Community Update #5 - April 23, 2024

[wolfpaw]

COMMUNITY UPDATE #5 - APRIL 23, 2024

 

Welcome to Community Update #5, everyone! This may be one of our biggest updates - and for good reason! We are approaching our one-year anniversary of ParkCrafters and we've got LOADS planned. From introducing competitions, numerous updates around the site, new features, and our first site-wide event; it's all here for our anniversary! Read on below to see what's new and what's coming to ParkCrafters!

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IT'S PARTY TIME!

You may notice the entire site looks different! To help celebrate ParkCrafter's first anniversary, the site has a fresh new look only during our anniversary event! You can always swap back to the default theme on the bottom left corner of the page by clicking on Theme > ParkCrafters Theme. As always, you can also toggle between light and dark mode through the paint bucket icon on the top right of the page! Happy anniversary everyone! The anniversary theme will be live until June 1st, 2024.

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FURTHER ORGANIZING OUR DOWNLOADS LIBRARY

During our last community update, we refreshed and updated how you can navigate through our extensive download library. There were still a couple of pain points while trying to find something specific so we've further improved the look and feel of our downloads section. Categories will now display all subcategories with easy access to them and all files show a breadcrumb at the top so you can easily return to the subcategory to continue browsing. We've also made our search feature more apparent in case you want to just search for a file directly!

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MY HISTORY

My History is now live for all members! View your past viewed topics and files, only available to you through your account information. This is a great feature if you want to keep track of what you've viewed throughout the site. We've also enabled the download history of all files for everyone to see. No more second-guessing if you've downloaded a file before! You can access your list of My History by clicking on your name on the top right and clicking on "My History".

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STATUS UPDATES GET REVAMPED

The list of status updates on our main forum homepage was lacking in a lot of basic features. We've changed how this works so you can now respond directly to status updates without leaving the homepage of our site. You can also now view other status updates and even leave reactions on them - all without leaving the page!

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STEAM INTEGRATION

We've added the ability to create an account, log in, and connect with your Steam account for faster account creation and log-ins! You can set this up under Account Settings > Steam Login!

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PARKCRAFTERS EVENTS ARE FINALLY HERE!

This has been a long-awaited feature - Events are officially here! ParkCrafters Staff will start hosting events across the site every now and then with prizes, competitions, and more! A new events calendar has been added to the site which can be accessed in the new menu tab called 'Events'. Check it out and RSVP to any upcoming events you are interested in so you can be reminded when they arrive!

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PARKCRAFTERS AWARDS 2024

You read that right, for our first main event of the site, we'll be hosting the ParkCrafters Awards 2024 on our site's anniversary on May 30th, 2024 at 9 PM EST! Join us as we view all the past projects on ParkCrafters in the past year and announce winners from a large array of categories all LIVE directly from our Discord server! More information on this event will be coming very soon but for now mark your calendars!

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PARKCRAFTERS CANVAS CLASH

ParkCrafters first official competition is here! Put your skills and creativity to the test against other ParkCrafters members in Canvas Clash! Signups for this competition are now OPEN! To sign up, view the prizes and rules, and for more information regarding this competition, check out the official competition thread here!

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THE ONLY GOOD BUG IS A DEAD BUG... MORE BUG FIXES!

