Trovesaurus Changes

Showing posts in the #changes channel on the Trovesaurus Discord channel.


etaew
December 6, 2024
# October 2024 Changes
- Improved performance of the recipes page especially for very large benches (chaos chest crafter), the recipes are loaded on click instead of all at once

# November 2024 Changes
HOME PAGE
- Filled out the upcoming events on the homepage based on Luxion, Fluxion, Corruxion, Weekly Bonuses, Events and other calendar items.
- Added a content feed showing mastery from events, packs and updates, allowing you to mark as completed
- Condensed the updates section
- Moved site changes to the bottom nav
- Fixed events being unhandled in the comments side widget
COLLECTION
- Moved the side nav back to the top with a condensed page head
- Moved duplicate icon and focused the tooltip to the right
- Fixed an issue where recipe count would count one too many
LUXION
- Reduced size of icons
- Moved limit text inline with dragon coins
- Mastery is now displayed
- You can now mark as collected
BUILDS
- Redesigned the page to cater for several new links, they now go down the left side with some content on the right
- Added links to video guides from CashinClean
OTHER
- Updated the About page text
- The calendar page can now support collectable tracking
- Collection pages now look at collectable tracking as a source
- Fixed an issue where icons weren't displaying for costumes listed on the class page
etaew
September 29, 2024
# AUGUST 2024 CHANGES (LEFT OUT OF LAST MONTHS NOTES)
- Increased performance of the Items list (especially for those using non english)
- Adjusted the Recipes design to be similar to game, click on recipe to view materials
- Pointed crafting links from item pages to the recipes page

# SEPTEMBER 2024 CHANGES

HOMEPAGE
- Condensed the event widgets on the homepage so that they take up less space
- Added a widget for current challenge rotation
- Readded the missing Stampy widget to the new rotations design, if not active it will display when it will next appear
- Discord messages displayed in Dev Tracker and Changes will now copy the images to Trovesaurus, this prevents issues where they expire on Discord
- Reordered some links on the top nav bar to point to some popular pages first (Mods,Promo,Costumes)

LEADERBOARDS
- Fixed an issue where leaderboards was eating some data if a club name existed with the same name as a player but with different capitalisation
- Added flags for leaderboard weekly and daily contests, added these into dynamic categories at the top of the leaderboards
- Condensed leaderboard overviews and added a scroll to category on the left
- Added rank_change display on viewing a leaderboard
- Added a new tab view to show flux added to the economy per day

MARKET
- Introduced caching of stats to the overview pages so they load much more faster

MODS
- Mod download histories are now tracked allowing us to display trending mods, added a Most Popular Mods This Week box on the mods page and exposed the data to Renewed Trove Tools
- Changed the layout of the mods page, added a side navigation to hold links and recently added and added an inline search as the first thing you see

OTHER
- YouTube videos tracked no longer just matches "trove" they have to match the gaming category too
- Quest steps for events now appear as cards instead of flat text
- Removed 1 month cooldown on claiming rewards if token cost < 3
- Comments on news pages should now appear in the Discord forum for news, and comments made on Discord should appear as comments on the site
- Rewrote the collections category pages to have a condensed type selection on the left, a category list and then the items show on the right, you can scroll down the list and the content will follow you if its small
- Class builds page now has a more condensed look as a table instead of blocks

Thank you to our gold supporters during September who allow the site to stay online. If you would like to support the work that we do you can buy Trovesaurus Gold for a month or more at https://trovesaurus.com/store/gold
etaew
September 1, 2024
CHANGES AUGUST 2024
- Released Market Data https://trovesaurus.com/market
- Released Leaderboards https://trovesaurus.com/leaderboards
Thanks Sly, Nik, Grainus, crit and others

Thank you to our gold supporters during August who allow the site to stay online, Ylva, Grainus and Loralei. You can find out more about Trovesaurus Gold at https://trovesaurus.com/store/gold

Coming up next month will be the homepage squish. :flatpin:
etaew
August 5, 2024
There were no major announced changes for JULY 2024, however there were things that we are working on that will be ready for announcing during AUGUST.

Thank you to our gold supporters during July who keep the site alive Aalyn, KatashiHiro and Nao373.

If you would like to support the work that we do feel free to hide adverts with Trovesaurus Gold at https://trovesaurus.com/store/gold
etaew
June 30, 2024
CHANGES JUNE 2024
- Thanks to <@545657088534249477> we've updated our sounds list with names, still found at https://trovesaurus.com/sounds
- Moved the creation guides from the wiki to self hosted to prevent data from being changed or lost
- Added some preview text to devtracker searches to help bunny find things
- Updated the design of the guides page, making it easier to navigate to updates and their subsections
- Updated the design of the styles list and some of the collection pages
- Switched to int ids for videos linking to channels, as well as removing hardcoding for featured channels, this should allow for a faster lookup
- Removed welcome text messages
- removed obsolete tags: [summary=]
- added new localization tag [$localization_id] (TODO: bypass cache)
- Added our rising tides guide found at https://trovesaurus.com/rising-tides
- Added rising tide links to the homepage for a limited time
- Added a long shade biome rotation tracker widget to the homepage thanks to sly
- moved stampy the tourist wild trovian mana widgets to a new section along with the long shade biomes
- first images in the carousel will no longer force thumbnails if the image is below 856w and 400h, this allows pretty transparent if desired
- Cut down the size of the news list by removing previews, images, and split list into gamigo and trovesaurus news
- Added button to hide sales from the news on the homepage

