View User's Journal

Notes From Gaia

Random thoughts from inside Gaia

Report This Entry Subscribe to this Journal



Development Update 11/10 Wow, tons of stuff going on. Inventory Two patches are in the works for inventory. The first one fixes the reordering of items when you equip and de-equip them -- it hit QA on Tuesday, and we'll hopefully get it on Monday of next week. The second patch optimizes the back-end handling of the inventory; this should speed up inventory slightly, and will also fix whitescreens for some users. Note that the thing that is not fixed with either of these patches is the multiple tabs for inventory -- but let us get these patches out first, and then we can look at more changes to inventory. Also note that we are seriously evaluating what we're going to do for a big inventory rewrite, so go to this thread and give us your feedback. Seeing Equipped Items We pushed earlier this week the ability to see what items another user has equipped; if you go to the dropdown by any avatar, you'll see a new "see equipped items" option. The dev, animegodz (along with brunosmad duzitune (updated) for the UI lifting) did a bang-up job on it -- it's really beautiful, and links you to the marketplace or cash shop if you just have to pick the same item immediately. We also added a preference option that allows you to to hide what you are wearing from other users -- this was primarily for avatar arena fiends, but also for anyone else that just wants to keep it secret. True to the maxim that you can never win, users complained that we were offering the option. Yah, sorry about that, guys -- but your need to know what other users are equipping doesn't trump the other user's desire for privacy. Edit Button Mysteriously Vanishing I'm trying to get some information on the edit button mysteriously appearing or vanishing. It seems that every once in a while the information displayed in forums assumes that you're someone else. If you've seen this problem (and, especially, if you have screenshots or additional information!) please go to the thread and comment. Inappropriate Advertisements There was a huge influx of inappropriate advertisements lately. Hopefully, we got most of them -- but if you still are seeing anything that is questionable, please go to this thread to report them. We're making a couple of changes that should make the ads going forward significantly better. For one, we added ads to a couple of pages... this shoots the number of impressions we get per day to a level at which we can start working with better third parties. Secondly, we're now working with a third party that will manage the ad inventory and make sure that it is clean of competitors/questionable ads/mammary glands. GIM Autologin We pushed out this morning a change to GIM that will automatically log you into GIM when you log into the site. This should help fix the "empty room" syndrome -- one of the reasons that people weren't using GIM was because there was no one else using GIM. If you look into your preferences and/or GIM settings, you will see new options that allow you to control whether GIM pops up and whether you're automatically logged in or not. If GIM is not set to pop up, then you'll see messages in a bubble in the header. Update: Arrrrrrrrrgh. Okay, we rolled this out, but it turned out to put too much load on the site, for a variety of reasons -- we were ending up doing way more roundtrips to memcache for your friends list, and since we were doing it on every page load, it was generating way too much traffic. We'll probably roll this out again Monday. Bugs Fixed We've been fixing a ton of bugs lately -- these are just some of the bug fixes in these last two weeks.... - ToS page url correction - Update to R&G / Parent page - Clicking same Daily Chances twice can freeze the HTML page - tweaked top rated page in arenas - fixed browse from collection in arenas - new moderator tools (item log viewer -- helps with resolving hacking cases) - Click on the link 'Add' from journal entry, displays multiple frames - Cash Shop links to 1st gen item - marketplace link to itemsearch instead of specific item - Aquarium About Page Misaligned - Removed modal popup for GIM -- no longer needed and it was confusing to new users - Forum title not aligning with the buttons - Refactored avatar pulldown across the site - Comment cancel button broken -- when click on cancel, the comment gets deleted. - Sumbit avatar and go to mystuff, text overlaps - Fixed "Not enough gold message" in stores - added persistent tab choice to arenas for rate/browse - When you select roll dice as 100 sided, the numbers at the end after Total is hidden - Add preview to Prize & Joy store items - updated the mischiefmaker page - no more home page, video updated and content beside it - gaia cash page updated with new retailers - Changing toolbar gold grant from 400 to 1000 - Photobucket pop-up layering issue - Added autocomplete for Compose PM page - [color= broken tag breaks posts in forums - Searching results in landing your own profile pages - Added avatar arena background colors - Fixed non Fiction typo - journal entry perma-delete success screen has a typo - Fixed closing out of arenas contest - Updated tabs to use new standard tab generator and styles - fix leaderboard ad zone on the mygaia page - Cleanup: remove users from their own ignore list - Daily Chance in News and Events doesn't work - Rina's Monthly Collectible letter needs to have the date changed - A clan that is hidden from registry still shows up in a search. - File size for Electric Love Factory Loading Screen is ginormous - Fixed search by keyword - users' privacy setting is ignored for "Join" and "Send IM" links - Fixed divide by zero error - CSS was causing PMs to show background colors - Name changes not working but are taking gold - user store display broken - Javascript in iframe not in profile page itself - show gaia cash amount in item detail

Posted by: Panagrammic Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 04:21am

Read my journal!

