
06-08-2009, 09:03 PM
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Will work for food. Maybe
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Maryland, USA
Posts: 9,589
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PM Logging
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I think it's time PM logs got a major overhaul.
Major revisions:
1) Reverse the logging direction. Really, bottom-to-top logging? Makes more sense to just append, script-wise, than to insert at the top, and makes more sense to read from top-to-bottom like most logs. I hate reading logs from PMs when people show me, it always takes me a few to realize I'm reading it the wrong way.
2) XML format? With the above suggestion, logs would start getting messed up as the new format is appended onto old logs. Maybe it's time to convert over to an XML format and give each date a collapsible element to more easily navigate through longer logs.
edit: raw XML is quite ugly, and average players shouldn't have to see that. Could create an XML log viewer in-game that interpretted the XML into a pretty-format, and maybe by default, collapse all elements(so you're not initially viewing a huge 1MB file log).
3) Name format. Right now it uses, YOU and OPPOSITE. Perhaps it should use the nick, or account. I suggest nick possibly as sometimes that might have a lot to do with the conversation at hand... though longer nicks may be annoying in logs. Could simply clip off after a certain character. Account might be redundant since the filename itself stores the account.
Welcome to any other suggestions as well. This would be a good thing to add to the new version as many things are getting changed. |
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