Trovesaurus Development Diary - February 2018

ChangesTop ^

• Changing email addresses on your profile will now force log you out, this prevents some naughty things
• The Dev Tracker feature within pages will now highlight the search text in the results to make it easier to read
• Costumes can now be added to the rewards section
• The Pages feature within other pages will now highlight the search word in context
• Added support for future database imports to highlight new recipes, instead of just wiping all of the existing and importing from fresh
• Fixed an issue where an empty Upload New Version box for art was visible for users not logged in
• Further attempts to improve our email reliability
• Updated the Add Download form on the Mod page to be in the new site style
• Added a new Catalog Image (URL) field to mods, this replaces the icon replaced on the page
• Added support for Helmet and Costume mods to be added to user character profile pages
• You can now set allies, mounts and wings on your character page
• The front page has been split into tabs, News / Dev Tracker / Art / Mods / Comments
• It is now possible to block messages from certain site users
• item tags have been updated to allow amounts included e.g. (no spaces) [ item = chaos chest ; 200 ] for Chaos Chest 200
• Various changes have been made to increase site page load speed
• Made some adjustments to the server status feature (but may have broken it....)
• Videos have been moved off an items main page, for some it was super long, it is now on a tab
• Added a new activity tab on the home page, this is for people logged in to see what their followed users are doing.
• Gold Users can now upload an image directly instead of specifying a URL
• Fixed an issue where devs added without a forum id would hold up the dev tracker
• Applied a major framework upgrade from Bootstrap 3 -> 4, this has altered a bunch of styles
• Some additional themes are available
• Added kinder page breakpoints when viewing the page on tablets
• Trending art will now show 10 items per tab
• New Modders and Artists are now announced to Discord
• Removed tick and crosses from events / contest sidebars, the background of the event icon will turn green if you are participating
• Blueprints are now tracked locally, and differences highlighted on imports
• Database collections imports will now highlight animation and rig changes
• Costumes now import rigs
• Adjusted the way site translations handle editors, it is now the same way as the rest of the site, and you can now remove editors
• Page dev tracker search and forum tracker search will now display results newest to oldest
• Added new visible checks for modders to see if they meet publish requirements
• Active contests on the art gallery are now ordered by the ones which end soonest
• Adjusted the Gold announcements to reflect gold rather than the old donation system
• Decreased the size of the removed comment message
• Badges are no longer announced through private message, I received a lot of questions asking what they were. They can return when they have more utility.
• Switched to some locally hosted JavaScript files to help our friend in China who couldn't load them externally
• Art with moderator notes are no longer counted towards artist status
• Hibernating users are now displayed as hidden users, and their profiles cannot be viewed, they also cannot receive email notifications from the site
• Combined the calendar groups again to simpler Art Contests / Mod Contests instead of split

Objectives for MarchTop ^

Let me know in the comments what type of changes you would like to see next month!

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