Development Updates - July Edition

August 3, 2019 by

In this edition of Development Updates we talk about what has changed to the site over the month of July.

Items which unlock other items (Unlockers) will now list the items they unlock (in most circumstances)
How to Obtain section on a Collection page will also use this information

Released the new Merchants page, with an easier to find list of Merchants, what they look like, where to find them, and what they sell

As an experiment and replacement of the Request Update component we've added buttons to the Effects and How to Obtain sections of collection pages to request more information.
When we have found the information, you will receive a notification saying so.
Once we have marked the information as complete, further requests won't be possible.

Streamlined the process to request a change to your character name on the site, you can now submit a form, instead of manually contacting me, you can access this from your profile page. Requests will still be handled manually instead of automatically to prevent abuse.

Drastically improved the page load times on the Builds page
Updated the builds to show an estimation of what patch they were added / updated for, along with a indicative coloured age
Cut down the build preview text to the first line, instead of all the text people decided to enter
Cleaned up the Edit Build page, adding better layout and spacing, re-added some of the item descriptions when listing Flasks and Gems

Going Green has been out a while, and so we have condensed the full links on the home page to a general one for the section, this also allows us to add additional banners
To speed up loading time, removed the dev tracker previews for Twitter and Instagram since they loaded external content and scripts
Weekly Bonuses are now displayed on the Today in Trove section

Updated the appearance (again) of the Packs page, so that it uses the new accordions component, this allows a more condensed view of the list

Users can now configure and turn off several site notifications from their profile, a link has also been added to the notifications modal

You can no longer announce you are requesting Artists Feedback on builds and screenshots later edit: hid the form for all art pending review
Increased the size of the art previews on the home page
Increased size of art previews on the gallery, because that is what they are there for!

Re-added the Trending Mods component after fixing the performance issues
Unpublished Mods can now be deleted, allowing you to get rid of an annoying generated notification
Collection Mod Info will now show the icon (often the _ui blueprint) where available
Troxel Links on Mod Info Blueprint pages will now appear red if they don't exist on Troxel

Hid the Images section on Item pages if the item is not placeable
Fixed a database importer issue which prevented some of the newer collections from having the correct icons set
Fixed several items having no_trade in the identifier but were not set as un-tradable
New blueprints are now tracked by the new Database Update page, including previews, where available
For those contributing to database information, we've added some prompts as to what information is missing with some new tabs, you need to be logged in to see these
Added a Mastery indicator to Crafting Tables that use collections
How to Obtain section on Collection pages will now more prominently display if they are purchasable on the Trove Store for Cubits or Credits

User profile badges will no longer try to generate an icon to represent a platform when the user is an older one who had never set one
Comment notifications will now include a direct link to the comment
Notifications about builds will now resolve to a proper link
Increased the amount of time before you receive a notification to update your club props on the website from 30 days to 90 days
Fixed an issue where pinned recipes were not being shown on the profile pages
Fixed an issue which locked out certain accounts who registered using a + in their email address, the + was removed leaving the email address invalid, now the + and the following contents up to the @ symbol is removed, cleaning the address without intervention
Updated the "you have been added as an editor" email message to indicate who added you as an editor
Increased the performance of the Notifications pag,e adding pagination to read notifications
Unread Notifications are now grouped by type, and can be dismissed by type as well as individually
Submitting Images to the Item/Deco/Style/Collection pages are now counted as database contributions and can be rewarded, they still require moderation to prevent abuse
Expanded the possible results of Art by Others by searching the title as well as relation to Trove field, you can unlink suggested art to remove art from that list
Rewrote the Contact Information component to be more easily expandable, it is now named Connections and now additionally supports XBOX and PSN IDs

You can now select your Primary Role colour to use from your Profile, removed this option from the Edit Profile section
Added a new Role for Streamer which is determined automatically if you have a twitch.tv link in your Profile Text (pending feedback)

Updated the appearance of Country Communities, and listed members with roles on the main page
The sidebar of Country Community pages now lists the popular communities sorted by members

Dragon badges are now listed on the Dragons Stats page
Updated the title and description of comment pages when they are linked on places like Discord
Updated the "Play Trove" button that encourages new users to sign up, to be using the Trove font and added a new button to the top navigation bar
Updated the default promoted livestream banner to a cleaner style
Adjusted the event announcer on Discord to not announce the creation of events which start within 24 hours
Removed the mostly unused trovedevs page, which previously linked to devs forum accounts and some interviews / artwork
Removed the /vendors page as it was obsolete and underused

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