Site Updates - April Edition

April 2, 2017 by

We'll post this today, due to hawkwardness of April 1 dates. Here is the roundup of site changes over the past month, a summary of our status and our plans for the coming month.

Art by SkyTheVirus

March ChangesTop ^

This month I've made the following changes to the site.

March 3: Created a new dedicated page for Tomes, this follows the style of other collection dedicated pages.
March 3: Enabled the [artbox=id] tag for use in supported text areas
March 3: Removed Soul Rancher, Bossy Devil and Garden Living cosmetic packs from the rewards section
March 4: Added related dev tracker and general forum posts on the bottom of collection pages
March 4: Increased size of user icons in the comments section
March 5: Removed the obsolete sort by date / rating options in the comments section
March 5: Giveaway draws are now automated within 15 minutes of the closing time
March 5: Added Delicious Direwolf to the rewards section
March 7: Enabled the Dev Tracker to go hunt for full post text, instead of just the preview
March 7: Imported other client languages into the Trovesaurus DB
March 8: Fixed an issue where View on Trove Wiki button was hidden
March 9: Gold members can now use custom banner images when promoting a livestream
March 9: You can quickly access users you follow from the profile dropdown on the menu
March 9: You can now spend Reward Tokens on Trovesaurus Gold
March 10: You can now edit and remove your own comments, and changed the way you reply to comments
March 11: We freed up over 6,000 usernames that didn't contribute anything to the site and weren't activated in the account migration
March 12: Added the language dropdown on the top right of the site, allowing switching the site and database language between English, French, German and Brazlian Portuguese.
March 12: You can search for database items in local languages
March 12: Collection pages now display the names of who designed them
March 12: Renamed the profiles /styles page to /designs, and included styles, collections and deco on that list
March 12: Items and deco now list the designer properly, as well as include blueprint downloads
March 12: All designer information on collections, styles, deco pages link to Trovesaurus accounts if appropriate
March 13: Artists can now view their art by groups (tags)
March 14: You can no longer set the market value of an item if you haven't made a comment on the site
March 14: Improved appearance of the dev tracker posts
March 14: Removed the inline Troxel previews due to them acting a bit weird, as well as preventing you from selecting text with your mouse
March 14: Modders can now view each part in Troxel, as well as download their blueprints
March 14: You can now view reports on the chaos chest contests that we haven't seen, or sorted by date since last seen
March 15: When you log in via an email link, and required account activation still, we do that automatically so you don't have to do it again
March 15: Condensed the gallery main view page, more information is provided via tooltips
March 15: Updated the Boats page to the new collection format.
March 15: Collection tooltips now include the obtained text field when there is one set
March 15: Tooltips now are loaded in comments
March 15: Added Swift Sally to the rewards section
March 16: Long comment reply threads only display the most recent 2 messages, the rest are hidden behind a button
March 16: Updated the appearance of the calendar page
March 17: Gold user tooltips now display their custom title
March 17: You can now set titles (captions) on uploaded images, they appear as tooltips and on the image popups
March 19: Changing database language using the top-right dropdown now also changes the site language
March 21: Fixed an issue with the translation mod creation tool listing the other client languages, oops.
March 21: Today in Trove has been removed from the front page, and added in a condensed version to the sidebar
March 21: Increased the minimum size of the dropdown menus on the navigation bar
March 21: You can now add your own dungeons to your profile designs
March 22: Activation mails can be resent after 30m, down from 1 hour
March 22: Globally tooltips now have a 0.5s delay to appear and 0.1 delay to hide
March 23: You can now only add mods to a pack if they are visible (contains all the info they should)
March 23: You can no longer submit empty user reports, or report yourselves (again)
March 23: Guide series links at the top of guides now respect the new Page Icon field
March 24: Added a new Tips section
March 26: Fixed an issue where sometimes the site sidebar didn't appear
March 27: Ban wave of duplicate accounts and those attempting to manipulate "likes"
March 28: Re-added up and downvoting system, this now is active on the Tips section
March 29: Updated the site-wide pagination system to use First / last buttons
March 29: Badge unlocks by user are now paginated
March 29: The global site search now lists art results
March 30: Changed the URL structure of the mods pages, although this results in only one filter per search
March 30: Tips can now be searched from the global site search
March 30: Improved the search result tabs, they are now more obviously tabs, highlight when active, and take you to the first tab results automatically
March 31: Spanish added to the global language dropdown (site only, not database)
March 31: News articles can now be pinned to the front page, to prevent them dropping off

March ContestsTop ^

StatsTop ^

We are open with our site stats, this month we report:

80,827 users (down 9.25%)
205,477 visits (down 1.88%)
870,059 page views (up 20.63%)
9,958 active users
1,337 comments
258 mods
222 art
13 contests

For more history on the stats please view https://trovesaurus.com/sitestats.php.

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