Over the past few months, we've been working on a project to upgrade LCPDFR.com to the latest version of the community software that we use, with a new, refreshed design.
As a special bonus for you, our Insiders, we'd like to invite you to take a look at the new website before it goes live later this month. There are a significant number of changes across the board which we hope will help to breathe some new life into the website and its current design, which is a little bit messy.
We are very open to feedback regarding both the new features and design, and would be appreciative if you could share your thoughts with us below. I should note that this is a fairly big change and I'm sure there's things that will take a bit of getting used to for all of us.
Included below are a note from @Cyan about the new website, as well as the changelog so far, which we encourage you to read first.
Important notes about the Staging Environment
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Hi everyone,
Thank you for having a look at the new LCPDFR.com.
This is a limited preview, and as a result please only share information within the respective LCPDFR.com forums.
Just as a general warning, the following content is pruned every so often and copied back from the live site:
Forum posts, topics, forums themselves
Member data, including password and e-mail address information.
(For moderators mostly) Reports, as well as other report information
Regardless, feel free to create test posts, just note that if you want to leave feedback, it is best done on LCPDFR.com to prevent your feedback getting pruned.
Please also note the following caveats about this staging site environment:
You will most likely not be able to edit anything to do with existing files. This is because the files don't actually exist in the staging environment, and are just linked via our CDN to appear that they are present. Similarly as a result, you will be unable to download anything attachment-wise or from our downloads section that wasn't uploaded on the staging site.
You may see this website appearing offline or online as we perform new upgrades and tests. If you're experiencing issues, try again later. If you're still experiencing issues, please report it to us.
Please ignore the rating you get from 'Downloads Rating' for now. Everyone is trusted during this testing period.
You may receive 'ghost notifications', notifications that seem unrelated completely to you or have no content. This seems to be a result of our pruning/update process. The site is disabled from sending e-mails, so this should only bug you on the staging site.
Trending files, download history, and 'users also downloaded' is junk right now, as the live download data is unavailable to the staging site. Download history will show files that you've tried to download on the staging site only.
Some links may lead back to live LCPDFR.com.
LSPDFR Sync is in read-only mode. You will not be able to change any LSPDFR Sync data from the staging site.
Hate it? Love it? Please let us know over at LCPDFR.com!
Similarly, if you find anything that doesn't quite look right, or doesn't work, let us know too.
Full Changelog
Click below to see the full changelog so far.
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LCPDFR.com
A new fresh design, ‘LSPDFR Blue’ designed from the ground up for the latest version of our community suite.
Website was updated to IPS 4.5.3.
Added ‘Enhanced Blocking’ – a new opt-in system designed to give creators additional control of their content. Our enhanced blocking system will prevent ignored users from being able to comment/review gallery images and files. This feature can be enabled in the ‘Ignored Users’ page.
Fixed an issue with LML contributions and the report system
Fixed an issue with our moderation tools delaying initial session creation for everyone (TTFB)
Downloads
Added new ‘Submission ratings’. According to a configurable criteria, a member is scored. This score is used to determine between 3 trust ratings, default, autoconfirmed and trusted. All files from default are marked for approval, autoconfirmed go through our security check process, and trusted files are (usually) automatically approved.
This feature comes with an advanced backend system that allows configuring the criteria and score thresholds, so can be rapidly re-configured to tackle threats without code changes.
Users can view their rating in their Creator Settings, site staff can view an individual member’s score/rating and per-member score decision explanations in the ACP.
Added ability to turn off comments on a file at the time of upload. Files with comments turned off will be penalised.
Added extra features to our ‘Trending’ and ‘Featured’ pages, including better filtering, and relevant data. Moderators can also now see at a glance when a file was featured, and by who.
Added notifications for creators when files are approved.
Added ability to rename files during the upload and new version upload process.
Added a dialog view to ‘Inside the File’.
Files from ignored users are no longer shown in the grouping view by default; this can be toggled in the ‘Filter by’ menu.
Added additional optimisations throughout our custom system
Fixed an issue identifying FiveM content
Added new files to detection of OpenIV-compatible content
Fixed issue with download menu resizing in weird ways via JS (we now use flexboxes)
Made improvements to the downloads carousel.
Added a new flow for pending versions (this comes from IPS 4.5, however, we have integrated our security check process and file approval flow into it).
Added ability for author to cancel pending changes to a file
Added ability to add Patreon button to files
Added extra tooling for staff
Fixed an issue with sorting featured files
LSPDFR Sync
Added ability to delete LSPDFR Sync data from the website, instead of just from LSPDFR itself. (due to current technical limitations, it is not recommended)
Added ability to add a cover photo to character pages.
You can check out the new LCPDFR.com on our staging environment, by logging in with your normal account details, here:
https://ipsdev.g17media.com/