Trovesaurus Development Updates January 2020

Etaew February 2, 2020 (updated 5 years ago)

Here is the change log for Trovesaurus for the month of January 2020.

Home Page and Navigation Changes

Today in Trove

Standardised the widgets that are displayed so they are more consistant and easier to edit
Sorted the widgets in ascending date order (finishing items will be nearer the top)
Added a test section for Club Adventures as part of Today in Trove which can be hidden along with the other Today in Trove options
- Users who are members of a club on the website can report Rare, Epic and Legendary Club Adventures
- Adventures are listed by platform that the users have set, and when not logged in it defaults to the PC list
- To report a club adventure press the + in the header of the sidebar widget, select which club you are reporting, select the npc that has spawned and enter the hours and minutes until it leaves

Home Page

Added support for me pin news pages for important info
Pinned a page relating to the marketplace at the top
Removed the news summary text and condensed the boxes
Added a configuration option to hide livestream banners within the Today in Trove settings "..." button
Added some qubesly related images to the News and Art sections
Renamed the Art section to Fan Art
Fan art will always display at least 3 images and never be hidden
Swapped out our logo and text with an older version, set as favicon
added a quick action panel above today in trove
A single click to take you to the add art / add mod / my creations page / report club adventure (requires being in a club), and the mail
Thanks to @TFMHisztike for creating the icons
Removed section for the Dev Tracker, it wasn't needed in that form, there is a link on the News section
Hid the Trovesaurus introduction text for people logged in
Added a reminder for artists who have an outstanding dev dream challenge, it can be found under the quick actions
Guest judges for art challenges can now highlight entries themselves instead of relaying their choices to me
Artists can now update their own art without moderator approval, however we do still keep a backup in case of abuse

Navigation

Removed icons and changed style of the links to try to make it a little cleaner, added Discord / Twitter icons to the right
News:
- Removed Community Spotlight and Interviews, as those sections aren't really submitted to lately.
- You can still find all news tags on the left hand side of the News page
- Changed Patches to link to the News page filter for Patch tag instead of its own page
Mods:
- Changed Download Mod Loader to TroveTools.NET and changed link to the github site
Community:
- Removed link to Site Languages, there isn't a large demand for non English stuff at the moment
- Moved Events to More nav menu
Guides:
- Moved Class Builds from More nav
- Moved link after Gallery
Gallery:
- Renamed to Fan Art
- Added the 5 most recent art challenges to the nav menu
More:
- Removed Forum Tracker
- Removed Lore

Modding Changes

Hid the "Forum Thread" button from the Quick Menu for Mods that don't have one set, as that is no longer a requirement for the submissio process.
Changed the button "Install Automatically (TroveTools.NET)" to "Install with TroveTools.NET" so it fits on one line
If you collaborated on a mod, you will also receive a private message when a mod is accepted (previously only the original authors of that mod did)
The add mod page is now clear of all other content
Added a cancel and return to mods link
Mod Packs can now be downloaded in a single .zip via Trovesaurus (as well as old method of using TroveTools.NET)
Guest judges for mod challenges can now highlight entries themselves instead of relaying their choices to me
When you set a replaces field with the first line that is a name / tag of a recognised collection, we will store a "rig" field
This field will enable a much faster "mods that use this rig" box on the rigs page
Even though the rig can automatically be detected (we've done this where possible), you can override it when you edit the mod
Adding files will now recalculate the mods file count, instead of just incrementing
Removing files will now recalculate the mods file count, and unpublish the mod if count is 0
You can now request ownership of unclaimed mods through a form instead of mailing me. (It still mails me, but allows you to enter proof at the same time)

Art Changes

Added a new tab labelled "Discover" https://trovesaurus.com/gallery/discover
- This tab shows you a random list of art that you may have not seen before
- If you are logged in, it will filter out art that you have liked
- Refresh the page to generate another list
Moved the "Highlight" yellow badge from the bottom, next to the contest tag, it makes it nicely smaller
Viewing art and using the [artlarge=x] tag will put a limit of 640px height, to help with long page scrolls.
The Add Art and Large Uploader form are now displayed on their own
Attempted to be clearer in the instructions to use them, and cut down on what is visible
Feedback and suggestions are welcome to help trim the fat and make uploading easier on desktop and mobiles
Renamed Gallery to Fan Art

