GP next release - what's in staging?

Features

Text search

Searching from the public forum root searches everything.



Search in a game, searches just that game.

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Forum menu shown in game threads (bottom red game menu)

A new forum menu is shown on thread pages to allow quick access to subforums and threads.

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Backfill

Load the previous page's posts into your page without reloading the page.

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Toggle dark mode on avatar menu (also Alt+Shift+N)

Quickly toggle between light and dark modes without leaving your page for improved readability.

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Easier ARD editing

Easier editing of the Advanced Rules Definitions. Enter your background image, select from community supplied dice rules, add community supplied gm sheets WITHOUT learning JSON.



Create custom character from template

This reads the "Public Repository of Custom Games Sheets" and offers them as templates on blank character sheets without the whole "find the thread, quote, copy the inner bbcode, paste into character sheet" rigmarole.

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Fixes and tweaks
Image upload and paste image from clipboard on character sheets and public forums
Click to sort dice, and character sheet integrations on by default
Preview post hotkey (Alt+Shift+P)
Ctrl+K editor hotkey added for links
Guidelines link shown on thread and post pages
snippets, npcs and abilties now work on character sheets for 7th sea, CoC 7e, Numenera, ToR
A little more padding on characer sheets with background images
Avatars shown on character sheets
Post and preview buttons moved
Integrated character sheets show the character's name and a link to the sheet
Fix for double escaping of < in code blocks
New/Edit game is now mobile-friendly
Fix for npc rendering
Post previews now show the avatar
GMs can post as PCs from the quick reply

Not sure if this is the right thread but concerning backfill, will it work like with the extension where it just loads the previous pages on top of the already open one or like one page does now where it loads a new page (meaning you have to ctrl+x ctrl+v your post for it)?Either is good but the extension version is better 😄

Staging lets you (or anyone) try the feature out for yourself.

Access to staging:

Step 1. Visit https://gamersplane.com/login/requestReset and enter your email address, so the real site can send you a new password link.

Step 2. Wait for the email, grab the link which should look something like this:


Replace "https://gamersplane.com/" with "https://mapdm.com/" and submit the URL.

Choose a password for mapdm.com. Sign in and have a tat.

(but, yes, I believe it loads it in the existing page)

While we are adding hotkeys. I could really use a hotkey to the add Link feature for adding URLs. Maybe `Control K` as is used elsewhere?

Sure. I'll add Ctrl+K.

If we want more formatting hotkeys, OOC would be on my list way before URLs. Not that I have a problem with the URL hotkey either.

I didn't know backfill was already live on the test site. Will take a look at it

Just tested it. It's great

OOC would be nice too, what key should it use?

Maybe we should start a new public discussion about hotkeys, which ones are supported and which we need.

Search wants some mobile love.

Looks great!

Is there any way to make it so that the edit post function doesn't take you away from the thread? I always have to open an extra tab or two to refer back to what other people posted when adding to a post.

That'd be sweet, but unfortunately, there are a few things on the advanced page that would be a real bear to move across.

Hm, could you make it so that it opens a new tab instead of navigating away from the thread instead?

The user can always choose to have it open in a new tab. They can not, however, choose to have it not open in a new tab if they don't want that.

Forcing new tabs on people is less than optimal, even if most usecases would make it 'the right thing'.

Yeah - about that...

URL tags always open in a new tab. I think that external links should open in a new tab, but surely URLs for this site can stay on the current tab. I regularly finish a GP session with dozens of tabs open.

I am not convinced that external links should be forced into a new tab. Maybe adding an indicator that they are external would allow the user to choose if they wanted to use a new tab or not?

Another of those 'first things I did when using the site' was

document.querySelectorAll('a[target="_blank"]').forEach(link => link.removeAttribute('target'));

to stop the bottom bar forum link on Details from opening in a new tab. Glad that is no longer needed.

Hmm... The code block in my above has characters substituted (>), and is also not clearly code. :(

I personally agree with vague here. I don't like links that automatically open in a new tab. It's super easy to open in a new tab if that's wanted and if I want it, I already do that anyway. Clicking and then having to close the previous tab is more annoying

There are valid (and annoying) business reasons to try and keep people on a site.

Sure - if Keleth was relying on revenue from GP to live then he'd starve, but even so, I'd feel kinda bad pushing people away from the gaffer's site. Y'know?