Arxos Posted July 14 Posted July 14 I really can't stick to a schedule for even a single week. Anyways, I wanted to go over various of the new site features this time, so this one will be a bit more visual. Mobile support Mobile support was one of the biggest goals. I don't think screenshots will do any justice here, as it pertains to every single page of the website. But suffice to say that the site is much easier to navigate from a mobile device. There is one page that deserves a special mention however, which is the mobile version of the main page. The site will try to redirect you to it if it believes you are on a mobile device, but if this fails you can also access it via the "Watch" section in the navigation menu. This mobile page will display the chat in portrait mode, while it displays the stream and bets in landscape mode. You can bet in either mode. Settings In the settings there's options for language and site theming. I don't really expect the language feature to be expanded much, but it was a cool feature I wanted to have for the occasional Japanese visitors, with (pending) translations courtesy of a few friends of mine. The ability to customise formatting (e.g. date formatting) is just something that came along with that. A tiny new feature but highly desired is that the new site offers choices in bet notification sound. I have high hopes that the volume control will also be much more reliable this time! Finally, the biggest addition is additional customisations for the quick bets. You can now use this to: Customise the number of buttons Customise the step increment, which is used by the new up/down buttons on the bet amount input Customise all quick bet settings per mode. Always bet 1 on exhibitions? I got you covered Exhibitions Exhibitions come with a few cool new features: You can now select characters in rating ranges via e.g. "Random 1400-1500" You can now have non-turns teams against turns-teams. For example, a 1v3 match is essentially identical to a 3v3 where the blue side is just the same character repeated 3x. This even allows for things such as 2v3. Team names are no longer required, they'll just default to "Team red" or "Team blue". There is now a limit of 10 pending exhibition requests. The way this works out with priority is that it now goes by when your account last had an exhibition played out, instead of by when the exhibition was requested. You can now make exhibition templates! You can have up to 10 templates, which essentially allow you to fill in anything you want and save it for future re-loading. Exhibition history now features full information on things such as team names, requested stage, messages, etc. General As you can see right above as well, a lot of pages feature new search options, and all of them combine seamlessly. Pretty much any page that lists things now has search options. There is support for some old URLs, mainly for characters, matches and sessions. For example, the old URL for a character such as Rare Akuma will still work, but an old search result or image link will not. There is embed support! Linking to SC on something like Discord will make it give meaningful information about the thing being linked, if possible. Changelogs The new site has built-in changelogs, accessible via the "Other" section in the navigation menu. These pages track and list any changes that occur to characters or stages. Besides changes, these will also log notable events, mainly changes in division. This is partially a work in progress so some things may not be logged yet, and especially logging of things prior to SC v2 is shaky at best. But the goal is for these pages to allow anyone to keep up to date with changes or notable events happening to characters on the roster. These logs can also be viewed on the pages of characters themselves, to get a view of everything that has happened to a character since its addition. Next time There's many more additions than these, but I'll keep it to this for now. The main feature I left out was the addition of tags for characters and stages. This is something I'll cover at a later time, likely on the next newsletter, as tagging up the entire roster is something far beyond a one man job. Shinykitty10 and SSM230 1 1
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