New AGS site release

[AGA]

I am planning to put the long-awaited new AGS site live on the evening of Saturday, 25th January; this will likely take a few hours.  While the main site will completely change, the forums and wiki should continue to look and operate as they usually do.

This thread will be here for you to report any issues noticed after the site is up again!

[CaptainD]

Thanks AGA!

[Creamy]

Congratulations and good luck for the final stretch!

[heltenjon]

When viewing recent posts, clicking on the thread name sometimes shows the post in its place in the thread (like earlier), but sometimes jumps to the first post in the thread (new, unexpected behaviour).

[AGA]

Could you give some definite examples, please?  "Sometimes" is unfortunately not very helpful...  I do notice that the links to individual posts aren't being rewritten the way they should; they appear as "https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?msg=636668906" instead of "https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/site-forum-reports/new-ags-site-release/msg636668906/#msg636668906".

[eri0o]

Great work with this new site! It's very impressive!!!

I noticed an issue in the forums, when I go to the Completed Games Announcement thread, if I click the three dots for showing more pages and then click the page 6, I get the following error, "The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.".

[Privateer Puddin']

Not sure to post here or the other topic where it was discussed previously. Do we have a list of remaining assets which are still using AI and need to be replaced? Is it just the main homepage banner?

[heltenjon]

Could you give some definite examples, please?  "Sometimes" is unfortunately not very helpful... 

Examples that work like expected:

Spoiler

The latest posts in this thread.
The latest posts in AGS games in production
Engine Development
Competitions and Activities
Beginner's technical questions

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Examples that work in the unexpected way:

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The latest posts in Completed games announcements (back until my comment on Teeth of Glass on Thursday, which works as expected. Earlier posts than this also seems to work on other boards.)
The latest posts in AGS engine and Editor releases
Modules, Plugins and Tools
Hidden forum for database maintenance
Adventure Related Talk and Chat
The Rumpus Room
Recruitment

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[heltenjon]

Trying to move to page 2 (or another number) while on a board (list of threads) gives an error message. Doing the same inside a thread works fine.

[cat]

The smiley bar in the reply window is broken, both quick reply and regular:



I'm using Firefox Desktop

[Creamy]

The "Play" page is showing the Pick of next month.

On a side note, my links for the Pick of the month don't work any more:
- add a new entry.
- edit an existing entry.
- list of existing entries.

[RootBound]

Just a small thing, but when you click on a "download" button from a game page, the text changes to "downloading" before sending you to the game's website. Given that no games are actually hosted on the AGS website, having the text say something like "connecting" or "redirecting" instead of "downloading" might eliminate that few seconds of misinformation where the button indicates that a download has started.

[glurex]

I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to work, but on the site (play section), when I try to view the games created by a specific user, it only shows the ones they uploaded, not the ones they collaborated on.

[RootBound]

Another thing--I'm almost certain that some of my games had gold-cup player ratings (Tunnel Vision did, I think--it has 5 comments), however this seems to have not carried over to the new site. Has the number of ratings to display a gold-cup rating increased? Curious if anyone else has noticed this with their own games.

[Laura Hunt]

Another issue I've noticed: when I first registered on the website, my username was "notarobotyet", but I later changed it to the one I'm using now. The new site, however, is showing the old one both in the top right user menu and in the credits of my games (and games I've collaborated in). For example, here.

This also means I have two different profile URLs depending on where you are:

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/Laura%20Hunt/ or https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/Laura+Hunt/ on the forums.

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/notarobotyet/ on the new site.

I changed my username because the first one was just meant to be a crappy placeholder, so I hope this can be fixed at some point.

[Danvzare]

I'm not sure if it's related to the new site, or if I just mis-clicked a bunch. But clicking the last post link on the forum, sometimes took me to the first post instead. It seemed to be completely random as well.

None the less, the new game site looks brilliant. Very fancy and modern looking. 
Thanks AGA and everyone else involved in the new site. 

[AGA]

The smiley bar in the reply window is broken, both quick reply and regular:



I'm using Firefox Desktop

Fixed!

[tampie85]

Not sure to post here or the other topic where it was discussed previously. Do we have a list of remaining assets which are still using AI and need to be replaced? Is it just the main homepage banner?

I think it's just these ones left:

1. Game Homepage Banner
Please be aware that the images you see on both the dark and the light mode are as is. A replacement should have a similar gradient, to allow the text/buttons to remain readable. Also, it needs to look good on different viewports.


