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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
Re: Co-GM rights, our coder said: "Co-GM can do all other stuff that a GM can do, except cannot delete campaign and on players setting he cant promote/remove other user as Co-GM and also can not make other user as GM. Co-GM can remove and invite…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
@Bookscorpion - good to know!
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
Re: Customization of social share settings 1) I've asked for an option in campaign settings to turn the social sharing on/off. This'll be in for testing once it's ready in 1-2 days. As far as possible, I'd like to avoid having GMs needing to put…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
Re: Forum signatures --- This version of Vanilla Forum software is heavily customized by Micah to accommodate single sign-in and other features. I had been looking at adding in more plugins, features to make it more user friendly. Unfortun…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
@Tau - "mostly begrudge it because they are doing things like adding this feature instead of fixing the bug that for the last 20 months has made wiki editing painful" The social share buttons is a feature that had been pending since the kick…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
There was some weird stuff earlier with the top nav bar not working correctly (eg: the drop-down menus weren't appearing for "Quick Links", "Campaigns", "New", etc). Tech has fixed it. Please file a "customer support ticket":http://help.obsid…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
FYI, ChainsawXIV reported some issues with the personal messaging interface (the envelope icon) in the top nav bar. It doesn't expand correctly. Tech is working on this.
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
Great to hear, Bookscorpion! What's the latest date that your campaign runs? We should be stable at least till 3000 AD. May be some time before we get support for 40 000 AD....
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
@kvp - I'll get more details on this. The developer working on this was in a road accident today (minor injuries), so as soon as he's back, I'll have him report on the Co-GM rights. - @JarissaVenters - Thanks for the feedback. I've given feedba…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
edited February 2016
Related to the "external links missing class" fix mentioned above, the programmer also mentioned an additional refinement to the fix: Also now user will be able to mention class with hyperlink by this syntax @"(class name)Text to display":http…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
edited February 2016
FYI, re: the issue that Tau was facing regarding the slow loading of wiki pages, page locking, etc -- the issue has to do with multiple javascript libraries being loaded, and the system only using a few of those. This means that you will be wait…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
edited February 2016
The following fixes are in: 1) "Search by user" - You can access this via the campaign search bar located in the top-right corner of your campaign page. Besides, items, character names, etc, there is a "User" search. This is a global search (eg: …
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
edited February 2016
FYI, we are aware that the "campaigns page":http://obsidianportal.com/campaigns is throwing up an Error 500. We're not sure what's causing this, I'm flagging it as a priority issue for the techs to look at and aim to have it resolved by Thursday …
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Shadows Over New York Hits 200 Fans!
February 2016
Congrats!
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Featured Campaign of the Month
February 2016
@kvp - The magic of an undocumented site is that you learn new stuff every day! Not all of it pleasant though...
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Featured Campaign of the Month
February 2016
edited February 2016
Also, some witchcraft in adding "Player in a featured campaign" badges for the players in Abersade's award-winning campaign: https://obsidianportal.com/profile/saintdiane https://obsidianportal.com/profile/Obison https://obsidianportal.com/prof…
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Changing mail, but get no mail
February 2016
Thanks for stepping in, Basileus. @SLger - please file a "customer support ticket":http://help.obsidianportal.com, and we''ll have the tech team look into it. If you make it a private ticket and include your email address you're trying to chan…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
edited February 2016
Separately, the custom campaign code is in. It seems to cause some system instability, so I'm doing more testing before announcing it. The tests will take place on Monday, from about 1am EST till about 4am. During this period, there might be inst…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
edited February 2016
FYI, the tech guys completed the character page "error 500" fix on Friday, there was something with the new code not "playing nice" with the old stuff, but I think they have made peace, though with 200k+ users on this site, you never know. Please…
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[Announcement] Message from the CEO
February 2016
It's been necro-ed, I guess. Let's wait another three months, then post in here again? If there's any further follow-up needed for now, let me know?
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The People's COTM
February 2016
edited February 2016
@twiggy, kvp - The amende COTM badge now says Feb 2016. (Phew, it didn't take too many neurons to figure it out). I should be able to update the COTM winners within 12-24 hours once you guys let me know and we've announced it publicly. We'…
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The People's COTM
February 2016
@twiggy - I don't quite understand. Could you drop me either an email or PM about what should be changed? I'll check how easily it can be done.
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Email Notifications
February 2016
@seffer Can you post this on our "customer support desk":http://help.obsidianportal.com/ ? Your issue will be looked into.
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Wiki Links not working - RESOLVED
February 2016
"It’s a portmanteau of “Pre” and “Reforge”" I don't profess to be a linguistic expert (though some women have said I am a cunning linguist...). The hyphen separation is useful for me as it differentiates the time period: Pre-Reforge and Post-R…
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Custom CSS Beta Discussion
February 2016
Stickied. At some point, the great stuff in here should be curated and collated into a wiki or tutorial
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
FYI, we are aware that there are instances of the "Characters" page showing 500 errors for some OP users. I have flagged this as a priority fix for the tech team and have told them we need the task to be completed by the Friday morning (US timezo…
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OP site update (Feb 2016)
February 2016
edited February 2016
Feb 12 update: 1) You can type dates for date fields - calendar, adventure log. 2) Adventure logs can be set up to 3000 AD. We've also put in some fixes in the adventure log, so if you have stuff appearing every x time interval, eg: 2010, 2100,…
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Calendar Update
February 2016
Thanks for flagging the issues. We'll assign resources to take a deeper look and try to kill this bug.
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Abandonware for Fighting Fantasy-type gamebooks
February 2016
@UTM - eh, you're right. See? Confused childhood. Excuse me, while I put a Sos the Rope around my neck.
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Featured Campaign of the Month
February 2016
Congrats Abersade! I figured out how to update COTM entries, so Rise of the Durnskald appears on the "campaigns page":https://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns and the "cotm/featured campaigns page":https://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/featured
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