Changelog

V5.17.5

2023-05-20

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug displaying the Adult Only rating on content edit pages while Adult Only wasn't opted into.

New Features:


V5.17.4

2023-05-17

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that caused elements like greater-than signs, ampersands, and such to not show up in the forums.

New Features:


V5.17.3

2023-05-15

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that caused edited uploads to move back to the top of the timeline.

New Features:


V5.17.2

2023-05-13

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug where on certain errors comment threads would end up orphaned.
  • Fixed a bug where notifications being attempted on defunct accounts would error out and stop publication of forum posts.

New Features:


V5.17.1

2023-05-11

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug causing multiple copies of comments to be posted at once.
  • Fixed a bug preventing the upload submit buttons from disabling upon submission.
  • Fixed a bug causing login cookies to expire immediately.

New Features:


V5.17

2023-05-08

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug preventing avatar shape to be updated.
  • Fixed a bug preventing HTML img tags from being used.
  • Fixed a bug preventing some pieces from being Favorited.
  • Fixed a bug where certain notifications and descriptions were displaying a blank title rather than 'Untitled'.
  • Updated credit allotments so that caps measure from midnight of the current day instead of from 24 hours prior to now.
  • Fixed the User Header bug showing all variable items all the time.
  • Fixed a bug preventing .WAV files from playing properly.
  • Fixed a bug where file cache wasn't expiring and was filling the disk.

New Features:

  • Added new forum post notifications for new posts in threads a user is participating in.
  • Added in unpublished forum post management screen.
  • Added custom pronoun options in the user profile.
  • Added Recent Submissions and Random Favorites to the user's profile.
  • Added Portfolio listing at the top of the user's gallery.
  • Added new art post submission notifications for Friends and Followers.
  • Added blocking and unblocking to the Settings page under "Manage Blocked Users".
  • Modified the cookie code to extend the life of the login session to one week.

V5.16.3

2023-04-19

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug preventing the link to a user's journal from showing if they only had one entry.
  • Fixed a bug that caused tooltips to sometimes appear in the wrong dimensions.

New Features:

  • Added tag filtering preferences to the feeds on the main page.
  • Added journal link to forums posts.
  • Added link to Manage Journals on profile page.
  • Added Journal and Write Journal links in account menu.
  • Added Recent Journal Entries to the main page.
  • Added measures to strip out potentially harmful HTML tags and arguments from user-input fields.

V5.16.2

2023-04-08

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented new forum threads from being properly created, with the post never being marked as published.

New Features:


V5.16.1

2023-04-04

Bug Fixes:

New Features:

  • Added content type filtering on the recent uploads page.
  • Updated the tag entry fields on the new content and editing content fields so they show the tags as they're entered, in a clearer way.

V5.16

2023-03-30

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug preventing preview images from showing up on links to the site.
  • Fixed a bug preventing linking to the proper "latest post" from the forums group listing page.

New Features:

  • Added user journaling to the site.
  • Added caps-lock detection to the login screen.
  • Added Facebook button to main menu that leads to the S7 FB page.
  • Added more apparent links to the Friend Management page.
  • Added permalinks to forums posts.
  • Added permalinks to user uploaded content comments.
  • Added permalinks to user journal comments.

V5.15

2023-03-10

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug preventing user-owned perk upgrades from being listed properly.
  • Fixed a bug preventing the purchase of perk upgrades if a user had subscriber access.
  • Fixed a bug preventing the use of periods and parentheses in a user's First/Last names in the edit profile page.
  • Fixed a bug preventing OG thumbnails from linking properly.
  • Fixed a bug causing OG descripions to display across the top of content pages.
  • Fixed pagination on search and tag search pages.

New Features:

  • Added the ability to purchase Side 7 Credits via Paypal.

V5.14.1

2023-02-26

Bug Fixes:

New Features:

  • Added ability to sort Museum, Friends Feed, and Favorites Feed by submission date, title, or artist.

V5.14

2023-02-23

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed bug where content view count went up when the content owner viewed the content.
  • Fixed bug where the setting to not show social sharing links on content was being ignored.

New Features:

  • Increased the allowed filesize for audio files from 10MB to 25MB.
  • Expanded the base and perk storage limits from 250MB to 1GB, and from 1GB to 5GB, respectively.
  • Added "Previous Posts" listing in the create forum post page.
  • Added a new forum post preview page

V5.13.2

2023-01-14

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed advanced search options so that they filter correctly.

New Features:


V5.13.1

2023-01-07

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug where content marked as Everyone couldn't be upgraded to a higher rating in the content edit screen.

New Features:

  • Added a new page explaining acceptable and not acceptable Adult Only content.

V5.13

2022-12-25

Bug Fixes:

New Features:

  • Added editing of a parsed document for literature content.

V5.12.1

2022-12-17

Bug Fixes:

New Features:

  • Added a 'Mark All Seen' button to the notifications screen to work-around the Firefox bug that makes prevents click events from firing.

V5.12

2022-12-10

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug whereby filenames containing unicode characters resulted in a file that couldn't be added to the site.

New Features:

  • Added the Oekaki board to the site.

V5.11.5

2022-11-16

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed several display bugs regarding friend and favorite counts on the Manage Gallary screen.
  • Fixed a bug that didn't completely remove friend relationships when removing an account.

New Features:

  • Added Favorites Received stat data to the Manage Gallery dashboard.

V5.11.4

2022-11-11

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug causing the Unfavorite button to vanish.

