Site Updates Pt. 2

Help & Info
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Yeah, it’s not working there. I’m on a mobile android if that helps.

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2020-09-27

  • Disabled the logo animation (spiral) for all browsers except Chrome >= 80 and FireFox >= 80 (as I could confirm it’s working there)
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Thanks, I’ve fixed that, but the fix will only go live with the next update which will come in a couple of days.

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I also like the design! Bravo to Martin and thank you Joah.

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2020-10-03

  • Added tab for latest comments to the main page (endless scrolling)
  • Added tag with the list of authors who offer commissions to the main page
  • Respective tabs on the main page are highlighted if there are new stories, comments, or commissioning authors
  • New story or comments indicators (star or tab flashing) now also works with disabled cookies, if the user is logged in
  • Finetuned bookmark settings on touch displays
  • Finetuned pop up display to remind to rate a story
  • Added a “Deny Approval” button to the admin dialog including a message to the author why his story has been denied.
  • Various fixes and improvements
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2020-10-17

  • Logo animation speed reduced to reduce load on browser
  • If “Theme->Disable pusling” is active, logo animation is reduced even further and will stop after a short while
  • The list of stories for authors (available through the author’s profile) will now show series first and also uses the usual filter for categories and blocked tags.
  • Various bug fixes
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2020-10-18

  • The number of entries shown on the search result list can now be configured
  • Medals, rated-, favorite- and bookmarks are now also shown on the search results
  • Tried to make the rating panel more eyecatching again.
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During the last couple of weeks, I’ve primarily worked on internal optimizations and improvements to get the server load down and improve performance.

2020-12-02

  • The “anon access” to the forum has been removed as it kept causing problems. Now you need to have an account and your email has to be validated to be able to write in the forum. It will remain open for reading for everybody of course.
  • Fixed problems with the “edit comment” feature
  • Added “clear all bookmarks” button to the “Your Bookmarks” page
  • Improved the integration of the forum with the main site account system
  • Improved the loading time of the main page
  • Improved internal caching and performance
  • Bugfixes
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2021-01-03

  • Some long overdue bugfixes:
    • Editing a comment would sometimes fail and delete the Commenter’s name from the comment
    • Paging in the Author/User profile list wasn’t working properly after a letter had been selected
    • List of an author’s series (as available on the author’s profile page) would display unpublished series for that author himself, which resulted in a confusing, irregular listing. Now unpublished or deleted stories are only shown in the story list, not in the series list.
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2021-02-25

  • Safe Mode will no longer hide potential offending stories, they will be listed together with a mark and the offending tags. But the story text itself will not be displayed
  • Added Safe Mode explanation to the story display (so the user gets to know why he can’t read the full story)
  • Commissioning Authors now get a special icon (a diamond)
  • Commissioning flag will be reset correctly if an author does no longer have the adequate sponsoring level.
  • The name of a person commenting on a story will now link to his profile
  • Added monitoring tools to be able to diagnose the intermittent hangups
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2021-02-26

  • Fixed a very old issue with the search function. The results were always sorted by the “publishing dates”, which is really stupid, as the engine would normally list the best hits (i.e. stories which matches the best to the search term) first. And forcing a different sort order was plainly stupid. This has been fixed, and the results now list the best matches first.
  • Many IOS devices use typographic quotation marks (the ‘curly’ ones) instead of the regular ones. The search engine only works properly when using the regular quotation marks. So to make it work on IOS devices, the marks are automatically converted now.
  • Updated and extended the help dialog (“Hints for Searching”)
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I love you. I thought searching was broken for so long because I often read this site on my phone. It’s such a pain in the butt to get straight quote marks out of the iOS.

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Hey there,
Is there a way for us to sort out the search results showing the newest stories first (much like it was before)?
It was just nice to see what new stories were added with the tags you follow.

Cheers.

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Yes, just click the ‘Punlished’ header, then it’s supposed to order by publishing date.

I’ve just tried it and realized that it doesn’t work properly on a smartphone … I’ll look into that…

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Awesome. Thanks handsome.

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It’s fixed and should working now! Let me know if you have problems with it. And also thank you for pointing me at the problem, I didn’t know about. And … :blush:

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Two huge updates have been pushed on March 24th and 30th. Here’s a short summary of the most important changes, all the changes in detail are listed in the initial posting of this thread as always.

2021-03-24

  • Management of community series improved. This has been done to make sure that new stories submitted by other authors are no longer missed by accident. It’s now also possible to manually add other additional authors to share the caretaking of a community series.

  • Improved submission and editing of stories and added mechanisms to avoid accidental loss of stories (by giving better better feedback and making sure the stories are backed up locally in the user’s browser storage).

  • Story challenge banner on the home page is now fully clickable, improving usability.

2021-03-30

  • Added “Reply” feature for comments as requested.

  • Author name is now automatically hidden if an author of a challenge story comments or replies on his own story.

  • The rating badges (hot, idea etc…) are now hidden for stories published in the last 20 days. This has been done to avoid people just reading badged stories which is unfair to other recently submitted stories.

  • Added new icons by Asnir

  • Rating system redesigned in preparation for the new GSS sister sites.

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Thanks for the update but it seems to have also removed the rating stats from the profiles too.

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That’s not intended. Thanks for notifying me. I would have been surprised if there were nothing I had missed…

/edit: The bug has been fixed.

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for fixing this. However, I just checked it and it seems to be working again but the number of ratings seems to be hugely inflated.