In this update; 

  • User profile pages have been re-designed
    • Larger avatars
    • Space for user badges (coming soon)
  • Comment stacks have been re-designed to match
    • Updated to display oldest comment first
  • Guild moderators can now add 'ghost' character profiles
    • These characters don't appear on the /character index
    • These characters don't have equipment profiles
    • These characters can't be claimed by users, if they decide to sign up later
    • These characters are deleted when removed from the guild which created them
  • Throughout the site you will now see animated loading elements appear. Imperfect, expect bugs
  • Race/class restrictions have been implemented throughout the site. You may need to update your character.
  • Character equipment is now REMOVED if user changes the race/class of the character
    • A warning is showed to that effect in the character edit page.
    • Ideally this should be a relatively rare occurence - but I've implemented it this way it's much easier on the system to do it this way than check each item against a race/class restricted list on every save. For now.
  • Various broken icons have been fixed
  • Character profile pages have been redesigned to match the user layout.
  • You will now receive notifications when;
    • A support ticket has been responded to.
    • A support ticket has been marked as solved.
    • A character of yours is deleted.
    • A character of yours is removed from a guild.
    • Your guild moderator priviledges are removed.
  • Re-re-designed the transactional emails sent out - the dark theme was a bit too dark for most email clients
  • Enabled deep-linking on search results page
  • Fixed guild timezone resetting on every page load - ty @saicred
  • Added a captcha to the account registration page
  • Added an email verification requirement before users can make comments.
  • Comments can now be quoted and replied to
    • This sends a notification to the quoted user
  • Comments can now be edited
    • Comments will display if they've been edited 
    • There is a 10 minute grace window, after that you cannot edit a comment. This may change.
    • Moderators can edit comments indefinitely
    • Moderators can remove comments
      • They must give a reason for doing so, which is included in the notification 
  • All new /docs mini site
    • Covers everything from tooltip.js capabilities to the privacy policy
  • Discord Bot is now version 0.2
  • Refreshed /class artwork. (Races and Tradeskills to follow)
  • Tooltip styling improved and normalised
  • New background image on home page, blurred on content pages
  • Styling and Usability improvements to navigation, search, tabs and misc
  • Improved event logging site wide
  • Removed hidden items from search results
  • Users given special roles (Admin/Editor/Moderator/etc) are now highlighted as such
  • Improved some of the navbar styling, including notifications and the My {..} dropdown
  • Added Notification Settings to user control panel.
  • /news has been reverted to the more content-dense layout, with alpha-proper on the horizon.
  • Further improvement to sitewide typography.
  • Character equipment search in the editor is now cached
  • Started work on 3 super secret new features.
  • The related lists on each record page (such as the NPC list here on Amberfate) now have a 'view all' link (if there are more than 10) which goes to a pre filtered index of that model. This enables the browsing of NPCs by zone they're found in, Items by npcs that drop them etc
  • The above was made easier by; Index page filters have been reworked
    • Allows quicker implementation across all models
    • The content of them is now cached for quicker page loads
  • The sidebar has stuff in it now!
  • Admin area completely rebuilt, uniform styling implemented

Known Issues;

  • Filter orderBy & sort doesn't always work quite right, this will be fixed in next update
  • Posting/editing a comment causes the elements which contain them to become 1000px height. Gone after a refresh.
  • Improving the quality of the documentation available in /docs

Next Update;

I'm going to break from the normal pattern a little bit and aim for fixing one specific issue - icon images. This is a much bigger task than I first thought which is why it has been delayed for so long but it really is something I want mostly tied up before v1.