[Deptheads] Website Problem

[Strategicon Department Heads]

That would be ideal :-) However, due to space limitations in the conbook I suspect the short descriptions would be further character limited than they are now.

Eric

> On Jan 25, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:
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> Message From: Jason DuVall  nekojin at gmail.com
> I would think that having a "Brief Description (For Conbook)" field that is mandatory, and a "Full Description (For Website)" that is optional would work reasonably well. 
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> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:09 AM Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:
> Message From: Tanya Aldrich  taldrich at strategicon.net
> Hi Tara,
> 
> Hmm, I’ll look into that. For the website at least, there shouldn’t be a limit. Then again, if they hit the red (see below), I may have put a hard limit there and not put a stop on the text box. Again, I’ll look into it. I don’t like saying one thing and doing another, but sometimes I make changes and no one, including me, catches all the reprecussions, sometimes for a long time.
> 
> Can I assume that you discovered this limit with “What is a LARP?”?
> 
> However, because of the con book limits, it is wise for GMs to curb their monologue as much as possible.
> 
> Now, the con book is a different story. Each department has a limit based on how verbose that department's events typically need to be within reason. Not sure if Eric A. has made it a hard limit or not. If you look at the “Edit Event” page, you will notice some events are colored. Yes, I know, it requires approving an event to see an event on this page, I’ll try to migrate the code to the approval page.
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> At the moment, the numbers are based on multiples of max chars for tweets at the time I wrote it. No idea if the size has remained.
> Red - 561+ Too long for any event.
> Orange - 421+ Too long for most departments, Pushing your luck in Miniatures, RPGs, and LARPs.
> Yellow - 281+ Pushing your luck in most departments, Acceptable in Miniatures, RPGs, and LARPs.
> 
> If it’s considered too long for that department, these events will get shortened by Eric and he tends to have no mercy with these.
> When I say pushing your luck, if Eric needs to trim lines, he’s going to look at this events to try and streamline the descriptions to get his lines.
> 
> There should be no real need for limits on descriptions displayed on the website, as it’s a virtually limitless medium, but I might have run across a problem at some point. But there is a real reason for limits for the con book, we only have so much real estate.
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> I have toyed with the idea of having separate website and a conbook description fields on the run event page. The former having no limit and the latter stopping cold when you hit the max. And, of course, if you only enter in one, it will be copied to the other on submission (and cut off). My concern is it would cause more confusion. I could also set it up so only Miniatures, LARPs and RPGs saw the unlimited version.
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> I have also planned to migrate the color coding to the run event page. But first, I wanted to make the colors mean the same to all and adjust the limits based on department. This I can work on.
> 
> Thank you for pointing these things out.
> 
> Tanya
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>> On Jan 25, 2019, at 3:17 AM, Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:
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>> Message From: Tara Leederman  taleederman at gmail.com
>> I am only seeing this now that I have submitted an event myself, but I am noticing that the event description box gives a countdown for the submitter, to enable them to get in under the text limit, and then cuts off the description anyways, as though there is another “real” limit which is shorter. It explains to me why so many of my GMs’ event descriptions are cut off mid-sentence and why I have to fix them, which creates a lot of extra work. It might also explain some GM annoyance about changes to their event descriptions.
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>> Tara
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