2. Confirmation Page when a game creator has successfully added their game to the database.


3. 403 - Not authorised


4. 404 - Not Found


Also, the images of the engine in the carousel on this page https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/create/ are probably as old as the previous website, so if someone has more recent screenshots I'm more than happy to replace them.

[pell]

I know I'm probably a user interface curmudgeon, but it's a little jarring as a viewer for the screenshots in the "Play Hundreds of Games" section to be covered by interface elements.

It's not that the wavy windows look bad. But the web design is partially hiding the very information the page is there to show. Maybe the waves could be moved down a bit, but then there's a lot of extra space taken up. Maybe a more subtle wave can be used that doesn't interfere with the screenshots, or rectangles with rounded corners if normal rectangles are too stiff for the design.

[tampie85]

The "Play" page is showing the Pick of next month.

Fixed! And it's also fixed in the search filter.

On a side note, my links for the Pick of the month don't work any more:
- add a new entry.
- edit an existing entry.
- list of existing entries.

The list has been moved to the search page: Search Filter: Pick of The Month

The add/edit Pick of the Month doesn't have its own page anymore. If you navigate to the game page you want to add/edit the pick of the month for, you see an "Actions" button under the image carousel. This changes depending on your profile permissions. When you click it, you should see "Pick of the Month", which takes you to the correct section on the game edit page.

Please be aware that if you select an older game, you may need to complete missing mandatory fields.

I hope this helps!

[tampie85]

Just a small thing, but when you click on a "download" button from a game page, the text changes to "downloading" before sending you to the game's website. Given that no games are actually hosted on the AGS website, having the text say something like "connecting" or "redirecting" instead of "downloading" might eliminate that few seconds of misinformation where the button indicates that a download has started.

Fixed! It says "redirecting" now. If you don't see it immediately, please try a hard refresh.

[tampie85]

Another thing--I'm almost certain that some of my games had gold-cup player ratings (Tunnel Vision did, I think--it has 5 comments), however this seems to have not carried over to the new site. Has the number of ratings to display a gold-cup rating increased? Curious if anyone else has noticed this with their own games.

The logic is still the same; you need a minimum of 5 votes (note: this is different to the number of comments).

It was a bug, that's fixed now. You should see your gold cups again.

[tampie85]

Another issue I've noticed: when I first registered on the website, my username was "notarobotyet", but I later changed it to the one I'm using now. The new site, however, is showing the old one both in the top right user menu and in the credits of my games (and games I've collaborated in). For example, here.

This also means I have two different profile URLs depending on where you are:

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/Laura%20Hunt/ or https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/Laura+Hunt/ on the forums.

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/notarobotyet/ on the new site.

I changed my username because the first one was just meant to be a crappy placeholder, so I hope this can be fixed at some point.

It should be updated in both places now to your "Laura Hunt" username

[tampie85]

Thanks for all the feedback so far, really appreciate it! 

[Ponch]

The new site is very impressive. I especially like the new games database.

Just one question: How do I edit a game's page in the database if I want to make some changes? I just uploaded my MAGS game and I can't see a way to edit the page now.

Thanks for putting all this work into the new site! 

[AGA]

The new site is very impressive. I especially like the new games database.

Just one question: How do I edit a game's page in the database if I want to make some changes? I just uploaded my MAGS game and I can't see a way to edit the page now.

Thanks for putting all this work into the new site! 

The Actions menu under the image gallery should give you an Edit Game link?

[Ponch]

The Actions menu under the image gallery should give you an Edit Game link?

Doesn't save the changes though. 

Doesn't really matter at the moment, since I just wanted to tweak the title a bit.

[jfrisby]

Very cool to login and see this! congrats to all involved.

nitpicky comments:

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- I miss the word "Games" from the menu options, "Play" seems less clear imo. "Play Games"? 
- "Search" might be clearer that it's the full database if it was "All Games (Search)."
- I zoom 150% on the forums, and it used to look fine on the main site.. but it's too much now. I don't know if I can separate these in firefox somehow. (maybe this is my problem.)

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[Laura Hunt]

Another issue I've noticed: when I first registered on the website, my username was "notarobotyet", but I later changed it to the one I'm using now. The new site, however, is showing the old one

It should be updated in both places now to your "Laura Hunt" username

It works now, thanks!

[cat]

Clicking on the orange "new" button always takes me to the first post on the first page of the thread and not to the one that is new to me.

[Laura Hunt]

It should be updated in both places now to your "Laura Hunt" username

Sorry, looks like I spoke too soon. My awards nomination page still shows the old username for some reason.

