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Quality of Life Improvements
Lotus
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No.9226
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This is a thread for all of those little features on 4chan, addons, or wherever else that you miss and would like to have here.
126 replies and 29 files omitted.
Anonymous
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>>9715
This has been getting me too since I'm used to scaling the quickreply from the actual input portion. The problem is we're using this site's implementation incorrectly. You need to go to the ENTIRE quickreply box's corner.
Anonymous
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>>9716
>The select quote bug should be fixed now.
Very based
>>9717
Oh holy shit I'm retarded, this whole time I had just accepted that I guess it can only scale horizontally.
Pupper
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Created a Thread Watcher.
It is first iteration so if you see any bugs or features you would like let me know.

You can Watch a thread by clicking the [Add to Thread Watcher] link or by using keyboard shortcut Shift+W.
It shows:
>(Unread posts) [Title/Text] (page number) and /board/
Pupper
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>>9227
>>9233
>>9531
Made first attempt at thread watcher. Let me know if you see things missing, or features you would like me to cange/improve.

>>9723
I might also mention that if you got the "[TEXT MISSING]" for thread, it was a small bug on first upload that I fixed. To get it to work just remove using [Remove Thread from Thread Watch] and add it again.
Anonymous
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>>9723
>>9724
That's pretty awesome Pupper
Anonymous
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>>9724
Fucking based.
So far looking great. Obviously some small things are missing but I assume you probably have plans to add more so far so I'm not gonna blurt out a todo list immediately, and this is already a huge help. One thing I will ask though, is how difficult would it be to have a setting to auto-watch threads on reply?
Pupper
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No.9727
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>>9726
>so I'm not gonna blurt out a todo list immediately, and this is already a huge help
Feel free to blurt them out, Any pointers to what is desired will be a huge help in coding. This way I don't have to speculate what people wants and can instead try to do the best I can to implement what is desired.

>how difficult would it be to have a setting to auto-watch threads on reply
It should be possible to do that.

The current thread watcher is a work in progress. So info on styling and what info and functionality that is desired will be a great help.
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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>>9724
Incredible turnaround fren!
Glad that my detailing of 4x functions helped out.

I am impressed that you got it out this fast while 8moe admins got asked about this a week ago and it's still broken with no sign of clear skies anytime soon. In fairness, they're getting butfucked by glowniggers right now so they have their hands tied.

It's a little easy to miss as a link at the top, but I'm used to it being a button or key so I can adjust quick. I'll be sure to spread the goodnews and report back if there's any bugs. Am I to assume right that it doesn't auto-update and you have to refresh manually?
Anonymous
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No.9733
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>>9728
Pretty extensive, and very much 4chanX again. I was going to suggest things in chunks until we get closer to the old home thread watcher. But if Pupper want's to absorb all the autism at once, then it's certainly right there for him to go over.
Pupper
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No.9734
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>>9732
>Am I to assume right that it doesn't auto-update and you have to refresh manually?
That is correct. It updates when you load a page and when you click the update button. To clear the "Unread" counter you have to update it on the thread that has unread posts on it.

If you have any suggestions or requests for features or changes please let me know and I will do my best to implment it.
Pupper
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No.9737
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>>9733
>But if Pupper want's to absorb all the autism at once, then it's certainly right there for him to go over.
Always welcome. I might ask for more suggestions after each iteration, and would welcome suggestions restated if they were not implemented but desired. This way I don't have to keep track of what I missed and hopefully can faster finetune features for this and other stuff.
I am not the best at writing to-do lists they tend to end up as walls of text I loose track of.
Anonymous
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>>9734
Understood.

While you're here, what's the deal with with the double filenames with the huge string being the biggest one? Is it necessary or can it be trimmed down to just normal filenames. Which this guy brought up but didn't really clarify >>9228

It looks like it displays a hash on the first filename of the thumbnail hosted on the server, and then the real filename that was uploaded. Which is just "spoilered" when a file is under a spoiler

It would probably be best if the hashname was hidden or significantly sized down, unless there's a reason for it
Pupper
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No.9740
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>>9228
>>9738
>Is it necessary or can it be trimmed down to just normal filenames. Which this guy brought up but didn't really clarify
I changed the css so it truncates the filenames, bur I will fine tune it a bit so mouse over will reveal full file name.
Anonymous
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>>9740
Thanks Pupper, it's an awesome qol change. I keep forgetting to ask.
Anonymous
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>>9740
Argh, some good some bad. It looks better on the eyes but it would be ideal if the full filename was mostly visible and the larger one, not truncating each so heavily. Or just hiding the hash by defualt

The suggestion stems from making an effort to preserve the culture around naming files manually, which can each have its own commentary or meme which enhances it being just an image.

