More Bug Updates! (Also, Happy Pi Day!)
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Happy Pi Day: Bug Updates
Hi everyone! Pi Day is almost over, but I think I can make this post just in time. Just barely in time. Anyway, I have a couple updates to talk about :)
Shoutbox Updates!
Okay so... We've been looking into this, and it's... complicated. But I do have some good news: we will not be closing the Shoutbox entirely during Masquerade. Instead, we came up with a compromise that will allow you to still use the Shoutbox, while mitigating its effects on the rest of the website.
During holidays only, we will disable the Shoutbox sidebar widget, but the full-page shoutbox will remain open for all to use. When this happens, there will be a link to the full-page version in the sidebar widget for easy access.
We understand this is still not an ideal solution, and we are still working on resolving the Shoutbox's lag issues on a deeper level. I'll continue to keep you in the loop about that. <3
User Shops Speed Improvements
I have just deployed some user shops speed improvements. Most of the changes are behind-the-scenes: a lot of code has been shuffled and reworked in the hopes of making it a little more efficient, and reduce the rate of failure loading very full shops.
There is one change you may notice: the option to sort by price (when editing shop items) is no longer available. Instead, we've replaced it with a "View unpriced items" button which you can use to view all unpriced items in your shop. This is because, due to the way it worked, a full price sort was causing a lot of lag, and I had to reshuffle the code in a way that no longer allowed for it in order to mitigate the lag.
We have further updates planned for user shops that are aimed at further speed increases and improved functionality. I am also thinking about how I can bring back that price sort. These are involved changes though and some will require scheduled downtime. Again, I'll continue to keep you in the loop.
Cron Issues + High Score Payouts
Thank you guys so much for sticking with us through all those midnight reset issues. I know how frustrating all that was. At this point, I think the midnight resets are fixed. If there is anything that is still not resetting correctly, please bring it to my attention on this topic: [topic not found]
I am also aware that a lot of game high score payouts haven't been working properly for a while. This is a more involved project, but I wanted to reassure you that this is being worked on behind-the-scenes. Primarily:
- I'm going to move everything from the old high scores tables to the new system.
- I'm going to figure out what in the new system needs to get payouts, and make sure those automatic payouts are working.
- I will also update the high scores page with information clearly stating what prizes you can expect for what, and when. It was brought up that this information isn't clearly stated anywhere official, so we will fix that.
Okay, that's all for now! Stay safe and have a great weekend.
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Yes! I thought that having a link to the full-page shoutbox would be be a good idea if the SB widget was causing lag. Thanks Bug!
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Thanks as always for the hard work!
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Is "view upriced items" different from sort: Price = 0 ? Which one is easier on the shops server?
Thanks so much bug! Looking forward to the SB being useable during Masq and these shop updates are great too. Hopefully no more error pages for my full shops ^^
They are exactly the same. I just made it into a link so it's easier for everyone. Consider it a teeny tiny QoL thing :)
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Once again, thank you so much for your and your co workers hard work. You are appreciated! Stay safe and wash your hands!! 😉
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I also noticed the revamped spotlight win alert....you sly bug you. ;)
Or was that someone else on staff?
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Thanks as always for all your hard work Bug!
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Happy Pi day! (Ok so I'm late for that whatever)
Thanks for the updates, especially for the training alerts! (Not mentioned here I know but still thanks) I'll definitely miss the sort by price option for my shop seeing as I manually price starting with the cheapest, then I don't end up re-checking stuff. So I'd love to see that back somehow...someday...i guess I'll manage with the few pages of items I have in the meantime :) (or just continue to not price my shop due to procrastination and laziness lol) although I still wish there was a shop search button in the table with each item, that would save loading all of the hovers!
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Thank you for the updates.
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A Shoutbox on a separate page is still better than no Shoutbox at all, so thanks for that, now I can look forward to events again.
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I appreciate how hard you work to keep this site functioning, and it makes sense that sorting by price was the kind of thing to cause big slowdowns. That said, I'm not particularly thrilled by the removal of sorting by price since I usually was using it to find things that had been autopriced to under 2k (for fragging) or that were 5m or above so i could manually price them. Is there any way to try to filter by things within a certain price range, even if you dont actually sort them? If not, creating some sort of functionality for that so people don't have to just scroll manually through their shops and hope they find everything would be really really useful.
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Thanks for all the hard work!
But... if I can't sort by price, which is how I've always done the > 999,999, how do I do it now? That isn't included in the autopricer. A little confused.
Thank you for all you do to make things better!!! :)
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Thanks for all the hard work! Greatly appreciated!
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@ Bug Throwing my two cents in about the sort by lowest: Without it, it basically makes autopricing useless to me, which is the only reason I have a gold account. I use the sort by lowest to check my prices after autopricing to see what has been drastically undercut. We all know there are people out there who specifically price items that sell for 50,000-80,000 at 1,000-5,000 so they can catch people who autoprice, then they buy the low ones up so they can sell them later.
I'm hoping a way can be found soon to bring it back.
Thank you for everything you do behind the scenes to keep this place up and running.
