The last update I made for the coverage checker which allows you to see the “outside the lines %” was insanely popular, much to my surprise.
So I worked a little bit more on that, giving you an optional Advanced Coverage Info tab once you select a file on the Upload page.
@autopilot-rising gave me a really good example on how “hidden” stuff shows up on this checker with one of their skins.
Here you see the normal skin as you are used to
And here is the advanced view
At the bottom you can manipulate the different layers, in case the default settings are not clear enough for you.
These settings you see at the bottom also appear on your profile settings page where you can set these values to a different default. This will, of course, require you to be logged in.
Hopefully this will help people figure out where they might be outside of the lines as reported by FRTools : )
As always if you want to contact me, feel free to join the Discord! https://discord.gg/tc4c5tk
As promised, here is the first update to the discord bot!
This update adds two new modules, with more commands to be added to these modules in the near future. The modules added allow you to look up dragons within Discord and also allow you do use the skin tester in Discord. The commands for all of them and how they are used can be found on the help page over here.
This particular update also changes some of the backend code dealing with previewing skins, due to the discord bot sharing code with the website now. Please make sure to report any bugs on Github or on our Discord server.
Here are some examples of the new commands:
Lookup of dragon 51500313
Share a skin you uploaded on the site:
Preview the skin gfbBo with a scry:
Or with existing dragon 56434214:
You can choose which preview you want shown in the embed, though both image will be generated similar to using the website to preview. You can use the links provided for a link to the image preview.
You can invite the discord bot to your own server using this link, or just visit the info page on the site’s dedicated page here.
Do you have any other commands you would like to see in the bot to make your Flight Rising life just that little bit easier? Let me know in a reblog :3
And as always, you can contact us on Discord or through Github!
I want to get myself back involved more into this project, seeing the amount of support you have been giving me on my ko-fi page as well as people approaching kvei for commissions after announcing our coming hardships for a few months. One of the things I want to do, monthly, is to give some insights on the site’s usage. I’m not entirely sure yet how this will look like every month, if it’ll be the same or have different things each month, we’ll see!
How busy has the site been?
I use the service Cloudflare to increase the DNS performance, as well has have a small free caching buffer on the site for static data. One of the additions you get when using Cloudflare is that they keep track of your site’s usage data.
Over the last month the site saw just under 4k unique visitors, with a whopping 648 on July 28th, as well a big spike earlier on July 10th worth 625 unique visitors.
In terms of bandwidth usage, you all uploaded/updated and previewed skins worth 1.11GB of data over the same span of time.
Which skin was the most popular?
The site had its humble beginnings as a skin tester/previewer for FR. So it makes sense that this is still the most used feature on the site. So let’s dig into last month’s skin data and see what comes up! This also gives me an excuse to highlight skins, something I’ve been wanting to do but haven’t really found a good way to do it yet.
The most previewed skin by far has been FATAL ERROR DETECTED by Qomble (nachonacho18) with 165 previews generated.
Second place we have Daybreak Siren by psidoodles with 148 previews generated.
Third place we have llueve luz by sterlingonacid (sterlingonacid) with 127 previews generated.
In total over there have been 4242 previews generated, for 386 different skins or skin versions. This month also marks the milestone of passing 50000 previews generated in the total lifespan of the site 🥳!
Is there anything you are interested in?
If there is a particular piece of data you want to see highlighted next month, leave a message on our Discord, or just join it for some chats! I can aggregate quite a few things based on data in the database, but I have no idea what is actually interesting or fun to know for the masses.
Somewhere this week, maybe next weekend, the Discord bot will be updated some new features btw, so stay tuned. In any case, look forward to another one of these posts next month!
