As a part of a multi-step process in upgrading our Library, I'd like to announce the DLP Library 2.0 (alpha).

One of my goals recently has been to extract all of the information found in our library. We have a basic structure to our library posts, but some are better than others and it's always hard trying to find exactly what you want.

A weekend project has brought the Library Frontend to a viewable state -- I'd love some feedback on it.

https://forums.darklordpotter.net/library/ (You will need JS for this page)

It's a minimalistic frontend to the DLP Library with real-time search and sorting.

For the developers of DLP: It's an open REST API, have at it. I'll post docs soon. Open source: https://bitbucket.org/darklordpotter/dlp-library/

Known issues:
- Cannot click on tags
- Firefox Aurora seems to have issues
- Some data is missing -- this will get better over time as the extraction algorithms evolve
- Some data might not be the most fresh. The extraction process currently runs on a periodic basis.
- URLs can be extracted as title or author

 

It doesn't work with Opera 11.60. I should probably try upgrading to a 12ish version sometime :?

Anyway, looks good in Firefox. Love how searching for pairings works You could probably mention that the dropdown on the right is for sorting the results -- it's kinda obvious in hindsight, but when I wanted to sort it, it took me a little while to realise how it worked.

Also, regarding the extraction: The problem is with the summaries, since they don't always start directly after "Summary:", but with an additional line break or even a blank line in between. No idea if that is fixable -- you could have the algorithm search down the post until there's something written, but in some whacky circumstances, that might lead to more than just the summary appearing in the summary field. Alternatively, compile a list with empty summary fields, and we'll fix it manually.

And I don't think you read the thread-prefixes currently.


Edit: Oh, and as far as the layout goes, maybe make the lines between the stories thicker or change something else, like spacing it more -- for some reason, I keep associating the tags above the story with the one below.

 

Summaries have been a massive PITA, as well as multi-story posts. Those haven't been resolved yet, summaries are still one of the most simple extractions. I can compile a list of empty ones pretty easily, I'll whip up a page with empty <x> fields so we can fix those.

I agree about the separation, I've been working on some improvements to greatly enhance readability.

You're right, I don't read thread prefixes currently but I'll slate that in for the next development iteration. Most stories are tagged with statuses, but some don't.

Something I'd also like to do is some basic auto-tagging, such that I can extract entities from summaries (e.g. Person[Harry Potter]) and allow searching from that.

 

This is covered in the known issues -- it has to do with URLs being present in title/author sections and the vbcode first pass.

 

Works fine with Chrome both mobile and browser. Buggy for Opera 12 browser but I can make it work, mobile version its not aligned right, needs a custom style to fix it, links aren't clickable(out of alignment of where I'm tapping) Manual selection through scrolling does highlight some boxes. If you'll remind me I'll put up some screens for you to look at later.

Firefox I hate, but did test it. Mobile version is kinda buggy, slow loading, but does work eventually. Haven't tried the browser version.

Overall, I say fuck Ellisande with his a bit bright theme. I like the minimal style. As an alternative, a darker color would be okay I guess, but as it is, it works. I love it. (You know I've already pestered you for a site wide theme like this )

 

I'll work on a few darker themes tonight -- it shouldn't be hard to add a few changes.

As for it not working on Opera -- I'll have to see why Angular.JS doesn't work on Opera. I used a MVC JS framework for building this out fast.

 

No sweat, I like it regardless. Already really useful. Found some stuff to read I hadn't in a long time.

 

There's a bug with the CSS. Make it smaller or larger and it should work.

 

It's extracted out of the post not the thread title.