See when the full filenames can be meme-y and very /mlp/, but hovering over it just makes more effort that I don't think people would bother with.
>>>/poner/6839 →
>>>/poner/4754 →
>>>/poner/6688 →
Pupper
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No.9747
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>>9745
>Argh, some good some bad. It looks better on the eyes but it would be ideal if the full filename was mostly visible and the larger one, not truncating each so heavily. Or just hiding the hash by defualt
>See when the full filenames can be meme-y and very /mlp/, but hovering over it just makes more effort that I don't think people would bother with.
I will do some tinkering and tweaking to make it better. And I will have a more functional and better implementation tomorrow. I might have rushed this tweak a bit, but good to get feedback on so I can make it better.
Anonymous
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>>9747
All good. Nothing set in stone and should be much easier to handle than other QoL projects
Pupper
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No.9750
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>>9749
Made a small update to the css so the original names are shown (as long as they don't go over three lines on multi file posts).
Anonymous
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>>9750
I think it's an improvement over truncating everything, I would still like to axe the hash being displayed.

From a UI it's visually cluttered and the filename is easy to miss since it's so very tiny. Sandwhiched between the bigger hash and the reverse lookup tools. Maybe have the other stuff as hover-over to display the tool/hashes?

Comparing to 8moe and End the UI is clean, and it looks like moe do use hover to full filename so maybe its workable.
Anonymous
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No.9758
>>9737
Have you considered something like trello? Just shove the suggestions everyone gives into it, and when you wanna work on something, check the backlog and pick something out.
That's if you wanna keep better track of course.
Anonymous
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No.9760
Add an option to disable the automatic scrolling when an image is un-maximized. Its such a terrible anti-feature and every altchan seems to do it.
Pupper
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Added function so you should automatically scroll to the last post you read upon load of a thread. It might need some fine tuning, so let me know of any improvements you would like to see.
Anonymous
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No.9763
>>9762
Oh shit MASSIVE
I haven't tested yet right this moment on whether this also implements per-post "unread post" decrementing (vs. having to scroll down to the bottom to mark the entire thread as read simultaneously), but the actual scrolling to last position works perfectly and is a huge gamechanger in how easy it is to go back and catch up to threads (and goes hoof-in-hoof with the thread watcher letting me close a bunch of tabs and re-open them when I see new posts)
Pupper
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No.9764
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>>9752
Tried to clean up the look a bit adding an 🖫# for download of image as normal making the original file name a bit mor prominent, but might need a little more tweaking.
Anonymous
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>>9764
I hate unicode I hate unicode I hate unicode I hate unicode
Pupper
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>>9765
I am open to suggestions. Nothing it set in stone, and I am just testing out a different view setting to try to make it cleaner.
Anonymous
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>>9765
I also prefer plain text descriptions rather than icons.
Pupper
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>>9765
>>9770
Reverted to the ellipsis truncation and included screenshots of how it was so people can give their input.
>pic related the two different view's
Anonymous
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>>9772
Great that the giant hash has been mostly cleaned up since that was the giant fucking file being moaned about, but if that's what it was I think you could just add it like [hash#] and satisfy people who don't like the unicode. It would still be less messy than truncating the string.

I am pretty neutral about it since I dont think I would ever use the hash file over the filename file.
>>9772
I am not neutral about this though, I'd like to see is the filename size/info on the same row as the hash, but right now it's inconsistent on how it's stacked, different sizes, and sets off my autism. Pic2 vs Pic3, Pic4 vs Pic5
Anonymous
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dev plz fix
Anonymous
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Pupper
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>>9774
Yes I messed up in one of the css files, but should have been fixed already. Try reload page. If it still is messed up let me know and I will look more into it.
Pupper
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>>9773
>>9775
I will read more closely what you guys wrote after I have eaten and done some irl stuff. Just wanted to post this so you know I am not ignoring, but just a bit temporary preoccupied.
Anonymous
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>>9775
This mockup looks so MUCH better. Holy shit thank you, pretty much exactly like I was trying to get across.

