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Aquarium/BG upcoming

  • there is now an opt-out account setting to control whether or not you receive a daily PM about your tank. You should go turn it off now if you hate PMs from NPCs.
  • we plan to deal with Methuselah (immortal) fish soon. We will do a few test runs of the script on a limited set of users; if you are in the test set, you will get an informational PM only. To be clear, you'll see what will happen, but nothing will actually have been done to your tank. We'll use this to track down any issues, and then warn people before we do the real update.
  • we are going to be doing ongoing tweaks and experiments to the player payoff in BG, possibly including a game mechanism that makes the task of choosing the next tank to play more interesting. Also, we will be experimenting with the parameters so that we can get the player / owner ratio down from 4:1.

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Shamrock 2011 Ending

Hey guys, our St. Patricks Day event will be ending today at midnight PDT. So if you haven't already check it out!

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Anime Player

If you're a hardcore Gaian, there's a pretty good chance you also like to dip into some anime once in a while. Since it's our top priority to give you as much awesome free stuff as we possibly can all the time, we've teamed up with Starz to bring you a bountiful boatload of free, streaming anime series.

You can watch all these shows right now in our brand-new Starz Anime Player.

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Anime Player Update

We're having a slight problem with the ad-serving provider for the recently released Anime Player. The good news is that it doesn't seem to be causing any problems with the player itself. This is just a heads up so nobody is surprised when when ads begin to appear when the problem is resolved.

Don't worry, they should be short and shouldn't annoy. XD

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Inventory pagination fixed

If you had issues clicking on page 2, 3, 4, etc at the bottom of /avatar/, /inventory/, or /trade/, I've fixed a lot of these issues. As always, there might be a momentary blip while thee servers update but if you get any glitches more than once, please report them to the Bug Reports forum and I will try to address them quickly.

Also, Mods, your tools are getting a backend upgrade. Please let me know if anything changes for the worse.

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Line Spacing in Forums
TL;DR: we're changing it back; you'll potentially need to make some minor changes to your RP posts at some point in the near future.

The long story, based on much laborious research by Carbonphyber:

We've been modernizing the HTML markup on the site; this has a number of benefits, including making it easier to maintain and also rendering faster on modern browsers.

However, the new markup is more strict, especially in the area of what tags can be nested. This is what was causing the problem in RPs -- tags that were okay to nest in the old markup (i.e., lists inside fonts) are invalid. (Basically, nesting block-level elements inside inline elements is a no-no).

We're evaluating a number of options, including redoing the BBCode parser(*), but we may not be able to solve this problem completely without some minor changes to the RP posts themselves -- for example, a globalfont tag that mirrors font but works at the block level instead of the span level.

Watch Barton Town and/or dev notices for more information.

(*) this is in the queue to be completed anyway, due to prompting by the C&T regulars, but it doesn't 100% completely solve the problem

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Aquarium Cleaning
Aquariums will be cleaned of dead fish this Wednesday, March 30th, starting at 9pm PST. Aquariums / BG will be down for the duration.

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Bugs We'd Like Help On
Two bugs came up in the ATA today that we'd like some help tracking down: one where Salon Durem doesn't show up, and the one where people are unable to change their avi. If you can easily reproduce either of these bugs and can help our QA department narrow them down, please go to the Reporting Bugs forum and give us details.
Avatar/Inventory fix

We found the problem and fixed it. You should be able to equip your avatar, and click on items in your inventory.

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Maintenance Underway
We will be doing aquarium maintenance tonight. We will keep aquariums/BG online if possible, but there may be extended outages.

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Maintenance Delayed
Due to Murphy's Law and the inherent perversity of the universe, the cleaning of the aquariums is delayed. To minimize impact on tank owners, we're going to do a rolling expiration over the next 24-48 hours without taking BG / aquariums offline. Keep an eye on dev notices for more information.

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Tweaks
You see, the artists weren't quite buying our explanation that having manga notices pop up every five minutes was a good thing, and that they should view it more as a manga advertisement than a manga notice...

  • manga notices tweaked for 100% more truthiness, rather than coming up every five minutes
  • clicking on the manga/dev notice should go directly to the right place
  • rolled out spiffy new notice icons, courtesy our art team
Gaia and Internet Explorer 9

If you're using Internet Explorer 9, you might notice a few changes:

1) Meebo has turned off the bar for IE9 while they test and make sure it works fine with the new IE. This means that the bar will never show up.

2) Drag and drop in certain areas do not work. In the shops, you wont be able to move the preview window. We're waiting on Yahoo to update a JavaScript library which we use throughout the site. They've said it should be released in early April.

Achievements and Profiles have been upgraded to a newer Yahoo JavaScript library, so drag and drop will work fine with IE9.

If you have IE9, but want to use the Meebo bar, or really want to move around the shops preview window, then you can push F12 (top right) on your keyboard, and change the Browser Mode to IE8.

There will probably be other stuff that crops up. If you find that something doesn't work correctly in IE9, please report it in the Bug Reports & Technical Support forum.

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April Fools Event
Hey everyone, hope you enjoyed our April Fools event!

The event will continue over the weekend however I will be disabling the forum cat heads,emoticons, and wordfilter changes so that everyone doesn't get to distracted by all the cuteness. smile

The remaining elements of the event will remain active until Sunday at midnight.

So long and thanks for all the fish!

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Aquarium Cleaning Started
Our feline overlords have informed me that they are hungry, so the aquarium cleaning has been started.

How it works: We're slowly cleaning out everyone's tanks in the background, without having to take down aquariums or Booty Grab. When you get a PM, that means that we're going to be adjusting your tank in the next half hour or so.

I'll put out another notice after the process is complete, but it'll take a while; there are about 4 million tanks that we need to process (seriously).

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