CHYOA Changelog

Hi folks,

here you can find recent changes which have been made to CHYOA.

2015-12-07: Minor CSS changes for mobile devices
2015-12-08: Issue 1: Users aren't notified via email if they receive a new message * Fixed an issue with the sender data for an email notification job being in an unexpected format when deserialized by the job runner.
2015-12-08: Minor CSS changes for mobile devices
2015-12-08: Bug fix: Import missing
2015-12-08: New option: Email frequency for notifications
2015-12-09: Modify the chapter create/edit pages to disallow publishing of chapters for stories that are not published.
2015-12-09: Issue #2: modify the suggest user query to show an exact username match at the top of the list if there is one
2015-12-10: Issue #4: updated the notifications and feed messages for story and chapter approval to use the story or chapter author as the trigger user for some of the messages
2015-12-10: Increase the width of the action column in the notification table so it can hold the value chapter_to_bookmarked_chapter
2015-12-10: Minor changes
2015-12-11: change the story/chapter address generation logic to work when a title contains only non-ascii characters
2015-12-11: more changes to the address generation code
2015-12-12: This closes Issue #15: Expanded horizontal space for story text on wide monitors
2015-12-12: This closes Issue #14: Add ordered lists and horizontal rules to the RTE
2015-12-12: Bug fix: Show story title while editing the first chapter instead of the placeholder "Working Title"
2015-12-13: Issue #16: fix incorrect chapter depth being set when a chapter is deleted
2015-12-13: migration to fix corrupted deepness_counts for stories
2015-12-13: Modify the "deepness_count" index in the column "chapter"
2015-12-13: Prevent integrity constraint violation in deletion_log.
2015-12-13: Don't show deleted stories and chapters in the "My Stories" and "My Latest Chapters" lists on the homepage.
2015-12-13: Prevent published chapters before the publication of stories.
2015-12-14: Bug fix: Show correct story of the week.
2016-01-10: change method name to fix error when changing email address
2016-01-11: Issue #39: pre-populate the link dropdown when editing a linked chapter
2016-01-15: Resolve incorrect immersion variables.
2016-01-19: Design improvements and minor changes
2016-01-20: Fix sidebar appearance
2016-01-22: #37 - make it easier for users to find the option to publish a story that is in draft mode
2016-01-23: allow users to see their own draft and in-review chapters for stories they do not have manage permission to
2016-01-27: Add Open Graph and Twitter Card support
2016-01-27: Add rudimentary user ban support
2016-01-28: Only users with activated accounts can interact with the community.
2016-01-29: Fix "Decline a Story" bug
2016-01-29: Fix design of the conversation list
2016-01-29: Prevent users from deleting first chapters
2016-01-30: Make stories deletable
2016-01-31: Fix incomplete tag lists of stories
2016-01-31: Add numeric fallback for stories and chapters
2016-01-31: Fix "Approve story" bug
2016-02-01: Minor CSS changes
2016-02-04: Remove user activity recordings from ajax requests
2016-02-04: Fix bug in notification message "chapter_to_story", add story title to notification messages "chapter_to_chapter" and "friend_publishes_chapter", add story title to news feed for "new_chapter", "like_chapter" and "comment_chapter"
2016-02-05: Fix errors in favorite and bookmark list
2016-02-06: Fix incorrect story map color labels in combination with "Mark all as read"
2016-02-06: Highlight stories with new chapters in favorite list
2016-02-11: Add Restricted to Adults (RTA) label (and enable parental filtering)
2016-02-11: Show site rules on new/edit story/chapter pages
2016-02-11: Show age-restricted content warning to new users
2016-02-12: Fix wrong highlighting in story maps (old unread chapters are green again)
2016-02-12: Improve colors in sepia appearance
2016-02-14: Do not show the age-restricted content warning if logged in
2016-02-18: Add non-ajax log in/register form
2016-02-27: Don't trigger popunders on new/edit story/chapter pages
2016-03-17: Fix user / password bugs
2016-03-19: Bugfix: 1) Deleted chapters recover after saving the story as a draft, 2) Users can't delete unpublished stories.
2016-03-22: Add fallback for log in / register modal
2016-04-06: Fix issue #26 (Scrolling problems on the front page)
2016-04-06: Fix issue #30 (Catalog loading failure)
2016-04-06: Minor changes (Add informative error message if wrong credentials via Ajax; Add onchange event to immersion form)
2016-04-11: Add conditional branches
2016-04-12: Minor changes and bug fixes
2016-04-13: Add variable type "number" and immersion to conditional branches
2016-04-19: Fix redirection of linked chapters when using conditional branches.
2016-05-26: Minor changes.
2016-05-29: Add "canonical" tag.
2016-06-01: (1) Optimize images. (2) Fix links on homepage.
2016-06-04: Updates to chapter content parsing: add support for underlines to the markdown format, fix some issues with html not being sanitized.
2016-06-05: (1) Fix an error which occurred when someone updates a story. (2) Change linked chapter content to Markdown syntax. (3) Add note for authors on linked chapter page.
2016-06-11: (1) Fix bugs in conditional branches. (2) Enhancements to conditional branches: Additional operator "eq" for conditions; Additional operator "set" for score changes.
2016-06-13: (1) Fix broken report functionality. (2) Fix tree traversal algorithm. (3) Fix story map display error for ajax requests (plus to minus).
2016-06-14: Update the logo.
2016-06-19: Minor changes.
2016-06-20: (1) Link to category from story page. (2) Strip tags to make sure no HTML ends up in the database. (3) Prevent the output of angle brackets at the beginning and end of URLs. (4) Add JSON-LD (schema.org). (5) Correct Open Graph dates of stories.
2016-06-21: (1) Open external links in a new window. (2) Change the layout of "Top Stories" and "Top Chapters". (3) Remove Open Graph property "article:author".
2016-07-07: Add rel="noopener" to external links.
2016-07-12: Minor changes to search.
2016-07-14: Add random story button.
2016-07-16: (1) Extend footer. (2) Exclude banned users from the messaging system.
2016-07-18: Add new filter "feature" and extended link canonical support.
2016-07-19: (1) Break long strings in user generated content. (2) Correct escaped underscores in links and image URLs. (3) Remove introduction chapters from top chapters list.
2016-07-22: Minor changes.
2016-07-24: Implement awards.
2016-07-26: Add more awards.
2016-07-27: Update user title ladder.
2016-08-03: Implement if-statements for stories with conditional branches.
2016-08-06: Fix minor bug, occurred when score was empty.
2016-08-08: Minor CSS changes.
2016-08-19: (1) Skip notifications and conversations if a user is ignored. (2) Add the option to leave a conversation.
2016-08-20: Minor changes.
2016-08-24: Minor changes.
2016-08-27: Minor changes.
2016-09-28: (1) Add "Edit silently" to chapter edit page. (2) Add hidden variables to games (beta).
2016-10-02: (1) Fix "Deleted Items Not Deleting". (2) Minor bug fixes.
2016-10-04: (1) Fix "Recently Deleted" list. (2) Fix score changes set to zero.
2016-10-05: Add the possibility to display game variables in chapters.
2016-10-28: Add Halloween logo.
2016-11-12: Minor changes.
2016-11-15: Disable down votes.
2016-12-14: Minor changes.
2016-12-15: Minor changes.
2016-12-16: Minor changes.
2017-01-25: Minor changes.
2017-02-01: Disable mobile ads on Android OS.
2017-02-28: Minor changes.
2017-04-07: (1) Add Patreon note and changes. (2) Rank top stories and top chapters by like count.
2017-04-08: Minor changes.
2017-04-14: (1) Separate the Science Fiction & Fantasy category. (2) Change default category order.
2017-04-17: Add category icons.
2017-04-18: Add notable stories section.
2017-04-23: Update category icons.
2017-05-02: Update category icons.
2017-06-17: Update category icons.
2017-07-10: Show only unique author/story combinations in the Top Chapters.
2017-07-21: Minor changes.
2017-07-26: Migrate forum to https.
2017-09-27: Remove dislike button.

