Chocolate Box Apps

[karanguni]

I... am broken, because I plugged myself in and didn't come out for these. Never code on holiday, people. Never.

There's the traditional Yuletide-app style Chocolate Box 2019 app, which gives you the tagset and all prompts; updated every 15 minutes as long as my computer is turned on.

There's also the new, experimental, Elasticsearch powered Chocolate Box Thing Searcher, which lets you do full text search of either fandom name/relationship OR (!!!) the whole text of people's prompts. Never fail to find your spanking-loving fellow participants again.

I have no energy to even think of my own signup, so falling over now.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

YOU'RE A HERO. Thank you!!

[karanguni]

Thank ya, nonny <3

[yhlee]

Bless you, but get some rest! XD

[reflectedeve]

Hey there. You are so awesome; thank you so much for building the app!

If at some point you decide you want to make any edits/additions to the app--and I know it's a lot of work, for free, so obviously this is very much if you want to, whenever you can/do--it would be awesome to be able to filter by fanwork type (i.e. fanfic and/or fanart). Speaking as a fanartist who has been wondering how best to find art-friendly prompts to treat. ;)

[karanguni]

I somehow missed this comment! D: D: it's super past the chocobox time now, but if I spin it up for chocobox next year, i shall indeed try :)

[reflectedeve]

Hey, no worries at all! It's a lot of work and I am not about making demands for free labor, especially in fandom. But if you think of it in the future for multi-media exchanges, that would be rad. <3

[crashofworlds]

Do you take commissions for these? If it's possible to do so easily, it would be great to have a similar app for Smut Swap (https://archiveofourown.org/collections/smutswap2019/profile) and I'd happy throw some monies your way for one!

[karanguni]

Hiya! I'll totally do them for free so long as the exchange has open requests and a fixed and finalised tagset!

[crashofworlds]

Oh cool! :D Would you be interested in making one for Smut Swap at all?

[karanguni]

Sure! Give me details and I can make it happen - sorry for the patchy replies, real life pretty much consumed me anytime outside of Yuletide.

[crashofworlds]

No worries! <3

Signups close tomorrow, but it would still be great to have an app for treating and so on, if you're still up for it and it wouldn't be too difficult.

Requests so far are here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/smutswap2019/requests

The tag set is here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/2849

Here is a list of all of the freeform tags as a single list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRPLIxTPOEmeP9motnEEDH7WJJo6CD1Ouzp4k69puIJGhdEKVGEoOadLWWhluRdjvfrYkjhM9P7Lago/pub

And a spreadsheet of all of the Original Works tags: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oKIJtGrJXc2UqT65TM9oWDD25dCb9q69c0Rm8mcQvMw/edit?usp=sharing

Does this look ok? No worries if things are too busy, ofc. <3

[karanguni]

https://smutswap2019.firebaseapp.com/

here you go! please error check it out - i threw that together in a post-work haze of semi-sick delirium in 30 minutes...

[crashofworlds]

This is amazing, thank you! I can't see any errors so far, do you mind if I share it?

[karanguni]

Sure; just ping me here if something falls down tragically :) the database is set to automagically update every 15 minutes or so, but if my computer restarts itself or something that'll bork it. glad to help! SORRY I AM SO INCOHERENT

[crashofworlds]

Ahh thats ok!

I actually just refreshed and it looks like the matching for fandoms has gone wonky, unless it's not actually loaded everything in yet?

[karanguni]

When you say matching for fandoms, what d'you mean?

[karanguni]

Oh, I see what you mean, the prompts are all mismatched; argh. Something to do with the scraper; brb...

[crashofworlds]

It looks like the relationships and prompts are being pulled from different fandoms than the ones they're listed for - for instance MASH has requests for Alucard/Dracula (which sounds like an amazing crossover but not what is intended I think?).

[karanguni]

Should be fixed! I accidentally left chocolateboxes' fandoms as the index, whoops...

[karanguni]

I CANNOT EVEN GRAMMAR RIGHT NOW, sobs, sorry Smutswappers...

[crashofworlds]

Amazing! Is there a way to see the tags for each request as well? The tags are a big part of this exchange so it would be neat if it's possible, no worries about doing it right now though if you're not feeling well (rest is important!).

[karanguni]

They should be there once you expand Prompts as "Kinks" - is that the right thing to do?

e.g. Tortall - Tamora Pierce has a user with Kinks listed; these map 1:1 with anything anyone puts under Optional Tags

[crashofworlds]

Ahh, is it possible to get the main tags as well as the optional ones?

[karanguni]

Ohh, I see what happened there - AO3 smushes anything not optional tags into the megalist of tags there, didn't realise.

OK, so which headers would be best for a prompts listing?

Fandom | Username, Relationships, Freeforms + Optional Tags, Prompt?

[crashofworlds]

The tags are the main smutty tropes you want with the optional tags serving as "overflow" so you can add extras, so maybe Tags and Optional Tags to match up with the AO3 headings? There are Archive Warnings as well in there, idk if you can separate them out as separate column, that would be neat if possible. <3

[karanguni]

I sorta threw everything in under a column called Tags - check now and see if that matches up with what you need it to?

[crashofworlds]

That works! It would be great to see the archive warning tags if possible, but this is good for now! Also do you have a tip jar at all..? ouo

[karanguni]

try now?

[crashofworlds]

You are a mensch!!!! Thank you so much, I'm delighted, this is going to make the smut so much easier to treat. <3

[karanguni]

\o/ happy to help