[Danvzare]

I'm not sure if it's related to the new site, or if I just mis-clicked a bunch. But clicking the last post link on the forum, sometimes took me to the first post instead. It seemed to be completely random as well.

Just so you know, it's still happening, and now I'm certain it wasn't because I mis-clicked a bunch. This time I've recorded which threads it happened with as well.
🏆 AGS Awards 2024 - Nominate!
Fireflies - Objects And Best Way to Turn Them Off or On
AGS 4.0 - Alpha 18 for public test
ENGINE PLUGIN: Clipboard v0.4
I usually like to open up tabs for the latest replies of all of the threads, whenever I visit the forum. So it's very noticeable when I suddenly end up on the first page

[AGA]

It should be updated in both places now to your "Laura Hunt" username

Sorry, looks like I spoke too soon. My awards nomination page still shows the old username for some reason.

Hopefully fixed now?  Should be correct in the header, game credits, and Awards nominations?

[AGA]

The Actions menu under the image gallery should give you an Edit Game link?

Doesn't save the changes though. 

Doesn't really matter at the moment, since I just wanted to tweak the title a bit.

What does not saving the changes entail?  Do you get any error messages?  Or does it give a success message but without actually saving?

[AGA]

All the forums weirdness seems to due to the "pretty" URL rewrites not being quite correct.  I'll fix them as soon as I can!

[heltenjon]

The "like" button seems to be broken.

[Laura Hunt]

Sorry, looks like I spoke too soon. My awards nomination page still shows the old username for some reason.

Hopefully fixed now?  Should be correct in the header, game credits, and Awards nominations?

Yes, thank you!

[cat]

I suddenly can't access anything from the top menu anymore. Messages inbox, create new message, search, staff list,... all only show the index page. The wiki link leads to a white page.
The only thing that works is the alert list.

[Tabata]

I suddenly can't access anything from the top menu anymore. Messages inbox, create new message, search, staff list,... all only show the index page. The wiki link leads to a white page.
The only thing that works is the alert list.

same here 

[cat]

Seems to be working again (except for the wiki)

[heltenjon]

The "like" button seems to be broken.

Working again! Thanks!

[AGA]

I've applied some new rewrite rules that *may* help.  Board pagination seems to be fixed at least, but please check any forums weirdness reported in this thread to see if it's also fixed!

[cat]

On the index page, when clicking the link that should lead to the most recent post of a board, instead I still end up on the first post of the thread.

[AGA]

When talking about links, could you all please be sure to include an example URL?  There's presumably some gaps in the rewrite logic, but I'll need some solid examples to dig into.

[cat]

The link is https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/site-forum-reports/new-ags-site-release/msg636680926/#new
I would assume this leads to the last post in the thread.

[Khris]

Looks like clicking on the title of any post sends you back to page #1 of the thread:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/the-rumpus-room/there-is-something-seriously-ridiculous-about-ags-reviews/msg636668488/#msg636668488

This also affects the "New" buttons and the last post links, since both use this mechanism as well.

[Creamy]

The add/edit Pick of the Month doesn't have its own page anymore. If you navigate to the game page you want to add/edit the pick of the month for, you see an "Actions" button under the image carousel. This changes depending on your profile permissions. When you click it, you should see "Pick of the Month", which takes you to the correct section on the game edit page.

I see the "Actions" button, but it only allows me to report a link as broken.

Please be aware that if you select an older game, you may need to complete missing mandatory fields.

OK

[AGA]

I see the "Actions" button, but it only allows me to report a link as broken.

Try now?

[Creamy]

Try now?

It works, thanks. I can even edit the whole game page 

I found a couple more bugs:
- The "downloads to review" counter still shows a game that I've just reviewed.
- I was logged in when I wrote a review for Carnival of Shadows but the comment is credited to "UNKNOWN".
- the right and left arrows don't work when you type a comment in a game page - but the up and down arrows operate.
 

[tampie85]

I miss the word "Games" from the menu options, "Play" seems less clear imo. "Play Games"? 

That's a conscious design choice to try avoid overusing the word game. Every page is about creating and playing games, and joining a community of people who love creating and/or playing games.

- "Search" might be clearer that it's the full database if it was "All Games (Search)."

I've updated the title to be "Search All Games" to be in line with the button on the homepage.

- I zoom 150% on the forums, and it used to look fine on the main site.. but it's too much now. I don't know if I can separate these in firefox somehow. (maybe this is my problem.)

