3.1 Launch
17th January 2021
Happy new years. Anything prefixed with (Hotfix) was something we added after 3.0.1 without making an announcement and is being lumped in here for archival purposes.
Misc
- Donation Goals are now updated.
- A few typos have been corrected.
- Error logging has been added to a few problem areas (answering a prompt, mainly). If you see an error message, getting a report, following the template, on ourwould be useful.
Ads
- Ads replace the confirmation box/text with a real link after hitting 'yes'. This should make them work with browsers that treat Cherp ad redirects as pop-ups.
- Ads no longer bug out when the destination link is too long.
Chats
- (Hotfix) You should now properly get notifications for ended chats.
- You should now properly get notifications for deleted chats, except for ones deleted because of user-account deletion.
- You should now be able to send messages in Balsamiq.
- Edits now retain even after an edit has already been made on the same page. Additionally, cancelling an edit now retains what was in the box before you hit edit.
- Triangle chat indicators are back, in addition to and on top of the existing right borders.
Directory
- Searching from within an existing search should now properly work.
- An advanced search link has been added to every directory page's sidebar. This takes you to the Advanced Search page, which allows you to search multiple tags at once and will have further functionality in the future.
- An L-Search (literal search) button has been added to the sidebar search. When you click this, you'll be taken to the Tag you put into the search without the server automatically replacing it with the appropriate synonym. This is useless for ordinary day to day Cherp use.
- The My Prompts page now has a visual representation of the post/bump/draft two hour cooldown. If you've recently bumped or posted a prompt (within the last two hours), the page now disables the bump button until two hours have passed. You do not need to be on the page for the timer to pass.
3.0.1 Launch
23rd November 2020
The launch was a little rough, but the site should be in mostly working order now. Anything prefixed with (Hotfix) was something we added after 3.0 without making an announcement and is being lumped in here for archival purposes.
Misc
- Fixed some broken/overlooked links. Chat deletion or ending now correctly sends you to chats/all, the formatting links in chats sends you to use/formatting, the rules link in prompt creation sends you to use/rules, and the rules link in prompt editing sends you to use/rules. If you see any still broken links, bring them to our attention.
- (Hotfix) We (tentatively) fixed browsers injecting 'www.' into your url when you manually type the link into the url bar.
- Removed Herobrine
- Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.
Ads
- Ads now open the redirect link in a new tab.
- Ad revenue no longer counts towards the donation bar. That was a bug/oversight.
- An ad should no longer take up both possible ad slots for it.
Chats
- A checkbox can now determine the ooc-status of a message, assuming a message is also otherwise editable/postable. When you post a message, clicking the checkbox assures that it's sent as an OOC message. Putting '((' at the start of a message overwrites whatever the OOC checkbox says, though, and always sets the message to OOC.
- You will recieve a notification of a new message when your partner leaves or deletes the chat. Note: This does not apply for account deletions.
- You can properly send messages in Londrina now.
- A potential fix for message sending errors relating to CSRF tokens was implemented.
Directory
- (Hotfix) Prompts now ask you for confirmation to delete them.
3.0 Launch
16th November 2020
Cherp 3.0 has been officially launched- with it come a changes. Insolent is no longer involved with the project- instead, Hex and I (Keys) now compose the Dev Team. In addition to finishing up stuff Insolent had introduced in the Sept 22nd News post, we've made some bugfixes/changes of our own.
Thank you for your patience.
Misc changes
- Site is now in 'dark mode'. You'll notice that a lot of the white space has been replaced with dark blue.
- The logo and favicon have both been changed, to separate us from Cherubplay.
- The Donate page now points to the right account.
- We now have a Site Use pages. This holds the Terms of Service, Code of Conduct, Rules, Tagging Guideline(s), and an Advertisements Guide.
Chats
- Chats now have a color indicator on their right to show you their status: grey for answered, green for unanswered, blue for unread, and red for ended.
- Ending or deleting a chat now asks you for confirmation before processing.
- Characters have been moved to the left
- Advertisements added
- Pagination is now condensed. Your chat list now also has pagination, too.
- We now have a Live page in addition to numbered pages. The Live page grabs the 25 most recent posts in a chat and updates with new posts, but the numbered pages don't.
- Colors are now retained between devices, so long as you've submitted a post with that color.
Directory
- Fixed extensive blacklists resulting in empty directories if the first 'page' had no passing prompts.
- Fixed maturity blacklisting. You can now blacklist maturities and prompts tagged with those will not show up.
- Search has been moved to the left
- You can now search from the edit a prompt page, as well as most others.
- Advertisements added
- Tags with parents now also add their parents' parents(and on, and on).
- Aliased tags now properly chain to the last synonym in a chain.
- Attempting to access a deleted or drafted prompt now gives you a notice
- Searching for a tag now replaces that tag with its synonym in the search. This doesn't redirect you, but you'll get the results that you would have gotten if you'd typed in the right tag
- A prompt now retains write-in warnings and write-in misc tags when you go to edit it.
Site Back Online + Updates
22nd September 2020
The site is now back online. Any users involved in Teh Incident, or who we found breaking rules in the deep clean, have been banned. You may find some chats deleted or ended - this is not a bug.
In addition, we've deployed some updates.
Users can now delete their account.
- Deleting accounts is NOT reversible.
- All chats except group chats will be expunged, as well as the messages in them. The other user will not be able to access the chat anymore.
- All prompts on the account will be deleted.
- All character profiles on the account will be deleted.
- Your data will be present in our backups for up to 30 days following deletion. We will not manually restore it for you, and it will be accessed only for the sake of rule/law enforcement.
Internal monitoring tools have been updated, and more information is stored on users for security purposes now.
- We now keep an IP history of users instead of just their current IP.
- Message edit histories are now kept in perpetuity.
Last visit time is now stored to help us match timelines on reports where needed.
Possibly fixed a bug where pagination would pull all messages after the end of a page on the normal timer.
Prompts can now be deleted if they're old enough to be bumpable.
Fixed an issue where prompts were bumpable after 3 days instead of 5 sometimes.
Mods can now directly start chats with users to hand out warnings.
Mods can now ban users for variable lengths of time.
Mods can now unban users if they feel like it.
The "you are banned" page now tells you when your ban will expire.
Added audit logging tools for admins to keep track of who does what to prevent any potential abuse of mod tools.
Additionally, the grace period for the "prompts must have substance" rule has now ended. To facilitate this, and incidentally, make sure I didn't accidentally introduce too many bugs, all prompts have been drafted. Use this opportunity to give them a once-over, delete the ones you don't want anymore, and spruce up the ones you do.
