cjb/codex-blackboard

Meteor app for coordinating solving for our MIT Mystery Hunt team

codex-blackboard's Issues

add horizontal slider to puzzle/round page.

Let the user resize the amount of space given to the spreadsheet.

In chat, mouseover images should also scroll up if necessary

Announcement support?

Maybe a way to pop up a modal dialog that makes a sound effect and gets everyone's attention? (Like "The hunt has started!", for one.)

It sounds like alertify already offers this, I'm just proposing it being part of the admin interface.

respect control/command-click

git grep 'puzzles-link'

Add link to google drive folder to existing puzzle page.

Should be straightforward.

Data from 2011

Both chat and puzzle data.

See 2011-data/README for more info.

Don't do "X new messages" unless you're actually in the chat room

Implement puzzle move up/down

Need to implement in model, then add buttons to HTML/CSS (next to the 'add tag' buttons?), then hook everything up.

DDP unset support (if unset leaves an empty object, remove the object)

Implement round/group move up/down

need to implement the method in the model (probably changing its signature to something more appropriate) and then hook up the client buttons.

"That was easy" sound isn't working

Unclear why.

Import Meteor.Fact collection from dglasser

Ask him for the code he showed during the meetup. It would be helpful to have an idea of server load during the hunt.

Blackboard should show who's working on round metas

this is a ui issue

open chat links in new tabs

just add a 'target=_new' (i think that's right) when we mark up chat urls

"That was easy" plays on every page load now

Don't scroll to bottom unless you're currently scrolled to bottom

Automatically elide long pastes in chat

If there's too much content in a message, automatically add a 'more...' link and elide most of it. This protects the chat room from accidental huge pastes.

Fix scroll-to-bottom

Hook Template.render instead of the funky setTimeout stuff that's currently going on.

Animated scrolling gets slower over time.

Seems fairly linear; it's extremely snappy within a minute of the page loading, kind of sluggish after five minutes, and so slow that there's no animation anymore after around ten minutes.

"Last update" (more...) link isn't a real link unless screen is very wide

Pointer doesn't change to the "hand" cursor over it if your screen's narrow.

Integrate Google Drive server

Add Meteor.setting to subscribe to all puzzles

If load becomes a problem, we might want to replace all the fine-grained subscriptions with a single subscription to all-puzzles and all-rounds. Add code to control this with a Meteor.setting. ie
SUB_ALL = Meteor.setting....
Meteor.subscribe 'puzzle-by-id' unless SUB_ALL

Suppress gravatars when chat window is too narrow.

/m as synonym for /msg

Use Meteor.settings for various constants

We should use a pattern to allow override of the various constants in Meteor.settings.

Ie,

GDRIVE_HOST = Meteor.settings?.gdrive_host or 'http://hydro.laptop.org:5000'

(Note the use of ?. which hopefully means this works even in Meteor 0.5.2 ?)

Install wiki on codexian.us

Newline support in chat message box

Shift-return or paste in the new message box should turn it into a text box. When displaying messages, replace \n with <br> (I'm pretty sure this second part is already done).

Drive server crashes when puzzle name contains single quote

Try naming a new puzzle (or round) "Scott's Test Puzzle", for instance. You get back:

{ statusCode: 200,
  content: '{"exception": "<HttpError 400 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files?q=title%3D%27Codex%3A+Scott%27s+Third+Test+Puzzle%27&alt=json returned \\"Invalid Value\\">", "error": "Error duplicate checking: Codex: Scott\'s Third Test Puzzle"}',
  headers: 
   { 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8',
     'content-length': '250',
     server: 'Werkzeug/0.8.3 Python/2.7.3',
     date: 'Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:44:39 GMT' },
  data: null,
  error: null }

Looks like we're not properly escaping our puzzle names?

All popups open in same window

sez cody

"That was easy" is unreliable

I'm not hearing it again, although Seth is. Maybe increase the tolerance in time delta.

codexbot should reply to puzzle commands

At the moment it performs the commands, but doesn't tell you it's done so.

How to password protect the site?

There's a node.js htpasswd package we could use (assuming we don't use apache), but it's not necessarily trivial to import a node.js package into Meteor.

compress chat log?

Use smaller gravatars and smaller intra-chat spacing to fit more text on-screen.

Fix scroll-to-bottom when images are in chat history

Seems to be an issue because the size of the page changes between the time that 'scroll-to-bottom' is called and when the image finished loading.

Probably need an onload handler on the image to take care of this. Adding images to the Meteor.preserve() list might also help (but it also might leak, check this).

Drive server needs to 'publish' spreadsheet after it creates it

...otherwise the spreadsheet can't be embedded

sync unread message count among open tabs

Requires a collection storing (nick, room_name, timestamp) tuples.

Run blackboard on codexian.us:80

Requires port forwarding 80 to an unpriviledged port (3000?) and "deberg_: you can set ROOT_URL when you run the bundle to whatever you need."

Allow adding new {puzzle,round,group,roundgroup}s from admin button

Tag and Move edit buttons don't show up in firefox

Related to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5148041/does-firefox-support-position-relative-on-table-elements apparently.

Embed chat and google drive in puzzle page.

Chat log at top, google drive at bottom, links to full-screen these?

blackboard improvement: sort by status

seth suggested this. would require using an enumeration for the status field.
Perhaps better: allow hiding solved puzzles.

Meta pages should include the round's answers

Right now, they've got the puzzles in there already, it would be nice to have solutions in there as well

Should we allow arbitrary chat room names?

/msg codexbot help should work

Right now you have to do "/msg codexbot codexbot ..." which is just redundant.

Private messages in Chat?

(Use private message for codexbot's help command.)

chat scrolling funky on narrow screens

codexbot should be able to set tags

Provide means to record calling-in answers

This may be something like the 'WIKI' keyword in chat, used in the past.

Add help on chat commands

Maybe a small button with a popover somewhere?

Turn off delete and purge on the drive server just before the hunt.