I was thinking about the current situation regarding international legality of content moderation this morning, and it's more than I can handle.
I don't mean that to sound dismissive. I don't want it to seem like I don't care. What I mean is...
2025-08-03 18:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy friends,
I have decided that the best direction forward is to focus development efforts on changing the way data is hosted and accessed within Refsheet. The plan is to divide the servers into many smaller servers that anyone wi...
2024-02-02 17:02:35 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the headache of funding the site is gone for a month, it has been slightly easier to put a little time into clarifying our path forward.
1) I'm working on migrating the entire frontend code to something that can actually be ma...
2023-11-07 19:32:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a cross-post from the Forums: ( https://refsheet.net/v2/forums/support/where-we-re-at-today----3-20-2020 )
I wanted to ...
Normally I copy/paste the changelog here and in the forums, but before the big pile of pastespam, I just wanted to say: I'm honestly really pleased with this round of updates. Rambling to follow:
I've been busy with fun projects at work and...
Happy new year! Here's a formal summary of everything since the last changelog, which includes more bug fixes and image handling improvements. I'll preface this by saying that I really am working to make this site not frustrating for everyone who ...
2020-01-02 23:14:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm around and working, but as usual, everything is still "in development" and hasn't been released yet. Normally I release changes as soon as I make them, but this has resulted in some pretty nasty feedback along the lines of "don't ...
2019-12-21 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! It's been A Week.
There's a new feature for Patrons to play with, and that's in-character status updates on your activity feed, as well as forum replies!
There's a new standard "comment box" that I've added to the site, ...
2019-08-13 19:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostPatrons,
Thank you.
Honestly it's really hard keeping up with everything that I've been doing to make this project a reality, and lately I've been having trouble finding the motivation through the sea of poor reviews, vile c...
2019-06-29 19:37:40 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR - kube.refsheet.net is a site mirror on Google Cloud. It's a bit slower right now, but has stable image processing. Use it every once in a while so I can get testing data.
Lately I've been tweeting a lot of apology posts for...
2019-05-13 03:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The gif above says a thousand words, but I figured I'd give you folks a very quick update. As you might have noticed, we've been seeing a few outages, which I tracked to image uploads.
The old profile pages upload images directly to our appl...
2019-04-19 23:35:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It might not get you a discount on hotel reservations or change a flat tire, but some day the Artist Android App will help you at a con when you're sketching in people's books and need a quick way to pull up their references!
Based on the same...
Good news, everyone! The Photoshop extension is close enough to being ready that I'll let you install it now!
Currently, it supports:
- Character search & view,
- Interactive color swatches,
- Image previ...
Oh boy what a... month?
The bulk of the website had some backend overhauling that paved the way for some spiffy new features, and now we're back on track for building out those new character pages!
Patrons might've noticed the notificat...
Hey! Hi! Hey you! Listen!
Remember when I said "oh look we made some #infrastructure changes to #synergize our #devops" or something nerdy like that?
Well, here's another preview of some of the new features to come out of the new V2...
2018-10-08 14:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all, super very sorry for the long radio silence. I've had my plate full with quite a few life changes, and most of the work I've been doing has been a whole bunch of background cleanup and refactoring to bring you...
Refsheet v``1...
2018-10-01 14:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on our last post about refactoring literally everything, I'm finally glad to be able to share this WIP of our new Character pages.
Some of you mentioned that you were satisfied with the current sections available, so I've prep...
2018-03-31 01:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For the longest time we've been saying that we're making some changes to the Character pages, and finally we're starting to get there.
The character pages are the oldest component in our application, and when we wrote them just over a year ago...
We've been busy in every possible sense of the term, but found some time to wrap up a much-requested feature addition to the site. Previously, I mentioned our Notification system being online for browser push, and now we've expanded that to a new Not...
2018-03-08 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night we updated our Terms of Service to include Section 2.2, our Upload Policy.
Our community is built on the creative talent of each individual contributing, and we encourage members to showcase their own unique characters and artwork. ...
Hey friends!
I'm still plunking away at the proper notifications system, but for now, enjoy the lightweight browser push notifications.
They'll only stick around for about 20 seconds, and right now work on one machine, BUT, this might help y...
2018-01-23 15:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey friends!
So, as it turns out, the notification system is complicated and I want to make it nice and friendly and super efficient before loading in tens of thousands of items. However, this will take a whole bunch of time and I don't want t...
Hey all!
Sorry for the silence, the end of the year is a pretty busy time for everyone and I hadn't had much time to sit down and get to work here.
I just wrapped up the new Settings page on your dashboard, which will replace the pop-up...
Hey there!
First: Oh my goodness, thank you so much for all your support!
Second: I'm going to try and globally launch the activity feed tomorrow, and my goodness was this a fun and glorious project. I do hope it proves useful (and pret...
Hey Patrons!
I just went through and matched up as many of you to your Refsheet accounts as I can, but I still see 5 patrons in the system that I can't find a matching user account for. If you don't have Patron access on Refsheet and you shoul...
Hey there!
I'm super excited to share the progress shots of the news feed. If you're a Patron, you can see all these live on the site! (If you aren't a Patron, you'll just see the home page.)
So far, you'll see news items for:
...
This is a quick update for you guys, but I wanted something to do before heading off to the last weekend at the Renaissance Festival, so I did a thing.
Much like last weekend when I spent ~3 hours making Image comments a thing (go ahead, chat ...
HEY! PEOPLE!
The all caps means I'm very excited!
While we're far from feature complete fancy launchy stuff, I'm very happy to tell you that there is a basic concept of discussion boards live on Refsheet!
Of course, you guys, bei...
Hey guys!
So I've got a LOT of new features that I'd want to get done, but the one that stood out as a good way to set up some useful general-purpose interactions on the site was Forums.
Admittedly, I'm using the World of Warcraft forum...
Discussion time!
Among other things, I'm starting to piece together some more promotional materials and re-do our landing pages to better explain what Refsheet does and can do.
I'd also like to know what I should focus on in development, so I...
2017-08-02 22:34:35 +0000 UTC View Post