Zoom levels are indeed based on root url, so it's not possible to distinct zoom levels between the site and the forums. Unless you visit them in different browsers.

[tampie85]

I know I'm probably a user interface curmudgeon, but it's a little jarring as a viewer for the screenshots in the "Play Hundreds of Games" section to be covered by interface elements.

It's not that the wavy windows look bad. But the web design is partially hiding the very information the page is there to show. Maybe the waves could be moved down a bit, but then there's a lot of extra space taken up. Maybe a more subtle wave can be used that doesn't interfere with the screenshots, or rectangles with rounded corners if normal rectangles are too stiff for the design.

The wave in the highlight tiles is a conscious design choice. The purpose of the tiles is to trigger your interest, and invite you to click into the game. When you do that, you can see the same image in the carousel in its full extent, and you can zoom in or make it full screen (if the image resolution is high enough).

[tampie85]

Seems to be working again (except for the wiki)

Thank you, we're aware of the wiki, but it's not a quick fix. We're working on a fix (same for the forum URLs)

[cat]

I just want to say a huge thank you for @AGA and @tampie85 for all the hard work you put into the site! ❤️

[tampie85]

I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to work, but on the site (play section), when I try to view the games created by a specific user, it only shows the ones they uploaded, not the ones they collaborated on.

It should show the person mentioned as author, plus the first person mentioned in the credits (same behaviour as on the old site).
At the moment it only shows the author, we're working on a fix.

[Ponch]

What does not saving the changes entail?  Do you get any error messages?  Or does it give a success message but without actually saving?

I made the changes, tried to save them, and it just seemed to hang there and never update.

[cat]

Tiny detail: The tool-tip for the search (next to the switch between light and dark mode) says "Switch to Dark Mode" but actually it should be "Search games database" or similar.

[AGA]

Well done to @tampie85, who's managed to optimise a database query I wrote that was causing pages on the main site to load far more slowly than expected.  Pages seem to load almost instantly now, as expected!

[tampie85]

Tiny detail: The tool-tip for the search (next to the switch between light and dark mode) says "Switch to Dark Mode" but actually it should be "Search games database" or similar.

Whoops! Very well spotted. Updated now.

[tampie85]

What does not saving the changes entail?  Do you get any error messages?  Or does it give a success message but without actually saving?

I made the changes, tried to save them, and it just seemed to hang there and never update.

Would you mind trying again please? The unexpected slowness of the site may have caused a time-out. If it still happens, can you please let me know what game you're trying to edit? And what fields you're trying to update? Can you maybe include a screenshot? That'll all help me finding the cause.

[tampie85]

It works, thanks. I can even edit the whole game page 

That's a conscious choice There's a lot of missing/broken information in the games database. Dedicated members like you are now able to support improving the quality of the data.

- The "downloads to review" counter still shows a game that I've just reviewed.

What game did you review? And what is your definition of a review? Did you give a user rating, a comment, or both?

- I was logged in when I wrote a review for Carnival of Shadows but the comment is credited to "UNKNOWN".

Fixed!

- the right and left arrows don't work when you type a comment in a game page - but the up and down arrows operate.

Do you have a bit more information for me? What browser are you using? I just tried on Google Chrome Desktop and cannot reproduce it. Your cursor is in the comment box and you want to move within the text you just typed?

[AGA]

@tampie85 has possibly fixed all the forums-specific issues now.  Please let us know if there's any links remaining that don't behave as expected.

[Creamy]

Quote from: Creamy on Tue 28/01/2025 22:21:44
- The "downloads to review" counter still shows a game that I've just reviewed.

What game did you review? And what is your definition of a review? Did you give a user rating, a comment, or both?

Sorry for the vagueness. I gave "Carnival of Shadows" a rating (2 cups) and a comment. But it was still present in my "Downloads to review" tab afterwards. It's not such a big deal since we can remove the reminders manually.
EDIT: I've just rated another game that I had recently downloaded and it worked this time - the game disappeared from the "download to review" tab.

Quote from: Creamy on Tue 28/01/2025 22:21:44
- I was logged in when I wrote a review for Carnival of Shadows but the comment is credited to "UNKNOWN".

Fixed!

Thank you

Quote from: Creamy on Tue 28/01/2025 22:21:44
- the right and left arrows don't work when you type a comment in a game page - but the up and down arrows operate.

Do you have a bit more information for me? What browser are you using? I just tried on Google Chrome Desktop and cannot reproduce it.

I use Google Chrome, but I also tried with Mozilla Firefox and got the same problem.
My computer runs on Windows 11 Family and I use a regular keyboard.

