And We're Back!

November 21, 2009 - 8:12pm — Auriea

Hi,

Feels good to have the community back online!
Well, that took a lot longer than I wanted it to. :/ It was much more difficult than I had hoped to upgrade things and iron out bugs and I know its probably still not exactly perfect. So, I want your feedback (leave a comment here.) Let me know if something doesn't work the way it used to (if you want it back.) Let me know If you'd still like something to change, I will let you know if it's possible. I will still be testing some things and tweaking once you all start coming back and using the site... It's easier to see how it's working when there is some activity.

NEW THINGS

You can now assign your blog entries to a category the same way you've been doing for Pictures. It is not required but it will make it easier for people looking for your deer bio or for your creative writing if you add it to a category.

post URLS are now by node/# and not the same as the title of your entry. This way you can edit the title and the url will not change. None of your previous posts urls should have been effected by this.

you can use more HTML tags now for formatting. I added IMG, blockquote, h1-h4, i, b, br, p, tt, pre and strike... more info here. If you don't know what i am talking about, you don't need it

I put in a hard coded limit of 1024 pixels across for images. Anything wider than that will be scaled down. And I hope that you will try to limit the size of your images as sometimes they get really huge and that is not so nice for browsing around. (And you can always put in a link to a larger version.)

I would like to implement some sort of personal tagging system, so you can organize your entries for yourself also, but that is a bit more complicated and will have to be for the next time I do some crazy upgrade adventure >}

I am also thinking we should have a selection of header images, maybe the site's color and theme should change seasonally. Maybe at the Equinox and Solstice... or something. Anyway, hope you guys like the "new" site!

all the best,
Auriea.

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November 22, 2009 - 1:02am — Michael Samyn

CONGRATULATIONS!

November 22, 2009 - 1:04am — Snowrift

Yay! Thankyou guys for your

Yay! Thankyou guys for your hard work and effort!

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Snowrift's Updates

November 22, 2009 - 1:04am — Tuhka

Oh my GODNESS! The new

Oh my GODNESS!
The new Community site looks absolutely gorgeous! I love the changes!
*runs exploring the new stuff*
Thank you so much, I love you guys. <3

November 22, 2009 - 1:12am — shimmyshimmy

It looks absolutely

It looks absolutely fantastic! Thank you Gods, I can't wait to see all the new things you've added in.

You are truly kind, thank you for giving us your time to fix the site and make it even better. <3

November 22, 2009 - 1:13am — Verycrazygirl

I DIED THIS IS SO AMAZING.

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November 22, 2009 - 1:14am — Iaurdagnire

All the stuff you've done is

All the stuff you've done is brilliant! Thank you so much! <3

November 22, 2009 - 1:16am — Snowrift

Now to get the actual game to

Now to get the actual game to work xD

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Snowrift's Updates

November 22, 2009 - 1:32am — Verdalas

I spot a typo in "About TEF".

I spot a typo in "About TEF". Is that extra c supposed to be there?

And thankyou very much, M&A! Good to have this place up again!

November 22, 2009 - 1:39am — bubblywums

Wonderful news Auriea!

Wonderful news Auriea! Congratulations on getting everything back in working order.
And thank you so much for the diary categories, I'm really pleased that that suggestion went through and was put into place.

I definitely support the changing header images, keeps things fresh!

One thing I did notice is that I am still unable to change my display name, it gives me a "You have to specify a valid author." warning and won't let me post.

AND YAY A SEARCH! I'm so excited.

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November 22, 2009 - 1:56am — bubblywums

Wandering around the website

Wandering around the website has been a learning curve and I'm clicking through everything. One thing I miss is being able to go through all blog entries at once and all pictures at once, without going through a category. Is there still a way to do this? The recent posts section is very confusing because both pictures and diaries have been grouped together.

Browsing through the diaries looks very messy for the most part where people have separated their post into 'Read More', though I did notice that writing new entries does this automatically. I think I prefer the old view for looking at diaries, but the pictures looks great how it is.

I don't meant to heap all this one you! I just wanted to give my feedback. <3

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November 22, 2009 - 1:56am — Auriea

mmhh. There is currently some

mmhh. There is currently some front page wonkiness that I am trying to iron out.

- yes the 'c' in TEFc is for 'community'

- I was trying to find the most convenient ways to browse images. i thought it was better by category instead of all together... but i will see if i can get all the images together too.

November 22, 2009 - 1:58am — bubblywums

I love the categories for the

I love the categories for the diaries and images but I think it would be nice to be able to browse both ways, all together and in categories like the images used to be.

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November 22, 2009 - 2:07am — Crimsongale

I second the above comment- I

I second the above comment- I love the separation between categories, but I think it would really make it easier if there was an option to browse the Pictures as a whole, as well as the Diaries. Other than those minor things, I can't comprehend how amazing the site is! Lovely work <3

November 22, 2009 - 2:08am — ocean

Sweet! Thanks. <3 The

Sweet! Thanks. <3
The categories should really help (and I love having node/ # for posts now).

