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    Roleplay Characters Are Currently Unavailable

    in Throne Room

    · Edited by Rikifive

    UPDATE

    An updated version of the application has been installed. Roleplay Characters seem to be functional. All thanks to the lovely developer of the Characters app! :darling:

    Please check your characters and notify me if something isn't working. :) 

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    Roleplay Characters Are Currently Unavailable

    in Throne Room

    3 hours ago, ThatPinkPone said:

    Luckily, I have a sneaky lil way to get around this, and it's called... specifying who I'm roleplaying! Hahahaha, fear me! :manic-laughter:

    Yee, the OG pro RP strat. e-twibigbrain.png

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    On the other news, I've received a reply from the lovely dev, and the fix is being worked on. Hopefully the RP characters will be back sometime soon. :coco:

    First time on a mlp forum

    in Welcome Plaza

    39 minutes ago, Sfc.point said:

    Here you go <3  My consoles 

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    That is a nice collection alright :darling:

    Nintendo & Famicom tho :izzy-shine: Those were the times...

    Many of these weren't too common in Poland, or at least in the area I live in, so I never really had contact with Sega consoles and the like. I actually never even seen an actual NES in real life either, we had tons of different Famicom clones though.

    Personally I had Atari, Commodore Amiga - it was A600 if I'm not mistaking, bunch of Famicom clones, PS1 and PS2, then stuck with PC afterwards. :P 

    Currently I have one of the famicoms, PS1 and PS2 still around somewhere, working but these surely could use some refreshing. :eager:

     

    Well anyway, nice, nice. :darling:

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    Hello

    in Welcome Plaza

    dsal;dkas;ldska;dlak;l the second section at the bottom is for posting whatever you want - to talk about yourself etc.. ;)

    Welcome to the herd! :mlp_yeehaa:

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    Genshin Chat

    in Topics

    I've checked how far things can be pushed, and

    • funds are capped at 100000000 (100 million)
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    • storage limit for a single type of ingredient is 99999
      you can continue claiming more, but everything past that is discarded
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    Me doing unnecessary stuff aside, it was kinda a time-consuming event overall.

    Sunny Starscout's Smoothie Scavenger Search

    in Site Events

    · Edited by Rikifive

    On 2024-03-28 at 3:17 AM, Silly Druid said:

     

      Reveal hidden contents

    Holy balls... I knew it... That was literally the first thing I thought of and been checking everything in that direction. The more I was unable to find it, the more I started suspecting, that maybe I got it totally wrong. :P 

    Knowing my lead is within the scope of the tip, I started digging again. Turns out I was on the right track, but just been looking in the wrong places. For some reason I totally forgot these were things. e-twibigbrain.png Man, I overthought the hay out of it and forgot about such an obvious thing :mlp_icwudt:

    me rn:

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    Either way, thanks, got 'em all now. :jazz-hooves-please:

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    Returning to use Poniverse's Twitter account (or some other medium) to inform users on site status

    in Feedback

    1 minute ago, Props Valroa said:

    @Rikifive

    Still though, a link to that changelog could be posted to a topic in the throne room, which is what I am proposing here. You can have a topic in the throne room so all users can see what is being worked on, report issues, and discuss the changes in a centralized and dedicated location as well as plans for future upgrades / proposals for the site's layout.

    Fair enough, next time everything will be posted properly, with the entire changelog dumped in a spoiler for those interested. :P 

    It's how it should be, after all, in my opinion. :darling:

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    Returning to use Poniverse's Twitter account (or some other medium) to inform users on site status

    in Feedback

    1 hour ago, Props Valroa said:

    @Rikifive

    Even if it is minor things, I think it is important that the staff be transparent and open about what they are working on as it effects everyone on the forums, and sudden outages happening without any prior warning  is probably confusing to users who aren't in the know about it. At the very least it would be nice to see some sort of changelog in the throne room so we can keep track of said updates, even if they are minimal, at a public level.

