Major changes

Develop update

With develop, there's a LOT of new changes, so some bugfixes and misc have been omitted here to keep the most important up. All updates have their respective Pull Requests from the lorekeeper github if you want to look more into it!

The most important is that we've got a few updates concerning subtypes, trait indexes, and navigation on site, especially the masterlist search.

• Add new universal and subtype trait indexes. Uses the same modal as the regular species index (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/794 , https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/970 ).
• Adds character art & design pages to user profile, which display the art they're done related to the gallery, and the designs they've created (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/915).
• Add icons to off-site username (like toyhouse usernames) (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/892).
• Add toggleable minibadges to the user character page, which indicates the trading and art status of the character (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/933).
• Add the option to disallow the deletion of an item by a user - users can't accidentally remove the item from their inventory anymore (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/948).
• Add the option to block direct tranfers for items and currency, to redirect users thru trades (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/949).
• Add the toggleable ability for users to cancel their own design requests (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/957).
• Add throttling (limits how many requests can be sent in a timeframe) on repeated post requests and loggings (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/995).
• Add conversion of plaintext URLs into labeled links in comments (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1019).
• Add sort options to comments (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1021).
• Add a log viewer for error files directly on the website (Admin only) (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1022).
• Add the option to hide the text area of a gallery submission (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1032).
• Add the option "none" to subtype in the masterlist search, & add support for search that only includes the subtypes mentioned as hybrids instead of searching all subtypes, non hybrid included (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1050).
• Add character and image warnings, which hides the thumbnail and the main image and displays a warning with the appropriate tag (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1052).
• Add FontAwesome 6 support (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1100)
• Allow drag-and-drop and other interactions on touch screens (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1111).
• Add preview button when editing news or sales posts (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1112).
• Add item search by rarity (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1125).
• Fixes a mobile issue where file input would be hidden (https://github.com/corowne/lorekeeper/pull/1126).

Extensions

Scavenger Hunt - Handling scavenger hunts internally, with targets and a page with the amount of targets collected for a specific hunt. Staff can also see how far players are in the hunt.

Event tools - Add currency tracking and event-specific currency, and teams similar to Art Fight, with point tracking pages both user and admin site.

View-only shops - Allow any shop to be on visible-only, which means users cannot buy anything from the shop until it's open.

Polls & Forms - Allow the creation of custom forms or polls on-site, with anonymous or public results, comments, and various stats.

User IPs - Allow Admins to see IPs on a dashboard, and to whom it may belong, and if it's been used by another user. !! This extension is not meant for tracking, but to double check users with multiple account (which we don't allow), and is only accessible by Admins. LoreKeeper already collect IPs by default, and this won't be used for anything else than account verification. Any misusage from the Staff will be strongly punished.

Claymores & Companions update - Include a new feature, Element typing (akin to Pokemon's typing), and new levels for Pet and the ability to bond with said Pet.

Modmail update - Include expiration date for strikes, options for allowing or disallowing mail sending.

Bug fixes & minor features

• When a character had no transformation, the top navigation would still display due to how the extension parse them. This has been fixed, and any character that doesn't have a transformation won't have that navigation show up.
• The maximum size image allowed for upload has been included via a small text below the upload box.
• Sublists won't show on profile content and sidebar anymore.
• News and Devlogs have been updated in the view section to sort by upload date by default, instead of editing date.
• There was a conflict issue between co-owner and pet extension (which was breaking pets), this has been fixed since it's been discovered.
• GAs can now see hidden characters, for ease of access when referencing certain hidden profiles to Staff.

Dev updates

• This is mostly concerning Vilagyent and me, but I've finally managed to make our life easier with an automatic deployment that pushes any update to our GitHub repo to the site! At least it's more time to work on code instead of fiddling with ssh...
• Going forward, we'll be pulling updates from develop, meaning some things might be unstable or breaking. This means more work to troubleshoot, however I personally do not have the time for that, and the rest of the Staff is busy on their own tasks. I've entertained the idea of a rewarded bug hunt, where you could get currency and in-game rewards for finding on-site bugs, but that is just in the air for now.
• 2025 also approaches and that means we'll soon need to finance the website from our own money, as we're currently using a bonus with Digital Ocean that helps pay the maintenance. This probably will kickstart the sale of items and MYOs with real currency, and a potential shop for that, however the extension needs extensive API tinkering and is not free so that's more costs on us. In any case, we'll find a way, and if anything we'd do a monthly or bimonthly sale specifically geared toward site financing.