Got quite a bit done on The Mercury System this evening. While I had started to implement the Block List function last night the real magic of it occured this evening. Users will now be able to block other members that annoy them to a degree that blocking is the only way to get them to stop. You can add someone to the block list and remove them as often as is necessary.

The coding difficulties came in where no matter what state each user on the member's pal list was (online, offline or away) they had to be checked with the user's block list databases to determine if they should be blocked. They get a red flag placed next to their name. Their name will not be a link to message them.

There is a little more that I need to do to it. Only one more step before I would consider this function to be 100% complete. I've tested this myself but once I take care of the one slight issue I haven't added yet I will have all of the testers check this function specifically.

A nice thing about this feature is that if you were to place someone on your block list they will always appear as offline to you. In The Mercury System you will be able to see the status of those that you have blocked. Again, you can't message them but that shouldn't be a problem. And they can always be removed from your block list if you want to start talking with them again.

And secondly there is the new design. I want to thank invisibleinkling for creating the Mercury's Foot design for the layout. I had to slice it up into several pieces to make it fit the way that it should. You will notice a gap between two pieces which isn't there in Firefox but I will work on this tonight. I still have tweaking to do to the design but all-and-all I love what's going on with it.

Well that's it for now...until the next tech log entry.

Categories: Instant Messenger [t], Programming [t], Block List [t], Web Design [t]

Okay that foot butterfly thing scares me. It's cool, but it scares me.

Yay for the blocklist... but I don't have anyone I want to block (yet).
» randomjunk on 2006-09-19 12:45:32

Haha that's what I had told Lazypuppy. I said it would be harder to test because we don't want to block anyone yet. But of course when this is used on a popular site by a ton of people (hopefully this will be happening A LOT) then there are going to be some unsavory people that you'd want to block. I was going to save it for version 2.0 but I figured it had to be in there now!
» etheracide on 2006-09-19 06:57:52

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