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

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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)

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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

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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

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Tool Changes

Tags

• [collection=name] and [name] will now exclude badges from the first pass so for example [Azorian the Blue] will return a mount instead of a badge by the same name
• NPCs links can now return from smart tags e.g. [biped_hero_sunseeker_hooded]
• Added tag [creation=id] this also fixes an issue where notifications for likes and comments on creation pages looked weird

Colour Matching

• Added a Colour Matching tool, to help builders find closest matching craftable blocks https://trovesaurus.com/tools/colourmatch

Notifications:

• The notifications page has received small appearance and functionality update
• The notifications page can be reached from the bottom of the notifications modal (clicked on the navigation bar)
• Moved the Unread and Read buttons to the left, and added Pinned button, and a button to take you to your Notification Settings
• Read notifications can be filtered by type
• Read notifications can be pinned, unpinned, or marked unread

Comments and Likes:

• When you have commented or liked on a thing, it now displays as disabled, so you are less tempted to try to press it again (which didn't do anything)

Blueprints

• Adjusted the appearance of results
• Included a new badge indicating where we think it is used, and if it might be unused

Club Adventures

• Wrote support for posting to Discord when you set a club adventure via Trovesaurus
• Expired adventures will be automatically pruned every 15m

Prefab Tool

• Trial usage of icons in the select boxes, as well as searchable

Rewards:

• For your sanity (mostly mine), claimed rewards are now paginated with results of 15. All those Dev Dreams!!! ALL OF THEM!!!

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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

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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

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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)