#tweakweek

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Tweakweek day 7 (free day) !

I know it looks kinda bad but I spent way too much time on it.

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Tweak Week (Feb 2 - Feb 8)

In an effort to try to be more transparent with ongoing site development, we are now going to be doing Tweak Week updates. This is where all the various smaller tweaks, bug fixes, and little changes will go. Bigger changes will get their own blog posts.

Let's see what we accomplished last week...

User Messages

We've gone ahead and removed the user messages area from the top of the site. Because of a recent change, it's no longer needed. Let's keep things nice and tidy, shall we?

We were able to do this because of some recent changes to chat. The sidebar friends list now displays friends with unread messages at the top of the list.

You can see in the above screenshot that even though KniteBlargh is not online (no green box), they stay at the top of my friends list to let me know that they have sent unread messages (1 in this case).

Game Notifications in Library Tab

We've now put a little notifications tag next to the Library Tab on the site. This way, you stay updated on news from games that you're following, even when they move out of your notifications feed.

OS Sniffing

This was actually implemented a while ago, however there was a bug that was causing it to only work in some cases. Yikes!

The gist of it? We try to guess the operating system you're running, and based on that knowledge, we will attempt to offer up the correct distribution download for you (if the game has a distribution for your OS).

Just trying to be helpful, is all. =]

New Font Styles

Tired of squinting to read the game overviews or news articles on the site? Well, squint no more!

Oh yeah! Look at that nice spacing. Those beautiful line heights. Those perfect margins.

Okay, okay, maybe not exactly perfect, but things are getting there. Expect more typographically inclined changes in the future as we try to clean up some of the pages and bring in some more consistency across all sections of the site.

Right now, you can see the new font styling in game overviews and news articles.

New Icons

Well, well, as detailed in a recent blog article we now have a nice icon font in place called Jolticons. We've gone through and littered some newly designed icons across the site. A quick example of a recent change is the user box area in the header. Mmmm, tasty icons.

Construct 2 Plugin

The community has clamored a long time for this, and it's finally here. Game Jolt community member YellowAfterlife has crafted a simple plugin that allows you to easily implement the Game Jolt API in your Construct 2 game with no fuss (well, not much fuss, at least)!

Check it out in the plugin's forum topic: http://gamejolt.com/community/forums/topics/construct-2-api/2867/

Bug Fixes

Some bugs have been squashed as well! Check it out.

Unread PM notifications were not mailing out, but it's been fixed. You'll now receive emails when someone PMs you in chat and you aren't around to read it. This was a bug introduced as a result of the recent chat changes that went out a couple weeks ago.