GmK
International Man Of Cake
Hello all,
just a note on some of the new things I have tried to implement the last days. Not all is done yet, so more stuff will come up.
1. Premium Server OPs / Controllers / Directors now have a ribbon stating the server they're staff on, this should stop any confusion of which server someone is Premium staff for (as requested many times, with a new plugin I was finally able to do this)
1.a The staff page now also lists the premium servers one by one http://blocktopia.net/forum/XenStaff/
1.b Donors now automatically get a ribbon showing they donated. As we never hand out any perks for donating, this at least shows some public appreciation for their support.
2. It now shows the amount of positive ratings in the user box next to each post. It won't show the neutral / negative ratings there, as we don't want people judging other people due to some numbers. If you want to know the amount of neutral / negative ratings someone has handed out and/or received, go to their profile.
2.a New ratings incoming? Who knows!
3. In Conversations / PMs you can now see all the participants already in the Convo list view, and you can see when the participants last read your message (if they read it at all)
4. Birthday Box is back on the forum view sidebar
5. We have a new donation system, that automatically opens / closes donations when the new month comes, shows a visible donation goal bar again, and more. You will see it May 1st
6. You can dismiss the "How to appeal a ban" huge notices in the ban appeal forums. Hover over the notice and click the X in the upper right.
7. Disabled mobile theme (NOT Tapatalk, that still runs and should be your No. 1 choice to browse the forums on any iOS or Android device) as it was outdated and very faulty. Am looking into options for people browsing mostly mobile, as the page is quite resource heavy to load while on small data connections.
8. We moved the "Introduce yourself / say Goodbye" section to Community Central, as it is much more a Community thing than offtopic.
9. Much much backend voodoo. Some things should go much smoother now, other things are way more sexy, and in general things got cleaned out.
Some more things might appear over the next days, but most won't be announced as they have no direct impact on you. As always, please report issues here: http://blocktopia.net/forum/threads/forum-issues-list.158/
Have fun!
just a note on some of the new things I have tried to implement the last days. Not all is done yet, so more stuff will come up.
1. Premium Server OPs / Controllers / Directors now have a ribbon stating the server they're staff on, this should stop any confusion of which server someone is Premium staff for (as requested many times, with a new plugin I was finally able to do this)
1.a The staff page now also lists the premium servers one by one http://blocktopia.net/forum/XenStaff/
1.b Donors now automatically get a ribbon showing they donated. As we never hand out any perks for donating, this at least shows some public appreciation for their support.
2. It now shows the amount of positive ratings in the user box next to each post. It won't show the neutral / negative ratings there, as we don't want people judging other people due to some numbers. If you want to know the amount of neutral / negative ratings someone has handed out and/or received, go to their profile.
2.a New ratings incoming? Who knows!
3. In Conversations / PMs you can now see all the participants already in the Convo list view, and you can see when the participants last read your message (if they read it at all)
4. Birthday Box is back on the forum view sidebar
5. We have a new donation system, that automatically opens / closes donations when the new month comes, shows a visible donation goal bar again, and more. You will see it May 1st
6. You can dismiss the "How to appeal a ban" huge notices in the ban appeal forums. Hover over the notice and click the X in the upper right.
7. Disabled mobile theme (NOT Tapatalk, that still runs and should be your No. 1 choice to browse the forums on any iOS or Android device) as it was outdated and very faulty. Am looking into options for people browsing mostly mobile, as the page is quite resource heavy to load while on small data connections.
8. We moved the "Introduce yourself / say Goodbye" section to Community Central, as it is much more a Community thing than offtopic.
9. Much much backend voodoo. Some things should go much smoother now, other things are way more sexy, and in general things got cleaned out.
Some more things might appear over the next days, but most won't be announced as they have no direct impact on you. As always, please report issues here: http://blocktopia.net/forum/threads/forum-issues-list.158/
Have fun!