Your cursor is in the comment box and you want to move within the text you just typed?

Yes. I can click with the mouse to move the cursor within the box. However the left and right arrows of my keyboard don't move the cursor in the comment box.

[jfrisby]

I just went to leave a comment on a game in the database and noticed two things:

- you can't use arrow keys or shift-arrow-key to move your cursor in the text box... or I'm not able to, but only there.   (edit, just read the above comment, guess this is known).
- Comments now have to be 10 words...  this is new?

[cat]

Good news: Jumping to the correct post now seems to work, thanks, this was really bothering me.

Bad news: clicking on a username now leads to the index page, not the profile. This has been working before (I was impressed that even usernames with spaces worked again)

I know bug hunting can be like that - fix one thing, break the other.

[heltenjon]

On the games page, Creamy's comment about Carnival of Shadows is listed as one of the last comments. He has a spoiler, and in the preview, it looks like the spoiler tag is ignored. On the page of the game, the spoiler tag works as usual.

This will be a marginal problem, but if someone was to use a spoiler tag very early in their comment, the spoiler would be shown on the preview page.

[tampie85]

Good news: Jumping to the correct post now seems to work, thanks, this was really bothering me.

Bad news: clicking on a username now leads to the index page, not the profile. This has been working before (I was impressed that even usernames with spaces worked again)

I know bug hunting can be like that - fix one thing, break the other.

Oops! I thought we tested everything. It should be fixed now (including usernames with spaces). Let me know if you find anything else.

[cat]

Oops! I thought we tested everything. It should be fixed now (including usernames with spaces). Let me know if you find anything else.

Yes, it's working now.

[Ponch]

Would you mind trying again please? The unexpected slowness of the site may have caused a time-out. If it still happens, can you please let me know what game you're trying to edit? And what fields you're trying to update? Can you maybe include a screenshot? That'll all help me finding the cause.

Hi. Just tried again, but still no luck. All I'm trying to do is change the title from "Bière Américaine" to "Bière Américaine (MAGS)"  I change the text in the title box, click "Save" but nothing happens. It's not a big issue, really, I just like to flag my MAGS games as such, so people have more reasonable expectations about the game they're about to play.

[AGA]

Would you mind trying again please? The unexpected slowness of the site may have caused a time-out. If it still happens, can you please let me know what game you're trying to edit? And what fields you're trying to update? Can you maybe include a screenshot? That'll all help me finding the cause.

Hi. Just tried again, but still no luck. All I'm trying to do is change the title from "Bière Américaine" to "Bière Américaine (MAGS)"  I change the text in the title box, click "Save" but nothing happens. It's not a big issue, really, I just like to flag my MAGS games as such, so people have more reasonable expectations about the game they're about to play.

Well...  There's clearly a bug here, which I'll look into.  However, we're hoping to get away from the habit people have of putting extraneous details like type of game, version number etc in the title of their game.  There's also a separate MAGS field after all, and the 'Description' field on the downloads could be used for version information.  Having stuff like that in the titles makes things quite complicated when you have 2,000+ games in the database the way we do.

[AGA]

I tried changing the title of your game, and it actually seems to have worked.  For some reason it's showing a blank screen, but if you then go back to the game's page and refresh the change seems to have prevailed?

[EmmaGundersen]

The Actions menu under the image gallery should give you an Edit Game link?

Doesn't save the changes though. 

Doesn't really matter at the moment, since I just wanted to tweak the title a bit.

I'm having the same issue! I can edit but I can't save the changes.

[AGA]

The Actions menu under the image gallery should give you an Edit Game link?

Doesn't save the changes though. 

Doesn't really matter at the moment, since I just wanted to tweak the title a bit.

I'm having the same issue! I can edit but I can't save the changes.

That's definitely still true since my post late last night?  Can you please tell me here or in a private message exactly what you're trying to change?

[EmmaGundersen]

That's definitely still true since my post late last night?  Can you please tell me here or in a private message exactly what you're trying to change?

This was about an hour ago. I tried:

• Updating the link to the game's website
• Adding a link to the completed game announcement
• Removing a screenshot to add another one

I don't think it really matters what the changes are, the problem for me is that the Save Your Game button doesn't do anything.

[AGA]

That's definitely still true since my post late last night?  Can you please tell me here or in a private message exactly what you're trying to change?

This was about an hour ago. I tried:

• Updating the link to the game's website
• Adding a link to the completed game announcement
• Removing a screenshot to add another one

I don't think it really matters what the changes are, the problem for me is that the Save Your Game button doesn't do anything.

