Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

A relative link is a link to another page on the same website. When one of my pages links to another one of my pages, I don't need to type the full https:// URL, because it's assumed by default that the link goes to another page on the same site. If I do want to link to a different website altogether, I need to include the http:// or https://, because that's what tells the browser it's a full (absolute) link, rather than a relative one.

[10/12/2020 16:45:04]

15

What's a relative link?

[10/12/2020 14:17:05]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

It's the formatting of the website address; they didn't include the http:// (or https://) part, which makes it a relative link.

I should probably just have the guestbook refuse to post the post if you don't include it.

[10/12/2020 00:31:03]

15

The previous website link to pidgeot.uwu.ai leads to a 404 on Butterfree's page on a page formatted as "https://www.dragonflycave.com/guestbook/pidgeot.uwu.ai".
However, other links in the guestbook appear to directly link to the site, such as, for example, the Grenincarizardlup's link on the guestbook directly linking to https://greninlucarizardlupplace.webnode.com/ without having an intermediary link in the guestbook. This is also shown in your website linked on your comments in the guestbook, and I have not seen it before this specific instance despite browsing several pages of the guestbook and clicking on four of five other user links, which seem to function like greninlucarizardlup's and yours.
Why is that? Is it something related to the formatting that the user placed in the website address? Is it something about the domain name being different? Is it a new update in the linking of the guestbook?

[09/12/2020 23:54:59]

seri
Website: pidgeotverse
Commenting on: 11-02-20

aw i'm late but happy birthday to tcod! i believe i found this site around 9 years ago but i honestly am not sure. i always enjoy browsing and i love your work!

[06/12/2020 21:31:07]

shine
Commenting on: 11-02-20

Wow, congratulations on 18 years! I can't believe I'm basically as old as this website. This was one of the first few websites I visited for this fandom and you have always impressed me with your dedication.

[24/11/2020 19:42:34]

Imaperson

Thank you very much for posting a few of the sprites I'd made and crediting me on your fan art page. I am now almost 30 and was looking for my old sprites for a dose of nostalgia. My freewebs is apparently dead and your site is the only one I could find with any of them so thanks again!

I also remember analyzing how you made your edits and tried to learn from that. So surprised that you're still doing the awesome stuff I remember you doing.

[23/11/2020 19:34:15]

WD
Website: Click here

hi

[23/11/2020 11:39:26]

15

Interesting. I've seen opening quotes at the bottom a couple times but did not know of the reason. Thanks for the explanation.
If quotes theoretically "should" be opened and closed with their respective curly quote, then is there a purpose for the straight quote?

[17/11/2020 11:34:20]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

"Proper" opening and closing quotes are curved and different from one another - the opening quote looks a bit like 66 and the closing quote looks like 99 (“ ” - exactly how clearly you can see the difference depends on the font you use). That's English, nota bene; proper Icelandic quotes are 99 at the bottom to open, 66 at the top to close, and other countries use entirely different quotation marks. Some writing software will auto-convert straight quotes into the appropriate curly quotes. They're used exactly equivalently - people type straight quotes where there theoretically "should" be curly quotes because for one reason or another when the typewriter was designed they decided to have just one quotation mark instead of two.

[16/11/2020 20:20:06]

15

What's the difference between curly quotes and regular quotes and their functions?

[16/11/2020 17:25:14]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

I consider hyphens with spaces on either side to be an equivalent typed substitute for dashes in the way that straight quotes and apostrophes are an equivalent substitute for curly ones, or three periods are an equivalent substitute for a "proper" ellipsis character. For 100% professional typography in a published and edited book, sure, do all those replacements, but I have never found myself at all distracted by text I'm reading on the internet having straight rather than curly quotes, and I must confess to being kind of puzzled by the very recent (like, past couple years) wave of people insisting on actual em dashes, despite that they aren't on anyone's keyboard any more than curly quotes are. Hyphens with spaces around them are just a keyboard-friendly way of typing dashes, and I don't really have any plans to drop them for actual em dashes, for the same reasons I don't have any plans to painstakingly use curly quotes and apostrophes.

[14/11/2020 12:06:33]

15

Minor nitpick: The report errors page has a hyphen instead of a dash.

[13/11/2020 11:57:22]

V
Commenting on: 11-02-20

Congratulations on 18 years. I have been visiting your website since the beginning. Pokémon was my first fandom and this website has been a huge part of that experience. Thank you.

[13/11/2020 02:13:27]

15

The page appeared when I was clicking on the ¨featured section¨ tab for a random page.

[13/11/2020 00:20:37]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

As you may notice, that page is not actually on the menu today, for that reason! You can see the count in the older styles, which do link to that page.

If there's a link to this page somewhere today, it probably shouldn't be there.

[12/11/2020 21:20:59]

15

https://www.dragonflycave.com/front-page-hits
states that there is some place in each page which gives the number of front page hits. However, I am unable to find that place. Where is it located?

[12/11/2020 20:07:43]

15

Just was looking at the legacy updates and saw that you were an IMO participant. Very Impressive!

[12/11/2020 20:03:57]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

That character bio is about the fanfics that Sutoraiku High is a kind of high school AU of; the characters are essentially the same characters, but things played out quite differently there, and what happens in the fanfics is not canon to Sutoraiku High at all (or vice versa). The fanfics in question were written in 2006/7 and are not very good; at this point I suggest you don't read them.

If you only hang out with Nightmare (or Sickle), you get the ending where you run off with Nightmare and Sickle. From Nightmare's POV, she'd be happiest with the ending where you've hung out with Shadowdart and they work together to depose the Leader. She would also prefer the endings where Razor and Stormblade join you over the one where the three of you leave alone. I'm not sure if you've gotten one of those. (There are technically two of them, one where Razor apologizes to Shadowdart first and one where he doesn't, but they both end with the same dialogue, so they appear as the same ending in the graph.)

You don't actually have any kind of romance with Shadowdart if you hit on him that first time, so it's not actually a romance flag; the actual romance flag for Shadowdart, on day three, does indeed not affect which ending you get, only some lines in it. I admit that is something that may confuse players, though, since if you're playing with the intention of staying strictly platonic, you may never try that option and never find out it isn't actually a romance flag.

[12/11/2020 14:14:17]

15

In addition, looking at
¨- You can romance all of your fellow students, but there is always also an option not to, and while romancing someone will affect some dialogue, it will not affect what actual ending you get. This is an on-brand Butterfree game.¨
However, I was under the impression that one cannot get the ¨shadowdart rage¨ ending if the player romances Shadowdart, because after that Shadowdart kicks out the player. Am I missing something?

[12/11/2020 00:11:07]