>>9777
Relax I know you're not ignoring stuff, especially after making the changes within minutes and tagging people for feedback.
Anonymous
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No.9779
>>9777
Thank you, and you're good you're insanely responsive. The site is already good quality and we're flooding you with an endless amount of small items to fix-up everywhere, and the motivation with which you're tackling improvement is not going unappreciated.
Anonymous
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No.9780
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is there a option to temporarily hide thread watcher? The thing makes it difficult to long posts
Anonymous
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No.9781
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>>9780
Not yet, but >>9728 mentioned this in the wall of QoL suggestions
>a minimize button for the watcher popup
>A close button on the watcher window, and a way to reopen it
Pupper
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No.9783
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>>9780
>>9781
Forgot to mention I made an "Minimize" option for the Thread Watcher so it is sent up in the top right corner. This setting is saved so next time you load it will be minimized and vice versa. Let me know if I should tweak it more.
Pupper
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No.9784
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>>9775
>Question: what is the purpose of that first hash-link? Why can't the original filename be in that spot?
I can set the original filename in that spot, but sometimes the original filename can be really long. I could do an similar to "save as original" and have "save as timestamp" instead of the hash. But I will do some testing. As it has been hashes for so long some might prefer that as you know if you have saved that image before preventing duplicates, but also some prefer the timeline of saves.

>>9775
>>9773
I will try to do some thinking and mockup and testing to see if I can clean up the file info part.
Anonymous
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No.9786
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>>9718
>there's a double arrow now
Nice. Bestmod.
Anonymous
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No.9791
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>>9783
I saw it as soon as I came back to check, it looks like it works well. I dont think that part needs anything changes like completely hiding it ala 4chanx and I'm fine with that function as is it now.

For the thread watcher my first feedback I think the glowing red warning is set too low where it is right now (5). Page 9-10 is the typical one as the glowing red purpose for page info was so you could save a thread from getting archived.
BUT this should come with a caveot, have a rule against excessive necrobumps as trolls abused on /mlp/. /mlp/ had punished necrobumping with bans at one point but they stopped giving a damn and the board suffered for it as trolls quickly adapted to update their new slide-strategies bumping all their page9-10 threads around the same time and just leaving it to rot like stale bread.
Pupper
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>>9791
>For the thread watcher my first feedback I think the glowing red warning is set too low where it is right now (5). Page 9-10 is the typical one as the glowing red purpose for page info was so you could save a thread from getting archived.
I will do some tinkering and make "notification" colors better. Also making the watcher itself more conforming (or how to say it) to the different themes.
Anonymous
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No.9805
>>9724
yessss much needed feature thanks!
Anonymous
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No.9811
9813
So two things maybe a options toggle for to only see shotened uploaded file and a toggle to have the thread watcher be on the left side?
Pupper
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>>9811
>options toggle for to only see shotened uploaded file
The hash filename was an bug from my side, I had swapped the class on one of the uploads.
>a toggle to have the thread watcher be on the left side
I added an setting in the options menu to set the thread watcher to be on the left side.
Anonymous
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No.9814
>>9813
Thanks again Pupper
Anonymous
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No.9815
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>>9784
>I can set the original filename in that spot, but sometimes the original filename can be really long
Personally, I think the ideal solution would be to have a max limit beyond which it gets truncated with an ellipsis ... , and the full title is in the HTML "title" element to let you hover it.
>as it has been hashes for so long
Perfectly understandable, having an option would please everyone but probably adds an annoying amount of extra work to fit in
>"save as timestamp"
That will be absolutely tremendous if you add it, speaking as a refugee
Pupper
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No.9819
>>9815
>That will be absolutely tremendous if you add it, speaking as a refugee

Did some updates and added Timestamp download, Cleaned up the file header and some minor tweaks to the file handling.
Anonymous
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No.9822
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>>9530
>>9530
>He delivered
Thread watcher is a game changer and seems to be working well, nice work.

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