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New Leaderboards

The Swan Station has four new leaderboards!

Total Pushes: The number of times each hatchie has pushed the button. It is calculated by adding resets and attempts together.

R/A Ratio: The ratios of resets/attempts for each hatchie.

Points Per Push: The amount of points each hatchie receives per push on average. It is calculated by dividing the amount of points by total pushes.

Diff To Total Pts: The difference between each hatchie's total calculated points and actual points. Calculated points only counts resets and attempts. Therefore, consecutives (+1 every 4th) increase this score, while name changes (-3) decrease this score.

Thanks to Doctor Pressure for these leaderboard ideas.

I hope this makes The Swan Station more interesting and adds a few more things to aim for!

Namaste,

Nathan, Dharma Admin

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Scheduled Maintenance Downtime

UPDATE: The server move has been rescheduled due to an issue. It will now take place on November 19th, 2015.

The Swan Station is switching to a new server! Due to this, it will be down shortly sometime between 4PM and 5PM EST on November 18th, 2015. I will make sure the downtime doesn’t occur when the timer is near the reset. If your consecutive run gets messed up due to this downtime, please let me know and I will restore it for you.

You can contact me via the “Contact Admin” form if you have any questions.

Namaste, 

Dharma Admin

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Happy 8/15

Hey hatchies, happy American Lost day!

Posted on 8/15 at 16:23:42 (EDT)

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New sounds, better system failures!

Hey hatchies,

I’ve updated the sounds for timer reset and 1 min timer tick. It sounds much better now. Thank you to GhostOfEko for the improved timer tick sound!

I also greatly improved the system failure sequence. It now has background sounds while the lady says “System Failure” and a few other surprises. Check it out for yourself by opening another tab before the time is reset and letting the second tab go to system failure!

Namaste,

Dharma Admin

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You can now scroll up through the last 50 messages in chat

Tired of not being able to read messages because too many are being sent and you can’t keep up? Wish you could go back up just a few messages to read something you missed and don’t have chat history yet? Introducing... chat scrolling!

When you’re in communication, you can now scroll back up to the past 50 messages. Chat history (level 5) remains the same, but this will benefit everyone who uses chat.

Hope you all enjoy this update!

Namaste,

The Dharma Admin

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[Reverted] Leaderboard is now ordered by average of points and resets

UPDATE: This change has been reverted. The leaderboard is ordered by points only now.

It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve posted an update on this blog. I’ve been making some small tweaks and improvements here and there, but I think this update is worthy of a blog post.

You may notice your ranking may have changed. If it went up, awesome! If it went down, I’m sorry! I believe this change allows the leaderboard to reflect more accurate rankings.

Let me know what you think of this change below or in chat. I may revert it if you guys don’t think it makes sense.

Namaste,

The Dharma Admin

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Say hello to user flair

Hey hatchies,

I’ve added something called “user flair.” User flair is a way to show off the work you’ve done at The Swan Station on your website, forum signatures, etc.

Here’s my user flair as of May 30th, 2015:

Cool, huh?

I got the idea for this from another hatch site called “The Button”.

To see your flair, go to your profile and click on “User Flair”. You’ll be able to copy and paste HTML or BBcode to put your user flair on your website or forum(s).

It updates automatically every 2 hours.

Namaste,

The Dharma Admin

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Private messaging just got easier

Hey hatchies.

Private message conversations now get their own pages! This was requested in the issue tracker a little while ago (request #18).

You may be wondering what I mean by “own pages.” Well, before this update you had to overlook the messages sent by everyone else when you were having a private conversation with somebody. Now, they’re all shown on one page when you’re chatting with the other hatchie.

Note: This is a level 3 feature, so if you’re not on level 3 you won’t see this yet. Keep pushing, you’ll get there eventually!

Let me know what you think in the comments below!

If there’s something that you’d like implemented on The Swan Station, remember to put it on the issue tracker or submit it via the 'Contact Admin’ form.

Namaste,

The Dharma Admin

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Leaderboard Is Now Ordered By Points

Hello everyone!

I was looking at the leaderboard and realized that there were people on higher levels ranking lower than people on levels lower than theirs. This is because it used to be ordered by the number of successful resets a hatchie has made, which doesn’t count attempts or consecutive bonuses. 

Points, on the other hand, count successful resets, attempted resets, and consecutive bonus points. Because of this, I have decided to make the leaderboard now be ordered by the number of points a hatchie has. This seems to be more fair and makes the most sense.

Stay tuned for more updates to come!

Namaste,

The Dharma Admin 

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Sound Improvement

Hey hatchies,

I’m excited to announce that the feature you guys have been wanting for a while has finally been implemented!

If you have your sound muted and the timer gets to 1:00, it will still sound the alarm if it hasn’t been reset yet by someone. There will also be a warning message that pops up at the top of the screen.

This will benefit almost every dedicated hatchie. Now, you can leave the site open and put the sound on mute when you go to sleep. You will only be alerted if nobody resets the timer by the 1:00 mark. This will hopefully help to prevent circumstances that caused system failures to occur in the past.

Happy button pushing!

Namaste,

The Dharma Admin

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Introducing the redesigned online user list

Hey Hatchies!

I have redesigned the online list so that it can now stay open while browsing the site. This was requested by some users via The Swan Station issue tracker a little while ago.

Before this update, you had to click “View List” and a box would pop up with the list of online users. Now, in the bottom right corner the online list is just there and will update automatically every minute. You can hide it if needed.

If you’re on level 4 or higher, you'll also see the time the user was last active and the page they are viewing.

Let me know what you think! Leave a comment here or just chat with me at the station.

Namaste,

The Dharma Admin

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Happy Lost Anniversary!

Lost, the best TV series ever created, ended 5 years ago today. It aired from 2004-2010.

Did you like or hate the ending of Lost?

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Introducing our new blog!

Hey everyone!

Welcome to the new Swan Station blog!

The Swan Station doesn’t really have a structured place for site news, so I have created this blog. Site updates will be posted on this blog, as well as Lost-related stuff.

Namaste,

Dharma Admin