An explanation for why some things broke, how they were fixed, and a discussion on new features

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AuthorNichiren
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Hi! As many of you know, I've been away from posting anything for a while (from both RPR and AFF) to focus on work and a health issue but I still come back to fix things on both sites. A few months back, people were once again unable to log in to RPR so I decided to fix it once and for all. I was never able to figure out why people were unable to log in every couple of months but I decided it was just better to replace the whole thing with the same system from AFF. After all, AFF doesn't have a login problem. I tested it, I was able to log in and log out, and there were no errors in the logs so as far as I was concerned, that was that. I then got sick afterwards and decided to stay away from AFF and RPR for a while. It's only today that I checked my messages to find out that the sign for whether or not someone is online wasn't working. I dug around and found that the issue was related to the login issue and I managed to fix that problem today.

There was another issue where character avatars were not being updated in room posts when the image was changed and that should also be fixed today. There was an issue with character avatars before where if the url of your character image had a weird symbol in it, it wouldn't show in the room. I decided to standardize the way your character avatars were named to something predictable instead to fix that problem. The issue was that both the cache on my end and on your browser doesn't get cleared whenever you changed your image so your browser was still getting the old image. So today I added a version number to your avatar images whenever you change it so it doesn't run into a cache problem again.

As for new features, I want to tackle the issue of being able to tag multiple characters at once in a room. I've been thinking for months now on how to get this done since we don't have the infrastructure for it (we're not Twitter). Even the room reply code was hacked and cobbled together since the room code wasn't originally designed to handle replies. On the other hand, I think a lot of you really want some way to be able to tag multiple characters in a room so I'll think of some way to get it done.

Lastly, a few of you have also messaged me about how clicking on the reply button doesn't bring down the reply box for you but for the life of me, I can't find where that is! Every reply link works for me. Can someone send me a link to one of your pages where the reply button doesn't work for you? It doesn't matter if I can't access it because I'll just know where to start looking based on the url. Can you also let me know what browser and OS you're using? I tested the reply buttons using Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on a Mac OS X and couldn't find the problem but maybe it's just not working on a different platform.

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Growing-Pains 8 years ago
Thank you Very much for all your hard work! I hope you feel better and have a quick recovery.
shinrin-yoku 8 years ago
Thank you! Hope you feel better. Thanks for keeping AFF and this site up and running o/
Ciel_versky 8 years ago
Thank you very much and get well soon~
-aesthetic 8 years ago
The reply button issue is when receiving a new notification. The page where all replies are showed, not the rooms.
Using Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer.
shybutts 8 years ago
Oh I got that a lot too! Whenever I clicked the reply button, the reply box doesn't come down
JCH21753 8 years ago
Thanks so much for everything! Get well soon and please take care~
bangnaruto 8 years ago
Thank you very much for working hard on keeping things up! I hope you're feeling fully better and I'm glad to see things are working properly again! Take care!
Hyolyn911 8 years ago
Wow that's a lot! Thanks for working so hard! As for the reply box not showing up, I had asked a friend about it awhile back and she said it does that whenever you change the name of a character because it has to reset to that new name in the rooms or something like that. Hope that helps some.
Linguini 8 years ago
First of all, everyone i saying it, but let me give it a go too - you are the best, hope your health is okay and don't worry about the online sign, idk what are people complaining about so much really...
On to the question, I would suppose people are talking about the Posts page, where ALL of the tags/replies one's characters receive are gathered. There we are unable to reply, since the reply box won't drop there. At least this is how it is for me, but I thought it was my own problem. I am using Windows10 on laptop with Chrome, and on my phone - Chrome again, with Android Lollipop, but i have no problems with this on mobile, idk if it's the same with the rest.
A question i have (and you probably have answered that and im sorry if someone else has asked, i just can't find it) is about the DPs - Why can't all links be used? For now only tumblrs pic links and imgur links work for me, and some other sites if I'm lucky, but they're a one time thing. If you would be as kind to explain that once again for the right here? It's not a complaint, I'm just curious.
Overall - THANK YOU for everything you're doing for this place, be sure that you are appreciated, ignore the complains.
badhombre 8 years ago
thank you so much for all you do.
dumbfoundead 8 years ago
Thank you so much for fixing the online bit and hopefully you're feeling better!!!!
DamnDaehyun 8 years ago
Hopefully, you've gotten better. Did you know that when you're editing in the source code it's like the text-wrap or word-wrap (idk what it's called but hopefully you understand) that feature is turned off? So when you code the line of code goes on til infinity and beyond lol. Jokes aside, Can that be fixed? I don't know if anybody's reported that to you yet, sorry if they have
Aquaman 8 years ago
Thank you so much! We all apreciate your hard work and I'm glad that you're better.
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wufapp 8 years ago
you da bomb!!!
babypie 8 years ago
bless you for fixing the avatar issues and the online signs.
please take care of your help and thank you for having this site available for so many of us!
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