GENERAL UPDATES: FEBRUARY 9

🎉 thanks for the updates!! i'm excited for survival, so i can spend some quality time with the shiny new directory and see how i like it 8)

Thanks!

Thanks for the updates. :)

Wonderful! Thank you, thank you, thank you :D

Thanks so much!

Amber, since there's so much more room now, would it be possible to change "move to shop" into "move to (name of shop)" with all shops listed? So that it isn't two clicks/two page loads for every move to shop?

If this is the case, can pets finally have a higher character limit? I don't think a forum post should have the same character limit as an entire pet page x:

I've actually got a few ideas I might end up doing, like moving "moe to collection/wardrobe/etc" under the move item. :x I'LL TEST A LOT OF THINGS

I'm pretty sure pet profiles don't have a strict character limit?? Or are you referring to something else?

Unless this was changed, the character limit on pet profiles was in the ball park of 64,000-68,000. I haven't edited Rosemarie in a long time, but she was at the character limit when it was a thing and it's why I have to import her css.

I've actually got a few ideas I might end up doing, like moving "moe to collection/wardrobe/etc" under the move item. :x I'LL TEST A LOT OF THINGS

Thank you! I requested a long while ago that if we had just one shop, we could get 'move to shop' to just put it in the one shop rather than having to click it again. So I'd be happy with that too/instead. :D

i pasted a shitload of lorem ipsum onto visitor's page to check this and it gets cut off at exactly 65,327 characters v:

I don't see the updated menu page when I click on a item.... Is the change on a cache or something?

I just checked, and there isn't a character limit enforced on it at all at the moment. There might have been one in the past, I'm not sure. It might be that you ran into the actual limit of what the code can handle without crashing :x

Thanks for clarifying!

I'm not sure if you're referring to my code or the pet page code, but I don't think it was my code. I just did the same as above and posted ~130k characters into my pet's description and when I copied what was on the description page after submitting it, I only got 65,427 characters back. @ ___ @ It's half the reason I have 0 motivation to work on fixing up Rosemarie and expanding her character.

If it's the site's code, I find it odd that a single forum post can have 65,000 characters without any issues (and then multiple 65k character posts on a single page), but a pet page can't.

Oh sorry for the confusion, I meant the code on Subeta's end. I hear you what you are saying.

I understand why you'd find that odd. Let me give a bit more info so it makes more sense. The 65k limit is not a random number, it's a physical limitation on how much each database cell of this type can store. A forum topic can be really long because it's made up of multiple, individual posts, and each post can be 65k characters. It's like how you have multiple, individual pets, and each pet profile can be 65k characters. But each profile itself is a single 65k blob that can't be made larger. Unfortunately this is one limitation of the current system we don't have a way to improve and it does suck :c

However!! The issue you bring up is still valid and important, so this is something we are hoping to improve drastically in the new pet profiles system.

We may not be able to make a 65k section larger, but what we can do is add more sections and give you control over how they are arranged in relation to each other. Then, you could have multiple sections on your profile that are each 65k - for instance, you could have 65k for one section of CSS, 65k for your pet story, 65k for another part of your pet description, etc. And you can choose what order to put them on the page.

I know at this point I've derailed my own site update (something I always tell people not to do... OTL), however, I will definitely post something in the near future on the topic of pet profiles, to answer more questions / concerns and where we'll be able to continue this discussion.

Awesome about the items and directory! Thanks!