imported>Loramin: /* So Why Not Do It? */

2019-11-29T17:23:04Z

So Why Not Do It?

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This page contains links to the most recent posts of every staff member (on [https://www.project1999.com/index.php?pageid=about] as of the end of 2019):

== Server Staff ==
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=1 Rogean's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=3 Nilbog's Posts]

== Development ==
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=91 Haynar's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=11926 Kanras's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u= Alunova's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=26643 Telin's Posts]

== Game Support ==
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=145237 Llandris's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=2332 Sirken's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=114600 Aussie's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=150107 Menden's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=176394 Kelvanis's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=30766 Andakos's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=194731 Medris's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=194661 Khikik's Posts]
* [https://www.project1999.com/forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=194677 Sunderfury's Posts]

== Why Not Show Posts Here? ==

It would ''almost'' be technically be possible to write code for the wiki add a "Synchronize" button here. When clicked this button would automatically:

# check every staff member's link for new posts
# ''(optional)'' create new wiki pages for staff members who don't already have one (eg. at <code>/staff_posts/*staff name*</code>) then
# ''(optional)'' add each quote to the staff member's page, so that each staff member would have a fully-readable (unlike the forum search results) list of quotes
# update this page to show the latest quote for each staff member

Quotes would use the existing wiki format, eg.

{{Staff Quote
| border = true
| date = 11-02-2019, 03:23 PM
| staff = Rogean
| url = https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3011753#post3011753;
| quote = Update 7:22 PM, Saturday November 2nd: We're still working on getting Teal open. Unfortunately, there are some systems that need to be updated on Green in order to open teal correctly. Instead of rebooting Green right now, we're going to reboot it later tonight and then open Teal tomorrow afternoon. Sorry for the delay! Thanks.
}}

=== So Why Not Do It? ===
There's only reason that's not feasible right now: cross-domain scripting rules. Without getting technical, for security reasons browsers prevent code on "'''wiki'''.project1999.com" from talking to "'''www'''.project1999.com (your browser thinks '''www.''' could be a bank, with '''wiki.''' as its wiki, and protects you in case an attacker posts bank account-stealing code on the wiki).

There are ways around this, and the simplest would probably be for Rogean to add a "proxy" URL to the wiki server (eg. so wiki.project.com/forums/ acted like www.project1999.com/forums) ... but that's still a bunch of extra work for Rogean. Also, Rogean is ''not'' known for being an attention-seeker, and neither is the rest of the staff, so the idea of people paying even ''more'' attention what they post likely won't appeal to them.

So until he sees value in having a wiki-based staff post tracker so that players have clearer ways to learn about what the staff wants to communicate ... or until a player hosts their own (CORS-enabled) proxy ... this page has to remain "manual". Players ''could'' manually re-create staff posts here, as with the Rogean example above, but that's likely far too much trouble to be worth it.

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