Which game is this?  And can you please let me know exactly what it is you're trying to enter?  Including the actual image file, ideally.  Bear in mind this has been tested extensively during development, so apparently something unexpected is happening!

[EmmaGundersen]

That's definitely still true since my post late last night?  Can you please tell me here or in a private message exactly what you're trying to change?

This was about an hour ago. I tried:

• Updating the link to the game's website
• Adding a link to the completed game announcement
• Removing a screenshot to add another one

I don't think it really matters what the changes are, the problem for me is that the Save Your Game button doesn't do anything.

Which game is this?  And can you please let me know exactly what it is you're trying to enter?  Including the actual image file, ideally.  Bear in mind this has been tested extensively during development, so apparently something unexpected is happening!

Here's a video. I'm just trying to replace one .png with another and it won't let me save, but the same goes for any other kind of changes, even editing the description.

[Khris]

Just a very minor issue: the title attributes of the little "I can help with X" images below the avatars contain the default texts, not the ones entered by the user. You have to open their profile to see those.

Thanks for fixing the links to (new) posts!
Also, submitting a new post took ages until recently, it's now much faster, great work!

[AGA]

Just a very minor issue: the title attributes of the little "I can help with X" images below the avatars contain the default texts, not the ones entered by the user. You have to open their profile to see those.

The idea was more to explain what the icons represent.  Look again, I've changed to a middle ground which combines the title with the custom text.

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

With the new site, I uploaded a game yesterday, and I wanted to link to my google drive in the downloads, and it works from my PC where I am logged in, but both from my phone and from the person's computer that was helping me, the download link doesn't work (I think it's expecting a direct link to the zip and thus the redirect isn't working?). I also want to edit my submission, but clicking save isn't saving my edits.

[heltenjon]

With the new site, I uploaded a game yesterday, and I wanted to link to my google drive in the downloads, and it works from my PC where I am logged in, but both from my phone and from the person's computer that was helping me, the download link doesn't work (I think it's expecting a direct link to the zip and thus the redirect isn't working?). I also want to edit my submission, but clicking save isn't saving my edits.

I could download this using your link (the one on the game page), it just took a long while before responding. It looks like it's the same version that Pell uploaded on his itch page (in the MAGS thread)? At least the file sizes are the same.

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

With the new site, I uploaded a game yesterday, and I wanted to link to my google drive in the downloads, and it works from my PC where I am logged in, but both from my phone and from the person's computer that was helping me, the download link doesn't work (I think it's expecting a direct link to the zip and thus the redirect isn't working?). I also want to edit my submission, but clicking save isn't saving my edits.

I could download this using your link (the one on the game page), it just took a long while before responding. It looks like it's the same version that Pell uploaded on his itch page (in the MAGS thread)? At least the file sizes are the same.

Yeah, it is. Either way, it's probably best to get the download link off of google drive, and I'll be modifying it further.

[AGA]

With the new site, I uploaded a game yesterday, and I wanted to link to my google drive in the downloads, and it works from my PC where I am logged in, but both from my phone and from the person's computer that was helping me, the download link doesn't work (I think it's expecting a direct link to the zip and thus the redirect isn't working?). I also want to edit my submission, but clicking save isn't saving my edits.

Here's a video. I'm just trying to replace one .png with another and it won't let me save, but the same goes for any other kind of changes, even editing the description.

I'm not sure what's happening here.  @EmmaGundersen following the steps you did in your video succeeds for me!  Could @Kara Jo Kalinowski and @EmmaGundersen please both try again, with the web developer console open?  Press F12 and click the Console tab.  Then click the delete icon immediately before trying to use the form.  This will give us feedback from JavaScript, which is the only remaining cause I can think of here.  Please paste any output from the console here.

[EmmaGundersen]

I'm not sure what's happening here.  @EmmaGundersen following the steps you did in your video succeeds for me!  Could @Kara Jo Kalinowski and @EmmaGundersen please both try again, with the web developer console open?  Press F12 and click the Console tab.  Then click the delete icon immediately before trying to use the form.  This will give us feedback from JavaScript, which is the only remaining cause I can think of here.  Please paste any output from the console here.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'title' in undefined
    at findFormDataDifferences (game-add-edit.min.js:1:15742)
    at validateSubmission (game-add-edit.min.js:1:15103)
    at HTMLFormElement.<anonymous> (game-add-edit.min.js:1:14956)

[AGA]

