Xaquseg is the system administrator for FIMFiction, as well as various misc. development, especially related to security. Non-technical problems are probably best asked to other staff members.
With her new apprenticeship under Nightmare Moon, Empress of Equestria and Queen of the Eternal Night, the orphan filly Twilight Sparkle plunges head-first into the conspiracies, secrets and intrigues of the Empire.
Twilight Sparkle is called away to tend to Luna when she falls ill. As Luna grows sicker and Twilight more determined to help the younger princess, she begins to uncover dark secrets about the elements, the alicorns, and her own past.
Twilight fights against sinister manipulations, struggling to overcome a deep-seated darkness within. As she battles to preserve everything she cares about, she will sacrifice anything necessary to succeed. But the price of victory may be herself.
And have it transformed into something like the following HTML in places such as author's notes or user comments, direct messages, blog posts, story descriptions, etc. (i.e. almost everywhere except possibly chapter contents, though the main reason for my request is author's notes, e.g. lists of pop culture references in a story tagged as "Random"), (possibly requiring extra CSS additions to light.css and dark.css)
<details>
<summary>Story References (click to expand)</summary>
Long HTML description goes here.
</details>
Motivation: Spoilers also draw attention to text and take up lots of vertical space, many users would skip over author's notes.
2. In author's notes, links look exactly the same as normal text at the time of posting this comment. They aren't underlined, and they are the same color as normal text.
/* This already exists in light.css */
.chapter-body .bbcode a {
text-decoration: underline;
text-decoration-skip: ink;
}
Would it be possible to add a similar rule (to the rule for the body of chapters) to Author's Notes, i.e. .authors-note.bbcode .a to add the underline, so that readers get the hint that a piece of text is a link by default (no space because of <div class="authors-note bbcode" ...>)
/* Proposed addition to light.css and dark.css */
.authors-note.bbcode a {
text-decoration: underline;
text-decoration-skip: ink;
}
(and the same for dark.css. I assume the default style rule removing the underline for "a" is as a default because there's many widgets that are also "a" such as miscellaneous buttons and boxes or blue text without underlines)
Motivation: It's inconvenient for an author to add underlines manually to the links, and authors may not realize that links will look the same as normal text in author's notes.
Workarounds: Authors can work around this with extra BBCode tags by adding wrapping tags such as both color and underline with [color=#3073b9][u][url=https://www.fimfiction.net]Example Link[/url][/u][/color] (Example Link) (or just [u]...[/u] for just underline, and I'm doing that already. This bug is specific to author's notes, and doesn't affect other places such as stories or comments)
3. What's your preferred channel for asking about bug reports or feature requests. FIMFiction's Discord? Private messages? (I didn't have an account) Is https://github.com/knighty/fimfiction-issues/issues something you are subscribed to? The recent issues were old or closed by reporters. (I know email is recommended for security issues, but wasn't sure if that was only security issues)
Sorry if any of these requests have been recently requested elsewhere, I looked through the first and last ten or so pages of user comments for relevant information on feature requests, but (1) didn't find similar feature requests, and (2) The question about how to make feature requests to other site admins would be relevant to other commenters.
asking again for your attention. the block function needs to be more strict to whoever is being blocked. i don't think it's good that users I'm trying to block can still interact with my content. I'm not sure why it works this way allowing harmful users whom I've reported can still interact with me.
Hello, i am not sure who to contact about this, but the Block button does not work. i do not want people i am blocking to see or interact with my content, if that can be fixed it would be much appreciated.
