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RTB Development
Ephialtes:
Yeah ... this is a problem that's been cropping up again and again and seems to be influenced by how many add-ons you have. Here's how RTB starts up (in a nutshell):
1) Blockland Opens
2) Blockland loads all add-ons
3) RTB finds all add-ons
4) RTB checks for updates for those add-ons
But sometimes part 3 can take longer and part 4 can happen before it so it has no add-ons to check for updates. I'm going to be looking at changing this so the results from part 2 can be used and step 3 can be removed entirely. This also affects what updates show up in your news feed.
Since RTB will also be storing a list of your add-ons within our databases eventually, it could grant this process even more redundancy.
Your best option at the moment is to just click the "Update" button in the "Your Mods" tab if you know there's an update available for something.
Ephialtes:
Progress Update:
This last stretch of work has been focused on the new website. As mentioned before, I dumped all the stuff the designer did for me and re-worked it myself while keeping some parts of the design similar. It looks a lot better now and this design is near finalised. I won't show you any pictures of the new design because I know you guys love surprises.
Backend classes (db connectivity/templating/error handling etc.) for the site are complete and I've written a load of unit tests for them, too.
Account functionality on the website is near complete and features the following:
- Registration
- Logging In (with remember me functionality)
- Account Recovery (with ability to reset your password or retrieve your username)
- Account Area with activity stream (this class works across the site)
- Control panel to update account details
Wedge is working on writing up some content for the "brochure" part of the website which should look very nice.
What's Next?
I'll be focusing on getting the news posting + commenting working on the new site, I'll be looking to update this more regularly than the current site because I hate Wordpress.
Then I'll be building individual user profiles and customisation forms within the account control panel so people can add all their avatar/contact details/information. Profiles are going to need to be really fluid so that eventually it can display things like gallery/download system submissions and all of that jazz.
Blastdown:
Yay for surprises!
Tom:
Once the API access comes out I'm making a Blockland / RTB iPod app.
<starts learning Objective-C>
Kalphiter:
--- Quote from: Tom on March 16, 2010, 02:29:46 PM ---Once the API access comes out I'm making a Blockland / RTB iPod app.
<starts learning Objective-C>
--- End quote ---
What's the point if you don't have use of Blockland?