User talk:Stux/post-devel

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First of all, great job on this so far. I just have some edits I think should be made, but I don't want to edit the template just in case that ruins anything, so I'll bring up my ideas here.

• You can only add four pictures to a Tweet (I logged into Twitter for the first time in forever just to check), so the {{{pic5}}} and {{{size5}}} parameters are unnecessary.
• I don't see a reason to separate the filmography into multiple parameters. Not only does that seem to make everything more complicated, it's also extremely limiting. Five characters is a number that has been surpassed perhaps dozens of times by now (e.g. this Tweet with upwards of 80 characters) — I guess that's an extreme example, and we might not want to list the entire filmography for that one, but I still don't see why it should be limited at all.

Just my two cents. Keep up the good work! Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 03:12, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Re: your first cent: Instagram allows up to 10 images per post. But considering how little Strong Bad posts there, maybe we can cross that bridge when/if we come to it. Lira (talk) 04:15, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much guys for the positive feedback! Also thank you for the very useful information regarding the 4 and 10 image limits and the 80-character post! O.O I definitely didn't know about the image limits. I guess I'll leave it at 5 for now, it can't hurt? (...right??)

Anywho, regarding the filmography cent: I actually think this method is more useful than having a single filmography entry because it allows us to link a page to a character's filmography using the {{film}} template. This would be better and more accurate than adding them to the main @StrongBadActual page without context. I also added 5 with the intention of making it easy to add more if necessary. I figured most tweets would have 1-2 non-Strong Bad characters on average and so 5 film entries aught to be enough for everyone. I never imagined in my wildest dreams there'd be one with 80! Also, one of the entries could be "and all these folk" if they don't have filmographies.

Finally, I haven't sat down to look at it in a while but I don't suppose anybody here know what's wrong with the current template and why it won't acknowledge the table end markers (|})? As far as I know that's why the tables are nesting in the sample, but even spamming {{clear}}s didn't fix it. My goal in this section is to have the template also explicitly set table headers and footers with the table-begin and table-end tags. Any ideas would be very much welcome! --Stux 07:59, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Lira — That is a good point I hadn't considered. Nevermind that then.

Stux — I apologize again for not being specific. I was just suggesting a singular {{{film}}} parameter (like the one in the original {{post}} template); for example, |film={{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Cherry Greg}}. I agree that the giant filmography list on the @StrongBadActual page is large and unwieldy and devoid of context (although at least that means each filmography category stays at an accurate number for such things as Strong Bad#Fun Facts, but that's a discussion for another day). The point is, one {{{film}}} parameter should accomplish the same thing by much simpler means.

As for the table end markers, it turns out they were working perfectly fine. The problem was that the table was restarting when it shouldn't have been (seemingly due to an error with the counter function), and the table end markers weren't set to account for this, causing nesting tables. I think I fixed the issue. Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 21:25, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense! I don't know why I hadn't thought about that format (|film={{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Cherry Greg}}). Maybe we can have both. Something like film1..5 for ease of use and a filmrest tag that simply lets you list the filmography normally as per the example above. How does that sound? --Stux 15:04, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

I don't know. I still feel like the film1..5 method is more complicated than it needs to be, not only for the template code, but the Twitter page code as well. But I don't feel too strongly about it, so your solution sounds fine. Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 22:06, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

[edit] Template Fixes

Hi Gfd, thank you very, very, very much for figuring out what was going on with the template! That said I still don't quite understand what went wrong, but at least it'll help me continue with testing... Later, when I have time again... ^_^; In any case you have my thanks :) --Stux 15:04, 7 February 2021 (UTC)