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the current user settings menu is getting cumbersome to use! most notably, you shouldn't have to go through the entire settings sequence just to change one thing (especially since you can't back out once you started)

allow toggling of pub/nopub on individual entries from within the main interface

for users that are publishing to web, add rss output for all entries that are public

i am reaping the consequences of my past self's sloth, because with nearly 600 entries on ttbp, it now takes around 10-11 seconds to load the global feed. so, here are some solutions i'm considering:

• set a rolling cutoff date for how far back it checks for entries (since entry date is encoded in filename, this should be fairly fast).
  DOWNSIDE: what if no one posts for a long period of time? should the global feed display only posts within the last, say, week?
• whenever someone posts, queue that post onto a file that lists the 10 most recent posts; the global feed reads this list instead of trying to generate one from scratch.
  DOWNSIDE: this excludes people who might edit/post from outside of the ttbp interface
  -make a cron job that cruises through all the entry directories and generate a list of the most recent posts; combine this with the above option. this could be a way to catch posts that fall through the cracks.

thoughts/ideas appreciated!

ability to mark posts (or parts of posts) for rot13, such as for spoiler or content warning or silly joke or whatever reasons. also make it easy to toggle rot13 when reading posts.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open new terminal window.
2. SSH into tilde.town.
3. Type 'feels' (without quotes) and press enter.
4. Press enter.
5. Type 3 and press enter.
6. Type 'd' and press enter.
7. Type any single digit (0-9, inclusive) and press enter.
8. Press 'q' (without quotes).

Expected behaviour: Will return to recent global entries on page 2.
Actual behaviour: Returns to recent global entries on page 1.

this feature addresses post privacy; currently, if a user is publishing to html/gopher, all entries are default published, and must be individually toggled to nopub if someone wants their entry to not be published. this new option will allow a user to set their default post behavior to either pub or nopub. toggling this option will not change the status of existing entries.

(follow-up: have the ability to retroactively mark all entries pub or nopub?)

this issue covers:

• creating a setup.py
• referencing things installed via pip (inflect)
• inlining the chatter functions so they live inside this project
• creating entry points (ttbp and feels) so when the project is installed you get nice scripts for running it

i'm going to start the setup.py at version 0.9.3

self-explanatory

right now it just defaults to roll over to a new date at midnight for whatever your localtime is; consider making an option to set a custom time, if you wanted rollover to happen sooner or later.

add this in as a user setting!

this ticket covers making ttbp happy with either python2 or python3 via six.

I'm happy to work on the fix for this, just making the issue so I don't forget. If someone's permissions are off or the config is invalid, the whole thing comes to a halt. This should probably be handled with just a

try:
...
except IOError:
    continue

I'm trying to browse gopher://tilde.town/1/~endorphant/feels/ and all the entry links are broken. The domain field only contains a 'tilde' and not 'tilde.town'. This causes a DNS lookup failure and the page cannot be viewed outside of tilde.town.

on the 'send feedback' menu, typing 'q' doesn't take you back to the main screen like all the other menus.

this is a sizable feature. it will require:

• ability to chose a directory to publish a gophermap and gopher files
• ability to render the same files as either html or txt
• ability to render a gophermap

• toggle rainbow menus
• toggle date
• wipe account

after saving a new post:

> posted to https://tilde.town/~endorphant/blog/index.html
> thanks for sharing your feels!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/feels", line 9, in
load_entry_point('ttbp', 'console_scripts', 'feels')()
File "/home/vilmibm/src/ttbp/ttbp/ttbp.py", line 188, in start
print(main_menu())
File "/home/vilmibm/src/ttbp/ttbp/ttbp.py", line 444, in main_menu
core.www_neighbors()
File "/home/vilmibm/src/ttbp/ttbp/core.py", line 403, in www_neighbors
write_global_feed(sortedUsers)
File "/home/vilmibm/src/ttbp/ttbp/core.py", line 212, in write_global_feed
outfile = open(FEED, "w")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/global/ttbp/www/index.html'

as reported bu ~variscite, if you're scrolled past the first page of entries, entry selection is incorrect.