I'm not sure what's happening here.  @EmmaGundersen following the steps you did in your video succeeds for me!  Could @Kara Jo Kalinowski and @EmmaGundersen please both try again, with the web developer console open?  Press F12 and click the Console tab.  Then click the delete icon immediately before trying to use the form.  This will give us feedback from JavaScript, which is the only remaining cause I can think of here.  Please paste any output from the console here.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'title' in undefined
    at findFormDataDifferences (game-add-edit.min.js:1:15742)
    at validateSubmission (game-add-edit.min.js:1:15103)
    at HTMLFormElement.<anonymous> (game-add-edit.min.js:1:14956)

Thank you, that gives me something to work with!  I'll let you know when I've got a fix ready.

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

I'm not sure what's happening here.  @EmmaGundersen following the steps you did in your video succeeds for me!  Could @Kara Jo Kalinowski and @EmmaGundersen please both try again, with the web developer console open?  Press F12 and click the Console tab.  Then click the delete icon immediately before trying to use the form.  This will give us feedback from JavaScript, which is the only remaining cause I can think of here.  Please paste any output from the console here.

Thank you, that gives me something to work with!  I'll let you know when I've got a fix ready.

For me the error is

Uncaught TypeError: right-hand side of 'in' should be an object, got undefined
    findFormDataDifferences https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/assets/js/game-add-edit.min.js:1
    validateSubmission https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/assets/js/game-add-edit.min.js:1
    addGameAddEditFormListeners https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/assets/js/game-add-edit.min.js:1
    at findFormDataDifferences (game-add-edit.min.js:1:15742)
    at validateSubmission (game-add-edit.min.js:1:15103)
    at HTMLFormElement.<anonymous> (game-add-edit.min.js:1:14956)

[AGA]

Those are both the same issue, just represented differently by your browsers.  I've uploaded something that will hopefully fix it.  If it continues to go wrong, you should get an obvious popup on your screen.

Please be sure to hard refresh the game's page screen with CTRL+SHIFT+R before retrying to ensure the JavaScript is reloaded.

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

Those are both the same issue, just represented differently by your browsers.  I've uploaded something that will hopefully fix it.  If it continues to go wrong, you should get an obvious popup on your screen.

Please be sure to hard refresh the game's page screen with CTRL+SHIFT+R before retrying to ensure the JavaScript is reloaded.

It's not fixed for me. I've tried it in 3 browsers.

[AGA]

Okay, I think I've fixed the issue.  Please hard refresh and try again.  Fingers crossed it'll work!

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

Did a hard refresh (control+F5 in firefox) and it works!

[EmmaGundersen]

Okay, I think I've fixed the issue.  Please hard refresh and try again.  Fingers crossed it'll work!

It worked for me too!

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

One feedback I have with the site design in general (it's been this way since the old site) is that I think that there should be a direct "Forum" link that takes you to the main page without needing to navigate through multiple pages. The submenus aren't that big of a deal, but there's only links to certain subforums like competitions and activities.

[AGA]

One feedback I have with the site design in general (it's been this way since the old site) is that I think that there should be a direct "Forum" link that takes you to the main page without needing to navigate through multiple pages. The submenus aren't that big of a deal, but there's only links to certain subforums like competitions and activities.

There's a big Enter the Forums button right at the top of this page: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/join/, which is one of the three main strands of the site.  Two clicks from the home page: one on Join, one on that button.

Something to bear in mind is that the vast majority of visitors to the site aren't here for the forums.  Most people come to play games rather than making them or seeking support.  Believe me, I've been seeing the user stats for the last 15 years!  While as a regular visitor to the forums it may seem a long way to go to get to where you want, you aren't necessarily representative of the entire user base.

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

One feedback I have with the site design in general (it's been this way since the old site) is that I think that there should be a direct "Forum" link that takes you to the main page without needing to navigate through multiple pages. The submenus aren't that big of a deal, but there's only links to certain subforums like competitions and activities.

There's a big Enter the Forums button right at the top of this page: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/join/, which is one of the three main strands of the site.  Two clicks from the home page: one on Join, one on that button.

Something to bear in mind is that the vast majority of visitors to the site aren't here for the forums.  Most people come to play games rather than making them or seeking support.  Believe me, I've been seeing the user stats for the last 15 years!  While as a regular visitor to the forums it may seem a long way to go to get to where you want, you aren't necessarily representative of the entire user base.

Actually I realized if you scroll down enough there is a button too, not sure if that is in browser also or just mobile. I think that didn't exist in the old site.

