it was just a cop out from me -- anything can still happen

no pool? and poor wifi? hmph must be economy class 🤔 meanwhile hungarian trains don't even have working toilets 😓

`Yitsul` what are the rules on this one?

- fix for user frames paging - fix for user avatars for passing page - show time for timed games near draw next panel button ###### revision 1104

Nice! I already have regrets about this feature.. 😅

good catch! (sadly with `Carrot^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqr new line` not being around these bugs started to pile up) Edit: should be ok now

- fix for the firefox avatar bug (sorry for everyone who was affected) ###### revision 1101

ok I think I found it .. you would never guess what it was: an img tag didn't find the image at the src address and this somehow throw fox off

sorry about that I guess this error should be top priority so far I tried to add at least a warning .. but it seems firefox loses the session sometime after the page is loaded? this is one confusing bug

- new feature under testing: [timed games](/strip/1177) Feature requested by `Scones and Cones` ###### revision 1099

ok I added you to superusers: you should be able to edit now

- various small fixes - trying to make user page more readable with backdrop ###### revision 1090

- new feature: [the flipbook](/strip/1175) (still a bit rough around the edges) Feature requested by `CocoSplat` ###### revision 1086

yea I watched it only a few years ago myself, it was pretty obvious that the critics at the time didn't quite get what the movie was about

indeed that sounds more like an apartment! (how big is this train again?) so you are like this Indiana Jones type of guy hunting for artefacts all over the world? pretending it's camping? ⛺

53 hours on a train?? O_o I nearly lost my marbles after 2 hours on one

- simplified preview of panels - now clicking on one just toggles the onion mode instead of bringing up the dark overlay ###### revision 1077

that is a good point - I guess I'm still overoptimistic over PJs state hmm.. you know maybe I'm overthinking it.. maybe it could be just a basic javascript counter .. and just ask people not to cheat if possible? something like that (after all now that it's guaranteed only legit folks are posting here a lot of safety concerns are simplified)

- new feature: you can now set a backdrop image for your user pages (works the same way as animation and page backdrops)  Feature requested by `Veum` ###### revision 1076

I think this should be possible.. for now I added it to my todo list hmm I guess I could also add an option to hide panels from the feed ? (but no panel will ever be truly hidden due to the file naming convention we use -- which is important for archiving)

if you mean the speedy games on PJ: I kind of want that to stay as a PJ exclusive for now (at least as long as PJ is still around; and this way both PJ and PCh have their own shtiks) so it's planned only for the (hopefully) far future and of course there are some technical problems with it that I still need to iron out first: like how to do the timer so people cannot cheat e.g. I would need to store the start time on the server so people would not just edit the counter value with the inspect tool - but then what if you want to restart and start over? etc.

I enabled them everywhere -- the fun will now commence..

- high resolution panels are now enabled everywhere (in a way this is their real test: let me know if there are any shenanigans) ###### revision 1070

just a heads up: editing avatars seems to be broken on firefox for some reason it breaks your session and logs you out when you submit I don't know how to fix it yet: it doesn't happen in the local version (it was probably reported earlier and I forgot)

ok I added the new system .. by default all of you who have registered so far should be trusted users (let me know if there are any anomalies) new registered users are now non-trusted by default they have a limit on: - how many strips they can make - can only post in their own strips - cannot make forum topics - cannot like strips - their strips have comment limits - cannot pass strips - you cant pass them strips - and also mentions don't work for them they need to be set to be trusted by me manually but I imagine legit folks will usually be set as trusted quickly these limitations are really only to trap spambots and people with bad intentions .. and now place your bets: how long until we get a new troll who finds a workaround?

- registering is enabled again - registering now needs email activation - by default new users will be limited (can only post in their own strips) ###### revision 1068

current state: 

in the end we got lucky that it was only spamming and it was easy to clean up -- it served as a sort of light stress-test on how much damage the site can take (stats: the sql database went up from 1mb to 16mb) it's kind of sad how much the net is in the dark ages -- I mean if someone really wanted to destroy this site for some reason they could just DDOS us .. like bomb us with more connections than the servers can handle (and that would probably take out the hosting service as well) anyway I'm about halfway done with the updates and will probably add them sometime next week: then we can open registering and let the next troll in.. 😅

hmm.. yes that is a good point.. ok how about this one: new users will have a very hard limit on how many strips/comments they can make (like. max 3 new strips, max 1 topic, max 10 comments, max 10 panels -- and won't be able to pass or mention other users -- and these won't be daily limits but an overall total limit per untrusted user) (maybe here could be another limit: only allow them to draw panels in their own strips?) and they won't know about these limits until reaching them I would still have to set them to be trusted manually and of course they can always get untrusted again if they just tried to fool us so with this approach having friends or not won't matter (and the friends only mode will be just an extra layer on top of this for the hopefully few suspicious ones that still get in somehow) I highly doubt it would fully eliminate spamming but might slow it down to manageable speed and as in the previous plan the registering would be tied to email on a max 1 user per email basis (won't fully eliminate the problem either but at least it would make it harder to make more users)

ok here is the current plan: - new users will be set automatically untrusted until I manually set them to be trusted - untrusted users will only be allowed to post in a friends strip or topic (and cannot make new ones) .. and the friend will have to be a trusted user (and I plan later to slowly add limits on how much an untrusted user can post - instead of a daily limit I'm thinking of a maximum total strips/topics/comments that can be made etc. ) - limit which emails we accept (based on the emails you guys use there are about 4 providers on my list) - limit to one account per email - new users will need to login with their email first time (similar to.. or with the password recovery system.. I'm still not sure about this part) it's not perfect (far from it) but it's better than keeping registering closed indefinitely (and if it goes wrong we can always turtle in again like now)