specifically, the indexing remains pegged to the original list of entries passed to the paginator, even though the UI shows the entry selection number resetting.

two options for fixing:

• add a shift in the paginator so the menu selector knows how to index into the full file list
• display the actual file index to the user

find a way to deal with graffiti wall lockfile, in case someone left the wall open in a session and forgot about it. should there just be a time limit for wall visiting?

currently, you can only make one post per date; it might be useful to be to opt for more than one post a day. this could tie in well with privacy/publishing options, to selectively make things public or not.

ttbp.view_feed() uses mtime to determine display order; this means that older entries with a recent mtime will get bumped up on the feed.

the behavior that i intended was that editing a post on the day of should bump it up within that day, but it should not bump a backdated post to the current day.

welcome back, feoh.


your ttbp configuration doesn't look right. let's make you a fresh copy.


	[  0 ] editor: 	vim
	[  1 ] publish dir: 	blog
	[  2 ] publishing: 	True

pick a setting to change (or type 'q' to exit):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/feels", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ttbp', 'console_scripts', 'feels')()
  File "/home/vilmibm/src/ttbp/ttbp/ttbp.py", line 179, in start
    print(check_init())
  File "/home/vilmibm/src/ttbp/ttbp/ttbp.py", line 233, in check_init
    setup_repair()
  File "/home/vilmibm/src/ttbp/ttbp/ttbp.py", line 372, in setup_repair
    setup()
  File "/home/vilmibm/src/ttbp/ttbp/ttbp.py", line 417, in setup
    if settingList[int(choice)] == "editor":
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

I'd be happy to submit a PR for this, likely fix is something like (line 417):

    if settingList[int(choice)] == "editor":

gets replaced with something like:

  if settingList[int(choice)] and settingList[int(choice)] == "editor":

That way if the user just hits enter and settingList[int(choice)] is null, we just return the current settings.

I'd be happy to submit a PR if you like - I know you prefer to give permission before accepting such things.

Anyway, thanks for writing feels and happy new year!

write better docs/guides pls

make an option for wiping everything associated with feels

• include a feels export function

rainbow menus are unreadable on light backgrounds, and don't have enough contrast on dark backgrounds.

r a d project! tried to install (pip install .) with #41 merged in and saw this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/d/ttbp/.venv/bin/feels", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ttbp==0.12.2', 'console_scripts', 'feels')()
  File "/home/d/ttbp/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 489, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/home/d/ttbp/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2793, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/home/d/ttbp/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2411, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/home/d/ttbp/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2417, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/home/d/ttbp/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ttbp/ttbp.py", line 48, in <module>
    from ttbp import config, core, chatter, gopher, util
  File "/home/d/ttbp/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ttbp/config/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    raise Exception('bad system state: /var/global does not exist.')
Exception: bad system state: /var/global does not exist.

Not really sure how to fix that 🤔

a way to announce statuses within ttbp without having to refresh sessions (including upgrade announcements)

i'm still working on learning about unit testing! i'll be doing this myself at some point, but i'd appreciate extra help here.

i dearly love the version of myself that needed to do this because that was the only way that version of me knew how to handle this problem and it is very cute, but i should make it better someday.

currently, if you perform any action on an item in a pagified list and then return to the original list, it resets to the beginning of that list. this is quite tedious if, say, you're trying to toggle pub/nopub on page 15 of 16 or something, because you have to scroll back to where you started from.

the pagination tool should have a way to remember location and return there!

current intro text is not very helpful at explaining the feels engine! consider a better intro (tied in with better help file) that gives new users a rundown of what to expect.

include:

• link to town CoC
• how to ask for help
• brief privacy description

if you're good with writing curses interfaces, please let me know! i want to upgrade the interface to something less clunky!