Subeta Developers (keith)

whoops 😰

i'm begging you to make an outfit for me

A screenshot of a "customCSS builder" where you can make changes to the site directly, and share them with other users

detours this year have been so fun tbh

[UI] centered avatar in human avatar widget

[forums] ⬅️ ping button added to top of each post, will fill in username in the reply box (thanks jovi in the discord)

[forums] 🆕 can click "show all official posts only" on the top of a thread with official posts and just see those

[forums] Official posts now have a border and stick out, great for when i'm replying in a thread and need you to read what i'm saying 🤭

right now, no one’s making customCSS for kumos because the site is changing a lot (and fast). but these tools are the foundation for a future where you can build, share, and even help shape the site’s design. who knows—your snippet might inspire a site-wide change! 😉

new feature plans:
• break customCSS into snippets
• apply multiple snippets at once
• toggle snippets on/off easily
• create themes
• share your snippets with others, or keep them private
• let others subscribe to your snippets!

sure, customCSS lets you move things we’d rather you not (looking at you, floating pumpkins 🎃), but the creative freedom it gives is way cooler than locking things down. the goal is to lean into that and make it even better.

like everything else, i want to make customCSS much better on kumos. it’s such a unique feature that lets you really customize the site. users have been sharing CSS with each other for years, and i want to make that process easier + more rewarding. 🎨

kumos.subeta.net/wardrobe/out...
enter my contest pls

and working out some "simulations" that allow us to run the quests 10 or 100 times, to make sure that we're seeing the kind of results that we'd like 😉

set it up so each quest gives you reputation with the NPC. We're going to make the quest shops work like the BB, where you earn each level and the items there. That way we can release new items on new levels, and you'll have to keep doing quests instead of just immediately spending your banked QP

great progress today!

some upcoming goals!

😎

one of the major improvements being made to the code on Kumos, is the ability to easily do "roll backs" if something goes wrong.

If we can't buy an item from the shop for you (e.g. because the one we selected got bought while you were on the page) we can "roll back" everything else we did

🙃

Going to make it so that you can turn in items from your vault or inventory!

Working on buying from user shops now

rough, but coming along!

i'm still working on the very fun TCG, but more in the background. That branch has *3,000* new lines of code 😵‍💫

2. quests
we've now got all of the pieces we need on kumos to make this work, including buying from user shops! i'm going to do a 1:1 move with lots of metrics and logging, and then we can start making changes

have a few goals for this week (even though i'm sick 😭)

1. account clearings
figure out and address accounts that haven't cleared over the years. there is something blocking them. fix the script (move to kumos) and give a date they'll all clear

pretty cool that I can remove all of the limits on keeping things in an 'inbox' (launched LITERALLY BEFORE GMAIL)

search works 🎉

oh the other reason that our mail table is huge?

we duplicate *every message* and put a copy in your sent folder

what are the improvements I'm hoping to make to the system?

1. Allow messages with up to 5 users
2. Remove limits because we can more efficiently store messages
3. Allow access to the legacy messages (read-only)
4. Search for new messages, and 🤞 maybe 🤞 old messages

1: every message is represented in the DB by copying the body before it (so every message in the chain) and putting a [MAILBETWEENHERE] in there (literally), that I'd break on in the code to show the message breaks.

that means our `mail` database table is by far the biggest table on the site

sMail is one of the oldest running pieces of code on the site, and you can tell I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote it, for a lot of reasons.

made a ton of tcg progress over the last few days, but i'm going to visit family over the next week so put it in a place where i can come back while i work on more kumos transition pieces.

this is one I haven't touched in a very long time - sMail!

still working on this.

i'm sure you'll be shocked to hear the first version of the subeta battle system was programmed over a weekend!