Live preview of upcoming web changes

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Live preview of upcoming web changes

Published by on December 24th 2024.

A couple of months ago, I have shown you in a video stream what changes are coming to the rw-designer web. I am still working on it and it is far from finished, but it is ready for a public test.

If you are interested and want to participate in testing, you can visit the new web on this IP address

http://89.221.215.30/

(I am intentionally not making this ^ a clickable link as I do not want search engines and random people to visit the test site. You'll have to copy the link to the address bar manually.)

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You can interact with the test site in any way you like and you can give feedback, but please do not mention obvious problems if something feels unfinished. It is likely I already know about it ;-).

The content on the test web has a copy of the data from main web that is a couple of weeks old. Any changes you make to the test web will eventually disappear, when a more recent snapshot of the main web is imported. So, you can feel free to do anything you like to test the functionality, but do not expect it to have any long time effect.

There are many changes and some things work differently, mainly account creation, forums and comments. You can test these out and give feedback.

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...the old 2000-esque site themes
will be present, right? :-)

user icon SYNTHCRѺ contributing user on January 29th

Excited for the Flea Market! Although I wonder if this will result in deflation of the value of the button. For example, if users with spray paint dispensers flood the market with cheap spray paints.

I don't know what a "lovely stone" is, but I want it.

Very curious to see how the karma system works.

user icon SYNTHCRѺ contributing user on January 29th

With more items coming to the workshop, I would like the ability to rearrange items in my workshop, or at lease the ability to sort them.

user icon Vlasta site administrator on January 29th

Producing a spray can will cost a button in the new version. I will also have to do something about other sources of infinite items, possibly make the produced items (like wrapping papers and cockades) not tradable.

Karma, in an ideal case, should save me time deleting offensive comments, fixing wrong set tags, etc.

user icon SYNTHCRѺ contributing user on January 29th

That makes sense. Kind of like the buy/sell mechanic in a lot of video games where items always sell for less than their purchase price. So in this case, anything created for free is unsellable. i.e., while a spray paint from a dispenser (free) is unsellable, a spray paint purchased from the shop (5 buttons) could be sold.

user icon Anonymous on January 29th

Not is gratis. The dispenser costs 100 buttons! And what's worse, expensive tools like this shouldn't be bought at random. A Dispenser should have the option to choose the desired color. The sandpaper are missing from the purchase list. However, we hope that the news to come will be very good. !

user icon The Male Boss registered user on January 29th

There is a method that works somewhat at the moment for organising you’re workshop but it has its limitations which is to place items in wrapping paper therefore creating fancy presents and then opening them in the order you want them to be placed in.
Some items can’t be placed in wrapping paper.

Previously Vlasta mentioned in a forum that selling items could be problematic due to the fact some items produce unlimited amount of items however that idea was about selling them back the Scunkie rather than selling them to another use through a flea market.
http://www.rw-designer.com/forum/3108

Given at the moment users can trade items through personal messages it’s theoretically possible for users to generate items through dispensers and wrapping paper roles and sell them onto other users which could ultimately lead to the deflation in the value of a button.
Although I would concede the flea market would make this a lot easier to do.

Personally I bought my spray paint dispensers in part so I could have a collection of them I think I’m the only user I know of to own all eight of them although it’s possible an administrator or another user may own all of the eight possible colours
I don’t really give spray paint out for free or sell them to anyone.

Certainly some interesting and helpful points have being made by SYNTHCRO here recently.

user icon SYNTHCRѺ contributing user on January 30th

The Male Boss,
That is a really handy trick for organizing your workshop. Just organized all my stuff.

While you were collecting the dispensers, how many duplicates did you get before you got all 8?

user icon The Male Boss registered user on January 30th

There was a few since I ended up with the same colour dispenser a few times.
The first five I bought were all different colours it was just buying the last three which was harder to achieve.
I’d say it was maybe about seven duplicates in the end.

For any user who attempts to do this with the redesigned website which is currently being tested will find this much easier I suspect given you can see the colour of dispenser in advance before buying this which I think is a good think personally particularly for spray paint dispenser given there not cheap to buy and it takes a some time to buy.
Just by reviewing sets alone which is the primary method of earning buts with a daily limit of 6 buttons it would take 17 days to get 100 buttons although you can speed this process up by earning buttons through the other methods that are available.

The 2000-esque themes
will still be there, right...?

...right?! ("ノ◉︿◉)ノ

user icon Anonymous
What about ICL files?
Vista & Win 7 icons
Select background
I wish there were...