Stanley: Where's a person go to the bathroom around here?

Magnet: Pick a hole, any hole.

— Holes (2003)

arr-drama dot net has a tumultuous relationship with holes of all sorts: sometimes Carp ravages your holes arbitrarily, sometimes we debate whether gussy or bussy is the better hole. Today we bring you a welcome relief from those petty concerns: you can now be notified when people put things in your holes! Holes are now also more readily available for purchase.

This update adds a "Follow" button to the top of every hole, right above the "Block" button. If you click it, you will receive post notifications for new posts in that hole. You can, of course, later unfollow the hole whenever you please.

Additionally, holes cost 50 000 DC now and anyone can make one if you have the DC. However, they are deleted after 2 weeks of not getting new posts EDIT: One (1) week of not getting new posts. Two weeks went nowhere.

EDIT 22:20Z: /h/neoliberal has been purged for inactivity. Carp considered this very important to announce and was going to shit up your feed with another changelog. You're welcome for getting an edit instead.

Before continuing with this post, I would like to assure everyone that CARP ABSOLUTELY IS not HOLDING ME AT GUNPOINT. Any concerns for my well-being are entirely unnecessary and misplaced. I am merely a humble codecel doing his humble job. I AM not UNDER DURESS.

As many of you know, the vile @idio3 recently thoughtlessly stole Carp's GVLDVN MARSEY from his flair. This not only caused more trouble than you can possibly imagine for the codecels who had to clean up the ensuing mess, but it brought our dearest and most beloved @carpathianflorist to the verge of despair and despondency.

There exist three ways flairs are changed at present. This patch modifies them for Carp in particular as follows:

• User Settings: this method remains unchanged. He can do whatever he darn well pleases with his own flair.

• Flairlock: if his deflector ever does happen to go down, flairlocks applied to Carp will disappear into the void rather than have any effect on anyone.

• Admin Cowtools: other admins can no longer edit Carp's flair. Yes, this makes him better than the other admins as far as the code is concerned.

Fuller minor patch notes about other, unrelated recent changes will be forthcoming in the next few days. Right now I am simply overjoyed to have been able to help Carp through his time of hardship.

This is my first contribution as an official rdrama codecel! The message is optional so you don't have to say anything if you don't want, but if you want to let someone know why you're sending them a gift, now you easily can!

(This feature is largely for myself because I give a lot of money away but I hope everyone enjoys it and finds it useful!)

For users who don't want to be subject to any games of chance, be it because of a proven inability to control yourself with gambling—not naming any names—or for any other reason, there is now a 'Can Gamble' setting in:

https://rdrama.net/settings/content

When disabled, you cannot use the blackjack or slots commands, access the lottery, or receive treasure chests. If you already started a game of blackjack or have outstanding lottery tickets, these will pay out as expected.

The setting has been enabled by default. For users who like losing all of their money every time they get enough DC to clear the minimum bet size, nothing has changed and no action is required.

Minor Patch Notes

• The navigation bar is now much less cluttered and has been rearranged to prioritize the most useful links. Lesser-used icons have been moved to the sidebar, or the hamburger menu on mobile. The sidebar navigation icons now also include the Marseys list, badges list, and modlog—I don't think we actually had links to the first two anywhere, and the third was hard to find.

• The delayed vote color animation in the recent UI changes has been removed.

• The lottery modal popup should behave better on mobile. (h/t @nekobit)

• Poll voters on ghosted threads are now ghosted too. Private votes! (h/t @Aevann)

• RSS feeds have more valid syntax and should™ work with more clients now. (thanks to our friends at WPD for providing a patch)

• Jannies: meme jannies are no longer a thing, and handing out mops via the UI has been removed. We had too many, and after Joan's recent purge, it was decided that forcing the local codecels to open a database prompt to add new ones would cut down on jannie quantity.

You can now click an empty spot on the navigation bar to scroll to top

Also added blur to modal popups so ur gpu fans start running idc lol

Follow up to https://rdrama.net/post/72129/changelog-new-animations-voting-dropdown-reply, please view this to see the other changes I did (you can consider this changelog connected to that on i guess)

Hello friends, I worked on some UI changes today and I hope you enjoy them. It will improve the rDrama experience

• Upmarseys and downmarseys are now animated, very satisfying !

• An adaptive shadow is displayed on the navigation bar. the lower you scroll the more shadowy it will become (to a limit of course)

• The replies modal (quick reply) is now animated and expands out cleanly

• Dropdown menus are also animated and have a shadow. A few go lower than expected but I will fix this soon, just need to remove some leftover crust on the HTML

Other things worth mentioning: I made the rDrama logo in the top right not expand all the way anymore, this is because in my next patch I will add a feature to click the navbar to scroll back to top

Thank u friends, a bit new to being a codecel here but i enjoy making changes to improve the site

Updates: Animations can be disabled in the config menu. Fixed bugs with mobile phones and stuff, and fixed up some components.

Scroll to top has been added to the top of the screen

Offtopic nerd shit and codecel shilling , but I am developing my own fediverse frontend in C, called Treebird, here is a screenshot.

