Blog Nomenclature

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Searching for and differentiating the callum-era blog posts in the forum is next to impossible. They're needlessly titled by indistinguishable short dates when they actually have proper descriptive titles. It's not a big deal, but when you see
12/04/18
24/07/18
13/11/17
just scrolling down your unread posts, it's pretty frustrating knowing that you'll have to click on every single one of them and scroll to the first post just to find out what the blog was even about. Is there any particular reason why management has decided not to put the blog title in the topic name?

 

[Patchouli Knowledge]

I was trying to find a specific blog recently and it took me all damn day because of this. Horrible.

 

[Temuzu]

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,364140.msg8735889.html#msg8735889

This post seems to have most, if not all, of the blogs.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

That solves half the problem, but my main issue is how the threads themselves are impossible to distinguish in your unread posts / new replies feed. I'm hesitant to oost anything in the blog threads because let's say I post in 20 of them but am only interested in discussion from one. Now I either have to memorize a string of 6 digits, or check every single 04/11/17 lookin' thread title until I get the right one.

 

[Age of Empires ¶ Densetsu]

Is there any particular reason why management has decided not to put the blog title in the topic name?

For this reason:

https://youtu.be/VvR_3OTxs8A?t=1m57s

 

[Patchouli Knowledge]

Do you need subtitles to understand the angry video game nerd?

 

[Callum]

Searching for and differentiating the callum-era blog posts in the forum is next to impossible. They're needlessly titled by indistinguishable short dates when they actually have proper descriptive titles. It's not a big deal, but when you see
12/04/18
24/07/18
13/11/17
just scrolling down your unread posts, it's pretty frustrating knowing that you'll have to click on every single one of them and scroll to the first post just to find out what the blog was even about. Is there any particular reason why management has decided not to put the blog title in the topic name?

The names were given to keep in line with what we name them on Steam, which was decided by a character limit which bumps the blog header down on the store page.

You can find a link to all the blogs on our website (with the blog title in full) here:
https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/Bannerlord/AllNews

 

[Orion]

Also readily accessible in the devblog board via the new sticky.

 

[Dusk Voyager]

This site also shows all the blog news (plus some non-blog news in between) without requiring you to click anything. I made a Tampermonkey script that creates small buttons on the dev blog board showing the relevant blog's entry order and intended title (not "Dev Blog dd/mm/yy") based on that site:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         blogs
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @include        https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,253*
// @include        https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Shared/AllNewsPartial?section=6&pageIndex=1&pageSize=1000*
// @include        https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==


 var curWindow = window.location.href;
 var segs = "x.y";
let threadLinkStrings = [];
let usableThreadLinks = [];
let entryTitlesDesc = [];
let entryTitlesAsc = [];

 if(curWindow !== null && curWindow !== undefined && curWindow !== ""){
 var segs = curWindow.match(/\w{1,}/g);
 }
     
if (window.innerWidth > 2  && window.innerHeight > 2) {

let threadLinks = document.getElementsByTagName("a");


for(let j=0;j<threadLinks.length;j++){
    if(threadLinks[j].innerText.match(/Dev Blog/g) && threadLinks[j].href.match(/topic/g) && threadLinks[j].href.match(/[.]{1}0[.]{1}/g) && !threadLinks[j].href.match(/msg/g)){
        usableThreadLinks[usableThreadLinks.length] = threadLinks[j];
        let parentEl = threadLinks[j].parentElement;
        
        let smallBtn = document.createElement("button");
        smallBtn.innerText = "More";
        smallBtn.style.background = "url('https://forums.taleworlds.com/Themes/TWcurve/images/theme/menu_gfx.png')";
        smallBtn.addEventListener("click", function(event){
            event.preventDefault();
        });
        
        smallBtn.addEventListener("click", function(event){
                  
            let parent = event.target.parentElement;
            let aElement = parent.getElementsByTagName("a")[0];
                        
            var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
            xhttp.open("GET", aElement.href, true);
            xhttp.send();
            
            setTimeout(function(){
                if(!aElement.innerText.match(/ - Blog /g)){
                    let firstPage = xhttp.responseText;
                    let blogPic = firstPage.match(/blog_post/g)[0];
                    let entryNo = parseInt(firstPage.match(/blog_post_\d{1,}_taleworldswebsite/g)[0].match(/\d{1,}/g)[0])+16;
                    
                    let miniFrame = document.createElement("iframe"); // because sending requests didn't work
                    miniFrame.id = "mini";
                    miniFrame.width=2;
                    miniFrame.height=2;
                    miniFrame.src = "https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?no="+entryNo;
                    document.body.appendChild(miniFrame);
            
                    let txt = aElement.innerText;
                    aElement.innerText = txt + " - Blog " + entryNo;
                    
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        let mf = document.getElementById("mini");
                        txt = aElement.innerText;
                        
                        let cleanTitle = decodeURI(mf.src.substring(40));
                        aElement.innerText = txt + ": " + cleanTitle;
                        mf.remove();
                    },6000);
                    }
             },600); // give enough time for the site to load
            
            
        });
        
        parentEl.appendChild(smallBtn);
    }    
  }
}

else if (segs[1] == "forums" && location.href.match(/[?]{1}no[=]{1}/g)){
    location.assign("https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Shared/AllNewsPartial?section=6&pageIndex=1&pageSize=1000&"+ segs[7] );

    setTimeout(function(){
    },10000);
}
else if(segs[1]=="www"){    
    let lnks=document.getElementsByTagName("a");
    
    for(let i=0;i<lnks.length;i++){
        let lnkTitle = lnks[i].innerText;
                        
        if(lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at E3 2017 – Reactions"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord - Battles and Combat Detailed at E3"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at E3 2017 – Where to Watch"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Playable At E3 2017"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Featured on PC Gamer Magazine Cover!"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord on Steam"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord @ Gamescom 2016"
        && lnkTitle != "Bannerlord Sieges Revealed at E3"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at E3 2016"
        && lnkTitle != "Rock, Paper, Shotgun Interview!"
        && lnkTitle != "40 minutes of gameplay at PC Gamer Weekender"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord – First glimpse"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at E3 2016"
        && lnkTitle != "Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord Announcement!"){
           entryTitlesDesc[entryTitlesDesc.length] = lnkTitle;
           }
    }
        entryTitlesAsc = entryTitlesDesc.reverse();
        location.replace("https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?" + entryTitlesAsc[segs[13]-1]);
}

else if (segs[1] == "forums" && !location.href.match(/[?]{1}no[=]{1}/g)){
    let frm = window.frameElement;
    if(frm.src != location.href){
    frm.src = location.href;
    }
}