User Comments: [48] [add]

Chocobo Princess
Global Moderator

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 04:45am


	Whew, what an enormous amount of work your team has been doing recently! 4laugh Good job, everyone~! And thanks for the good news about the Inventory fix maybe going out on Monday; that'll be a really popular change, so I'm glad to hear it's coming soon. I am glad about the new See Equipped Items option. I try to maintain excellent item control for Dream Avatar creation purposes, but Gaia's item release schedule has sped up exponentially since the advent of Evolving Items. This tool will be a great help, since many users who wear the latest items don't have a Classic profile which I can check for the information. 3nodding Thanks! That is great news about the increased ad control, as well. We were getting a lot of questions about that scam ad in the Q&A. sweatdrop Good luck with the partnership for clean and relevant ads.

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 04:55am


	thank goodness you finally got to that divide by zero error, i've been waiting forever for that one to be fixed! xd

snufflypoo
Community Member

Offline

pirhan
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:08am


	That's a really long list of bug fixes. gonk

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:13am


	Thank you for taking time to post this. Sometimes just knowing what is going on can make all the difference in the world.

Eris_Incognito
Community Member

Offline

Fallaryn
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:16am


	Thanks for the excellent work Pan. =) Ps: Any idea who designed the Orca Tail item? (I want to shower them with love via snail-mail letter, hehe.)

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:32am


	About ads...how official are the ads that link to a Gaia profile that promise 100 gold for visiting?

Lissianthus
Community Member

Offline

Miles To Go
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:41am


	Quote: but your need to know what other users are equipping doesn't trump the other user's desire for privacy. This is the biggest BS ever. We can see the item they are wearing, so it is no real privacy. So congratulations, you added a feature that was desperately needed, then altered it to make it just as useless as the profile equipped list. (In other words, everyone will just turn it off over stupid reasons) And yes, I stand by the claim firmly that any reason to want it off is stupid. "Oh noes my pixelated panties are showing" I suppose I spoke too soon when I said "Yay, now I wont have to spend hours searching to find items" Which by the way, whether the option is on or off, there are other ways to find out what item combinations they're wearing, so you're not protecting anything. THANK YOU VRY MUCH.

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 06:01am


	Damn Pan...you and your team are like the frickin' Super Friends, seriously...always saving the day, and your work is damned near endless. Seriously, thanks so much for all of your guys' hard work, awesome. Just awesome. Inventory? blaugh Can't wait...I can live w/ the tabs reloading, but the items and the initial loading of the arranger becoming faster will be a huge plus for me and many others with larger inventories... Adding the preview to Prize and Joy is just awesomesauce too...thanks so much. Anyway, looking forward to the mighty hit that the memory leak will take come next week in zOMG... 3nodding Keep up the amazing work and know that there are so many that appreciate it. I'll keep plugging the site with money, you keep kickin' a and taking names. EDIT:** @ Miles to Go: All I gotta say is, options are always good even if it seemingly inconveniences you. The users who want privacy don't need a good reason to not want to show their inventory... NOTHING can be truer than what Pan said: Quote: ...but your need to know what other users are equipping doesn't trump the other user's desire for privacy. It's not bullshit, it's reality.

morozco024
Community Member

Offline

dreamsk
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 06:03am


	We love you, Pan!! 4laugh When are those password safety changes taking effect? Its happened already for newbies, but what about us already members?

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 06:20am


	that is a huge list of bug fixes! damn! so does this mean you'll get started on something new soon? items... features...something? :]

dizziedobsession
Community Member

Offline

Elda-Chan
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 06:53am


	Well, durn! You guys were busy lately. Keep up the good work. =3

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 09:38am


	That was a long list of bug fixes but PMs still break and guild posts too... Damn.

muhaymin
Community Member

Offline

Dreda
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 10:16am


	▪▪♪♫♪♫♪▪▪ "- Fixed divide by zero error" I lol'd I'd like to know where that error was >-> ▪▪♫♪♫♪♫▪▪

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 03:25pm


	Thanks for all your hard work as usual Pan. You and the other Devs do an excellent job! I'm looking foward to any fixes you have for large invents / inventory organisation. It'd be great if you guys could set up an auto-arrange feature to the inventory arranger that arranges items in to their respective categories (or allows users to click a few options and organise their inventories as they like. For example; Some users like to have their inventories organised by tabs so hats first, tops, bottoms, shoes etc. Others like their MC's at the top. Some like colour coding. It'd be awesome if we could make a few choices and have our inventories instantly sorted based on criteria. So if I wanted my items organised by tab-type but also Colour Coded, then I could have that by selecting a few options. 3nodding Just a thought, it's probably a total pain to setup so I'd understand if it can never happen.

