Patch 1.9

teebling · 2019-04-20T12:38:45Z

images/media/bchat9.pngPatch 1.9 21st April 2019 Realm forumsVanilla was a time when server cohesion meant a lot. With the confirmed lack of cross-realm grouping in Classic, this sense of server community will hopefully be preserved. This has led me to believe that having realm forums here would be a cool idea:/images/updates/betarealms.png On the main realms page it's of course mostly placeholder realms at the moment, since we don't know how many there are or what they're going to be called. As Soon as Blizzard announce the realms though, I will get a mini-patch out ASAP update this. Beta Realm 1 is indeed available at the moment - this is because at the time of writing the classic beta has been spotted in the wild on blizz's CDN (now confirmed as an internal alpha) but nonetheless it could be coming very soon and also this allows you guys to test out the new features and report any bugs.I'm hoping to do this shortly after the official announcement so that I can make an announcement about the realm forums setup here and get a whole bunch of people posting their guild advertisments and organising on a realm-by-realm basis. Let's bring back realm forums to their former glory! The link 'Realms' in the main navbar goes to the main realms page. However, if you select a default realm for yourself, this navbar link then goes to your default realm instead./images/updates/selectrealm.pngYou can change your realm from your user dropdown (pictured above) or the page footer on the main realms page.This way people will be able to access their own realm's forum with one click from the navbar - let's be honest, nobody is going to be interested in very frequently reading all the other realm forums and will be interested only in their own realm 99% of the time.You'll still have access to the whole realm listing of course through a link on the realm forums themselves, and you can change your 'default realm' at any time. So you can still access the rest if you have 'set' your realm. /images/updates/realmunder.png^ From patch 1.8 feedback - if you have selected a default realm, it will now appear underneath your username in topics, private messages, memberlist, profile page again like it was before. It also links to the realm's forum. You're welcome Henhouse :smile: Realm events/images/updates/neweventbutton.pngIn any realm forum you can now create 'Events'. These can be anything from organising guild charter signing, advertising a roleplaying event, getting a world pvp group together, or inviting people to a PUG raid. There are a few options to choose from. Here's an example of a city raid:/images/updates/exampleevent.png As a host you can choose from a bunch of different event 'types', pick a date/time/meeting point and set a minimum level requirement etc. As an attendee you can apply for an invite which can then be approved by the event organiser./images/updates/newevent.gif This is just a prototype/beta version for the moment but I will extend it if it proves popular. I'm hoping that this tool is useful for event organisers, people trying to put guilds together, those looking for someone to play with etc. on their specific realm. Realm statsOn the main realms page and the also forums themselves you will also be able to view three basic and important statistics about each realm pulled from the Blizzard API - online/offline, alliance/horde ratio and total population.You can also see how many other barrens.chat members are in your realm :smile:/images/updates/realmviewforum.pngI don't have any plans to extend this any further as my experience with the API is very little and I think that this is enough information for most people as it is. There are going to be a lot of other sites out there that do a much better job of realm stats anyway :) Other changes Made some improvements to the members list. You can now sort the list by posts (as seen below), Joined and Last Active:/images/updates/memberlist.png Added hover icons to the main navigation bar and slightly reduced size of link text itself/images/updates/newnavbar.gif Additional date information is now visible next to the user's post time - any posts made before the release are marked as (Pre-release)./images/updates/prerelease.png In addition to the above, every patch date will also be visible too, so that in the future when people read old posts here, they'll know what patch it was at the time of posting:/images/updates/patchrelease.png If a user has selected a class but not a faction, the class badge now sits snugly in the position where the faction badge usually resides - no more ugly gaps!/images/updates/classnudged.png There were no arrows on the style select dropdown in the header for Chrome and FF users so I added some gold ones to make it clear that this is a dropdown select and not a search bar like it appeared before:/images/updates/stylearrows.png Built a soft-deletion system for moderators so nothing is lost forever if a post or topic is accidentally deleted (c...

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mwaf

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teebling, would it be possible to put the realm feature to use now? A lot of the topics in general revolve around the different realms, it would be nice to have those moved to their own section.

Thanks for all the great work with Barrens chat so far I really appreciate it!

Edit: Hadn't noticed your IRL battle thread.

Posted : 15/08/2019 11:30 am

daisyKutter

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I know I'm always asking hehe but I've though about a more techie feature request: please embrace POST requests, for like Liking a comment in a thread, or quoting someone.

Posted : 16/08/2019 5:37 am

ClassicRaids

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Don't forget to update the realm list :)

Posted : 25/08/2019 9:51 am

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