litphoria

I should make it clear that I was thinking about a more general "split up" feature for roleplays as a whole. One of the strengths of the site here is we have an organizational unit (series) for scenes (roleplays), but we have no process to convert a larger roleplay into a series of them to make a series more "clean", and very few people write with the intention of "okay, we need to stop here to make our series pretty"

That could work well for chats, but you'll have to make sure they aren't seen as equal if one copies and the other (re)moves and splits.

.... for roleplays, I mean

Found a new use/need for this: PMs. There's a whole lot of roleplays I start in PM, and when they're well on their way, I decide it'd probably be fun to publish. But I don't have a clear method of doing so, other than these two options:

• promote our entire PM to a roleplay, but it already has 50 or more messages above that are personal and I don't want to just delete all of it (nor do that much effort).
• we work together ABABing our posts pasting them into a new roleplay.

Both options suck, so I don't publish anything. Were this feature to exist I'd probably have at least 3 roleplays in public right now.

It would probably be best if you could select the profiles to extract and all of their posts are 'selected' by default, and then you could pick which posts aren't a part of the extracted roleplay.

I agree with this. After encountering a number of cases where I'd use this feature, I'd do it like this:

1. pick a start and end point, because in a whole PM log there could have been 2 different RPs on different days, same goes for any chat
2. pick who was involved, and all of their messages get included within the start/end point
3. pick any messages to exclude from the extraction

Step 1 narrows down the range of possible users in step 2 and eliminates a lot of messages before and/or after you'd have to exclude manually in step 3 (in a PM, it could be over a hundred).

Then you get the permission of the users in step 2 and your new roleplay pops into existence filled with messages available for editing.

Occurs to me: this could replace the "promote to roleplay" feature in PMs, with the difference that promoting destroys the original PM (in a sense).

Hmm. It's possible that it could subsume the promote functionality, and we'd just get a toggle to determine whether or not to delete the posts in the original play, or simply clone them.