Jiang Ryudo
Community Member

Offline

Ungoliath
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 03:56pm


	LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE list. You'll win the heart of users if the inventory is patched to keep the order xd

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:02pm


	I am sooooo looking forward to the full inventory fix. I am an inventory / outfit change addict, and I am so glad that you are fixing this! I miss the old inventory system and I know that it was completely impractical and hard on the servers, I am glad to hear theres a compromise coming: one thats SIMILAR in function but not in server load! Thank you and the other devs for everything you do!

bronzed
Community Member

Offline

Lazarus Larkin
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:19pm


	Wait, am I reading this right and you're going to have to re-release the "feature" that automatically logs everyone into AIM? After all that time I spent yesterday logging into every one of my mules and turning the option off? sweatdrop Yeah, I know, whine whine, moan moan -- I just don't understand why you think MAKING people use GIM is a good idea when, obviously, most users just don't WANT to use it. If they really wanted to then they'd be logging in on their own already. I do think that the people complaining about the ability to turn off the items-you're-wearing list are being absolutely ridiculous though. And I'm extremely excited about the inventory fixes. I barely change my avatar any more because re-organizing my huge inventory every time is such an annoyance. Thanks to you and your co-workers for working so hard on this.

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:30pm


	Where was this then? - Fixed divide by zero error Thanks so very much! The only problem, is now I'm going to have to re-organise my inventory all over again, and this includes documenting ALL new items I have. Hehe, I'll do it when I have time >_>;

Cleocatra
Community Member

Offline

Imaginary Fox
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 05:39pm


	Wow, lots of fixes! Good job! I personally really like the addition of being able to see what someone is wearing through the forum posts. Sometimes I'm curious about an item or another, and the user doesn't have that section of their profile, or often for newer items the link is broken on it so I'm not sure what it is. I'm fairly familiar with Gaia's items, but sometimes new IE poses or a deluge of new zOMG items and I miss something I see someone else with! I know some people can be protective of their look, so its good you put in the option to hide it, since there are some people who copy an avatar. I've never really cared about that. Also glad to see you guys getting a different ad partner. It seems like too long there hasn't been enough control over the ads being served, and since they were so random it was really hard to report the specific ad until you were past it and can't get the information. Here's hoping this will make things better! There's nothing worse than seeing ads for things like gold sellers that we try to prevent >.<.

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 06:02pm


	It was actually Jeff who did the Equipped Items UI, I just consulted 3nodding

Brunosmad
Community Member

Offline

Refurbished User
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 06:03pm


	@__________@

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 07:22pm


	Woah! Brain overload. Great job bug-squashing. Keep it up!

StrawberryDaifuku
Community Member

Offline

carbonphyber
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 07:26pm


	@muhaymin: The ...quote="author"... BBCode in PMs / Guilds is fixed and being tested early next week (probably released a few days after). In the meantime, you can remove the ...="author"... part and it will still work.

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 07:39pm


	You guys kick a**! What exactly happened with that anyway that would cause quotes to not work?

dreamsk
Community Member

Offline

DogCow
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 09:32pm


	Panagrammic, I sent you a PM a few months ago about stranger bugs in the forums, which you probably don't remember. But anyway, I'd like to say that there's still a problem occasionally where you'll make one post, and two identical posts will appear. Like one will be post number 7, and the next will be post number 8. Same timestamp, message, everything. Here's a link to where this happened to me most recently: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/chatterbox/girls-r-dumb/t.1755011_7/#7 I hope you're reading this, because it gets better. So, when I replied to that topic, I saw in the recent posts on the reply page, that the latest post appeared twice. Then, when I submitted my post, that previous duplicate post became single, and mine was duplicated. But today, it's not duplicated! But it gets weirder. User below me, 'Hex Blackthorn posted this message in that topic: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/compose/entry/new/1755011/?quote=7 But that's in MY history, see: http://gaiaonline.com/forum/myposts/DogCow/?sequence=1 It's the one where it says 'A tween'. I didn't say that! Nor did I say, "Girls R dumb' Yet both are appearing in my post history. Here is a screenshot: http://i34.tinypic.com/2rz30v4.png Part of the intrigue of this "post duplication" is that when it occurs, the next person to reply cancels out the duplication of the latest post, and instead, his latest post is then duplicated. Very strange. Surely, this is a bug. Moof!