    If you're interested in changelog, you can view it here, and it's always available under that link. We were on 4.7.13 prior to the update, so everything past that is "new". That said, it's not really about what mlpf staff is working on, it's about whatever Invision does. None of the changes are strictly related to our needs (usually these are against our needs tbh lol). Most of the changes are either unrelated to users (some admin/tech stuff) or are just optimizations to things no one here ever had problems with. Take a look yourself and tell me if this is interesting and something members should know. :P

    But announcing we're updating with some brief relevant information is something that definitely should be a thing. This also would serve as a topic, where users would be able to report new problems for us to keep track of, and where we could list various things to keep everyone updated. Next time we'll try to organize it all better, because such topic/announcement is something I'd like to have myself. :darling:

     

    Aside software updates; When we make some changes ourselves, we usually notify members what gets changed. By an occasion, are you interested even in small things like this?

    https://mlpforums.com/topic/199930-tweaks-bugfixes-mobile-view-and-achievements/

    If so, at least I, will be happy to be open about everything I change or modify.

    And like I said earlier, it's hard to place a prior warning to sudden, unexpected outages heh. The long outage wasn't strictly related to the update, it happened some time after the forums were updated successfully. No one saw that coming. It's not forums that broke, there was another technical difficulty that put the entire poniverse down.

    2 hours ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

    I am not sure how it functions on the staff side, but at least while there are no automated systems in place, to make such updates manually. So, however it is to be determined, multiple staff members would be trusted with access to Poniverse or some MLPF affiliated Twitter (or some other off-site) account; at least one of them are bound to notice soon enough that the site is down. Because these posts would be made manually, perhaps they would make statuses on more extended outages (not for ones lasting short amounts of time as that may be tedious, and the situation may be resolved by the time a status is made).

    I completely agree. I don't have access to any of that personally though.

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    Returning to use Poniverse's Twitter account (or some other medium) to inform users on site status

    in Feedback

    · Edited by Rikifive

    On 2024-03-23 at 4:01 PM, Props Valroa said:

    It would be good if there was some transparency in site updates instead of it happening all of a sudden without any prior warning. If there was some sort of update log that could be posted publicly for what exactly is being updated / changed, to be posted in the Throne Room - I think that would be rather helpful as well. 

     

    On 2024-03-24 at 2:01 AM, Mirage said:

    It's possible to use the Announcement feature of this forum engine that appears at the top of the page ( or in the sidebar) - that way you can't miss it. 

    To be fair, the update didn't take too long and I believe the error page mentions, that an update is in progress (would have to double check it next time to be sure).

    The update itself wasn't anything crazy. Usually it takes only few minutes, though this time there were some problems in the process, so it took a bit longer (it took about 25 minutes). The forums were back online and working after the update.

    That was all, as far as the update goes.

    Unfortunately, something else broke some time later, which was unexpected. Now that was the thing that kept not only forums, but all poniverse services down for that long. 

     

    Nevertheless, I fully agree with having relevant announcements posted. The problem was, that it wasn't easy to coordinate this action and have all relevant ponies available at one time. For example, I was stuck at work when the update took place, otherwise I'd be sure to put an announcement and a topic some time before the upgrade, to make sure no one gets yeeted out in the middle of writing a post etc.. We'll try better next time. :P

    As for changelog, I'm the type of pony, who loves to be open about what changes are made, and I do have such logs available for my own projects (see my forum mod topic, to not search far). With forum soft updates, there's hardly any visible changes to be honest. Invision rarely releases new exciting features, lately they mostly take some down instead. It's all mostly security updates and some niche adjustments or features the end user probably won't notice. It's like Windows updates, these are frequent, take a while to install, and when you get back to your desktop afterwards, it's "spot the difference - level: impossible" challenge. Still, next time I'll try to compile a list of changes, that might be relevant to users here, and skip all that obvious security patches blah blah.

    That said, I hardly see anything new with the recent update. It pretty much only broke 3rd party apps we use like RP characters. So yeah, we lost more than gained. At least there's one nice thing - they supposedly fixed the issue with status updates, that was a thing since mid-2022. Replying to statuses should no longer hang with the "saving" message, requiring a refresh to see if your comment was actually submitted. Let us know if you beg to differ on that one and still experience problems there, so I may go whining to forum software devs. :winking-izzy:

     

    Messages on social media would be convenient as well, that's true. A shame the poniverse status page didn't notice outage either, and lies that services were up all the time.

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    Sunny Starscout's Smoothie Scavenger Search

    in Site Events

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    I found the first three, but the fourth one...?

    idktom.png

     

    1st and 3rd were obvious, 2nd was harder because I haven't watched any of this, so I did a speedrun in that area until I bumped into it, but the 4th idk, I've been all over the place! :jazz-hooves-please:

     
    Welp, time to go to sleep, it's past 5AM panik.jpg

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