Has anyone told you lately that I think you are swell?

So now my minion checklist was created but when I try to mass add/update it nothing is being added. Is it some other page we have to get the code from and not through games>minion zoo?

: Yup. Minions are like wardrobe in that you have to add from an XML page. See at the top of the page where it says, "For minion collections, click here" -- that'll take you to a page with links.

Guess I need to learn to read my own website :x

Do you think we could get the banner on this page as well? The one that says Your collection has been updated. Please?

HI SO I added pages 1-7 and the sidebar tells me that I have 200minions. But when I click to the checklist and choose to view the ones I have it says I have zip

: Try adding them now. (Banner not up yet, but page should be working.)

That did it. Thanks!

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Now that the bug-fixing on the new server has quieted down, I've restarted the cron job that automatically updates item prices.

We're doing a couple of things differently with the script that we couldn't do as easily on the old server:

1. We're adjusting the rate we update prices so that we update fewer items during peak hours and more items during non-peak hours. The net result is that we should be able to update the entire database a little faster by taking advantage of the non-peak hours. (On the old server, we had to use the same rate all the time.)

2. Starting today, we're retaining price history for each item, so we'll be able to track whether an item is gaining or losing value in user shops, which might be a nice thing to know for people who make money by restocking. It'll take a while for us to have enough price history to display anything useful, but we'll have a new feature to roll out later this year.

oh wow that sounds promising!

I did have a question about the cron that updates prices - does it do anything else? I vaguely recall something about updating images or names or something, but that might have been in regards to some other script you were doing at the time.

: Right now, it updates item names, description, and rarity if it finds that any of them have changed. (These are the things that are contained in the text when you hover over an item.)

excellent, I thought it did more than prices, but my memory sucks!

Sounds amazing!!! I definitely will use the prices history!

I can't seem to see if this item has been updated: https://www.subetalodge.org/view/item/Mascara

I cleared my cache and tried to look at it, but its stubbornly continues to show as "other" rather than "clothing". In the item list, the new image shows up, but in the view of the item it still shows the old image. Its changed the ticks at the bottom to show wardrobe checklist, but it won't show the previews.

All the other items I fixed showed the changes immediately, but none of them had changes to the "item type."

Its quite frustrating because I can't confirm if I got all the changes entered and done correctly.

: The database is definitely updated. I think it's a caching issue, but I understand it's frustrating. Looking into it.

[edit] Is it still showing up as 'Other'?

Everything seems to be working now. Its showing as clothing, the previews are there and the image has been updated.

So its a cache issue on the subetaLodge side? Since clearing my cache didn't fix it. Why does it seem to only be a problem when you change the item type? Or maybe not so strange, I'm guessing the item type changes a lot of the other values in the database.

Many MANY years ago, so long ago we still had our original programmer, we set a lot things to cache to cut down on server load. At least, I think that is why. Memory is slipping in my old age. Perhaps it is time to change some of that?

: So, there's a cache on the SubetaLodge side, too: it has nothing to do with changing the item type, though.

When someone looks up an item from the database, a copy of that item's record is stored in memory so that if the user (or a different user) looks up that same item a few minutes later, it'll show the copy in memory and not the copy from the database. Mascara was in the cache and none of the other items were, so we were still getting the old copy.

I've added a function to the admin menu on SubetaLodge (you'll need to reload the page to see it the first time) -- that will flush the server's item cache so that in the future, you can edit an item, flush the cache, and then verify immediately that the item has been correctly edited.

: We had the cache disabled for a while because it was incompatible with the new version of the forums. We've got the cache running again -- and I think the ability for admins to flush it when they've made an update will take care of future problems.

Sounds good. Sounds like and probably need to read the post directly above this

Sounds good! Thanks!

It wasn't a huge issue to wait, but if I'm waiting, I usually run off and do something else and completely forget about what I was waiting for.