Oculama

• Developer Notes Page redesign.

• Updated Comic UI of How to Critique Guide.
• Look and Feel overhaul of Character Submissions Guide.
• Consolidated Rules, Guides and FAQ page.

• Squashing bug where users are added to comic requests in error.
• Security updates
• Design and functionality improvements to user/%/characters page.
  • Created "Dead Characters" group.
  • Corrected filtering on groups so characters are shown in appropriate sections.
  • Styling tweaks / fixes to user/%/characters page.
• Corrected display of character status on full character page.
• Fixed missing characters from inactive characters view on user/%/characters.
• Moved scarred characters from active to inactive characters list on user/%/characters.

• Improvements to Judged Voting interface - judges can no longer vote for defaulted comics.
• System and security updates.
• Display title of tournament judge in reviews and comments.
• Display banner on bottom of tournament card distinguishing judged vote tournaments vs. community vote tournaments.

• (new) Comic vote form now shows creators username instead of character name.
• Drupal core and module security updates.
• Comic critiques word count requirement reduced to 75 words.
• The Character's "Character Illustration" field renamed to "Splash Art".

We're back! After a long hiatus of minimal updates, you can expect to see more movement around here. Forgive the cobwebs as we dust them off!

• Drupal core and module updates.
• Leaderboards are fixed and will correctly update now.
• (new!) We're now in the clouds! Storage solution rebuilt.

• Top Reviewers section added in Front Page.

• Homepage Revamped!

• Implemented design feature to not have battle poses scroll with the page in Comic Landing.

• News Archive tab added
• Fixed tag team battle icon issues
• The New and Improved News page is now LIVE
• Fixed bug on collab/group banners not showing properly.

• Fixed comic uploader issues.
• The countdown timer in My Comics now syncs up with the Comic Listing timer.
• Leaderboards are LIVE!

• Character Poses in Comic Landing now link to their respective Character Profile. Character name is shown on hover
• Character Biography/About section is now moved under the rankings for better utilization of space.
• Character Illustration now available for Full View in Image Gallery!
• Fixed bug not allowing guests to view user names and avatars in comments/reviews.
• Improved text wrapping in Character Profiles.
• Markdown text updates to address security issues
• Clicking on the comic image now leads users to the next page.
• Behind-the-scenes bug fixes and updates.

• Multi-tournament view page.
• Implemented backend security updates

• Large Comic Collab functionality
• Behind-the-scenes bug fixes and updates

• Fixed bug on Character's "Comic Appearances" tab resulting in PHP error.

• MAJOR UPDATE: News Page

• Improved comic voting interface with interactive "stars" voting widget.

• Upcoming Comics sort order modified to show the comic finishing its drawing period first at the top of the list.

• Character ratings implemented and fine-tuned.
• Characters comic appearances now shown on the characters page.
• Improvements to vote counting.

• Lingering countdown ticker bug resolved - clocks are now fixed for users that set a timezone other than PST.
• "My Comics" PHP error resolved.

• Countdown tickers now show the correct time, regardless of the users timezone.
• Improvements to the Comics Processor.

• Increased page size of Character list to 48.
• Corrected display of winners list on battle preview.

• Correct display of "Vs" symbol for 1 vs 1 vs 1 battles.
• /comics/tournaments and /comics/tournaments/round1 now show all battles without pagination.

• Back-end improvements to vote tallying on battles.
• Tournament display improvements for Round 2.
• Winner and loser pose implementation for battle results.

• Fixed Comic Wizard submit button not working.
• Users that comic defaulted during the drawing phase can now redeem their comic and add pages in the voting phase.

• Improvements to display of comic reader.
• Optimizations to comics processing.
• Changes to comic voting form to account for comics in redemption.

• The only good bug is a dead bug! Back-end bug squashing.

• Fixed bug preventing battle poses from not appearing without a refresh on comic landing pages.

• Pagination of /comics/tournaments removed. Now displays all tournament battles in one screen.
• Banner added to The Inaugural Tournament!

• MAJOR FEATURE ADDED: Tournament Battles
• Default poses are added/displayed for characters with no uploaded pose.
• Improved comic sorting order.
• New shiny comic type symbols.
• Updated Front Page with Inaugural Tournament Event Timer

• Links to Developer Notes, Discord and Twitter added in the Front Page
• Allow anonymous users to view Comics and Characters
• Allow Registered Users to create Solo Comics.

• Allow Registered Users to create and submit characters

• Critiques renamed as Reviews
• Fixed the bug where older Comments are not getting displayed once it reached over 25 posts.
• Added Previous/Next buttons to the bottom of the page of the Comic Reader
• Added a link back to Comic Landing/Overview page in the Comic Reader
• Improved character Page profile image resizing logic
• Automated comic processing bug fixes (ongoing)

• Improved word count logic for critiques.
• Comments are now sorted newest to oldest.
• Adjustments to comics sort order.
• Comic Reader page navigation now scrolls to top on each page change.
• Improved grid layout of /characters page.

• Implemented a word counter to the comics voting & critique form.

• Comics (/comics) overview page now has tabs for Current, Upcoming and Completed comics.
• Fixed permissions so authenticated users can comment, vote and critique characters and only beta testers can create characters and comics.
• Corrected display dates of when a comic is drawing, being voted on, or completed.

• Broken "Edit Profile" link fixed.

• Added "Log Out" and "Edit Profile" buttons in User Account menu.
• Improved styling of Character creation and editing form.

• Add time remaining ticker to comic landing page.
• Add image dimension restrictions to comic banner field.
• Improvements to creating and editing Properties & Color Swatches in the Character create/edit form.
• Small visual improvements.

The road to closed beta has been long and full of updates - too many to list. But jumping forward a bit; the most recent updates are as follows:

• Comic Reader link’s path hidden and link disabled during drawing phase.
• Users can no longer vote for comics they’re involved in.
• Users can’t edit comics once voting has started or after comic has been completed.
• Enabled commenting on comic during drawing phase.
• Prevented voting for a comic during any phase other than the voting phase.
• Fixed bug that prevented solo comics from going to drawing phase on creation.
• Implemented CDN.
• Visual styling improvements.

• Removed ability for users to delete their characters after they've been made active.

• Patched known bug with GD Image Library - will require broken images to be re-uploaded.
• Corrected solo comic creation bug in Comic Wizard.

• Corrected broken styling on Comics Wizard.
• Temporarily disabled creating battle and collab comic types in Comic Wizard.
• NOTE: Comics Wizard is currently broken. A fix is in-progress.

• Fixed font color and input styling of email field on forms.
• Adjusted styling of forms.
• Added favicon.
• Character's main image correctly centers based on focal point.
• Drupal security and module updates.