[heltenjon]

I just posted some links to games in the AGS database as an answer to Kara Jo on discord. The thumbnail says "Game Not Found", although clicking on those very words brings me to the game page. I also discovered that the other window I had open, despite being on the game page in the database, when hovering, said "Game Not Found and 3 more pages". This seems to be the case no matter which game page I am on, so I guess the database send out the error message despite there being no error. (I am using Windows 11.)

[heltenjon]

Okay, I think I've fixed the issue.  Please hard refresh and try again.  Fingers crossed it'll work!

I also had to do the hard refresh to edit a game as database admin (I removed a MAGS tag). If this is the permanent solution, perhaps we need an info box about it close to the save button?

[AGA]

Okay, I think I've fixed the issue.  Please hard refresh and try again.  Fingers crossed it'll work!

I also had to do the hard refresh to edit a game as database admin (I removed a MAGS tag). If this is the permanent solution, perhaps we need an info box about it close to the save button?

I'm not sure what you mean here?  A hard refresh should only be required if there are JavaScript changes, which only happens when I fix a bug.  Day to day, it shouldn't ever be necessary.

I just posted some links to games in the AGS database as an answer to Kara Jo on discord. The thumbnail says "Game Not Found", although clicking on those very words brings me to the game page. I also discovered that the other window I had open, despite being on the game page in the database, when hovering, said "Game Not Found and 3 more pages". This seems to be the case no matter which game page I am on, so I guess the database send out the error message despite there being no error. (I am using Windows 11.)

This should now be fixed!  Witness (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/785/) now shows the correct title, and only non-existent games (e.g. https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/99999999/) show the Game Not Found title.

[heltenjon]

I'm not sure what you mean here?  A hard refresh should only be required if there are JavaScript changes, which only happens when I fix a bug.  Day to day, it shouldn't ever be necessary.

Thanks, sorry to show my skillessness. 

[brushfe]

I'm not sure if this is intentional or a bug:

There's a banner at the top of the forums for the AGS Awards which invites me to visit its thread for more info.

However, when I click that link, I end up at the very latest post in the thread - which was very confusing for someone who was looking to understand how it worked, who was nominated, etc.

The banner is worded as though it was going to take me to an introduction/explanation of the awards, but maybe I'm misinterpreting that!

[Crimson Wizard]

I just randomly pressed "Edit Game" on a random game in database, and to my surprise it opened game description for editing. Is it a bug, or I somehow have permissions to do that (then why)?

[Gilbert]

I just randomly pressed "Edit Game" on a random game in database, and to my surprise it opened game description for editing. Is it a bug, or I somehow have permissions to do that (then why)?

Don't know whether this is intentional, but I think most (all?) mods on the forums are also mods of the game pages.
I seem to recall that before the site update I saw something like "You are an admin (moderator?) of the game pages" but it's no longer specified after the update.

[AGA]

Yeah, all forums staff and panel members have edit rights.

Not that it's ever likely to be an issue, but there's a full audit log of changes made to all games entries, so I can always roll back to the before-editing point if something went wrong.

[cat]

I think alerts for threads don't work anymore. I have set this thread (and others) to "receive alerts" but I do not get them. Alerts for likes, quotes and reported posts work fine.

[AGA]

Do you mean email alerts specifically?  It does seem those have been stopped for a while, but I'm not sure if the server move was the cause.  I'll look into it.

[cat]

No, not email, I haven't tried that. When clicking the button "user actions" (mobile site), there is an option about alerts. Clicking it there are 4 options (not following, no alerts or emails, receive alerts, receive emails and alerts). I chose receive alerts.
I'd expect an alert at the bell icon on top of the page, whenever a new post is written in a thread with alerts active.

[AGA]

Bear in mind your user settings are also in play here.  If you have alerts disabled there it won't show them, even if you do subscribe on a board or topic level.

[cat]

I changed my profile settings and it's working now, thanks!

[heltenjon]

When choosing the AGS awards after the nomination time has expired, we're met by a page that gives the impression that the awards are finished already.

[tampie85]

When choosing the AGS awards after the nomination time has expired, we're met by a page that gives the impression that the awards are finished already.

Fixed! It was because the voting start date wasn't set, I've now added the logic to take an unset date into account.

[cat]

Not sure if this is a new problem. I tried to link the awards thread to a calender entry by pressing the button "Link to Calendar". I enter a title for the event, add the dates and save. But I get an error "Invalid date". I tried both, making it "All day" or with a specific time, it didn't work.