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 10:22pm


	I got a cash card from Wall-Mart with Sven the Penguin as a bonus item. When I redeemed my card, I got the cash, but no penguin. I heard a lot of people talking about this problem, and we are wondering how to get our item. We saw one listed in the market place, but nobody else has theirs. Could you please tell us how to receive our item? Thank you.

MaidenMalina
Community Member

Offline

Ketira
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 11:10pm


	I can see how the "divide by zero" error would pop up - that's a mathematical impossibility! I don't know what y'all did to make it come up, but I'm glad it's gone! (I do remember when one dev tried to use the flower spade in Towns - and brought the whole site down with a glitch.) heart Glad to see you & your team on top of things!

Commented on: Fri Nov 14, 2008 @ 11:10pm


	heart Yay for inventory fixes! heart Also yays for the View Equipped Items list. I love it. And holycrap @ that huge list of fixed stuff. Nice. Gonna ask again, but is someone looking into the Storage Box issue? Mine randomly allows items in but then spits a bunch of random items back out, and then completely un-rearranges the main inventory again. It doesn't revert to what it was, it kind of half re-rearanges what order it was and then throws in a bunch of other random stuff here and there. Also, other questions. (I posted this elsewhere, too.)-- - Do you know anything about the item tags? Some don't work correctly (can't use "Wish" to search for Fallen Wish, certain ELF powerups are unsearchable by any term, certain ZOMG ingredients are unsearchable as well.) -- and some could use improvement, like the category they're in ("collectible" on all the MCs, "evolving" on all the EIs, etc). - Do you know anything about the item type on certain items being incorrect? For example, certain tops are listed as "items" not "tops". - Do you have anything to do with the fact that "soulbound" and "frozen" items shouldn't appear in our Trade/Sell windows (like how equipped items won't appear)?

Smaddy
Community Member

Offline

France Hopper
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 12:53am


	I was able to get some pics of the edit problem Pan. Got you 5 pics of a thread; hope that's enough. Also, what was the divide by zero error?

Commented on: Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 01:28am


	Wow... you do work hard... ^^

Ketsushin
Community Member

Offline

Domynic
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 04:37am


	Wow, lots of fixes. Keep up the good work. Just another to add to your plate (or the plate of an underling...?) -- making tattoos doesn't cost gold.

Commented on: Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 04:42am


	I see with all the fixes it was a lot of work and thank you..the quotes I figured out last month if you take out the name of who you are quoting will fix that.. But I am wondering about sven the penguin from the 25 Walmart card I got one a little over 2 weeks ago and still no sven and I am now seeing them in the marketplace so I am guessing that sven is now fixed. How long is it going to take for the donors before the fix will get their sven? or are we just out of luck?

DawnaV
Community Member

Offline

Kunai Jones
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 06:50am


	Thank you for the privacy setting for the View Equipped Items feature. All of the AvAers really appreciate that consideration. I'll still answer PMs regarding items, but I'd like my complete recipes to remain a secret. Kudos to that. Now for the bad news. I keep my Customize Me tabs bookmarked, so I can open them all at once and jump from category to category and page to page without reloads. But in the last 24 hours I've not once been able to successfully load even one of those bookmarks. White screen after white screen, and navigating to Customize Me from my Inventory does nothing to help. What's going on? Do I need to move st into storage to stay under some magic number again? Are there now too many poses per tab since the system treats each pose as a distinct item? I'd really like to change my avatar. I paid real money for items I'd really like to use, but can't. Also, can't Edit a Topic I just posted. Don't know what that's about. Thanks for the massive glitch fix list. Genius moves in there. Prize N Joy previews alone will boost my contribution to the site for this month. Once I can use my st, that is.

