Revision as of 18:53, 26 January 2026

Exploring the usage of Flarum for an external forum. Conceptually funnels all social activity outside the knowledge base whilst maintaining an integrated companionship. Ideally speaking - this comes in the form of the forums being woven into the skin link-redirect schema, meaning then discussions, comments and wiki accounts engage with Flarum when searching for discussion/to discuss. This, in theory, eliminates a lot of extension busywork, database noise and obligation to use the wiki itself for such social functions. Instead then, a proper software package is used more in line with the best of what modern forums can offer. The server ecosystem is already completely setup for its usage - the main challenge lives in creating a SSO system.

Other recent activities

Let me paint a general picture for you -

February - Methodical update, enhancement & rework (if necessary) of the existing features.
March - Optimization, bug-testing, stress testing and v2 + PWA update process. (Preliminary work done here - functional rebuild first.)
April - Style alignment. 4-theme (possibly more). Visual refinements & reworks. (The wiki can be cleanly reset once ContextSharing & v2 are done being teste. Not contingent, just nice to know.)
May - The map is ready for Cloudflare deployment (full proxy & caching) - further design considerations go into the testing realm.

Looked at setting up a server fallback schema -> NYC -> Atlanta -> San Fran

Not load balancing per se - in cases, if ever, the host data center is rendered unavailable the server can be migrated elsewhere. (That said, it's not necessary at the moment - it's merely feasible if found so.)

Extensions Mix

Caravan

Adding favorites for panel browsing (on the map).

ContextSharing

Delivers specific content from a wiki page to the map for embedded display (within info & content panels).

Mappy (Paused)

Exploring...

& migration to Typescript. (Vite via JS, then backworking).

SVGs reign supreme!

A look at the on-map panels and main menu after Favoriting functionality was enabled.

Earliest (working) version of the combined right & left menus, composing the main menu, the "default" format for the desktop presentation of the map.

PNG icons matched to markers as according to their type classification.

Geometry updates to the Town Layout viewer - making more advanced layouts comprehensible.

Initial proof of concept for town layout viewer.

Extraction and visualization of a modified road network before cleanup. Native (green), custom (yellow) and modified (purple).

Colorful roads, borders, resources & weather layers.

Road editor progress...Consumes polylines and allows editing thereafter.

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 Favoriting panels (manifest-based) is now functional! (Relations Journal could use some work.)
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+Exploring the usage of [https://flarum.org/ Flarum] for an external forum. Conceptually funnels all social activity ''outside the knowledge base'' whilst maintaining an integrated companionship. Ideally speaking - this comes in the form of the forums being woven into the skin link-redirect schema, meaning then discussions, comments and wiki accounts engage with Flarum when searching for discussion/to discuss. This, in theory, eliminates a lot of extension busywork, database noise and obligation to use the wiki itself for such social functions. Instead then, a ''proper'' software package is used more in line with the best of what modern forums can offer. The server ecosystem is already completely setup for its usage - the main challenge lives in creating a SSO system.
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 Let me paint a general picture for you -
 #'''February''' - Methodical update, enhancement & rework (if necessary) of the existing features.
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 #'''May''' - The map is ready for Cloudflare deployment (full proxy & caching) - further design considerations go into the testing realm.
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-;Other recent activities
 :Looked at setting up a server fallback schema -> NYC -> Atlanta -> San Fran
 :Not load balancing per se - in cases, if ever, the host data center is rendered unavailable the server ''can'' be migrated elsewhere. (That said, it's not necessary at the moment - it's merely feasible if found so.)
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 :'''Extensions Mix'''
 ::''Caravan''
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 :::Delivers specific content from a wiki page to the map for embedded display (within info & content panels).
 ::''Mappy'' (Paused)
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 ;Exploring...