Birthgay event, patch notes for recent minor changes

For those who want a nice bulleted list of site changes without having to wade through Carp's wordswordswords—admittedly beautiful words, but nonetheless. Plus, other recent minor changes that didn't make other changelogs.

Birthgay Event

Three new awards (permanent, will remain after event):

• Fireworks (300 D_C): shows fireworks over post, stacks to 4.

• Confetti (300 D_C): shows confetti over post, does not stack.

• Stripper Cake (500 D_C): you've seen what it does by now, stacks to 3.

Lootboxes (for duration of event):

• 1000 D_C, contains 5 post awards valued 300–500 D_C each. Includes the three new awards!

• Now actually sends you a notification to tell you what you got!

Double XP:

• All votes from now until the end of the event give the recipient 2 dramacoin instead of 1. Truescore increments by +1 per usual.

• Unlike over Fistmas, there is no longer an exploit to farm infinite D_C (300 D_C/hr/alt) by repeatedly voting and unvoting a post. I don't know if anyone exploited it back then, but you can't do it anymore.

Party Hats:

• On your cakeday, you get a partyhat displayed on your profile pic and a cool badge for surviving one year on this hell-site.

• For rDrama's birthgay, everyone gets a hat! After the event, they become cakeday-only.

Birthgay Gifts:

• Everyone received a badge for the birthgay event. Art creds: @McCoxmaul

• Everyone with ≥250 truescore received 1000 D_C.

Temporary UI changes for event:

• logo.

• Balloons header background. Gave header text black outline to improve readability.

• Journoid banner replaced with a birthgay message.

• 24 (!!!) birthgay banners. Art creds: @idk, @Dramamine, @Modern_Major_General and @HeyMoon

Patch Notes (from the past week)

• Shop discount bug: the Big Spender badges for spending dramacoin in the shop mistakenly gave a much larger discount than intended. They now give a 2 percentage-point discount per badge owned.

• Shop discount improvement: the Roller badges for opening lootboxes obtained at 10, 50, and 150 boxes purchased give a permanent 1 percentage-point discount per tier.

• Audio embedding in posts: <audio controls preload="none" src="https://.../example.mp3"></audio> will display a sound player in your post or comment. No more Vocaroo! Usual restrictions on media hosts apply—rehost to catbox.moe if in doubt. Working on getting audio uploads to work and easier markup so you don't need to add an HTML tag—stay tuned for future changelog.

• Comment posting hotkey: the Ctrl-Enter shortcut to post a comment was recently announced. We now have Mac support for Cmd-Enter.

• Shop UI: Rows on desktop are now more compact.

• Highlighted text is automatically inserted as a quote when you click reply. However, this did not previously retain formatting. This has been fixed. (kudos @nekobit)

• Factchecks: you've known and loved the #fοrtune feature in comments. Now you can get a random #factcheϲk. (kudos to @Absinthe)

• Reminder: Polls only ever appear at the end of a post, no matter where you put them in the markup. Formatting Help now reflects this.

• Mod log timestamps now display exact times on mouseover.

• Snappy now uses search.marsey.cat instead of camas. Also, fixed bug where the camas links would have the entire post URL shoved into the author field.

In the Pipeline for Coming Weeks

• More Marseys are coming Soon™.

• Super secret improvements to the House system. You will probably like them. If you don't like them, you will be forcibly compelled to like them.

• Minor improvement to search.

• Minor improvement to comment sorting.

• … lots of other things I'm probably forgetting.