Release 2023-10-21

Features

• The Account Settings page now has a setting that can set the Characters page to hide retired characters by default.
• NPC Box feature implemented:
  • You can now create an "NPC" directly while writing a post by selecting "Choose Character", clicking "NPC", and choosing a name for them. They will be created when posting, previewing, or saving a draft.
  • You can select an existing NPC by going through that same procedure and finding an existing one; they are identified by name and by the first thread they appeared in. They also show up in the mini character selector just like regular characters.
  • NPCs don't show up in your Characters page.
  • On creation the NPC will only have access to the author avatar (or no icon), and whichever you choose will be their default icon.
  • You can click the NPC name on a post to go to their character page and add more details to them, or to promote them to a regular character.
  • You can demote a regular character to an NPC on their character page.

Bugfixes

• Various searches that used to be case-sensitive are now case-insensitive:
  • API: continuities, posts, tags/labels, templates, users;
  • UI: characters names, screennames, and nicknames, reply content exact search, continuities, tags/labels, users.
• Searching within the "Site testing" continuity now works.
• ToS prompt no longer breaks reply permalinks.
• Timestamps now use your local timezone when logged out. Hovering over the timestamp shows UTC.

Development Work

• Posts fetched from the continuity posts API are now ordered by post ID.
• Test improvements.
• Invalid HTML fixes.
• Tracking whether you used the HTML editor or Rich Text editor when writing a post/reply.
• Dependency upgrades; Heroku stack upgrade; Ruby 3.2; local icon uploads; database version upgrades.
• Added Scout for performance monitoring (like NewRelic).
• Moved the repo from Marri/glowfic to glowfic-constellation/glowfic.

Full Github changelog here: changelog