(01-08-2018, 10:25 AM)ExAtomos Wrote: This is, of course, going off my own experience with different servers as I'm not on the Mateus one(s) specifically.
Regarding the calendar, yeah the RPC one is... unfortunate. ; u ; I do hope the new site will resolve this issue, as you mentioned.
And yes, I've heard noise since starting this thread about people avoiding the RPC either due to hating Balmung players or Balmung players having heard of/experienced drama here and just avoiding it completely. My thought about the separate sub forums was a way for players on other servers to... frankly... not have to see Balmung posts that make them irritable. ^^; As to the latter, I'm not entirely sure how you phoenix out of that. I've led an FC out of the ashes, but we didn't have to deal with any bad rep, so I'm unsure on that.
I would definitely recommend giving the new site's layout a poke and feedback. Like any conversion, some of the things we have working well now may not have a direct correlation in different forum software. In IPS, tags and prefixes appear to be a little newer, but are definitely a start in a good direction. We can and probably will make some sections require them, and any topic/thread can add tags.
For the calendars, it may almost be wiser to deprecate the events forums in place of pure calendar use now that they support threads. Or with the better site-application integration, posting RPC-internal links means getting a fancy integration block with details and information. (Works for all the things like forums, blogs/articles, gallery, etc).
Example: https://ffxivrp.org/calendar/event/1514-...-feedback/
The only thing I can't seem to get working is leaving a comment on imported events. ...but that might also be because they're imported. In that case, they'd make handy lists, but conversations would still need to take place elsewhere. But that might work well in unison with the google calendars and linking to threads/calendar entries.
(01-08-2018, 11:11 AM)Erah Wrote: On the subforums, I wonder if the new site could save filters. (aka don't show these tags, only show these tags) then we could get the best of both worlds.  Visibility for those that want it, the ability to filter for those who don't want to see stuff that isn't theirs?
On an earlier community site I helped maintain we had similar issues. We had a faction divide with one faction being far more active than the other. To attempt to deal with similar complaints we'd split up the forums into separate areas for each faction but it, in some ways, exasperated the problem. Folks would log in and see "There's 85 new posts for Faction A, and only 10 for Faction B. The site caters to Faction A."  Maybe a good filtering system would alleviate both perceptions?Â
I don't really know a good answer to it.
I am hoping that if this other Mateus specific calendar gets rolling and they start curating the event feed for that server that it can become the application of record so to speak for Mateus events and also feed the new RPC's calendar. I'm really hoping it has the same level of success the Balmung calendar does in reaching varied audiences.
IPS's tag/prefix system appears to be a little feature-lite compared to what people might be looking/hoping for. It appears to be getting an upgrade in IPS 4.3 due out "soon" according the developers. I don't think it supports a blacklist of any kind, but perhaps that'll change. For an easy glance of what clicking on a tag will do, here's one generated for Mateus' tag/prefix: https://ffxivrp.org/tags/mateus/ It's more like...a filter of ALL activity, as viewed through the advanced search page. I'm not fully satisfied with it as the only solution. Â Supposedly, 4.3 will let people filter a forum by tags/prefixes, so I'm hoping that will work like I think it will.
Currently, the only section that seems to do filtering nicely is the "Clubs" one, which is the FC/Linkshell Hall replacement. The links themselves aren't very pretty, however. When we take the upgrade into production, I plan to make these all one by one and in the order we want, so things can be a little more intuitive for users wishing to create a custom filter link, should they choose.
Example link that parses really sloppy
f1: the "server" field. It's 0-indexed and the first entry means "Balmung" in this instance.
f2: the "activity" field. It's a yes/no filter at this time. This does mean chronicling/archiving listings is something user-controllable and we may have to alter RPC policies on how it works if we end up with a disproportionately large inactive list. (Something to be considered down the line.)
f6: the "is this a free company or linkshell" designator. It's another 0-indexed list should additional group designations happen, like the newfangled cross-world chats as an example. Like the current halls, a listing has to be one or the other. I couldn't find a nice method of allowing both AND having it filterable.
To remove the filter, one can just remove that field. It also supports say, looking at Balmung and Mateus listings together. (Although making filters for this has some overhead because I've added/removed/changed a bunch and the fields are all weird now.)