Commented on: Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 01:34pm


	This is an amazing list. You do know that playing zOMG! logs you in to Gaia IM there, so if you are logged in on the main site, that means you are logged in twice. Gaia IM doesn't like that, and I have not yet figured out how to resolve the conflict and know the zOMG! chat will work correctly. Therefore, I have turned off your new feature for now. I can always log in manually. This account has a pretty consistent 12-24 hour lag on inventory changes, and I have despaired of ever seeing that resolved. Perhaps a major inventory update would fix me? My thread: Inventory glitched since Aug. 20th

Alvetra
Community Member

Offline

Kinnder
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 01:46pm


	Kudos on the massive bug squashing! Any word on aquarium fixes, or do you know who's working on that? Some of the errors are apparently account specific, since my little sister and I use the same browser and she can't change her music or temperature yet when I set my aquarium up the other day I can use any of the controls without issue. Same computer. Same browser. Different accounts. boggles Looking forward to the inventory fixes. Thank you all for the hard work on that!

Commented on: Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 06:35pm


	Less profile comment captchas next? heart

Chema
Community Member

Offline

Shrimp_Man
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Sun Nov 16, 2008 @ 01:02am


	Pan, I don't know exactly who's in charge of this, but lately my quote towers have been breaking in private messages. It's getting really annoying when I have to scroll side to side to read a post from my roleplay partner. Do you know if this can be fixed soon, it's happening to my partner also, just fyi.

Commented on: Sun Nov 16, 2008 @ 02:51pm


	Hey Pan I can't delete any unwanted profile comments. What's going on?

France Hopper
Community Member

Offline

Adnama Lavode
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Sun Nov 16, 2008 @ 03:01pm


	Another problem that's been happening with people with very large inventories is that the arranger crashes whatever browser the user is on. I actually tried three different browsers, Firefox, Safari and Opera. x3 I'm so happy to see that the white screens are being worked on though. <3

Commented on: Sun Nov 16, 2008 @ 07:32pm


	Wow! You guys have really been working hard!! Keep it up!

Softball_Hoops_Fan
Community Member

Offline

Kunai Jones
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Sun Nov 16, 2008 @ 09:10pm


	Can't get to the MCs I just purchased, because my Special Tab whitescreens every time I try to get to the envelopes. Even if I could, my Customize Me still won't work for any of the pages in my Items tab. This is basic functionality for the site, and it's affecting your site's bottom line every moment that it's an issue. What's causing the problem, how can it be fixed, and when will it be done? EDIT: Okay, I had to go through 22 white screens to get my Special Tab to load, 8 to load my first Thank You Letter, and then 6 to get my Stone Gauntlet out. I then used the Back button to get to the Special tab again, from which it took 6 white screens to get to my second Thank You Letter, and 5 more to get my Toadstool. This process took about 30 minutes, by my estimation. I watched about two episodes of the Daily Show without commercials while waiting for it to work. Luckily I had my Special tab bookmarked in advance. Who knows how many additional white screens it would have taken to get to my main inventory page?

Commented on: Mon Nov 17, 2008 @ 05:57pm


	Quote: - Fixed divide by zero error Thank goodness. Mathematicians have been trying to solve that one for a long time. No, I kid, I kid. It's interesting to see the details of what y'all are doing on the site.

Domain Name
Community Member

Offline

Tillisnut
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Mon Nov 17, 2008 @ 07:53pm


	Keep squishing those bugs. That makes this a better site for everyone. I really appreciate all of the hard work you and the rest that work behind the scenes to make Gaia work as well as it does.

Commented on: Mon Nov 17, 2008 @ 08:56pm


	That bugfix list is pretty long. Dx

Ami Sapphire
Community Member

Offline

Kotomi Yamanaka
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Tue Nov 25, 2008 @ 01:48am


	thers something wrong with the ummm avatar arenas and its not showing my enty so i want my 1k back

Commented on: Wed Nov 26, 2008 @ 10:13pm


	Sooooo, question. With the inventory thing about not re-arranging items when we equip or remove something, will that fix have any affect on the arranger and it's randomly moving crap around where we don't want it? I really really really really really want to arrange my inventory again soon. crying hehe, my captcha is "those biggy"

KawaiiKittenCalico
Community Member

Offline

Wooliebrighte
Community Member

Offline

Commented on: Thu Nov 27, 2008 @ 01:26pm


	Are you guys still trying to fix the random cache_bust_error glitch? Before it was just an annoying glitch, but now it's preventing me from selling or trading items. I get a cache_bust_error every single time I try to trade, gift, sell or in any way transfer an item! D:

Commented on: Sat Nov 29, 2008 @ 02:22pm

Necromacide
Community Member

Offline

User Comments: [48] [add]

Welcome to Gaia! :: View User's Journal | Gaia Journals

View User's Journal

More Information