Metin2 Dev - Changelogs

[Geoffrey 9338]

In anticipation of a future update, the cron job that updates the Discord database has been updated.
Now almost all JSON return from the Discord API is logged (Nickname, Pending, Deaf, Mute, Flags, Timeout...)...

The cron job is working hard to take care of updating the missing data, good luck to it.

[Geoffrey 9338]

Forum

• Marketplace and Help Center categories have been merged into Miscellaneous
• Miscellaneous category has been renamed to Uncategorized
• Questions & Answers forum has been renamed to Community Support - Questions & Answers
• Searching forum has been renamed to Paid Support / Searching / Recruiting
• Showcase forum has been created and added in the Miscellaneous category
• Metin2 forum has been cleaned up and topics have been moved to Showcase or even Community Support - Questions & Answers
• Private Servers category is now below Metin2 Development category
• Changed all icons to try to standardize the graphical style
• Metin2 forum has been moved in Miscellaneous category
• Untrusted has been renamed to Untrusted Users in the Miscellaneous category shortcuts
• Rules has been renamed to Marketplace Rules in the Miscellaneous category shortcuts
• Adding Community Rules in the Miscellaneous category shortcuts
• Enabled Fluid Display in Programming & Development forum (In test)

 

Special

• Some members will see an additional category, studies are in progress
• If you are concerned, don't hesitate to tell me your opinion or your ideas

[Geoffrey 9338]

Hello,

Version 5 of the Invision engine is coming soon (In few months, I think...)... The future release of this forum engine will bring new features, improvements but also features currently in use will be removed. Here are the features that will impact the community in the coming months...

 

These features are deprecated and will be removed in the next major forum release

• Status Updates -> This feature allows you to write on your profile, like a Facebook profile (Hi @ Syreldar...). Maybe I can replace this feature with the built-in Blogs or Clubs system.
• Questions & Anwsers forum mode -> This feature allowed to put +1 or -1 or to define a post as the best answer in the forums where this mode was activated (Like Stack Overflow...). I restored the Discussion mode of the forums concerned by activating the feature Mark as solved below each post.
• Plugins -> This feature allowed the use of plugins (In M2Dev -> Who Was Online (24H), Hide Link and Code). Invision wants to replace plugins with the forum application system. I hope there will be an application version for the plugins I use (But I remain optimistic, it is used a lot...)...

 

As a reminder, in my community management policy, I avoid applications dedicated to features so as not to be dependent on updates and thus offer a stable and secure forum. I prefer to develop some features outside of the forum engine (Cron Jobs...).

Regards,
ASIKOO

[Geoffrey 9338]

Purchase of advertisements disabled, I'm testing a new format.

[Geoffrey 9338]

On 2/14/2024 at 7:22 AM, AZICKO said:

Purchase of advertisements disabled, I'm testing a new format.

Advertisements are again available for purchase.
Small and large advertising inserts will no longer alternate, only advertisements of the same size between them.

 

Unique Advertisement (30.00 EUR for first month and 25.00 EUR by month for renewal)

• This advertising insert is displayed next to the logo and only in this location.
• This advertising insert is unique and is only sold once.
• As soon as the ad expires, the advertising insert will be put on sale again.

Small Advertisement / Large Advertisement (10.00 / 15.00 EUR for first month and 5.00 / 10.00 EUR by month for renewal)

• This advertising insert is displayed in the header, footer, after the first topic and after a first post and only in these places.
• This advertising insert is not displayed next to the logo.
• This advertising insert can only be sold three times (3 smalls and 3 larges).
• As soon as the ad expires, the advertising insert will be put on sale again.

[Geoffrey 9338]

Some changes to ranks :

• Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond ranks are disabled.
• Inactive Member, Active Member and Active+ Member ranks have been created.

Changelogs :

• A member is considered an Inactive Member when their last visit was more than 3 months ago.
• Unlike before with the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond ranks, Active Member or Active+ Member can be automatically removed if they no longer meet the conditions.
  • A member is considered an Active Member when he has more than 128 reputation points and if he has had activity within the forum during the last 3 months.
  • A member is considered an Active+ Member when he has more than 256 reputation points and if he has had activity within the forum during the last 3 months in the releases category.
• This doesn't apply to special ranks.
• Access to the Marketplace will be possible if the member is at least Active Member or if they have a special rank (Yes, I changed my mind again, there is too much abuse).
• Role automation on Discord based on your forum rank no longer works very well (Except Nitro Booster). I'm actively working on a new Discord SSO with a new synchronization of roles according to your ranks on the forum.
• All these automations are managed by scripts external to Invision Community engine.

