I went ahead and skipped the announcement for Release 18.1 and decided to merge it up with 18.2 (which was going to be released very shortly after 18.1 anyway)
As usual, if you find any bugs, feel free to leave a comment on this thread. It is easier for me to track them down.
Front-end
Fixed weird positionning of the Map/Minimap Tooltips
"Minimap" is now bigger!
The Item list page is now complete. Items were placed the same way the game lays them out.
Item requirements are now completely done for upgrades, power ups and easter eggs. You can view them on a specific room page (Icy Summit #1001) or by selecting the item on the Item list (Gold Carrot). You can also view what a certain item will give you access to (the mighty Carrot Bomb has tons!!)
Remastered the User Tracker (see bottom of the left menu) to be a 'little' more accurate.
Added boss fights information on the map. These leads nowhere for now, but at least we can see boss pictures on the map (and the room page)
Added requirements to reach bosses as well.
Back-end
The old fashioned way that Items were stored on the map is now completely gone (did a good ol' drop table after being unused for since release 12.1)
Simplified the Map Drawing functions for better loading times
Added a scheduler for repetitive tasks which will now execute on separate threads (reduces load time)
Release 17.3 brings more stability (well... I sure hope so...)
If you come accross bugs / typos, feel free to leave them in this post's comment section.
List of changes
Front-end
Added more emote face (handcrafted and based on those from the Steam badgecraft:
Entries can now be deleted by their author (or any moderator). You have up to 24 hours to undo this.
Entry authors will now be able to control their work! Added icon buttons with functions bound to them: Delete, Edit (with and without BBCode conversion), Upload picture, Link YouTube video and, for moderators only, Approve.
Added similar options to Media elements: Edit (title) and Delete. Note that deleting a Media element is immediate.
Added Preview Mode to entries. When using A LOT of BBCodes and inbound links in an entry, editing it afterwards can take up a lot of time just to laod the editor. I decided to add an inbound link free version of the editor, but not being able to see the result was kind of sad. Preview mode will show the final result.
Added the Follow Page feature. When following a page, anytime someone fills in data about the page, you will receive a notification.
You can also follow a particular user, notifiying you whenever THEY post new data, regardless of your followed pages.
Note that you will receive notifications automatically for achievements you haven't done if you synchronized them.
Back-end
Following the added features to the entry editor, a lot of code was changed to allow smoother BBCode loading.
Added a few more detailed fields to some database entity to reduce the calculation time on page loading.
Delayed
A more stable version of the user tracker. It currently does a lot of silent crashes.
EDIT If you come accross errors or bug, please report them by cmmenting on this post. Thank you
Front-end
Added the Characters page (Structure is there, now we need to add some data!). Leave some meta informations regarding each character in their respective comments section to contribute to their lore!
Characters can feature different picture types
Entry editor now features a BBCode Editor (The News also feature it). It might take a little while until the comment section has it as well.
BBCode lets you format some of your text (basic features only).
Added some Rabi-Ribi emoticons to the lot!
Some sections of the website now load up 'dynamically' to reduce the workload on the server.