Welcome to TARDIS Guide 2.0! šŸŽ‰

I’d already checked out the beta but just looking around the new website, it’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!! I’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 doesn’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 I’ve just noticed: the forum button doesn’t seem to display a badge with the number of unread notifications like it did in the old design.

Edit (another thing that I’ve just noticed): review sorting doesn’t appear to be working.

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I just noticed an off by one error in customizing your filters, too. If you aren’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 page… or if you have exactly 12 filters.

If you’re going to have things that are different for patreons and non-patreons, you need some non-patrons to test it…

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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 it’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 wasn’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 place…

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

Ah ok will fix!

I’m pretty sure it’s short stories too. Yes Prose is a good idea. That whole page is going to be redone, it’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 point… a long time ago now…!

Stats incoming :grin:

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

Absolutely love the new site. Only issue I’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 don’t have it either

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I’ve still got it. Second item on the tools menu, goes here:

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Granted I’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! It’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 don’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 there’s anyone else I missed, let me know!

Yes, I’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 (it’s kinda like Reddit or StackOverflow if you know it), and discuss them there too.

I’ll probably do stats next though regardless as I’ve been promising it for ages.

I want to do a ā€œTARDIS Guide Wrappedā€ thing as it’s a good way to get shared on social media but I don’t have a lot of time to get that done and I have some questions on what’s best… 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 it’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. It’s not very ideal to have this get broken by an ad-blocker, though. I use uBlock Origin which is very popular so I can’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 I’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 fix…

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