November 22, 2009 - 2:23am — Auriea

Well it's getting late here.

Well it's getting late here. I haven't announced the re-opening over at our main blog yet because I want to leave it overnight and make sure things are functioning on the server end as well now that the site is getting some traffic.

Goodnight all you dear deer. See you tomorrow!

November 22, 2009 - 3:05am — Flyra

-EXPLODE FROM

-EXPLODE FROM HAPPINESS-

_{(Will the no-signature-anymore-setting stay?)}

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November 22, 2009 - 3:17am — SarieBearie

uwaa thanks so much! I can't

uwaa thanks so much! I can't express my appreciation for your work in words. the site looks absolutely gorgeous. the colors are lovely 8D aah and the banner! thanks again you guys!

November 22, 2009 - 3:38am — Terabetha

Thank you so SO much for all

Thank you so SO much for all your hard work, the site looks AMAZING! :'D

November 22, 2009 - 4:04am — MyuNoUta

This is awesome~! I love

This is awesome~! I love everything here~! Thank you sooo much~! <3

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November 22, 2009 - 4:19am — Fuchs

Definitely worth the wait =3

November 22, 2009 - 4:26am — quadraptor

Ditto! I'm having fun

Ditto! I'm having fun exploring the new additions!

Thank you so much for fixing the community site up!

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November 22, 2009 - 4:30am — Fenqua

Incredible! I love the

Incredible! I love the categories, it makes everything a lot easier! I'm glad my older posts aren't bumped anymore when I update one little thing.

I do have some 'bugs' I think.

When I want the whole text in a certain color, it will only take the first few lines. Even if I put [ color ] at the beginning and [ / color ] at the very end of the text. It didn't do that at first.

Also, when I edit my blog and I press preview to see how it looks, when I press back the things I edited are gone! So I have to add them in again.

I hope this explanation was somewhat useful. ^^;

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November 22, 2009 - 5:09am — .

foams AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*foams*
AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAH GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
*does a happy dance and prances around screaminh*

November 22, 2009 - 5:26am — Lu

CANNOT FIND ADJECTIVES. TO

CANNOT FIND ADJECTIVES. TO EXPRESS. HAPPINESS. NONE AT ALL. *Googles*
This is gorgeous, Auriea. Blues and turquoises and browns~

[Ah- I...hate to nitpick, but ah...the Online Users bit over there on the side. ;,; The lime green is rather hard to read against that blue.]

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November 22, 2009 - 6:46am — bubblywums

I didn't even notice that

I didn't even notice that there were no signatures! I'm curious to know if they will return as well?

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November 22, 2009 - 12:27pm — onyxsoulclaw

A big thankyou for all the

A big thankyou for all the wonderful work you've done, It's looking great. I wish you all the best for the future. Take care and happy galloping.

November 22, 2009 - 12:39pm — Auriea

oops! i hadn't noticed the

oops! i hadn't noticed the signatures either. I put them back now. Also fixed the lime green user list in the sidebar. thanks for the feedback! looking into the other errors reported. we are talking to our admin about the Display Name problem (seems its hard to fix

)

Ah, and if you think there are any other blog categories that would be useful, let me know.

November 22, 2009 - 12:41pm — starr

Yay ! It looks great Thanks

Yay !
It looks great
Thanks for doing it 8D !

November 22, 2009 - 1:14pm — Siellby

An "other" category for blogs

An "other" category for blogs would be nice. Some things I just don't know how to categorize.

Anyway it's good to be back!

November 22, 2009 - 1:45pm — Calypta

Thank you so much M&A!! It's

Thank you so much M&A!! It's perfect! Congrats!

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November 22, 2009 - 1:50pm — Flyra

Bwahaha, thanks a lot,

Bwahaha, thanks a lot, Auriea, for the signatures back!
I'm deeply in love with the new site. <33 Thank you so much for putting it all together!

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November 22, 2009 - 2:22pm — Auriea

ah and i just added IMG to

ah and i just added IMG to the list of useable HTML... gosh don't know why that wasn't in there all this time

November 22, 2009 - 3:04pm — KittyCatKita

OH MY GOD I LOVE IT!!!! The

OH MY GOD I LOVE IT!!!! The changes are so cool!!!! Definitely worth the wait *bounds off to explore the new features*

THANK YOU SO MUCH AURIEA AND MICHAEL!!!!

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November 22, 2009 - 3:05pm — KittyCatKita

Gah, sorry for the double

Gah, sorry for the double post *stupid computer*

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November 22, 2009 - 3:14pm — Fenqua

Thanks for already fixing

Thanks for already fixing some things!

