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Notifications Suddenly Suck Less x2

Posted by Kim on March 4, 2011, 1:57am

For the second time in about 7 months, notifications have been completely rewritten from the ground up.

This is indicative of the phenomenal growth the site has experienced in that time, both in its user base and in its functionality. We simply outgrew the old notification system many times faster than had been anticipated. You can do things on the RPR now that hadn't even been imagined seven months ago. Personally, I think that's just plain neat.

Here's to another seven months (and beyond) of amazing expansion! The new system has been designed with a special eye to extreme flexibility, so that it will handle nearly anything we throw at it for a long time to come. In the near term, that's going to mean a lot of new events generated by things happening in groups.

The duplication bug should be gone, and the new icons will make it easier to tell at a glance what your friends have been up to without having to read a wall of text. Plus, check out your friend page and your character's friends pages for some options to fine tune who you see notifications from.

Special Bonus: Player pages now have pretty URLs. Instead of URLs like http://www.rprepository.com/player.php?play=1, you can now use URLs more like http://www.rprepository.com/p/Kim.

Pretty!

You don't have to do anything to get the new style of URL for your own profile, it's already set to your username.

Comments

f0x1nth3b0x

March 8, 2011
4:37pm

But.... The cake is a LIE!?

Darth_Angelus

March 7, 2011
9:15pm

Victory can mean only one thing.

It's time for cake :D

Kim

March 7, 2011
2:34pm

Victoly!!

Cinnyricinclus

March 7, 2011
7:23am

Nope, all the doubles besides that one have disappeared. Thanks!

Meedleboot

March 6, 2011
6:19am

I love what you did with the notifications, haha <3 It's so cute.

Kim

March 5, 2011
10:41pm

@Cinny -- I checked the notifications being sent to you and the only duplicate I saw was me joining The Society group twice. But that's not so much a bug as just a confusing circumstance, because I really did join that group twice. I'll see what I can do about making it smarter about detecting people doing things multiple times.

Is there another thing that you're seeing double of?

Tasha

March 4, 2011
9:41pm

I approve of this message.

Cinnyricinclus

March 4, 2011
4:58pm

I still have a few doubled notifications showing up on my page. I'd screencap them for you, but I can't do that on my computer.

Hurricane_Lance

March 4, 2011
3:17pm

And by deranged do I meant deranged dog. Heh.

Hurricane_Lance

March 4, 2011
3:16pm

Oh sweetness! This means I can quit pouting now and do battle with my deranged do who has developed a liking for wrestling since I watch it and have modified some wrestling moves to be puppy sized. Puppy bomb (power bomb) ahoy! Heh.

Kim

March 4, 2011
2:10pm

There's no thingy to change your player URL. Everyone already has one, and it's their username. Yours is http://www.rprepository.com/p/lance2011

But old style links still work just fine too, so anywhere you've posted a link to your profile will still work.

Darth_Angelus

March 4, 2011
2:08pm

The dashboard looks so much better now with the new script, it does make keeping track of things easier :)

Hurricane_Lance

March 4, 2011
1:51pm

Ok. Maybe I'm just blind but where's the Thingy to change my player URL? I want a pretty one too! *pouts*

Dylan

March 4, 2011
1:04pm

Excellent! I love the little, Person <3 Person. :3

Kim

March 4, 2011
12:03pm

Thanks Celestina! :)

*passes out tissues to Ethan* There there. I couldn't have said it better myself. <3

Ethan

March 4, 2011
10:08am

This site is truly... a gift.
I need a tissue now. I've made myself weep.

CelestinaGrey

March 4, 2011
6:27am

This has been awesome! I saw the change right after it happened, and I was like 'oooo icons!'
The player URL sounds great too! Fantastic job! Can't wait to see what other great stuff comes.

Yay for RPR!! =D