Trovesaurus Development Diary - April 2018

May 4, 2018 by

Etaew

A round up on Trovesaurus development activity for the month of April 2018.

Featured CreationsTop ^

A portion of the sites ad revenue is funded back into the community through commisions and creations. Usually this takes the form of art, in the past we've done T-Shirts and Plushies.

This month featured the Qubacca original creations, the final delivery of the Sage plushie (from December) and Evils construction chick plushie.

Mods

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Art

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It's not wise to upset a Qubacca by mau5head

((Yes! Qubacca!))

Plushies

Little Sage Plushie by Etaew

This is a small version of the Sageosaurus

Construction Chick Plushie by Etaew

This is inspired by the construction chick as part of the Blastcap Builder Boomeranger costume.

Site ChangesTop ^

Modding Changes

Mods can now be made public without being announced if they meet all the criteria, if a mod fails at announcing in one place, it won't keep attempting and duplicate the announcements in another.
You can no longer awkwardly select a mod type or subtype as ALL
Mods are no longer automatically published, when you meet all the criteria a button will appear that you can press, this allows you to announce when you want, not when we want.
Mods now require a "Replaces" field to be published, please let the user know what you are replacing
Fixed an issue with the QB Colour Tool that was randomly inserting colours that didn't belong there

Profile Changes

Condensed the mastery and classes page of the user profile, you don't need the subclass extra info anymore, and removed the edit buttons
You can now edit all your classes info on a single form, instead of individually
A trial feature that displays the level and rank changes to your classes since you last updated them

Lore Changes

Lore links are now automatically directly embedded onto Collection / Style / Item pages, any capitalised text that is not the first word or "I" will now link to a lore page for more information.

Other Changes

The Trovesaurus Twitter account will now start again announcing developer posts
Added the Vanguardian class to the site database, opening the class page and ability to set your info on your character page
The front page recent art, activity feed and gallery will now respect hibernating users
Tweaked the appearance of the Rewards page again
When viewing art contest news articles, the sidebar will show a link to the status of the contest and a link to entries
Fixed an issue where in some cases a recipe ingredient could be missed out
Added some safety code to prevent the event announce queue being held up when messages aren't being accepted by Twitter for some reason
The user characters page is now available on the cleaner URL trovesaurus.com/characters, this is now paginated and you can filter by class.
The characters page on a users profile should now load faster for owners when there are lots of classes set, you can now link directly to a character and can only edit characters from that direct page example https://trovesaurus.com/user=1/etaew/characters/135
You can now view the comment count on art previews
The background image for art contests you have not participated in has now been set to white, having red was pretty ugly, if you have an entry it will continue to show as green
Tweaked the Deco importer script to fill in some missing icons
Centralised the tabs / page URL structure across the site, if things stop working in a particular area let me know
Fixed an issue where having no weapon style set on your character page would make a random style appear
Character pages now have some small text listing the class on the header for that section
Fixed another issue preventing site translators from saving their work
Database errors are handled a fraction more gracefully now
Started tracking Kytsu and Darkmoon on the Dev Tracker
SSL settings have been tweaked to help resolve a few issues with connection refused messages
Fixed an issue with the Gallery upload form where it wouldn't tell you the reason an image failed to upload
You can now filter the Styles and Collections pages to list items created by the Trove Devs
Fixed an issue with the importer where the recipe was using a mix of upper and lowercase names for the identifier, this helped fill in some gaps in the DB specifically with Frameworks.
Newsly should now post upcoming downtime, server offline and online notifications to Twitter
Contextual page searches which lists matched results will now break up huge lines of text using
if newlines failed, this fixes an issue with some pages having a huge output of non relevant information.
The info box on the art pages will now only say animated when it really is animated, no more 0/1 output
Removed words from article headers to avoid the need to translate them, dates / author / views likely are now intuitive enough
Re-added the ability for Streamers to gift codes, this was unintentionally removed in a previous update

SupportTop ^

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