Site Updates [OLD]

How exactly do ranks work? I'm assuming they're for admins, but are there and current/future ways of obtaining these?

Only one person can give out ranks, and that's our Head Admin. See https://smilebasicsource.com/staff

Site Update July 17, 2016:

• You can now draw and send simple pictures in the chat. The drawing system should work with both mouse and touch input. Drawing greatly increase your spamscore, so don't go in there and spam drawings.
• Uhhhh something about changing the spamscore system in chat. You MIGHT experience problems... maybe.
• Added extra data to chat server output to indicate message encoding. If you've written a client, you should take this into consideration so you don't get a big encoded string when people draw stuff. Check the website spec starting on page 18 or something to see the changes for yourself.
• Added extra data to bind response (the bind success or failure response from server). It now sends you the list of modules currently installed on the server. This probably isn't useful, even if you've written your own client.

• Uhhhh something about changing the spamscore system in chat. You MIGHT experience problems... maybe.

So the spamscore allows less messages before you get blocked or more?

• Uhhhh something about changing the spamscore system in chat. You MIGHT experience problems... maybe.

So the spamscore allows less messages before you get blocked or more?

It should be the same. The change was mostly for drawings, which greatly increases your spamscore.

How is the spamscore actually calculated, like does it increase a set amount when you post and decrease slowly over time?

How is the spamscore actually calculated, like does it increase a set amount when you post and decrease slowly over time?

For regular messages, they are analyzed for their spamminess in relation to other messages. This way, if you post the same thing or something similar (like random text) over and over, you'll get hit harder than regular speech. For images, they just hit you with a big but constant spamscore, since I can't really analyze a picture for spamminess. Yes, then your spamscore decays over time.

Mini Update July 18, 2016:

• Fixed "Programming Contest" category disappearing from pages on page edits.

Update July 22, 2016:

• Changed resource HTML so it isn't such a mess
• Changed resource styling so it finally matches everything else. If you have trouble viewing either resources or pages, let me know in the bug report thread.
• Removed avatar upload limits. Have at it.
• Edit: Added a place to view some information about the server... if you like numbers, check it out: http://smilebasicsource.com/funinfo. I'll be adding more numbers in the future (maybe)

Site Update July 23, 2016:

• When creating a new page or resource, the browser will cache your data every 5 seconds. This way, if you accidentally reload or the tab crashes, you can come back without losing what you've typed already. This feature will eventually be extended to other areas of the website, and may eventually be invoked on command for a "draft" system (since that was a feature request)
• Edit: Fixed chat drawing styling and unlocked the full range of colors. You can now pick any color for your palette by clicking a color twice.

PLEASE PLEASE! This system could be ludicrously flawed and you may experience very bad bugs! If you have trouble, please post on the bug report thread.

Site update July 24, 2016:

• Added site-wide javascript insertion. You can now write up your own javascript and insert it into all pages on the website. Have fun. BTW: there's already a chat-specific javascript insertion.
• Changed javascript insertion editor so it can service both types. See your userhome to get links to both editors (one for chat, one for general website).
• Changed javascript editor to the "ace" editor. You can set themes by adding the query parameter: acetheme=theme. For instance, if you want to edit the chatJS and you want to use the monokai theme, the url is /editJS?type=chat&acetheme=monokai
• Edit: Oh yeah, notifications are also automatically updated once every 10 seconds. This only happens if you have that Javascript page speed setting enabled (you really should)
• Edit 2: Also, lumage reminded me to linkify messages in your messagebox. So now, links in site messages should be actual links.
• Edit 3: IMPORTANT! If you mess up your siteJS and you simply can't do anything, add the query parameter nositeJS=1 to the page to disable siteJS. If you make a change such that pages are broken, you should add this to the editor link so that you can get back into the editor and fix stuff. This would be https://smilebasicsource.com/editJS?type=site&nositeJS=1

Please note that both the chatJS and siteJS run in the chat. I cannot guarantee which one will run first.

Site update July 25, 2016:

• Fixed search result middle click issues (clicking a search result to open in a new tab would cause the results to persist)
• Moved all request pages out of /request. If you are using any of these pages, they are now /query/genbbcode, /query/getpage, and /query/getnotifications
• Activity page will now tell you when new events have occurred so you don't have to keep reloading the page.

Edit: As a much requested feature, you now have a small amount of control over the website styling. It's mostly colors, and it's not css. If you go to your userhome page, you'll see a new link for the color editor. Go there, then look near the bottom of the page. You'll see the dark theme example. This is the entire configuration file for the dark theme. If you simply follow the format and change the values, you can style the website to your liking. NOTE: You can stack the real dark theme with your color choices! Colors are applied in order: original > dark theme > your colors. Edit2: There is now a "blue" theme, which is a more complete example for the color system. Please use the blue theme as an example rather than the dark theme. You can use the blue theme by using sub:blue in your special field.

Yay, the dark theme is back! ...mostly

Yay, the dark theme is back! ...mostly

The dark theme has been around this whole time! Click the moon at the bottom of the page lol.

So I can make a Darker Theme now? Lol cool

Site update July 27th, 2016:

• Fixed the activity showing "30 new events" on older pages
• Made notification page load twice as fast (in terms of the number at the bottom)
• Updated the sub:blue theme a little bit
• Made an optional "simple" editor for editing code. Check your user settings near the bottom and enable it if editing the chat or site JS is proving difficult.
• NOTE: The notification count that shows up in the bottom left of the screen is only from the past 5 days. When you view your actual notifications, it may be more.

Site update July 28th, 2016:

• Admins can now promote pages in order to give them time on the front page. This only lasts a week, so it's just to give the page a boost.

Site Update July 29th, 2016:

• You can now upload animated avatars. The image must be less than or equal to 100px by 100px, and must be less than 2MB (as usual). Please be courteous and try not to upload animations that are ridiculous.
• Added a setting to disable animated avatars. If you just can't stand all the movement, you may want to use this setting.

Site Update August 2nd, 2016:

• Refactored all headers so they use a common container
• Restyled all headers so they're not free-floating text over a busy background.
• Tweaked various styles all over the place to give a more consistent feel (hopefully).

Site update Augusto Twelfve, TwententleSaxTin:

• User pages will now show an "Inactive" tag if they haven't visited the website in over a week.

Site update Augusto Twelfve, TwententleSaxTin:

• User pages will now show an "Inactive" tag if they haven't visited the website in over a week.

Maybe make a statistic on the fun facts page thing that shows how many active users there are and the percent of active users. Then feel sad.