Wix is Dead, Long Live the King
Well, we did it. Wix is official gonzo
I can’t believe it’s been a month since the last update blog! A lot has been going on on MCCreations since then, so let’s get into it.
Giveaway
In celebration of the closing of the Wix site (and an easing on my wallet) we’re launching a huge giveaway (rip my wallet)!
The giveaway is running for the entire month of September, so get your awesome creations ready to win some prizes! You can get more details here: https://www.mccreations.net/en-US/events/wix-is-over
Updates
Now on to the actual updates!
First, I’d like to give a huge thank you to cat over on the Discord for providing MCCreations first ever translation! You can now peruse maps in Simplified Chinese to your hearts content! Super awesome.
Wix is Dead
Wait I thought we were done with this Wix thing!
The new MCCreations site is now accessible from mccreations.net
Sometime soon(tm) requests to next.mccreations.net will be redirected to the main domain
Old content URLs (/content/creator/content) will be redirected to the new URLs, although this will only work if the slug has remained the same between the new and the old site. If you’re still using a link to the old site, be sure to check if it still works.
Open Source
The MCCreations open source repositories have been moved into their own organization instead of living on my personal account
The MCCreations backend/API, Scaffolding, has been made open source
Comments
This update brings some more improvements to the way comments work, and brings backend changes that will allow for more features in the future.
Comments actually work (yea that’s kind of important)
Comments will now collapse if they are over 100px tall
You can now get a permalink to a comment by clicking the link icon on the right
Comments are now fetched seperatly from map data, so they should update faster
Added a new Admin dashboard for Comments, which should make approving them much quicker
Comments now technically support sorting and searching, although this has not been implemented in the frontend yet
Files n’ Storage
Newly uploaded files and images are now use OVH Cloud S3 storage rather than Amazon (one step closer to freedom!)
Profile images and banners now get uploaded correctly
I’ve changed the design of the Version Manager again! It should now be much easier to manage many versions of content
Ads
You may have noticed those silly little “Ad” boxes on the homepage that never loaded anything (you do have adblock off riiiiight). Well, they’re gone now. They never actually worked, and I decided I’d rather not give away the data necessary to actually run ads on the site. They’ve been replaced with a small banner at the top of every page requesting donations.
Importing
Some various issues with importing have been fixed, including:
Importing from PMC now works again (shakes fist at Cloudflare). It will be slower though, as it now requires launching a browser instance on my server.
Importing without an account now works (sorry y’all!)
Fix various issues where importing was not always brought up to date when creation was changed
Small Things
Some other random small things were changed as well, wouldn’t want to forget those!
Squashed that weird gap beteween the “Create” and “Sign In” buttons if you were logged out
Fixed tags being wonky (hopefully, I hate tags)
Downloads using the Download quick action now actually count towards the donwload counter
Added Sentry, which allows me to see when and were errors happen on the live site (rip my inbox)