Welcome to TARDIS Guide 2.0! šŸŽ‰

Iā€™d already checked out the beta but just looking around the new website, itā€™s a thing of beauty.

Very happy with this update, fantastic work @shauny

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Thanks everyone!

And now I have done some more optimisations so it should be faster, too! :dash:

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This redesign is gorgeous!! Iā€™m loving it so far :smiley: Thank you Shauny for the early Christmas present!

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I feel like I complained quite a lot during alpha and beta testing, but I have to say that the finished and polished product is great and I really feel that you listened to and took on board lots of my feedback throughout the process which is really nice. I love that I can set my preference for how the search bar works (and setting it to be a traditional bar rather than a pop-up doesnā€™t disable the keyboard shortcut, making it the best of both worlds!). I also never bothered to log in when testing and, now that I have, I love the new customisability. The Space Black theme looks excellent, and having the home page just how I like it will be a massive time saver.

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One small thing that Iā€™ve just noticed: the forum button doesnā€™t seem to display a badge with the number of unread notifications like it did in the old design.

Edit (another thing that Iā€™ve just noticed): review sorting doesnā€™t appear to be working.

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I just noticed an off by one error in customizing your filters, too. If you arenā€™t a Patron, you are limited to 12 filters, and it displays a message telling you not all of your filters are showing if you have more then that on the filter pageā€¦ or if you have exactly 12 filters.

If youā€™re going to have things that are different for patreons and non-patreons, you need some non-patrons to test itā€¦

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Looks great! Though I do have a question about the Character Tracker. Does the ā€œBook Storiesā€ tab only count stuff like novels, or is that counting printed short stories as well? If itā€™s counting both, then maybe change the name to ā€œProse Storiesā€ as the first thing my mind goes to when I see ā€œbookā€ is specifically novels.

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I wasnā€™t sure if people actually wanted that. Thought it was a bit too noisy. I am also planning on a brand new notifications area to put everything in one placeā€¦

Hmm works for me in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox? What browser are you using?

Ah ok will fix!

Iā€™m pretty sure itā€™s short stories too. Yes Prose is a good idea. That whole page is going to be redone, itā€™s really slow to load at the moment. I have lots of plans for it.

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Ooh, that sounds exciting. I love the idea of book/short story stats. And audio stats! :star_struck:

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Oh yeah and the stats profile pages will finally get some development now, that was my main focus at one pointā€¦ a long time ago nowā€¦!

Stats incoming :grin:

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Yesss!!! Statistics!!! :tada::tada::tada:

Absolutely love the new site. Only issue Iā€™ve seen so far is that the moderation tool has disappeared from the tools section.

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Yeah was going to say, I donā€™t have it either

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Iā€™ve still got it. Second item on the tools menu, goes here:

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Granted Iā€™m on mobile but I had the same issue last night when on desktop

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Gotta say massive respect for changing the Website so much! Itā€™s very lovely, even if I think I need to get used to it. So far it works pretty well for me, so I am all happy with it. And love, love the Skipping Feature, makes it easier to not have certain Stories waiting for me. The overall Changes are just super lovely! :clap:

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The page only counts novels. (Or so it seems to me) I donā€™t see the short story collections there. Have you considered conducting some kind of poll to figure out what gestures should be worked on next?

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@Daximili and @JayPea you should see the mod tools link now. I changed how this is granted and forgot to update your accounts.

If thereā€™s anyone else I missed, let me know!

Yes, Iā€™m going to repurpose the ā€œRoadmapā€ category on the forum and have a topic for each future feature, people will be able to vote on their favourite features (itā€™s kinda like Reddit or StackOverflow if you know it), and discuss them there too.

Iā€™ll probably do stats next though regardless as Iā€™ve been promising it for ages.

I want to do a ā€œTARDIS Guide Wrappedā€ thing as itā€™s a good way to get shared on social media but I donā€™t have a lot of time to get that done and I have some questions on whatā€™s bestā€¦ I will make a separate topic about that!

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I definitely want it as it makes it much easier to remember to check the forum, but I can see why someone might now. If itā€™s not too much work, perhaps it could be a preference? What other types of notifications are there that would need to be collected together?

Firefox. Nothing happens when I select a sort from the drop down, either on the main story page or the dedicated reviews page. However, it does work for me on Chrome. Firefox is my primary browser, though.

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Ah, I tried disabling my ad-blocker and that fixed it. Itā€™s not very ideal to have this get broken by an ad-blocker, though. I use uBlock Origin which is very popular so I canā€™t be the only person encountering this.

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Hmm might be the source of @ItsR0b0tNinja 's issues as well if they have uBlock on. The weird thing is there are no ads, and Iā€™ve installed it and am not getting any issues.

I will make a separate topic for this and ask for your help debugging if you can?

Edit: I think I know what it is. uBlock seems to be blocking my analytics script (even though it is 100% privacy-friendly) and that is causing issues. I will try to fixā€¦

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