On 27 Jan 2020, g00r00 said the following...

Also soliciting ideas or requests for A45 if anyone wants to nag me. I
am not sure what I plan to do for A45 yet. The time away sort of made
me forget my intentions.

Now you're really asking for it <g>

I was thinking (always a bad idea) earlier about hashtags (tags, flags, whatever) and how they could be used in this instance.

My file areas are always a mess. Mostly that is just me but it would be nice
to have file areas use "tags" as well as directories. For instance, Murder Mansion is in my Mystic File area currently because it's an MPL. Would be
nice to also have it included in a games file area as well without
duplicating the file.

Just a thought. I'm definitely just an end user so don't know how difficult something like that would be to implement but I could see tags being used
like ACS flags for more than just users.

-=>Richard Miles<=-
-=>Captain Obvious<=-
-=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-

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Would be nice to also have it included in a games file area as well without duplicating the file.

Thanks I'll consider how this could best be handled and make a note on the TODO list. The file areas in general could use a complete revamp to be honest.

They've been mostly unchanged since the 1990s besides adding in the index file area thing and archive viewer.

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On 27 Jan 2020, g00r00 said the following...

Would be nice to also have it included in a games file area as well without duplicating the file.

Thanks I'll consider how this could best be handled and make a note on
the TODO list. The file areas in general could use a complete revamp to be honest.

They've been mostly unchanged since the 1990s besides adding in the
index file area thing and archive viewer.

Ooh! I wanted to ask if you could jot down in the TODO about finishing file attachments to messages. I see it was *kind of* setup, but it's
non-functional.

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Ooh! I wanted to ask if you could jot down in the TODO about finishing file attachments to messages. I see it was *kind of* setup, but it's non-functional.

The reason I haven't bothered with that is because no one uses local messages, and echomail doesn't allow file attachments.

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On 28 Jan 2020, g00r00 said the following...

Ooh! I wanted to ask if you could jot down in the TODO about finishin file attachments to messages. I see it was *kind of* setup, but it's non-functional.

The reason I haven't bothered with that is because no one uses local messages, and echomail doesn't allow file attachments.

No worries man, was just an idea! =)

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On 27 Jan 2020, g00r00 said the following...

The file areas in general could use a complete revamp to be honest. They've been mostly unchanged since the 1990s besides adding in the
index file area thing and archive viewer.

I'd suggest a split window approach to the file lister if you decide to
revisit that, since the classic paging lister kind of gets overwhelmed on
file bases that can contain hundreds of entries with long descriptions.

For example you could have the file list on one side navigable by lightbar or type-ahead find while the currently selected file's description is on the
other side. That should make it more convenient to browse regardless of description length and give it a more similar feel to the existing indexed listers.

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The file areas in general could use a complete revamp to be honest. They've been mostly unchanged since the 1990s besides adding in the index file area thing and archive viewer.

I'd suggest a split window approach to the file lister if you decide to revisit that, since the classic paging lister kind of gets overwhelmed on file bases that can contain hundreds of entries with long descriptions.

I've planned to do that for a while now once I get around to rebuilding everything. But Gryphon made a MPL that does exactly that and I didn't want to step on his toes.

For example you could have the file list on one side navigable by
lightbar or type-ahead find while the currently selected file's description is on the other side. That should make it more convenient to browse regardless of description length and give it a more similar feel
to the existing indexed listers.

Yep this was along the lines of what I wanted to do too. Although I may not have the "type to search" that I usually put in places throughout Mystic just because it requires a lot of memory for large bases.

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On 29 Jan 2020 at 08:21p, g00r00 pondered and said...

Its fully thread safe and can scale up as demonstrated by those screen shots of you having like 30+ BINKP session going in MIS back in the day! (Its the identical code being used between fidopoll and mis)

Cool, this I needed yesterday :)

The reason I haven't pushed for it yet is that I want to make sure there aren't other open issues, because I think it could just compound the problems and make it harder to track down a problem...

Fair enough.

And if I'm being completely honest about it, the fact that I don't
suffer from the same massive outbound queue like you do probably makes
it easier for me to unintentionally forget about it. Out of sight out
of mind kind of thing.

For a HUB polling 90+ nodes it is certainly slow when everything is happening sequentially. With BinkD there's a setting that allows you to state the
number of inbound/outbound connections.. you can set call delay and rescan delay etc.. how many trys to poll, how long to hold after those tries have tried and failed before erm trying again.. etc.

My thoughts are mostly centered on the fact that we need get to a point where the existing stuff is working well enough that you're comfortable using it reliably. With their being rumors of some transfer issues and possible FLO stuff, I think those need to be confidently addressed first.

Maybe I could make a fidopoll2 kind of thing like I did with MIS a
couple of years ago?

sounds good to me. I've just updated the NET 1 HUB and it's totally running Mystic for all duties at present, tossing, BinkP and Fidopoll. I also have Agency cut over as well - more about that in a different post.

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