Changelog

I think this patch should really be called drip-fed housekeeping or something. Half of these patch notes comprise a collection of changes I have made over the last few months. Also, it’s not likely to seem all that impressive because, while some of these updates were a significant amount of work, most of it isn’t overly visible to you on the frontend. I was waiting to push an ‘official patch’ until I had an actual feature and I guess the polls (which have been half working for a while) is going to be it.

New Features

Voting 2.0

• See the results live.
• No more guessing whether you’ve voted or not, the poll will remember.
• For logged in users, be able to edit your vote if you made a mistake.
• The deadline for voting will be clearly visible, including a countdown when it gets close, and the poll will close itself when the deadline is reached.
• There are currently four types of polls, including event specific polls!

Little Tweaks

• Turned the in-development page into a proper roadmap with timelines etc.
• Added faction as a criteria/display point to PvP events
• All URL’s have been ‘cleaned’ e.g. events.php>e=1 —> events/1/ to both match the front part of the site for consistency, and also just to be neat. I like neat 🙂
• Alerts no longer pass data through the URL. No more confusing double notifications on refresh, phew!
• Profile URL’s now use the name rather than the account ID to be more user-friendly.
• The Crafter’s Directory has also been updated to friendly URL’s and prepared for the next addition to this section
• Attempted to make development easier for myself. So much housekeeping tidying up the code.
• Error logging has been added across the member section, so theoretically if something is unusably broken it should log it (theoretically), but please still tell me if you spot a bug. It helps so much!
• Added a page listing ‘known bugs’ on the website for easier reference.
• An ‘endeavour history’ has been added to the neighbourhood pages
• Added some more emoticons to the forum because I was missing some options

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the wrong colour for social events, on member home event widget
• For users, solved character name and server rendered blank on editing
• Found the missing that was making footers float on some profile pages
• Consistency error begone! Textarea no longer has a different border than text input
• Navigation across the entire site should now work on android, whoo!
• The style switcher now applies across the whole site, not just the members area [This was a big job]
• Upcoming events on the members homepage should now display in the correct day/time order.
• Also, if a timezone has not been set, there is now a note that says the upcoming events are displayed in realm time
• The discord link to blog posts should now point to the correct link
• Fixed a math mistake that meant some characters weren’t displaying on user profiles
• The feedback form page now won’t break on submission
• When housing ownership is assigned to a character, the profile link will now be correct, and no longer point to a random member
• Sorting the crafter’s directory by profession should work again
• Not a fix but a band-aid, added a note to forum registration to say approval emails are borked and so not to stress if one never comes, odds are the account is approved within the hour (unless I’m sleeping). [I know the forum is in pretty bad shape and needs a lot of attention :/ ]
• Hopefully fixed the vanishing footer on some of the event calendar pages

It’s been a hot minute since there was a patch, but we have had an expansion launch. I initially started this just before Midnight dropped, then benched it for my panic about the Crafter’s Directory which led to the great and hasty “API switch-over”. However, finally, it’s here!

New Features

Event Calendar
(All in-game events will still be on the in-game calendar. This is to augment, not replace)

• View all scheduled guild events whenever, and wherever. No longer limited by the availability of a PC to login to game. [Unfortunately blizz don’t offer the calendar in their API so if you sign in-game that won’t show 🙁 ]
• No more mental calculations needed. [Or mistakes made by the event leader /cough . . .] The calendar will adjust to show events in your local time.
• Signup and be able to give additional information like ability to switch roles if needed, your preferred key level, and even leave notes for the event leader.
• Like the housing map. You don’t need to be logged in to view the calendar. You can also signup for events.
• If you are logged in, then events will show whether you have signed up or not, you can edit/remove your signup, and you can see at a glance your list of upcoming events.
• As a bonus, from signing up for events, you’ll maybe even unlock some fun cosmetics for your profile [When I eventually stop pushing that down the priority list /cough . . .]

Native Dark Mode

• Find the OG cream style of the site harsh on your eyes? There is now a toggle to choose a ‘dark mode’ style. This currently just works for the members section [I had hoped for the entire site but wordpress hates me 🙁 Working on it! ] and for users whether they are logged in, or not.
• Signed in members can save their preference for either the dark, or the light, style and the site should remember it always.

Bug Fixes

Mobile Improvements
[Please let me know if you have any problems!]

• I couldn’t make the big draw of the Event Calendar be access “wherever and whenever” and not work on the mobile site. I have completely rebuilt the mobile version of the members only area, to try and make the experience as smooth and enjoyable as possible.
• Because I’d pushed the API switchover so fast, the character section didn’t work on mobile at all, but it now will and all future features will be fully tested (best as I am able), to work on mobile immediately.
• For android users the dropdown menus should now hopefully behave themselves.

Miscellaneous

• If you make a mistake in a form, and it bounces you back with an error message, the information you entered should now persist.
• Not exactly a bug fix, but it’s not a feature either. I have added a sub-page under the Changelog for ‘features under development’. At the moment it’s just a brain dump but I hope to turn it into a proper ‘roadmap’ next patch. Remember you can REQUEST FEATURES! I’m building what I hope will be useful and fun for you guys. If I’m not hitting the mark, and I’m just screaming into the void here, then please help me out. Let me know what you do want.

Known Bugs

• The wordpress part of the site doesn’t work off the style switcher 🙁
• Worse the fixes I had made on the navigation for android users also don’t work. I hate wordpress, I really do.