 

"Twitter Card support" ? Interesting. How does that work?

 

Twitter Cards are photos or videos attached to a tweet. See here:



More info here: https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview

 

May I ask for the reasoning behind the latest change? I don't really think the black sidebar with sepia story helps with anything and it looks a bit odd.

 

This change is intended to give the site more contrast. For comparison, two screenshots:



Do you (still) prefer version B?

 

Yeah, I still prefer B.

 

Alright, then it is version B.

 

• (1) Add "Edit silently" to chapter edit page

Does this work yet? I see no difference, no matter if this box is checked or not.

 

Yes, this should work. Only other users see the blue background on the story map.

 

There is a change about score and variables, right?

Is this the "invisible" option? But what's the third one then. You suddenly have 3 options to choose from.

 

Yes, you can now hide Conditional Branch Variables, keep the visibility or make them visible again.
You can change the visibility with each Score Change.
There are 3 options:
- No Change (sign with two squares on top of each other): The Variable inherits its own visibility from the previous Score Change. If it is the first time a Variable is set, the Variable will be visible.
- Visible (eye): If you choose this option, the reader can see the Variable in the "Score"-section of the Sidebar.
- Hidden (ban sign): If you choose this option, the reader can't see the Variable in the "Score"-section of the Sidebar.

 

Hey, I'm just wondering if there are any future plans to make the bookmarks easier to navigate? I think it would be great if we could view which stories we have bookmarked from the story map. This site has only gotten better and I think that this would only help improve it further.

 

Thank you for your suggestion!

We'll discuss it and see if it fits into our future plans. It's quite possible that we implement this.

 

May I suggest add a new option, to ignored some theme? For egzample I'm not intrested in incest or gay, and I know that I never be. Could be option for user to ignored some tags, what he choise?

 

There is already a suggestion about ignoring themes on the front page (Like the first post of a suggestion to vote for it) though I think there is some overlap with the next Patreon goal

If that isn't exactly what you are searching for, you could create a new suggestion in the Suggestions subforum.

 

Gey, my notifications on the site ain't working, I get on with my phone, it says I have 7 new notification, but when I push on it, they dont appear, just the ones that already were their? No new ones on list

 

I think you're having the same problem as described here.

 

Friedman,have you ever considered adding a members favorite stories to thier profile for others to look at,in case a person was curious what type of stories a given member likes,so they may be able to have a better idea how to fine tune thier own stories for that person to possibly read it?

 

Please please please add a reset button, One that makes it so that all the chapters that you have read for this story turns back to green.

 

Wait did you actually do it because it feels like you did?