New Features:

  • Added the use of username to upload tooltips when full name is blank.

V5.11.3

2022-11-04

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug preventing standalone URIs from being parsed correctly in descriptions, posts, etc.
  • Fixed a bug causing a random logout when clicking on a bell notification.

New Features:

  • Added Markdown parsing to the forums. So, now forums posts can be formatted in BBCode or Markdown.

V5.11.2

2022-10-25

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed bug preventing documents with multi-byte characters from saving to the database properly.
  • Fixed bug preventing character descriptions with multi-byte characters from saving to the database properly.

New Features:

  • Added support for emojis and multi-byte characters to content descriptions, literature uploads, character descriptions, and forums. More updates to other areas of the site to come.

V5.11.1

2022-08-31

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed bug where Next on a content page showed the user's most recent post, rather than the next post.

New Features:


V5.11

2022-08-20

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated thumbnail generation code to account for most cases of portrait orientation photos being auto-rotated to landscape.

New Features:

  • Added Queued Posts account perk. Users can now upload content and set it to post at a future date and time.
  • Added Gallery Backup account perk. Users can now download a backup of all of their uploaded works.
  • Added Ko-Fi link.
  • Added Recent Submissions link to the main page.

V5.10

2022-05-20

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug where titles with double-quotes caused audio rendering to fail.
  • Fixed a bug preventing thumbnails from showing when the filename has an apostrophe in it.
  • Fixed a minor copyright statement issue in the site footer.

New Features:

  • Contact link for users now works.
  • Added Top 20 Tags cloud to the Main Page.
  • Added Profile and Gallery links to forum posts for post authors.
  • Added new stat: 7-Day Top Commenter
  • Newest Members now only shows active accounts.

V5.9

2022-05-20

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug preventing UTF-8 characters from displaying and saving properly.
  • Fixed a bug where reciprocal friend requests weren't both being accepted when one user accepted the request.

New Features:

  • Serial Art is now searchable in the site content search.
  • Added content thumbnail refreshing to the user dashboard.

V5.8

2022-04-30

Bug Fixes:

New Features:

  • Added new Serial Art feature, where art can be grouped and viewed like a webcomic.
  • Re-added the user referrals.
  • Re-added user account deletion flags.

V5.7

2022-04-20

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that sent the user to the first post of a thread in the forums after making a new post, rather than sending the user to their new post.
  • Fixed a bug in the admin side that used a malformed anonymous array in a user account lookup.
  • Fixed a bug preventing the Friends Feed page from infinitely scrolling.

New Features:

  • Updated site rules to include commercial advertisement as a restricted practice on the site.
  • Re-added the Contact Us page.
  • Re-added forum post deletion back into the forums.
  • Added an enhancement to the user dashboard UI, so that the signature preview automatically and dynamically updates when a new signature graphic is uploaded.

V5.6

2022-04-03

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug where the person favoriting an upload received the notification of it being favorited, rather than the upload's owner being notified.

New Features:

  • Added reCaptcha to the signup page to combat spam bots.
  • Added more stats to the index page.

V5.5

2022-03-26

Bug Fixes:

  • Deactivated lazyload to prevent double-loading of pages, which caused problems with pages that track views and other counts..
  • Fixed a bug preventing an upload from being deleted if a user favorited the upload.

New Features:

  • Added reCaptcha to the Report A Problem page to combat spam bots.
  • Updated comments so that the Reply button reflects to whom a reply is being made. Quote Replies now lists the username as whom the quote is from. Replies to a comment now mention the user being replied to.
  • The author of a comment being replied to is now informed of the reply via notifications and email.

V5.4

2022-03-16

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed more bugs with the text translation from native doc format to web-safe formatting.

New Features:

  • Added the S7 Credits store.
  • Added account upgrades: Hide from User Directory, Larger Storage, Unbranded Portfolio

V5.3

2022-03-09

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug wherein if email notifications were set in a user's settings, it wouldn't send an e-mail.
  • Fixed a bug with tag filtering that caused the filter to still bring up blocked content for every non-filter-matching tag it had.
  • Adjusted text translation in an attempt to handle "smart-punctuation".

New Features:

  • Reintroduced character references/biographies.
  • Added thumbnail ribbons detailing what kind of upload the thumbnail belongs to.

V5.2.1

2022-03-07

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug preventing uploaded content class from being recorded.
  • Fixed a display bug markdown blockquotes from appearing correctly in content descriptions.

V5.2

2022-03-07

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a layout bug with audio content display.
  • Fixed various display filtering bugs with AO content.
  • Fixed display bug preventing Announcements with no expiration dates from showing.
  • Fixed several FKC bugs when deleting a user account.

New Features:

  • Added content tagging and tag searching. Users can now tag their content for more organization, filtering, and searchability.

V5.1

2022-03-03

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed Reset My Password to accept usernames with non-alphanumerical characters.
  • Fixed issues with account status checks for feature availability.
  • Fixed an issue where the Friend Feed was showing the Museum Feed, instead.
  • Fixed an issue where a commenter's rating was not being displayed, nor counted in the content's average rating.
  • Fixed an issue where new sign-up form fields weren't being double-checked appropriately on server-side.

New Features:

  • Reimplemented user bio images.
  • Re-added the Email Address field to the profile edit page in the User Dashboard.
  • Added the changelog.

V5.0

2022-03-01

Initial v5 launch. Full re-write of the entire site from scratch.