- WOW! YOU ARE MY HERO! Seriously, those search options are awesome and I love, love, love, love, love, love, love the new submit button at the bottom of the page! hugs

I'm going to do some testing over the next day or so with the search functions -- want to make sure that it doesn't crash if people try weird unexpected combinations of characters -- and then I'll make a public announcement.

Can one of you please check out the new search function with creating custom checklists?

Thanks for moving the search button O

it's not working :(

Marlboro's right -- the code doesn't affect how checklists are formed. (Checklists and search involve different pieces of code -- I can probably do the same thing over there, though.)

duh, of course they do. I am brain dead.

tested with and got a blank checklist.

this is great! So many times I've wanted to look for a word and not all its other word forms.

: I'm working on the mass-add code. Things should work, but (temporarily), there's a lot of extraneous garbage on the mass-add page that I'm printing out to help me diagnose what's going on.

BUT -- I have a favor to ask of you (and it's easy!): Next time there's a news post with two or more new items in it, leave it for me. I could test the code on one item at a time using the Item Locator page and the newest batch of CWs that came out this morning, but need a way to test multiple items.

Hey ... Well no excuses, just been lacking motivation with subetalodge lately (can I still say lately for a couple months of inactivity?). I do feel bad about dumping it so suddenly (though maybe it was a long time coming?). I am very willing to answer any questions has, can give you my email? If that's too slow, I would suggest like facebook messenger... discord... since I use those most often (outside of just texting). Well hopefully you all are doing well with the new year... lay it on me!

I never saw your post, didn't get the group ping. I am guessing no one else did either. You can always delete items and re add them to test things out if need be.

Again, didn't get the group ping. :/ I didn't ask Osterizer to replace you, just to help out. I know you have been super busy. I didn't think you were dumping us. I was hoping to have the two of you work together so that no one programmer feel overwhelmed. I think O is a bit like you were when you started for us; feeling inadequate and like his programming skills are not up to par.

read the two posts above me please

Ooook, no ping here either and I'll catch up soon as I thaw out lol It's like 20 below out there!

Yeah so your group pings didn't work because you used @ rather than #

That's cause I screwed up and at-signed it instead of hash-tagged it.

: I'm on break (ha ha ha -- see below), and have time to muddle through the code. Once the semester starts up, I can't possibly take on this job full-time, so I'd be grateful for any help you can offer. Georgie sent me your email; mine's heathdav at math.vt.edu -- and I promise not to abuse your generosity by spamming you with minor questions.

everyone: Just as I started this new role, I'm going to have to take a few days off from it. I broke a teeny-tiny bone in my foot today -- spent most of the day at the ER -- and have some follow-up orthopedist visits over the next couple days.

I figured that out eventually!

You can't take on a volunteer, thankless job outside your field full time? WTH? Come on man! You don't need money, right!

Sorry about your foot. What happened?

I could be all butch and macho and just say "bicycle accident" -- but the truth is that I lost my balance in my mom's garage and fell onto a bicycle.

Oh man. Embarrassing and painful both? Well, I don't think it is embarrassing. You could really butch it up and just say BIKE accident, thus leaving the hearer to wonder if it was a motorcycle....

Time to go to work. I would love another day or 20000 to vegetate.

LOL stick with bicycle accident, it does sound better. Sorry you hurt yourself and sorry (but not really) that I laughed.

Love the new system, I feel spoiled! Thanks for your hard work making things easier for us.

Everything seemed to work perfectly for the onesies, but I took the source code from the news page and it gave me a huge list of stuff that it seemed to modify that wasn't the onesies. Sorry that I didn't think to copy it for you.

Just a note to remember to check/change the currency type - Osterizer's system inserts the amount, but doesn't change the type.

hmm I kinda did a google search for your email and well you work at the Math department! omg my husband too! what is your expertise? he's expertise is arithmetic-geometry and he's working on torsors and group schemes. are you doing research or only teaching??

btw can I add the CWs or you want to add them and to do checks and stuff?

I think I figured out what happened: The mass-add script goes through the source code and tries to pick out all of the items with hover information -- a user named Cream posted several items in the comments of the news post, so mass-add tried to grab those items as well (so you probably got a message saying that extended item information was retrieved for five onesies and then four other items). But then when the script tries to write these items to the database, it then discovers that some of them have already been added, so the total number of items added should have been 5.

Long story short, mass-add might detect non-new items on the same page as new items and check out their hovers, but won't add them a second time.

My position is teaching only; my former research background was in noncommutative algebra (but I wasn't very good at it!)

You can go ahead and add CWs. You should find it a LOT easier!

Progress so far: Mass-add should now add the description, rarity, and currency value for new items. Mass-add is scraping this information from this page at Subeta: (click for example)

One complication that Lypsyl noted above is that the page lists the price as "3" and not "3 New Years Tokens", so mass-add won't add the correct currency denomination (it's not there for mass-add to grab!)

Another complication is that the overlay information only shows up for logged-in users (you can test this yourself by copying the link above, logging out, and then trying to visit it) -- and mass-add is not a logged-in user, so the overlay information for clothing items and ornaments isn't available to it.

awesome! I'll add :D sending you an sMail