That technically makes it rDramaware too..... because soon, our Fediverse instance will switch from Pleroma's default frontend to Treebird as the default. It does not require Javascript and is very fast but I'm still working on it I want to make sure the first version is usable enough for everyone. SHILL END

You can now purchase the Y'all Seein' Eye award in the shop for 150 000 D_C. This allows you to be able to view you profile visitors, and you get a fun Texas-themed badge with it. Carp fought hard against adding this because he hates fun and he hates Texas, but the forces of good prevailed in the end. For all you badge collectors (art courtesy @McCoxmaul):

EDIT: In light of further mod discussion and public reception, the Y'all Seein' Eye has been removed. Rest of changelog still stands.

Eight-Ball Fortunes: You can now put #8bαll in your comments for a random magic eight-ball fortune. Like #fοrtune but a less eclectic, more standard set of answers.

Leaderboard: https://rdrama.net/leaderboard now has a table of contents at the top so you don't have to scroll so much, plus a floating back-to-top button in the bottom right. We also now have a "Top 25 Most Blocked" hiscore table at bottom.

Confetti: As you likely noticed, confetti recently become less ghetto. It's not changing any more. If you want the (((coin))) shower back, beg hard enough and it might become a new award. No promises, though—the (((cabal))) is very restrictive about certain award themes.

Minor Patch Notes:

• Randomly chosen agendaposter PFPs are back—no more Astolfo only. We added a few more images too so our chuds can really feel represented in their pictures!

• User count on the sidebar is still undergoing formatting changes. The random flavor text ("x chuds currently agendaposting", etc) will be back soon.

• Chat is fixed.

• User profile pages now have many more HTML id attributes in the markup. This should make customizing profile CSS somewhat less of a pain. Feel free to ask if there's other elements you want a class or id on.

• More Marseys are still coming Soon™. Carp is very bad at computers.

The 8-Ball Says: Yes definitely.

here https://rdrama.net/settings/profile#filename-show2

idea by @peepee

So basically now the anchor element that contains the username is now a proper anchor with its own href pointing to the user's profile, as shown in pic.

If you click normally, the default behaviour is suppressed and the good ol' modal is shown; otherwise if you click with the middle mouse button or with the primary button but with ctrl, meta, alt or shift key pressed it'll bypass the modal logic and open the profile directly according to your browser's default behaviour!

A breakthrough in anti-hate technology!

So now while scrolling you can open in new tabs all the people you want to track!

apk here https://rdrama.net/assets/app_rDrama_v2.4.apk

src code for the app here https://github.com/Aevann1/DramaAndroidApp

@ACA @sniper24 @1998sublime @TraderOfSouls @AverageBen10Enjoyer @Cum_Death @Modern_Major_General @Homoshrexual @FearOfBees

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.

Have you ever browsed rDrama from an X11 client connected to an X11 server running on X11 seat without a X11 pointing device installed and felt the inconvenience of having to hit TAB multiple times on your X11 keyboard to bring in focus that post button?

Fear no more! Modern Science has bring humanity a new breakthrough in shortcut technologies:

NOW YOU CAN POST YOUR COMMENT BY HITTING CTRL + ENTER FROM THE KEYBOARD ATTACHED TO YOUR X11 SEAT!

The shortcut is also compatible with other graphical servers

yes

checkmark award: gives the recipient a checkmark. - costs 100k coins or marseybux

u can change the hover text here https://rdrama.net/settings/profile#checkmark_text, up to 100 characters (markdown not supported)

download the new version here https://rdrama.net/assets/app_rDrama_v2.3.apk

@iowa_hawkeye

Good morning sirs,

New emoji modal implementation just dropped like 10 hours ago, I am sure some burgers noticed. What changed?

• now you can select options to make the emoji larger, mirrored or patted directly in the modal

• better search performance: logarithmic time complexity in exchange of linear space complexity in the numbers of tags per emoji

• better render performance, every time you make a search or change tab it won't re-generate the whole DOM from scratch; although there's still room for improvement

• if you hover over an emoji you'll get some infos

• emoji modal is well behaved, it won't try to overwrite a selection without your consent

• emoji modal will let you know when your search query results in an empty set 💅

• backend: now it is possible to add tags to non-marsey emojis

I hope this clears things up

https://rdrama.net/badges

The badges listing page you've known and loved has NEW FEATURES.

1. You can see how many people have each badge and what percentage of the total userbase that represents.

2. You can click on the #/Rarity column header to sort by rarity.

3. You can click on the links in the number column for a list of users with that badge.

For esoteric technical reasons, badge rarity only recomputes once an hour, so don't be surprised if the person you just chudded doesn't show up immediately.

I am also told that @carpathianflorist has already used this new data to embark on the Night of the Long Badge. Thirteen Sigmas have been tossed off the grindset, and nearly all Artist Laureates have been found wanting. The reign of terror may continue sporadically at Carp's sole discretion.

h/t to @X (formerly chiobu) for suggesting the feature.

new version here https://rdrama.net/assets/app_rDrama.apk?v=2

Due to completely inexplicable whining, we have restored /h/eevee (1 post in 7 days) in exchange for /h/sylveon (1 post in 7 days), and /h/slackernews (4 posts in 7 days - all of which are better suited to the main feed) in exchange for /h/sweden.

Your tantrums have created work and suffering for Aevann.

Your Holes are still going to be deleted in a matter of weeks.

I hope you’re pleased with yourselves you histrionic cute twinks.

https://rdrama.net/catalog

for you imageboard strags who want to feel like you're still on 4chan

@schizocel

Thanks to the lovely @float-trip, you can now uncomfortably touch ANY and ALL users with one simple command. Behold!

: @usernamepat :