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New Website Features

Dev joeysellers  8.4 years ago

Our online community here is amazing. So, we invested our time in making things better on this website for everybody, with the primary intention to help newer players get discovered.

USER PAGE BIO

Introduce yourself to the community! Leave a small blurb about who you are, your hobbies and interests, a link to your other social media, a dank meme, an ancient proverb, or quote a celebrity like Kevin Spacey. When others visit your page, the first thing they'll notice is your bio, so make a good first impression.

There will also be a link on your page to list all the players you are following. By default, this list will be set to private. You must opt in to show the community who you personally value as high quality designers.

You can no longer change your name. It is still possible, but we disabled this feature due to abuse. To change your name, use the contact form from the footer and let us know what you want your new name to be, and why you want a new name. We will be gracious this first week or so, but we will no longer permit players to change usernames on a whim.

FOLLOWING USERS

From your notifications page, you can now easily navigate through all of the designs from the players you are following. Arranged in thumbnails like the front page, every new upload will appear as new until you view them. Instead of wading through everybody's designs, customize your own personal JET STREAM feed, showing only the designs from your favorite players.

SPOTLIGHTING

Quoting Kevin Spacey: "I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift."

When you happen upon an amazing design from another player, you can now spotlight that design. A notification will be sent to all of your followers. You can only spotlight players who have less points than you.

FORUMS

The forum will no longer be a hot mess of spaghetti. Posts will now be sorted by their tags into categories. This should help you find what interests you, and weed out the posts you dislike. Posts may have multiple tags and appear in multiple categories, but we will not tolerate users who abuse the system with unrelated tags for their posts.

In other words, how this works: if you do not care to read another "FEELINGS" post with somebody crying for attention by pretending to leave, avoid that tag's category. If you want to find good tutorials, videos, or role-playing posts, it is much easier to dig down deep into those categories. This should help prevent future drama, or at the very least, filter it out for you. Speaking of which...

USER BLOCKING

Not every personality meshes well with others. If you feel bullied or annoyed, or simply dislike the attitude of another player who is freely offering you their unwelcome criticism, you can now shut that toxic behavior down yourself, without needing an intervention from a mod or a dev.

Find this option to block other players in the the drop-down menu on their comment.

Blocking works both ways. They can no longer comment on your designs or posts, and you cannot comment on theirs. Also, mentioning a blocked player will not send them a notification. Blocking others is relatively discrete. You will only discover that you are blocked when submitting a comment after being blocked; a prompt will inform you that you are blocked from interacting with that user.

We will not tolerate any form of retaliation in response to being blocked. Do not post about it, comment about it, or try to circumvent the block to contact that player again. If you have been blocked, be a better person and simply move on with your life.

THANK YOU

On behalf of the entire Jundroo team, we want to let everybody know how proud we are of this community. This place is truly amazing, and here's hoping these new features improve the experience for everybody. Cheers.

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    9,430 CALVIN232

    The website changes aren't really a improvement it actually makes it annoying trying to find my friends planes when I type there name before I could just look though all their planes till I found the one they wanted me to see now this new system I get taken to the wrong page I then click views post and I still can't look though all of them to find it in the end they end up having to send me a link and it annoys both of us plz go back to the old one or take to best of both @joeysellers

    8.3 years ago
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    @TTHHSSSS That section was not altered. I did add a paragraph to the USER BIO section regarding username changes a few hours after posting this, though.

    8.3 years ago
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    19.4k TTHHSSSS

    I see that you've changed something: "or simply dislike that attitude of another player who is freely offering you their unwelcome criticism." Nice catch

    8.3 years ago
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    Everybody's talking about simpleplanes 2 does that mean that like we don't get anything cool anymore?

    8.3 years ago
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    66 madman2

    This chat will get flooded

    8.3 years ago
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    14.9k MrWarPac

    @joeysellers how about, tagging users? Making them a blue clickable link would be better

    8.3 years ago
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    1,408 bolt

    Do you think a fuselage with wing like capabilities is possible?@joeysellers

    8.3 years ago
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    Okay, cool. Thanks for the answer.
    @joeysellers

    8.3 years ago
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    @SteadfastContracting When it is finished. Hopefully, in a few weeks.

    8.3 years ago
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    5,940 Mudkip

    @GriffithAir Same as before.

    8.3 years ago
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    9,151 GriffithAir

    how do i post a forum post now

    8.3 years ago
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    I'm sure somebody has asked this, but when do you plan to release the update mentioned in the post talking about the beginning of the production of the 2nd Simple Rockets?

    8.3 years ago
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    564 DimOneGuY

    ГОВНО!!!!!

    8.3 years ago
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    Sweet

    8.3 years ago
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    49.1k Flightsonic

    Just wondering, was the multiple tags "bug" fixed? (Where you can only tag 3 people, I don't know if it is a bug or feature)

    8.4 years ago
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    @KingDeadshot You blocked yourself? BWAHAHAHAHAHA.. I mean.. yes, we'll get around to fixing that for you. Sorry for the trouble.. (mwahahahaha)

    8.4 years ago
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    41.5k MrVaultech

    Oh god... why does this stuff happen when I gone...

    8.4 years ago
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    1,415 Misterman124

    Succ

    8.4 years ago
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    16.2k Mox

    @KingDeadshot mm

    8.4 years ago
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    @BRuthless Lol, yeah. On one hand I was glad and on the other hand it was annoying. I didn't think there were so many unseen notifications.

    8.4 years ago
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    10.9k bspboy

    How do I get to my favorites planes and how do I make a forum post now?

    8.4 years ago
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    26.3k BRuthless

    @SteadfastContracting Yes, I think it shows notifications you didn't look at in the past, which is a bit creepy. Revenge of the unseen.

    8.4 years ago
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    @BRuthless I had the same problem. I think I finally got through all of them. I had ones from 1 month to 5 months ago and most of them were ones I had never seen.

    8.4 years ago
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    Uh... Devs, I need to tell you of a glitch I have on the website.
    I'm getting boatloads of notifications from 1 month ago to 5 months ago. It keeps re-filling my notifications inbox but gives no alerts. I've been getting what I think are notification alerts for present stuff but I can't see them because it's full of 5 month old stuff. I've been consistently going through the old notifications, trying to clear them. Most of them are notifications I never got.

    8.4 years ago
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    25.2k kikasshes

    @joeysellers I still get '2 unread notifications' when it's a comment related notification.

    8.4 years ago
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