[Geoffrey 9338]

Discord SSO coming soon (New)...

Discord authentication already exists, however this is based on an IC application for which I no longer have a license. This application managed the synchronization of roles, display name, login, registration and magic invitations for the forum. Having the possibility of doing without it, I created an SSO relay between Metin2 Dev and Discord oAuth2 with all features.

 

Previews

[Geoffrey 9338]

Metin2 Dashboard

• Reactions -> Disabled
• Search -> Was rewritten with dynamic paging
• Accounts -> Was rewritten with dynamic paging
• Discord -> Was rewritten with dynamic paging
• Pillory -> Currently rewriting, temporarily disabled
• Untrusted -> Currently rewriting, temporarily disabled

Pillory and Untrusted are being merged in order to have only one specific dashboard for this.

[Geoffrey 9338]

On 4/7/2024 at 10:24 PM, AZICKO said:

Metin2 Dashboard

• Reactions -> Disabled
• Search -> Was rewritten with dynamic paging
• Accounts -> Was rewritten with dynamic paging
• Discord -> Was rewritten with dynamic paging
• Pillory -> Currently rewriting, temporarily disabled
• Untrusted -> Currently rewriting, temporarily disabled

Pillory and Untrusted are being merged in order to have only one specific dashboard for this.

Pillory is now online.

[Geoffrey 9338]

For users not on our Discord server, all services were unavailable for more than 24 hours.
The cause was a failure of the server's hard drive which caused instability / crash.
What took the longest was my desire to lose as little data as possible, despite backups and data duplication with RAID.
Finally, the hard drive was replaced by OVHCloud, the RAID was rebuilt and everything went well.
3 Days have been added to paid ads.

[Geoffrey 9338]

About Us

• Premium group benefits have been updated.

Ads

• Ads have been adjusted and all ad slots are now unique, as long as a user pays for the ad slot, it will be unavailable.
• Prices have been revised to reflect this new change.
• A new advertising format is emerging with Private Messages and this will be usable once a month for the moment (First come, first served).
• Another advertising format is being considered.

[Geoffrey 9338]

Private message advertising is now available (During the day of Saturday 17 August 2024) : https://metin2.dev/store/product/46-private-messages/
If you have any technical or other questions about this type of advertising, please feel free to contact me.

 

Special advertisement

• Mass sending of a private message (Like a newsletter).
• This advertisement enables you to send a private message (Text, URL, Media...) of your choice to all members active in the last month (~2000 members).
• Each month, it's possible to purchase a private message delivery by type of advertising (~4).

Steps 

• You place your order by filling in all the fields.
• Before the messages are dispatched, a sample will be sent to you for final approval and adjustments.
• A follow-up will be possible on request, whether or not members have read the private message (Provided that the private message is opened) and click tracking.

Miscellaneous

• The private message will be delivered even if the recipient's inbox is full or if they have deactivated it (They will still be able to view the message).
• Sending private messages is done in the background, approximately 24 hours to transmit all messages.
• The member will also receive an email notification, according to his preferences.
• The private message is sent by the website's internal bot.
• You can contact us to know more about the sample members before your purchase.

Edited August 16, 2024 by Metin2 Dev International
Core X - External 2 Internal

[Geoffrey 9338]

It's been a few months since the last update. This update is still about the advertising system.
Having the ownership of several websites, I decided to unify and centralize advertising management.
Stock management is automatic, only payment has become manual without the PayPal API (Lazy).
It no longer has a specific location, the advertisements all alternate across all locations.
This new platform is currently being adjusted

-> https://aurum.asikoo.com/

[Geoffrey 9338]

Premium plans have been updated :

• Preparing an update to metin2.download to link your accounts with metin2.dev
• To maintain the infrastructure as long as possible, unlimited downloads from metin2.download will no longer be possible without a premium account
• https://metin2.dev/subscriptions/

More information later regarding the new limitations on metin2.download

[Geoffrey 9338]

Ads for metin2.dev and metin2.download have a 5 euro discount for this summer (25 -> 20) -> https://aurum.asikoo.com/
Use this promo code when purchasing to get 25% off : METIN2_DEV_2025 -> https://metin2.dev/store/product/46-private-messages/

 

[Karbust 6703]

Fixed YouTube videos with Error 153.