Posted by Nyssa Day 219, Year 5 (26th May 15) @ 10:22:19
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May is almost over! That means it's time to open the voting booth for the next Member of the Month (or MOTM for short)! Who do you think deserves 50,000 IP and this exclusive avatar?
REMEMBER - You cannot nominate yourself or members of staff. - Do not ask other users to vote for yourself or other members. - You can only nominate users who have not previously won MOTM.
It's up to you! You can send your nominations here!
Posted by Read Day 215, Year 5 (22nd May 15) @ 16:55:20
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Look how colourful these are! These new ice cubes have just arrived at IcePets. No, they're not stocking at the Frozen Collectives Emporium. You can only obtain them by freezing this year's Jakrit Eggs in the Ice Box! I sure hope you saved some!
Just one last thing... Don't tell anyone, but I've heard something fun is on the way at the start of next month! Shhh...
Posted by Judda Day 214, Year 5 (21st May 15) @ 19:55:53
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Good afternoon Terrafrostians,
As you know, just under a year ago, we started on a recode of the site. Which in itself is a fairly large task. However, we haven't really said much about it so far. We have had a few screen captures that reflect the changes, and we have alluded to some specific changes but, you haven't actually seen anything with your own two eyes. As of today, that is changing.
We are now going to make a monthly update for you guys in order to showcase one or more of the updates that we have coming up with the recode. You may start to wonder when the release day of the recode is, however, we haven't firmed up on a date because we want to make sure the site is fully stable and optimized upon release. We are working to put out a solid version of the site instead of a 'quick recode to start things off again'.
Today, we would like to introduce you to something which may seem like a small update, but it's a good one. The side bar is completely changing. Normally, you have a long list of the pets you own on the left hand side of the screen however, with the recode, this will be different. We know that you value your screen space, and sometimes logging in on your phone could look weird, so instead of having that long list of pets, we have opted to show your active pet as the full picture, and then have all of your inactive ones being displayed as their minis.
But not only that, if you click on the pet mini, then you will be able to change your active pet instantly!
This may be a relatively small update but I do promise you there are plenty more to come.
We hope you look forward to our next unveiling which will happen next month where we will talk about conversations and more!
Posted by Judda Day 197, Year 5 (4th May 15) @ 18:30:00
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Hey everyone, we wanted to give you an update to see what we have been working on! One of the things we wanted to improve are Support Tickets. Right now, once a Support Ticket is created and responded to by the staff, it moves to private messages or e-mail (depending on if you were logged in or not when you created the ticket) which looks and feels a bit clumsy.
So, in order to make life easier there, we are in the process of making an entirely new "support" section of the site. In this section, the plan (for right now at least) is to have 3 sections:
- Staff Applications: where you can apply for a staff position if it's available
- Request Art: will contain a nice workflow so that you don't actually pay for the item until it's been agreed upon
- Support Tickets
As of right now, the support tickets are the only piece that have been worked on however, the other two systems will act in a very similar manner.
Now for the goodies, you may have seen these screenshots on Facebook/Twitter already however, now you are seeing them here too
This page will contain all of your previous tickets with the current status of them.
Support Ticket - View Ticket This will be the page that you go to in order to actually respond to your support tickets.
We know we haven't spoken much about the recode recently. But believe us, it is still underway. So much so, Judda was actually able to leverage a fair bit of code that he originally wrote for the recode and use it for the support tickets and stuff. This means that the integration of this into the recode should be fairly straight-forward.
There is not currently a scheduled release date however, we are doing our best in order to get it done as soon as possible
Posted by Read Day 194, Year 5 (1st May 15) @ 03:13:56
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To start things off, we have a new staff member!
Welcome, IcyKitten!
@IcyKitten just joined us and will be helping us manage the site as well as keeping everything up to date while the recode is being worked on! A round of applause, please!
It's time to announce Member of the Month again! Congratulations to...
You will receive 50,000 IP and this exclusive avatar!
Some nice things said about Varyntha: -Varyntha may still be kind of new but she's a great member of the community! -She always shares ideas and new things for the site. I think Varyntha would make a good MOTM. -I see her trying to help out new members and make them feel welcome to the site all the time!
As for this month's Staff of the Month, please applaud...
Judda is truly the one that keeps us all going. Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication to this site! You are SO appreciated by everyone on staff - and users too! - so please keep it up! As the great programmer he is, what could he have chosen for his SOTM item other than another Code Monkey?
Confused Code Monkey
What's that? You want the Confused Code Monkey? Maybe you could try finding the place that confuses Judda the most!