Creations Changes

Added new stage for Rewarded between Accepted and Added
Discord now announces when a creation is Accepted
When a creation is linked it now generates an image
Users who have had a creation acecpted are now recognised with a role and colour on the site
Visit your profile to set your active colour with the boxes to the right of your username
Changed type of field for Troxel links to URL, should hopefully solve some issues with people not entering correct URLs
Comments on creation pages now show at a much larger width, because they get quite wordy
Fixed an issue where some notifications didn't generate when you were mentioned
Creation status change comments now appear in their own unique format

Tool Changes

Database Changes

Badges:

Adjusted the way we store badge requirements and re-added all the data
This is now displayed slightly differently on the collection pages now, and will allow me to sort these in an easier method elsewhere on the site

Collection/Information Request

Can no longer be pressed when you already have a pending request

Contributions:

The No Troxel task no longer lists collections which we can find troxel links for using alternative methods (reduced list by over half)
You will now get a notification when your image is accepted, and a private message when it is rejected
The contributions page has been condensed slightly and the navigation and your contribution stats moved to side, claim tokens to the top-right

NPCs:

Updated the style of the NPCs page, moved to a side navigation
The default view has been renamed "Browse" and features an accordion list of Folders and Types of NPCs
The old view has become "View All"
The category view has been added to an accordion
Npc flags has been moved to its own tab
Fixed an issue where npcs within two boss subfolders weren't able to be displayed on the page (e.g. delve/boss/dreadnought)
Moved the navigation to the side
Added two new tabs for Parts (already displayed on main view) and Rig (now displays other npcs that use the rig)

Merchants:

Removed the individual merchant pages, they now are subpages of the main merchants page
Added a new sidebar to the merchants page which lists the merchants and a brief description
Added commenting to merchants

Items:

Added colour codes to block pages, as well as preview colours

Trophies:

Converted to a full width side navigation
Added the trophies to an accordion for less scrolly

Database Importer:

Rewrote the blueprint parts importer, as it was an old horrible mess before. This fixes a few issues where parts were not imported (specifically Minimoonga ally).
Rewrote the way we import Hair, this picked up 10 that we previously didn't have

Content Changes

Added users who have permanent Trovesaurus Gold to the list of Gold Members
Added year summaries to the Site Stats
Searches
- now lookup client strings (in English language)
- Fixed an issue with pagination on Dev Tracker skipping results between pages
- Collections with a single result match will display recipe if one exists for quicker info
Fixed an issue which displayed links to unpublished guides when browsing a tag (the guides were still not viewable)
Slightly improved the appearance of the Livestreams page by making full width and the boxes less weirdly weighted
Removed dedicated patches page
Squished the News header and intro text to the top left box so that news articles can start appearing further up the page.
Removed Forum Tracker
Removed Market Overview
Removed Lore

Other Changes

Discord:

All messages from the site to Discord now is added to a queue
The queue will run every 1 minute and try to send 1 message
If a message fails to be sent, it will try again 2 more times
This should fix some issues where messages sent in quick succession sometimes weren't accepted. Although if no messages are posted in the next day we will know I broke things
Added us to Server Discovery
Artsly replaces Chronobot in announcing future art
Modsly replaces Modtronos in announcing future mods
Added new emojis for newsly, artsly and modsly thanks to @Commander Vitus (SkyTheVirus)

Rigs:

Mods usage now lists those that use the [name] or [id] tags and not just the old [collection=name or id] tags
The page is now full width with a side navigation of Collections/NPCs/Mods which include a count
Mods that use a rig, are now generated from the new rig field on the mods page.
This page is now much much faster, although some mods will still need some editing to be readable, and we're working through this queue
Re-imported all NPC rigs, the field I was previously using to show for rigs was a different type of grouping
Added a Rig Usage Report to the Rigs table for NPC
Added a new tab on the NPC page that displays npcs in the same group

Themes

Increased speed of page loading, at the expense of being less specific about item / deco count (and whether a mod is released yet)
Condensed the list slightly
Fixed an issue with an inconsistent count of mods with the display of mods
Adjusted the appearance slightly to a full width page with a side navigation

User Profiles:

Removed the coloured boxes to set your primary name colour, this was starting to get large
You can now click on the title themselves to set the colour, for example I could click Admin to get the red colour for the name
To address issues for those with large numbers of mods, mods that are listed in a Mod Pack are now hidden from the main mods list below
Updated the Mods Pack box to have a link to the mod pack, the description text, a preview image and a button to view the mods within the pack

Videos:

Internally added easier tools for us to hide channels
Fixed an issue where hidden videos (removed by us or them) still counted in the popular channels list

Builds:

Condensed the build preview page slightly
Removed the summary view, switched the navigation to left and attempted to condense the page further (more work needs to be done)

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