Thank you to our gold supporters during June who keep the site alive CayooVR, clashofbanana, naPnaD and KatashiHiro, if you would like to support the work that we do feel free to hide adverts with Trovesaurus Gold https://trovesaurus.com/store/gold
etaew
May 30, 2024
CHANGES MAY 2024

COMMUNITY
- Added version numbers and links to change log for the Renewed Trove Tools widget on the homepage
- Replaced the notices alerts with a game health widget, which allows me to create custom information
- The bug report homepage has been condensed, removing some distracting elements
- The activity section on the issue tracker now only displays status changes, the rest have been hidden
- Turned off the discord moderator feed for site actions
- Removed popular videos list due to view botting (it used an older method of counting views)
- Adjusted the style and removed user and comment links from the homepage recent comments and comments page, the only link takes you to the page the comment was on
- Standardised the light/dark themes to use bootstrap default instead of bootswatch, currently shadow just uses dark, light theme has lost the green trees to the side
DATABASE
- First pass of rearranging item pages, moved most information into their own tabs to condense the page
- Fixed an issue preventing companions from loading rig and blueprint information (as they were handled as items)
- Improved the performance of the Trove Files page from sometimes 3s to <1
- The Trove Files page now lists only direct subfolders instead of recursive, saving screen space and loading time
- Added an Expand All button to the Styles page when viewing a type
- The browse Collections and Styles pages now bundles translations in the lookup query improving load time
- Fixed an incorrect crafting count on some item recipes as they looked from old PTS tables
MODS
- Updated our read TMOD functionality thanks to Sly, applied to new uploads or refreshed meta data requests
- Added a new lightweight image scroller for mod and creations
- Removed the concept of "featured image" from mods, the first image is the main now
- Removed the concept of "catalog image" for mods, we don't really use the icons anymore
GALLERY
- Turned off the anniversary emails for art uploads
- The gallery list has a new design thanks to <@89918356290797568>
- Added the Discover tab to people who aren't logged in
- Removed the feature for logged in users to see art that they haven't liked yet, the performance tradeoff was not worth it
etaew
May 2, 2024
April 2024 Site Changes
- Rewrote the recipes importer to fix some ringcrafting recipes not importing
- Fixed the abilities list refusing to display abilities with _name in their localisation key
- On mod pages you can now open the mod in Renewed Trove Tools with a new quick button
- Loose loaded all recipes, previously only recipes on benches and professions were imported
etaew
April 1, 2024
March 2024 - Site Changes
- Art that is > 400 and < 1024 dimensions are no longer resized when viewed, this prevents an issue where some art was stretched because a "thumbnail" was displayed
- Fixed an issue where viewing the liked list in the gallery did not display images correctly
- Added a date view to the Wild Trovian Mana Biome widget
- Fixed an issue preventing some cannons from being recognised as belonging to a mount in the blueprint list
- Changed the cranny list appearance for entries which have multiple unlocks, retained a larger image and removed the name of the other unlocks
- Fixed an issue where creating a language mod using the translation tool did not generate a mod file hash (used by mod loaders)
- Added a link to Renewed Trove Tools on the mods page and the home page
- Removed a number of links from the homepage
- Replaced the carousel image scroller (used mostly on mod pages) left and right images to be hosted locally and not on imgur
- Fixed an issue where External App Token wasn't showing for people on the user page (it still had the development visibility)
- Added a patch date for strings listed on the search
- Added a mod category for "Waypoint"
- Condensed the categories of mods on the homepage
- Fixed an issue where modfile hashes (used in Renewed Trove Tools) were not being set when creating a mod from a TMOD file directly
- The search JSON has been expanded to list mod info and blueprints to aid in Renewed Trove Tools features
- Fixed an issue where gearcrafting final tier was missing from the bench
etaew
March 2, 2024
February 2024 Changes
DISCORD
- changed the server icon and added new emoji heartpin thanks to ko_ga
SITE NEW
- we now support listing the reruns of cranny, this will display on the front page and on the items themselves
- we've rearranged the cranny page to list the full history on the right hand side, these are now clickable and an individual cranny visit can be viewed if desired
- added tabs to the top of the cranny page to filter the list for All, Active, History, New and Reruns
- cranny can now have multiple widgets on the homepage to support reruns
SITE CHANGES
- Added Duraveln pack to the db
- Added an indicator to mods for people who arent logged in whether the mod is submitted or not
SITE FIXES
- recipes can now handle multiple versions of themselves
- this duplication happens mostly when recipes have moved benches
- specific test case was the shadow saurmancer costume was not appearing on the chaotic combinator bench but was incorrectly saying it was from the chaos crafter bench
- fixed an oversight where mods that were part of mod packs were not hidden from trove tools even if we wanted them to be
etaew
January 26, 2024
- mod makers can now set a short note that will display before the download button of a mod
- first press the edit tab of your mod
- then press the pencil icon on the quick section on the right hand side of the page
etaew
January 21, 2024
- fixed (probably) the stampy widget to display on sundays too
- changed how the mod list looks (again)
etaew
January 9, 2024
- fixed art references for items and users not showing larger icons
- changed the art references icons sizes and added a dark border
- changed art profile images to use a non stretched thumbnail
etaew
December 23, 2023
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etaew
December 23, 2023
Thanks to <@209758232502206464> have the following new fatpin emojis to celebrate our anniversary with ❤️
etaew
December 18, 2023
- wings now blueprint parts, because apparently now we have a wing which has blueprints
- shrunk some of the homepage tabs and event widgets, space is nice
- replaced the background for the giveaway event widget, because it was hard to see the item