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• Databases now function correctly with Clubs
• Improved the efficiency when getting attachments for topic statistics.
• Improved the efficiency of streams when "Content I posted in" is selected.
• Improved the Internal Embeds system to show better error messages for deleted comments & reviews.
• Improved performance of invalidating member sessions when using Redis.
• Added new Moderator actions by action statistics section.
• Fixed Checkbox Overview Statistics not working properly.
• Fixed Moderator Activity statistics table not displaying properly.
• Fixed Warnings over time statistics table not displaying properly.
• Fixed Suspended users over time statistics table not displaying properly.
• Fixed saved charts not displaying data correctly when custom form filters are used.
• Fixed Geographical Charts CSV download not generating properly.
• Fixed an issue where creating an activity stream in the ACP could be missing the clubs filter.
• Fixed an issue where the badge title would be shown as hash value in translated notification emails.
• Fixed an issue where the Posts Per Day Limit was also used for private messages.
• Fixed an issue in the members/warnings endpoint where the POST request could fail while giving a member a warning if warning actions were present.
• Fixed an issue where 3rd party applications with a broken/missing versions file would break the upgrader.
• Fixed an issue where members with a false validation flag would be unable to login.
• Fixed an issue where not all clubs may be shown on the member profile clubs page.
• Replaced the hardcoded forum_id in the promotion achievement extension.
• Fixed an issue where the Signature Settings page couldn't be accessed to change the signature visibility, without permissions to edit signatures.
• Fixed an issue where new comment notifications posted in anonymous topics were showed as posted by an anonymous member.
• Fixed an issue with the post count value for the Mass Move /Mass Delete action.
• Fixed an issue where delayed deleted content from private clubs isn't shown in the ModCP - Deleted Content area.
• Fixed the default value for the Manifest related manifest_details setting.
• Fixed an issue where the guest group settings couldn't be edited.
• Fixed an issue where YouTube embeds may not lazy-load.
• Fixed an issue where admins with permission to manage stored replies could still not manage these.
• Fixed an issue where the club filters could cause an EX0 error when a not existing field was used.
• Fixed an issue where IP address pruning may not prune all IP addresses.
• Added new Solved Topics by Group statistics section.
• Added new Unsolved Topics statistics section.
• Added Top Solvers statistics section.
• Added ability for database categories to be added to Clubs.
• Views are now tracked for Pages.
• Fixed an issue where pages were not reindexed after WYSIWYG blocks were added/edited.
• Fixed an issue where record thumbnails which were created via the REST API hadn't the proper thumbnail size.
• Page views for pages will now be included in analytics reports.
• Fixed an issue with the post before registering flow when content was identified as spam.
• Added organizer, eventAttendanceMode, and VirtualLocation to events JSON_LD.
• Fixed an issue where guests searching for events could see an error.
• Fixed an issue in the Downloads File Embed Template where the comment count was shown for files in categories without comments.
• Fixed an issue with forums not setting the proper permissions with clubs disabled.
• Fixed missing categories and breadcrumbs on individual download file pages.
• Revamped and updated the downloads library to be more intuitive and have an easier user experience.
• Added a Steam login feature when creating an account and logging in.
• Added a 'My History' page to the user panel to view all past viewed topics and files on ParkCrafters.
• Added the ability for both staff and members to view who downloaded files from our downloads library.
• Reworked the status updates on the homepage and added the ability to respond directly from the homepage, filter specific members, enable and disable rich text, enable and disable member photos, filter by only members you are following, and added reactions directly on the homepage.
• Fixed issues of the Discord, Google, and Steam account creation making duplicate accounts and kicking members out when their account was created
• Two-factor authentication is no longer mandatory to creating an account but can still be created whenever the user wants
• Added a member list to the main menu

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STATE OF THE SITE

As usual, here are the updated numbers from our previous community update in early March! These stats all happened only within the past month and a half!

716 Total Members (+204 Members)
3,421 Current Files on our Downloads Section (+135 new files)
252 Topics Created (+21 new topics)
3,297 Posts Created (+334 new posts)
2,402 Reactions Given (+236 new reactions)
37,779 Downloads (+16,089 new downloads)
5,765,671 Visits Since Launch (+1,904,606 visits)

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That wraps up this community update! As you can tell we got big things in the coming weeks and we hope you can be apart of them all! Thanks again for all your support and we'll see you next time!

- ParkCrafters Staff Team

[Kablary]

Holy guacamole, I’m finding it hard to believe a year has gone by. What a triumph ParkCrafters has become in such a short amount of time! Members joining every day, downloads skyrocketing, new projects hitting the game boards… it’s all just so wonderful! 
 

Congrats and thanks to everyone who has helped make ParkCrafters what it is today. I am stupidly excited to see how the Canvas Clash contest plays out - I might even have to join in myself! 

[Wowman]

thx for all the hard work

[RobertaME]

4 hours ago, Wowman said:

thx for all the hard work

I second this! I can't even imagine what the state of RCT3 would be without this place! So much of the game's history and custom content would be lost with the closing of Shyguy's World it's unfathomable!

Thanks millions, @wolfpaw for giving us all a new place to call home!

[iEddiez]

It's been great being back on a forum posting things from my silly little hobby. The amount of work that's gone into creating this space is amazing. Kudos and long live Park Crafters!