buglist/updates thread

rtil · November 15, 2011 12:27 PM

recent chat activity is functioning properly again

next up: fixing the livestream tracker

rtil · November 19, 2011 05:27 AM

livestream tracker is fixed. channels are also now tied to user accounts, you can see who owns each channel on the streams page. this will reflect on your profile at some point as well.

this does mean that if you are streaming live the notification bar will start to pop up again like it used to, so people browsing the site know you're streaming and can watch.

http://www.thebackalleys.com/streams/

soon i will also add a form on this page where you can submit a livestream to be tracked pending approval by me. if added it will be automatically tied to your account.

if anyone is curious as to why it broke, it is because livestream's API added new restrictions based on how often their server could be queried for data on livestream channels. i was going over these new limits and it caused the script to slow down and malfunction. so i had to code a new version that calculated how many times per day i could query for new data on each channel without breaking the limit. this is recalculated every time the script is run, which is every 2 minutes. at the moment, with 25 streams being tracked, the current refresh rate is 4 minutes - i should probably reflect that somewhere on the streams page itself.

as more streams are added, the refresh rate will eventually rise, but very slowly. it is calculated to stay comfortably underneath 10,000 queries to the livestream server per day. right now it queries their servers 9,000 times per day.

cipher · November 19, 2011 06:39 AM

why is cloudeater's stream approved

rtil · November 19, 2011 08:49 AM

i didn't know it was his until tonight. i'll delete it, doesnt look like he uses it anyway

Sinitron · November 21, 2011 05:50 PM

i would stream but the FUCKING RUSSIANS!! are destroying my internet

rtil · December 4, 2011 11:52 AM

your file dump is now paginated. each page shows 50 files per page. pagination for folders and search function coming up next.

rtil · December 5, 2011 12:11 PM

a more noticeable change, the links at the top of every page underneath the banner have been simplified. no more drop down menus, just 7 main links for now.

put your mouse over the number bubbles by the forum and the chat - you'll get a little explanation as to what they are

it's a good indicator of forum and chat activity imo.

if there is no number bubble by the chat, it means that there is no chat activity or the chat stats have not been updated in the last 10 minutes - something that happens if mikubot goes down or i lose internet connection. the forum bubble will never disappear

cipher · December 5, 2011 10:28 PM

Just to clarify, I'm not sure if its just me or not, but the total # of posts for the forum and chat are kind of cut off a little bit. And I can't find the file dump to upload my screenshot hah

edit: Well, between the time I clicked reply and wrote this out, you fixed it

rtil · December 5, 2011 10:31 PM

your filedump is in the link that says "filedump"

cipher · December 6, 2011 12:28 AM

Quote from: rtil on December 5, 2011 10:31 PM
your filedump is in the link that says "filedump"

Nah i was seeing some weird thing where the only options were home, forums, chat and livestreams when I posted that

edit: this

doesn't matter though, gone now. Probably just something acting up

rtil · December 6, 2011 12:29 AM

it is caused by your browser. it was not refreshing the cache of the css file and so the styles were outdated. a hard refresh usually fixes this immediately

rtil · December 6, 2011 03:53 AM

the tutorials section is viewable again. i'm not sure if any of the posting tools function yet but i'm moving on to that next.

CloudEater · December 6, 2011 03:54 AM

Quote from: rtil on November 19, 2011 08:49 AM
i didn't know it was his until tonight. i'll delete it, doesnt look like he uses it anyway

D:

rtil · December 6, 2011 04:20 AM

well you don't!

Gladius · December 6, 2011 04:40 AM

cloudeater is a big faker!!!

psi43 · December 6, 2011 06:12 AM

Quote from: rtil on December 5, 2011 12:11 PM
a more noticeable change, the links at the top of every page underneath the banner have been simplified. no more drop down menus, just 7 main links for now.

put your mouse over the number bubbles by the forum and the chat - you'll get a little explanation as to what they are it's a good indicator of forum and chat activity imo.

if there is no number bubble by the chat, it means that there is no chat activity or the chat stats have not been updated in the last 10 minutes - something that happens if mikubot goes down or i lose internet connection. the forum bubble will never disappear

That actually makes the entire website look a lot more compact and slick in my opinion, nicely done. Also thanks for finally integrating a page system to the filedump, now i can finally open mine with my laptop, seeing as I have around 725 files on there, my laptop would crash every time i opened it before.

e. Oh yeah, it still doesn't update for me though. It used to update the list right after I uploaded a file, for quite some time now it stopped doing that and forces me to reload the page in order to see the file listed there.

Crabarms · February 7, 2012 05:59 AM

Just something I noticed that maybe be intended but when you preview a message the text is very hard to read it is almost the same color as board.

rtil · February 7, 2012 06:19 AM

that should be fixed now. if you still see it do a cache refresh (ctrl+f5)

redmongoose · February 7, 2012 06:26 AM

I noticed that like a million years ago I didnt kno it was a mistake I probly would have said something if I had :s

rtil · February 7, 2012 06:50 AM

if anything is hard to read please do tell me, i never intend that