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There are plenty of ways in which Multiverse is ancient and outdated just because I haven't spent much development effort on it. But this is not one of them. I'm pretty sure that I do not want any way to allow people to embed arbitrary off-site scripts on here. easypolls might be just about trustworthy, but in general it's far too easy a malware vector. Sorry.
Hm. I can't reproduce this: searching any of comments, cards or cardsets successfully finds those created by any user for me. Can you give me a specific search that you tried, what you expected to be returned, and what was actually returned (and what the URL was)?
Multipart cards (DFCs, split cards, adventures etc) indeed can't be imported. This is definitely a bug / long-standing enhancement that's needed doing. I don't really know quite how it should be represented though. The JSON Export does export things fairly sensibly, with
{"name":"Diffuse Essence",...,"layout":"double-faced","names":["Diffuse Essence","Concentrated Rage"]},{"name":"Concentrated Rage",...,"layout":"double-faced","names":["Diffuse Essence","Concentrated Rage"]}. I could allow something like that in the import screen.Mechanics I think you can specify in card text like "[myMechanicName
]", but can't import/export the actual mechanics.
Colour indicators... hm, I don't know OTTOMH, but yes, you may well be right that they can't be imported. That at least should be an easy add.
If you can export as JSON, it should be easy to import that file into something like MongoDB and do all your complicated searches right there. Card files are likely unstructured data sets, which makes SQL not the best choice anyway
um. yeah. I randomly added the
symbols a while ago, but no plans to put in 4.
So it's not quite the same thing, but do note that each cardset's data is available in JSON or XML formats via the "Export" option in the cardset nav box. The XML does indeed include the last modified date.
I'm potentially interested in allowing people to extract extra statistics or do more powerful filtering. I don't know anything about SQL virtual tables though.
The green-white color indicator seems to be a missing image:
I actually am exporting site data already to allow myself more comfortable searches - most commonly by mana cost, which is distinctly more powerful than "Frame".
Last changes kinda seem to be stored already considering what is tracked for "recent activity" and card comments.
The ability to directly access the data would make things easier and probably a lot faster.
Note that a SQLite virtual table does not send any SQL code to the server; all SQL code is parsed on the client side, and then a list of constraints (column numbers, comparisons (equal, less, greater, etc), value being compared with) are sent, and the implementation of the virtual table uses them to output a subset of the rows in that table, and then whichever constraints were not understood by the virtual table will be implemented by SQLite itself to further filter and/or sort the results.
Unfortunately, this "list of constraints" that can be used by virtual tables does not currently include a LIMIT clause (you can still put such a clause in your query, but the virtual table will not know about it; it will output all rows, and SQLite will then limit it to the specified number of rows).
Upon further thought, the first suggestion wouldn't be a very sensible change in real sets and would only make sense in Cards With No Home or other Singleton sets. I guess this is a pretty niche request.
Ha! The direct link to Duty certainly doesn't work very well.
I'm just guessing, but might it be that you used the "Preview" button to create Rats' Nest? I think there was some known bug around preview with DFCs, and Adventures are a variant of DFCs/split cards.
That didn't happen to Hanweir, Welcoming Township (although I just noticed it has two holofoil stamps)
See Rats' Nest and Nest Quest.
It worked fine on Lord General Azemar and Duty.
Maybe it's the land without mana cost that is causing the issue?
There doesn't exist a mana symbol for 4/M. Only canonical mana symbols and
are supported
I think that indeed if you want renders with your own frames and whatever, probably it is better to use separate programs to render them (of which MSE is probably the most popular one, but not the only one).
I had a somewhat similar idea, although in my case my idea is avoiding the use of the web browser entirely, and doing card changes through change sets posted using NNTP, which can then be imported into local copies of the card databases on each user's computer. (Articles other than change sets can also be posted, such as comments. It is easy for a computer program to be written to tell the difference; change sets have a special header field designating them as change sets.) I don't know if you will partnership/collaboration with NNTP.
I think it would be useful to export everything related to a set being exported (cards (incl. active/inactive status, if appplicable), mechanics, information pages, comments, etc). Some is useful with MSE, some with other programs, but either way you might want it exported, so I agree that it would be useful to have everything in one file, so that you do not need to read multiple files.
This, and other features, are possible with SQL. (This is one reason why I prefer to make cards using my own local software instead of Multiverse, although there are other reasons too. My cards can still be imported into Multiverse, though.) (But the other way around is also possible, if you prefer: You can make them in Multiverse and then export.)
Is the initial comment that is imported can be marked somehow so that an import that overwrites it can overwrite that initial comment too? (Of course I suppose you might or might not want it to; either way the documentation should clarify these things!)
I like OpenID myself, and have my own OpenID server to authenticate too. (However, I do not implement OpenID Connect.) Don't require certain providers such as Google or whatever only, though; allow people to use their own. The existing username/password login should still be provided as an option though. Another option that I think would be useful is some way to be able to use the
curlcommand to do logins, to automate such features as imports and exports, without needing to open the web browser in order to do so.Just chiming in to say I'm using the "Random regardless of rarity" as a nice way to browse through cards in my set to get an overview.