The Unimportant Announcement Thread

[nesman]

I think I finally fixed people uploading maps to the "maps" category. Now you have to select the gamemode. Let me know if anything else breaks.

 

[nesman]

Trying out new calendar plugin for the site. https://tf2maps.net/events/
This will allow us to take gameday forum posts and visualize them on a calendar.
We can also put contests and really any event on there too.

 

[nesman]

Add the ability to gift VIP to someone else! https://tf2maps.net/account/upgrades
Please let us know if something breaks

 

[Tiftid]

Normalise gifting VIP as a birthday present (I have no ulterior motive in saying this)

 

[Brokkhouse]

Trying out new calendar plugin for the site. https://tf2maps.net/events/
This will allow us to take gameday forum posts and visualize them on a calendar.
We can also put contests and really any event on there too.

Is there a central thread where we can discuss what to put in there?
I would also suggest, if possible, a list view mode that only shows the actual events instead of all these (yet) unfilled days.

 

[nesman]

Is there a central thread where we can discuss what to put in there?

Right now we are only putting gamedays and larger events such as contests or the jam in the calendar.

I would also suggest, if possible, a list view mode that only shows the actual events instead of all these (yet) unfilled days.

That is not supported in the addon, the author would have to add that support.

 

[nesman]

We had a massive site outage last night due to S3 occurring issues in our host Vultr. It has been resolved now. https://status.vultr.com/#EWR.
We also have some new server mods, you can see the total list here https://tf2maps.net/members/?key=server_mods.
We are also looking to start rolling out the new Hoster role, more info to come on that when we get it established.
There will also be scheduled maintenance on the Site server and US server starting at 2023-04-18 07:00:00 UTC and ending at 2023-04-18 11:00:00 UTC.

 

[14bit]

New categories have been added to the downloads section of the site:

• Territorial Domination

And under Non-Standard Maps we have added:

• TF2Classic
  • Arena
  • Control Points
    • Attack/Defense CP
    • Symmetrical CP
  • Capture the Flag
  • Domination
  • King of the Flag
  • King of the Hill
  • Payload
  • Payload Race
  • Special Delievery
  • Territorial Control
  • Territorial Domination
  • VIP
  • VIP Race

In addition, a new prefix has been added for TF2C maps:

• 4-Team

All maps I could find that fit into these new categories and prefixes have been moved and relabeled accordingly!

 

[Katsu! :3]

There should be a Tug-of-War PL subcategory too

 

[nesman]

Sorted the Tutorials & Resources forum a bit so it's not as cluttered. New resources for prefabs, content packs, and other will go in their respective sub-forum rather than all into the parent forum. https://tf2maps.net/forums/tutorials-resources.57/

 

[nesman]

Made it so searching by titles is checked by default. This has proven better results on the site search than not doing it by titles. Can be unchecked by the user still.

 

[nesman]

Added VSH category for VScript since it's official now. Renamed old VSH to specify it's for the sourcemod variant.

 

[Katsu! :3]

If you need help recategorizing maps idm sending you a list of em

 

[nesman]

Added a counter to the bot site.

Was working on adding the tags to https://bot.tf2maps.net/commands but ran into a dumb PDO-sqlite php error that I can't reproduce on my dev environment so that is getting delayed more. The tags db uses sqlite compared to using a traditional db like MongoDB.

Fixed some errors on the discord bot to prevent double slash links.

GitHub - TF2Maps/MechaEngineer: The current TF2 Maps Discord Bot

The current TF2 Maps Discord Bot. Contribute to TF2Maps/MechaEngineer development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Added new subdomain for the prior years jamsite so we can easily archive it.

Jam 2022 - TF2Maps.net

jam2022.tf2maps.net

 

[nesman]

Fixed the steam links on the bot.
Added IP and STV to it as well.

 

[nesman]

Been adding some more QoL features to the bot over the past couple of days.

• You can see the status of the MVM servers now.
• If the Map Testing servers are offline the embed (as seen above) will switch over to the mvm servers.
• Added support for staff/mods uploading mvm zips (I no longer have to be the one who does it).

 

[nesman]

Updated the map testing page so the requirement were more clear and organized. https://tf2maps.net/pages/map-testing/

 

[nesman]

done quite a few things:

• Most importantly, albeit late, but still here (few small bugs): https://summer2023.tf2maps.net/
• Cleared out storage on the servers and added some scripts to help automate it.
• Moved the contest sites to the new S3.
• Moved the content sites to the new S3.
• Fixed some small stuff on the bot here and there.
• Updated some of the user forums on the site.
• Moved jam clock to our box so geit doesn't need to keep doing it (you can still do it if you want to bud).
• Will be removing the US2 server soon so I made backups of the data from there and the jam instances on it.
• Started moving some things in place for the map test host application to be put in place, still more to do.

 

[14bit]

• A new Zombie Infection category has been added to the Downloads section, as it is now an official gamemode.
• All Zombie Infection maps I could find have been moved to the new category.

Let me know if I missed any, or if the permissions are broken for the new category in some way!

 

[nesman]

• Updated status site with more user friendly views.
• Updated status site with new backend.
• Updated status site with new metrics.

TF2Maps Status

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