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Hi everyone! First of all, sorry for the slow update. Between my health problems and recent unpleasant events, it’s been very difficult to motivate myself to develop Deserted Chateau in the last month or so. I’ve gotten most of my motivation back, it’s just b...

Hi everyone! First of all, sorry for being late with updates, I’m going to try and get them back on schedule. A mixture of what I suspect is a nasty adverse reaction to recent Ritalin prescriptions, recent unpleasant events, and IRL stuff has made it difficul...

Hi everyone! Hope you’re doing alright 🙂 Sorry for being late with the bi-weekly update again. ADHD medicine is… weird; while I’ve been getting a decent amount done on Deserted Chateau’s development, I’ve been struggling to get other stuff done like writing u...

Hi everyone! Hope you’re doing well 🙂 Made a lot of progress on Deserted Chateau in the last two weeks, details below. Multiple Environments Setup As part of getting the site ready for testing, launch and post-launch development, I have created three distin...

Hi everyone, hope everybody’s doing well. Sorry I’m a few days late with the usual update, rather unwell at the moment, but should hopefully recover soon (all my usual health problems). AWS Test Environment I’ve finished setting up a test environment for the...

Hi everyone! A lot to talk about today, lots been happening. I wanted to take a bit of time to make a video for this post showing a brief preview of where things are, that's attached to the post. I think, at this point, the site is about three-quarters done o...

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well, it's cold as heck here >_<  Stripe integration I’ve started integrating Stripe payments into the website. The basic proof of concept is done, so most of the work should be quite straightforward from here, though there's a...

Hi everyone! Happy new year and everything, better have eaten too much chocolate  XD Got quite a lot to write today, been busy. Private Messages Most of my time in the last week or so has been spent implementing private messaging functionality. The backend ...

Hi everyone! Merry Christmas and stuff 🙂 All Deserted Chateau updates today, lots of stuff been happening. Emoji text editor support At the moment descriptions on artworks allow for various types of text formatting, but there’s no built-in menu for selectin...

Hi everyone! Hope you’re well 🙂 Deserted Chateau (ArtCentral) I announced it on Twitter last week! ArtCentral finally has a proper name. The logo is still being finalised, more on that later. You can see the announcement tweet here, with some extra info abo...

Hi everyone, hope you’re well! Slightly earlier update than usual, as I had the energy for writing and figured I might as well. Two factor auth improvements The two factor auth for ArtCentral is done, but it was lacking any kind of recovery solution if peopl...

Hi everyone, hope you're well! I haven't been very well (worse than usual, possibly related to the weather here) so I didn't get much done the last two weeks... at least, not as much as I'd like to. Still, lots of stuff to talk about, and I did make a video t...

Hi all, hope you're well! All ArtCentral stuff today ^^ Infinite scrolling for galleries I had to refactor a lot of the Javascript for gallery displaying to make this work, and I'm still not entirely sure why it works... I think this is the first case of an ...

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well :) I actually meant to write an update a few days ago, but since getting two vaccines in the space of two days (COVID booster and flu jab) I've been feeling slightly off for the last day or two and didn't get much done. An...

Hi everyone! Thought I'd write an update a little earlier than usual while I have the energy, winter lethargy has been setting in a bit this week. Image cropping This was honestly a bigger hassle to do than I'd been expecting, but it's done now. Users can cr...

Hi everyone! All ArtCentral updates again, just logging what I've been doing. Feel free to ask if there's something you're curious about or anything ^^ Site appearance customisation A feature for subscribed users will be to change the site theme/colours in a...

Hi everyone! First of all, thank you very much for your support, I do appreciate it! I know that with this kind of Patreon it can seem like not much is going on, coding tends to be like that, but it's busy behind the scenes :) Domain name As (I think) I've s...

Hi everyone, hope you're well! Mostly been doing ArtCentral stuff the last two weeks or so, update below. Split into a few different bits. ArtCentral: Image resizing optimization I wasn't entirely satisfied with the solution I had two weeks ago, as it had so...

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing okay :) A lot to talk about, had quite an adventure of sorts figuring out some web service stuff XD Most of my focus in the last few weeks has been getting image delivery right. To start with, first I'll explain the problem. Fo...

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well, it's way too hot here X_X Been pretty busy, lots of updates below. As part of the overlay design for the "display artwork" page, there's a need to have "view full size art" and "download" buttons. That presented a slight ...