By the way, the problem I mentioned earlier with the colored text. I forgot to say that I used BBCode to do this. Or else you might not know where you should look. ^^;

EDIT: I noticed I DID kind of explain that. Ah well. XD

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To pray is to believe, to believe is to purify one's soul

November 22, 2009 - 5:09pm — Auriea

@Fenqua, I am not seeing the

@Fenqua, I am not seeing the error with preview. Are you hitting preview and then using the Back button in your browser? You should see the post in an editable field below the preview so that you can continue editing there without having to go back. But maybe I am misunderstanding what happened when you did it?

As for the color in BBcode, it seems to only work when the lines follow each other and not when there is a blank line in between. I am not sure if there is any way to change that behaviour. But I'll keep looking!

November 22, 2009 - 6:12pm — bubblywums

Yes, the BBC Colour code does

Yes, the BBC Colour code does not work when you start a new paragraph, and neither does any other formatting like bold, underline, italicizes, etc. You have to create a new code for each. I noticed this when I was updating the Secret Santa blog and I tried to make 2 words red and green and italicized, but it would only italicizes the first so I had to do another code for the second word.

I would really like to see an 'Other' or 'Misc.' blog category as was mentioned on the forums. I noticed a lot of people are putting things in the 'Community Events' that in my opinion shouldn't really be there, I was thinking of that category as party announcements, community projects, events, etc.

And thank you for looking into the name situation Auriea, I really appreciate that. Being called bubblywums instead of Jen is alright, but I'd rather be known as Jen.

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November 22, 2009 - 6:16pm — Fenqua

I think you figured it out. I

I think you figured it out. I did press the back button when doing that. Sorry, it was a mistake!

And yes, that with the color code goes for size, font and probably other things as well.

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November 22, 2009 - 8:08pm — Fledermaus

Nicely done, it was totally

Nicely done, it was totally worth the wait. The colors are awesome and I love the new features! Thanks again!

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November 22, 2009 - 8:35pm — Ran-Chan

oh my awesome work <3 nicely

oh my

awesome work <3 nicely done
*likes*
thank you ^^

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November 23, 2009 - 1:29am — Auriea

I've made a category called

I've made a category called Miscellaneous and put anything that was seriously off-topic from Community Events in there. Its not to say those posts aren't important but you are right, Community Events should be for things that are inviting other people to participate.

The name thing should get fixed.

As for the BBCode thing... if I can find a setting that fixes it...

November 23, 2009 - 2:38am — celticmystress

OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH

OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH IT HAS BEEN SUCH A HARD WEEK AND TO COME BACK TO THIS IS AWESOME!

! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Thank you!!!!

November 23, 2009 - 3:53am — Kumiko

This is magnificent. I have

This is magnificent.

I have been away from here for a few months, so I'm glad to return on such a great update.

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November 23, 2009 - 4:37am — Timberwolf

Thank you for your hard work,

Thank you for your hard work, it is looking excellent.

Timberrc

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November 23, 2009 - 6:59am — Siellby

About coding: Just type [br.]

About coding: Just type [br.] (without the period) to make a new line to keep the color/size/style/etc. You can make one new line by hitting enter, and then use the "br" code to make another line. It's a lot easier than retyping the whole code every time.

Although, you shouldn't have to do that. Usually in a forum you can apply a code to several paragraphs without having to use the "br" tag or retype the code.

November 23, 2009 - 10:59am — Shasharala

I've noticed that I am unable

I've noticed that I am unable to change my email address in the account section. It acts as though the area is highlightable, but not an area to enter text.

November 23, 2009 - 11:25am — Auriea

Okay, I fixed the BBCode

Okay, I fixed the BBCode issue. You can now have things like color effect multiple lines

even when there is a line break in-between

As for changing your email address. I believe this is unchangeable because it is linked to the account you signed up with (which is kept in a different database, to get all technical) I will ask the admin if there is some way to make this something you can change here. Otherwise, if you really need to change it now, please send us an email and we will do this for you.

November 23, 2009 - 12:15pm — silverdragon

This is great! nice, neat and

This is great! nice, neat and fesh!
i love the "Who's online" nobody can hide nowww mwhahaha
I'm off to go and explore some more

Nice work *gives you a cookie*

November 23, 2009 - 2:05pm — EmmaJoycen

Wow, I love having this back.

Wow, I love having this back. I'm still trying to figure out a routine for checking everything on the site, but I'll get used to it. Super job, particularly for such a short time.

There's only one thing I would like to see added. I know you have all these little requests, but just until that wondrous live map is back, would it be possible to have a category of Who Are Yous? Because it would be nice when you're trying to find someone it doesn't immediately get pushed down and out of sight. Just a suggestion, since we all miss that map.

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November 23, 2009 - 2:23pm — tanyak

Oh thank you ,thank you this

Oh thank you ,thank you this is great!

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