Hello Xaquseg! I was directed to you via Elderado due to my problem being one to do with security I just see if you could help me with this one thing I have recently got a new device and wish to transfer my account however I have forgotten the password and the password reset does not work, in the form of I have put it in and everything goes green but it never sends me the email to confirm the reset. any help with getting around this problem would be greatly appreciated with lots of thanks Average_NZ_Brony
Hello! I have just come to ask some questions regarding help with the password reset system, this is because it is not allowing me to enable the reset, I put in my email and account name properly but then it never send the email, even after confirming it is sending, I have checked and it doesn’t go anywhere, it just stops existing after I put in my request, some help with password reset or anything in that area would help a lot, I was directed here by Eldorado after I asked him, I am asking because I have gotten a new device and wish to sign on in this device but I cannot rember the password, I have tried everything and the email is definitely correct I don’t know how it works but if any help could be given I would greatly appreciate it Thanks for your time -Average_NZ_Brony (I signed using my mains user (the one that I need to reset password))
1. Is there a way to add https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/details support (collapsible HTML widgets) to FIMFiction's version of BBCode? I don't see a way in https://www.fimfiction.net/articles/bbcode to add this. E.g. what I want is to have the BBcode
And have it transformed into something like the following HTML in places such as author's notes or user comments, direct messages, blog posts, story descriptions, etc. (i.e. almost everywhere except possibly chapter contents, though the main reason for my request is author's notes, e.g. lists of pop culture references in a story tagged as "Random"), (possibly requiring extra CSS additions to light.css and dark.css)
Motivation: Spoilers also draw attention to text and take up lots of vertical space, many users would skip over author's notes.
2. In author's notes, links look exactly the same as normal text at the time of posting this comment. They aren't underlined, and they are the same color as normal text.
Would it be possible to add a similar rule (to the rule for the body of chapters) to Author's Notes, i.e.
.authors-note.bbcode .ato add the underline, so that readers get the hint that a piece of text is a link by default (no space because of<div class="authors-note bbcode" ...>)(and the same for dark.css. I assume the default style rule removing the underline for "a" is as a default because there's many widgets that are also "a" such as miscellaneous buttons and boxes or blue text without underlines)
Motivation: It's inconvenient for an author to add underlines manually to the links, and authors may not realize that links will look the same as normal text in author's notes.
Workarounds: Authors can work around this with extra BBCode tags by adding wrapping tags such as both color and underline with
[color=#3073b9][u][url=https://www.fimfiction.net]Example Link[/url][/u][/color](Example Link)(or just
[u]...[/u]for just underline, and I'm doing that already. This bug is specific to author's notes, and doesn't affect other places such as stories or comments)3. What's your preferred channel for asking about bug reports or feature requests. FIMFiction's Discord? Private messages? (I didn't have an account) Is https://github.com/knighty/fimfiction-issues/issues something you are subscribed to? The recent issues were old or closed by reporters. (I know email is recommended for security issues, but wasn't sure if that was only security issues)
Sorry if any of these requests have been recently requested elsewhere, I looked through the first and last ten or so pages of user comments for relevant information on feature requests, but (1) didn't find similar feature requests, and (2) The question about how to make feature requests to other site admins would be relevant to other commenters.
asking again for your attention.
the block function needs to be more strict to whoever is being blocked. i don't think it's good that users I'm trying to block can still interact with my content. I'm not sure why it works this way allowing harmful users whom I've reported can still interact with me.
please fix.
Hello,
i am not sure who to contact about this, but the Block button does not work.
i do not want people i am blocking to see or interact with my content, if that can be fixed it would be much appreciated.
thank you,
Hello Xaquseg!
I was directed to you via Elderado due to my problem being one to do with security
I just see if you could help me with this one thing
I have recently got a new device and wish to transfer my account
however I have forgotten the password and the password reset does not work, in the form of I have put it in and everything goes green but it never sends me the email to confirm the reset.
any help with getting around this problem would be greatly appreciated
with lots of thanks
Average_NZ_Brony
Hello!
I have just come to ask some questions regarding help with the password reset system, this is because it is not allowing me to enable the reset, I put in my email and account name properly but then it never send the email, even after confirming it is sending, I have checked and it doesn’t go anywhere, it just stops existing after I put in my request, some help with password reset or anything in that area would help a lot, I was directed here by Eldorado after I asked him, I am asking because I have gotten a new device and wish to sign on in this device but I cannot rember the password, I have tried everything and the email is definitely correct
I don’t know how it works but if any help could be given I would greatly appreciate it
Thanks for your time
-Average_NZ_Brony
(I signed using my mains user (the one that I need to reset password))