User talk:Stux/post-devel

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First of all, great job on this so far. I just have some edits I think should be made, but I don't want to edit the template just in case that ruins anything, so I'll bring up my ideas here.

• You can only add four pictures to a Tweet (I logged into Twitter for the first time in forever just to check), so the {{{pic5}}} and {{{size5}}} parameters are unnecessary.
• I don't see a reason to separate the filmography into multiple parameters. Not only does that seem to make everything more complicated, it's also extremely limiting. Five characters is a number that has been surpassed perhaps dozens of times by now (e.g. this Tweet with upwards of 80 characters) — I guess that's an extreme example, and we might not want to list the entire filmography for that one, but I still don't see why it should be limited at all.

Just my two cents. Keep up the good work! Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 03:12, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Re: your first cent: Instagram allows up to 10 images per post. But considering how little Strong Bad posts there, maybe we can cross that bridge when/if we come to it. Lira (talk) 04:15, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much guys for the positive feedback! Also thank you for the very useful information regarding the 4 and 10 image limits and the 80-character post! O.O I definitely didn't know about the image limits. I guess I'll leave it at 5 for now, it can't hurt? (...right??)

Anywho, regarding the filmography cent: I actually think this method is more useful than having a single filmography entry because it allows us to link a page to a character's filmography using the {{film}} template. This would be better and more accurate than adding them to the main @StrongBadActual page without context. I also added 5 with the intention of making it easy to add more if necessary. I figured most tweets would have 1-2 non-Strong Bad characters on average and so 5 film entries aught to be enough for everyone. I never imagined in my wildest dreams there'd be one with 80! Also, one of the entries could be "and all these folk" if they don't have filmographies.

Finally, I haven't sat down to look at it in a while but I don't suppose anybody here know what's wrong with the current template and why it won't acknowledge the table end markers (|})? As far as I know that's why the tables are nesting in the sample, but even spamming {{clear}}s didn't fix it. My goal in this section is to have the template also explicitly set table headers and footers with the table-begin and table-end tags. Any ideas would be very much welcome! --Stux 07:59, 3 February 2021 (UTC)