks for the bug report.
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in Trouble registering February 2008

By far, the most common issue is a typo in the signup e-mail. The server is very good at sending out the activation e-mails, but they often bounce back to us. There is really nothing we can do, since there's usually no way to figure out what the a…
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in Help page shows wrong user February 2008

Damn you all and your good eyesight ;) It's an issue with caching, where the page is not created each time someone comes to it. It's a trade-off between keeping things fresh, and making the site run quickly. We know about it, but it's sort of…
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in 'Page List' view of Adventure Log be chronological, rather than by date last edited February 2008

I reorganized this page today, and will roll out the changes tonight. The pages and adventure log posts are split apart and the posts are ordered chronologically. I'll have to add the recent-changes stuff to the TODO list. Keep the ideas comi…
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in ADDED - add 'older' & 'newer' buttons to AL view from PL January 2008

It's out. Let me know if that's what you were thinking!
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in ADDED - add 'older' & 'newer' buttons to AL view from PL January 2008

Just added it. I'll roll it out tonight. Keep the suggestions coming.
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in Spacing January 2008

BTW: Feydras, your character already looks a ton better than any of mine :)
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in Make Party/Campaign's NPC list visible when adventure logging January 2008

This is a really good idea. Perhaps a search box or auto-suggester that doesn't reload the entire page but just a small piece. I may have to toy with some ideas, but the basic suggestion is a great one: make it easy to get the id or slug for a par…
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in Linking DM and Player Wiki pages January 2008

Yeah, I really want to go with a single wiki, where each page has a GM only section, and entire pages can be made GM only. We've just been really busy with other stuff, plus I'm scared of trying to merge everyone's GM and Party wikis.
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in seems to hang on opening January 2008

Jason: If we get a chance, we'll try moving them like you say. They're already positioned using CSS. We're all about CSS here!
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in Spacing January 2008

You can put < br/ > HTML tags in order to help out with spacing. For example: *Advantages* blah blah *Disadvantages* blah blah should end up looking like: *Advantages* blah blah *Disadvantages* blah blah Sorry if Textile/HTM…
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in Hello all January 2008

Oh no! Another web developer. Now I can no longer lie constantly about why things are going wrong and take so long to get working :) Welcome, and we all look forward to seeing your stuff. If you're not a GM, you should bully your GM into signi…
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in Internal Server Error January 2008

We've optimized a lot of stuff on wiki / blog edits. I have been watching the server logs pretty religiously today, and I haven't seen any errors. Hopefully all the timeouts are fixed. Sorry for anyone who got frustrated and wanted to kick in t…
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in seems to hang on opening January 2008

Yep, Amazon ad server was dead or something. There may be a way for us to force everything else to render first (so you see everything) then try to pull the ad from Amazon. However, since it's a very infrequent issue (I can't remember it every h…
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in D&D 3.5 Character Sheet January 2008

Bada-bing! I hope you don't mind being featured on the "front-page":http://www.obsidianportal.com...
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in ADDED - add 'older' & 'newer' buttons to AL view from PL January 2008

I'll see if I can get to this during the weekend. It shouldn't be too hard. No guarantees, though...
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in Internal Server Error January 2008

It doesn't seem to be browser specific. There are just certain updates that take a very, very long time, and I'm not sure why. In my gut, I think it's partly due to the full-text indexing that we're doing. We use a tool called Solr to make it eas…
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in OpenRPG? January 2008

Speaking only secondhand here... I've heard that if you have to game remotely (PbEM, PbP, IRC, whatever), the fewer rules, the better. It's a decent forum for collaborative storytelling and roleplay, but not so great for dice-rolling. Anyways…
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in There was an error in editting your page January 2008

There should be a lot fewer of these errors now, and the slowness should be greatly improved. Thanks for the bug reports!
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in There was an error in editting your page January 2008

We know about the problems and have a fix ready to deploy. We'll be rolling it out on Sunday night, after a little more testing. See more updates here: http://forums.obsidianportal.com/forums/2/topics/223
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in Textile for Pros? January 2008

Yeah, Textile is not perfect, but also as a programmer, it was readily available :) There is support for some bare HTML tags: http://www.obsidianportal.com/tutorials/allowed-html-tags In addition, you can add style attributes to these tags. …
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in There was an error in editting your page January 2008

Still not sure what's causing the slowness in particular, but I did find that I had left one major performance optimization disabled. I've re-enabled it now, so we'll have to see if anything improves.

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