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What's new on FandoHub โ new features, fixes and plans
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๐ฒ Quick Play โ a scene in a minute
Playing used to mean building a world first: configure modules, lay out locations, find a GM. Now a premise is enough โ open a room, name the place, add the roles, and play. Whatever the humans don't take, the AI plays.
๐ชช The profile page, rebuilt from scratch
A profile used to be a form: avatar, tagline, a couple of numbers. Now it shows where a person plays, what they wrote and how much their word is worth.
๐งฐ Abilities now work out in the world
Everything alive used to happen inside a scene only: outside it an ability was just a line on a card. Now it is used right in the location โ by players and NPCs alike.
๐ง August debugging
Here's what we fixed during the first week of August.
๐ญ Nobody waits in silence
A scene would freeze, and you couldn't tell: is the person thinking, gone for good, or simply hasn't noticed? Meanwhile NPCs stood around waiting for someone to walk up to them.
๐ก Words don't vanish anymore
Post something nasty, delete it an hour later โ and the conversation looks like nothing ever happened. Now you can only erase while the trail is still warm.
๐ถ The world asks you to be there
A quest handed out and accepted by the same NPC closed in two clicks โ without a single post. The map was walked through by buttons in a minute. Players found this before we did.
๐ Sign in however suits you
There used to be exactly one way in: email, password, confirmation letter. Three steps before a person even sees the world they came for.
๐ง July debugging: names, marks, counters
We cleared out the things that got in the way only a little โ but every single day.
๐ฎ You can see what the world is up to
The active locations list used to be a row of identical pins: a name, a post count, a timestamp. Now you can tell where the game is running and who is there.
You can see what every mark unlocks ๐ท๏ธ
Marks carry half the conditions of a world: a technique opens by one, a mission counts by another, clan membership is proven by a third. Yet they lived as bare slugs in text fields โ and what a given key actually unlocked was known to the GM alone.
๐ Pages got lighter and easier to find
The home page of every world handed the crawler a shell with "Loading...": 232 characters of text and not a single heading. For Google the home page effectively did not exist โ even though it is the one that gathers external weight and passes it on to the rest. We fixed that, and five more places wh