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I've decided to do one topic for site updates, instead of making one each time I make a single update.

Updates 2014.04.19

Added 'My Feed': My feed is basically a list of topics that you have posted in, arranged by the last time someone post in them. I personally wanted something like this because I often get busy and don't have a chance to reply to things, and by the time I have time to they've gone off the active topic list and I forget to reply. You can find it beneath the Active Topics link at the bottom of the board index.

Fixed 'Unknown Action' bug: Previously when viewing the active topics list, it would show as an 'Unknown Action', on the Who's Online page. This has been fixed.

Updates 2014.05.15
I started doing a complete overhaul of the forums, based on feedback provided in last month's SWOT analysis that the forums were too cluttered and overwhelming to people unfamiliar with the forum layout. To me personally, one of the biggest issues were the large number of subforums that we had...it's essentially another forum, except that you have to go into the parent forum to see what the subforum does, and it's another area people have to check.

To resolve this, I streamlined and merged where I could. The Storting got their own category seperate from the Monarchy, and those subforums are now main forums. The many archive subforums were merged where possible and moved where they were best suited (the Constitutional Convention and merged elections archives were moved to the Citizens' Platform, closed embassy subforums were merged into one archive and moved to the embassy area, etc).

This only begins to work on the problem, but I think it's a nice step in the right direction.

Told you subforums were awful! I warned you!

Yay!

* Alterra hugs Wintermoot

My first paycheck, even if I'm not part of Wintreath anymore, is going to you
I promise.

Hehe

* Wintermoot hugs Alterra back

Aww

Updates 2014.05.16
As suggested by someone, the links on the active topics page now go to the last unread post in the topic instead of the first post in the topic. If there are no unread posts in the topic, it will go to the last post instead.

Nice

Just a heads-up, the laws page will be down today as I redo that entire portion of the website. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Updates 2014.05.18
Unfortunately, this is an update that few people will get to see.

Today I worked on the interface between the law page and the database...essentially, these are the pages and code that allow certain people to add new laws and update existing laws on the page without needing direct database access. First you have to design the forms to fill out the data on, then work on the code to do error checking of that data, then the code to upload it to the database, occasionally updating the code to display the data so that things are uniform. It's a lot of work for something few people will ever see or use, but at the same time it's important to keeping the law page up to date.

Law Page Admin Area

Well, some people will have seen it at least.

Thanks for doing that now I don't have to nag you as much

You can nag Denth now.

Updates 2014.05.19
I added a link to the donation area on the forum index page that will allow you to view our region's finances. I believe it's a very serious thing when someone donates money...something that deserves honesty and transparency like this. The link will allow you to view donations given to the region as well as regional expenses from the time the region was founded, providing both honesty and transparency.

And yes, I've personally put in over $230 into the region, although donations have been a great help in the last few months.

The links kind of suck visually right now, but I've requested new graphics for both that link and the Donate button from the Civil Service...I hope we can glamorize that area soon!

Updates 2014.05.19
I added a link to the donation area on the forum index page that will allow you to view our region's finances. I believe it's a very serious thing when someone donates money...something that deserves honesty and transparency like this. The link will allow you to view donations given to the region as well as regional expenses from the time the region was founded, providing both honesty and transparency.

And yes, I've personally put in over $230 into the region, although donations have been a great help in the last few months.

The links kind of suck visually right now, but I've requested new graphics for both that link and the Donate button from the Civil Service...I hope we can glamorize that area soon!

I very much like this new update. It is very interesting to see the costs involved with running the region and the deficit that needs to be covered.

Running a premier region is a bit costly...we don't cut corners like most regions.

Updates 2014.05.29
There is now a new section on the website for guides, which will replace the current guides forum when the current batch of recruitment stamps run out. Our recruitment message links to guides, so until stamps run out and we can edit the message, we will need to keep that forum in place.

And unlike the law page, admins can create and edit guides right out of the box.

During the course of creating this, I discovered an error I'd made with parsing the text on the law page in a way that could cause extra line breaks to appear under certain circumstances. This has been fixed.