RMN V4.2 - DONE!

A minor update to RMN is forthcoming, planned for 10 AM EST on Sunday. The update requires a minor downtime (a few minutes or so).

Changes coming in the latest update:

• User menu is returning (view profile/ignore user/send message when clicking on username in forums/search)
• You can edit your ignore settings to "ignore" PMs (by ignore I mean hide them when you are ignoring the user, it doesn't prevent messages from being sent) and "ignore" posts completely or show a little blurb (You are ignoring this user...etc).
• You can now rename locker files
• Support for Events with anonymous participants
• Some small CSS changes (buttons)
• Fix for double-posting / post-throttling - only 1 post per 30 seconds.
• Game download limit - this is limited per IP. Each IP can only access a game download once every 1 hour. This is to help prevent download spamming.
• Game Pages can be marked as For Developers Only, and only developers/testers can access the page and receive notices for posts made on that page
• Adding links to the 5 latest game design blogs to the Game Design forum
• Adding links to the 5 latest request blogs to the help & Requests forum
• Update to the Code of Conduct
• More hyperlinks on the frontpage to lists on RMN (ie- What's Buzzing now links to the Frontpage Site Feeds)
• Sort games by Download Date Added
• List latest bulletins, utilities and links on the top of the Engines page
• Cleaned up the footer a bit
• Search field (in the upper right) now searches for scripts, too
• Some minor bug fixes (ie- the Lastest blog on a game's profile is determined by Date Added instead of Date Updated)
• Probably some other minor things, and some behind-the-scenes administrative tools for us staff

We have had issues with download spamming in the past, and while a 1 dl/hour isn't the most perfect solution, I think it will help! (In a rare situation, someone could upload a game, you download it, but it has an error and so the download is updated and you have to wait a bit before getting the new download. But people can't spam downloads now)

The Ignore feature (if anyone will use it) can be set so that you can see that an ignored person has posted.


These things are in the pipeline (I just didn't get to them in time, sorry!)

Some things I would like to do:

• Engine subscriptions
• a Who's Currently Active on RMN list
• Tag tutorials as Beginner/Intermediate/Expert
• Allow for the upload of a file for Tutorials/Scripts (for demos of the script, for example)
• Automatically dole out certain achievements in the overnight Cron job
• *Come up with a list of achievements that should be auto-doled out!
• Add Contributor role to game profiles, for artists/writers/musicians
• New & Notable functionality on RMN (I see cool things in the queue every now and then I'd like to highlight. ..maybe a return of the SNEWS?)
• Display script/article category descriptions in an accessible way in submission form
• Explore adding a new "Episode Complete" status to games (is it feasible? Worthwhile?)

Thanks for browsing RMN!

Thanks ankylo!

Btw, for anyone who didn't know, ankylo coded all of the cool updates.