I am very pleased to announce that it is now possible to search in your owls.

By clicking on the "magnifying glass" tab in the owlery, you can search in all the sent and received owls that you have kept. Several filters allow you to select sent or received owls, boxes, senders or recipients.



This new feature was programmed from scratch, and has required a lot of energy and investment from me in the last few days.

After about ten days working 9am - 11pm on the site without a break, I feel the need to take advantage of the few days of vacation I have left to rest before going back to work. So you won't mind if the rhythm of new developments is again going to be very decreasing... Until next time!

Many micro-bug fixes today (including a number of display bugs on Chrome and Safari, which I don't use and test too little!):

• the button to mark a forum as read is now present in the sub-forums;
• removed some white borders on buttons and better display of fields in Chrome;
• better highlighting of links when navigating with the keyboard (with the tab key);
• search in the results of another clearer search;
• default focus on the owl search field;
• restore the tabs in the profile;
• smaller search fields on the phone for better menu display;
• when editing a story in the profile, the story is now immediately updated in the ID card;
• correction of the title of messages sent with the quick reply, which could not be searched.

Hello to all,

Almost two weeks ago, I started a very important reorganization and cleaning job that has kept me busy night and day for the past two weeks. Several thousands of lines are involved. It is very generally invisible to your eyes, except for the many temporary bugs: I'm counting on you to report them to me!

The good news is that the site will be faster to load and display, and easier to maintain afterwards. The bad news is that many bugs will occurs and take a few days to fix.

The changes made so far are the following:

• the way the themes are stored has been rethought and reorganized ;
• the entire header and drop-down menus have been rewritten;
• the scrollbars of the sub-menus have been revised, and scrolling should now be as smooth as in the rest of the page, especially on phones ;
  several images have been lightened and optimized;
• it is now possible to zoom in on the phone on all pages;
• the location list system has been redesigned and is much lighter;
• the icons to navigate between the places are now on an ad-hoc page;
• the weight of the pages has been significantly reduced.

Please forgive me for any inconvenience.

I have (finally!) created a forum dedicated to solving bugs and technical problems, and other suggestions you might have to make the site more enjoyable. I'm counting on you!

Here are the main changes of the last two days:

• the animation when you enter your house is now on a separate page, which greatly lightens each page of the site;
• the remembrall dropdown has been redesigned;
• the menu at the top left shows the current location in a more visible way (and show it directly);
• some fonts have been changed, in order to retain lighter and faster loading versions that normally look better on a computer screen (notably the main font, and some secondary fonts for which I'm studying the options).

Also a lot of bugs corrections:

• correction of some borders on Chrome ;
• correction of backgrounds in the moderators panel;
• fixed display of drop-down menus on some phones;
• a click on an item in the reminder now marks it as read;
• fixed hover problems (sub-menus and reminders) for iOS <= 12 ;
• fixed various problems (borders, title alignment) on Internet Explorer 11 and older versions of Chrome ;
• fixed missing "quick reply" options in some forums.

A few changes in the last two days:

• the character limit for subject titles has been extended ;
• added a button to save drafts in the quick reply ;
• reorganization of some pages (trunk, access to other places, marauder's map, access to houses), harmonization of the cross which now refers to the previous page;
• the forum engine has been updated.

A lot of bugs corrections on the other hand :

• your avatar is back in the top right corner;
• you can click on the hourglasses again;
• translation of some animal names in the profiles;
• various corrections to the display of the drop-down menus on some phones;

I am engaged in an important evolution of the ergonomics of the site, which I have been maturing for a while. It will break with some of your habits (I hope you won't mind!) but with the goal of making the general navigation much more logical and simple. I hope to have something to show you by tomorrow night.

I continue my work of cleaning and rewriting the site, and repairing the bugs induced.

Rewriting, bugs, rewriting, bugs...

The work is colossal (I spend three to ten hours a day there!) and not very fun... If it would be easier for me to propose you new features, I'm sure that it will worth it and the site, in a few months, will be more reliable and faster than ever ! There will be a few surprises and new features.

On the program :

• some small improvements for the top and bottom bars, the drop-down menus and the icons;
• many bug fixes for Internet Explorer 11 and older versions of Edge (but please use other browsers if you can!);
• continued rewriting and cleaning of large and hard to maintain items;
• rewriting of the central frames;
• correction of the user selection in the owlery;
• hiding the background images on the phones when they are not (or almost not) visible anyway, to speed up the site and save you data;
• several rewrites to ensure the site is compatible with new versions of PHP.

Hello to all,

I've been doing some particularly grueling rewrites, which have taken me nearly 60 hours since last Thursday (yes yes), during which I've modified more than 3000 lines in nearly 200 files

The goal is always the same: to clean, simplify and modernize a poorly organized code, in order to make the site lighter, faster, and easier to maintain for the future!

The new features visible for you are the following:

• new icons: I used to use disparate icon sets, some of them as images, which caused me a lot of problems with alignment and display on some browsers; I hope you'll like them!
• the icon bars have been revised : it's not finished, but the goal is to have prettier, more logical bars, and that fit as much as possible always on one page ; they are a little bit bigger and spaced out to be more easily touched on the phone ;
• better navigation within a place : when there are "sub-places" (locker rooms in the Quidditch stadium for example), a single drop-down menu allows you to easily navigate between the different possible places ; in the same way, a single drop-down menu allows you to navigate between the search pages (unread, my messages, etc.) ;
• tabs in the unread messages to select the type of messages if you wish; this replaces the previous system of filters ;
• shortcut to the encyclopedia in the bottom bar (on computer);
• scrollbars which are now colored on parchment (on computer).

These in-depth changes certainly have many side effects. I invite you to report bugs and imperfections you may encounter. Moreover, I am always interested, by owl, in your opinions, doubts, regrets, and suggestions (technical problems should be put in the dedicated forum).


Last thing: the icon set used is paying (because it is made by and for professionals, and it is normal to pay them). I would never have been able to use it (and I'm happy to be able to because there are many that I like very much and such quality is not available for free) without the support received by many of you. To thank them, I have added a very small feature to Sneakoscope: that of displaying more easily if there are people present in the current location. The feature is still being improved, it doesn't bring any additional functionality compared to the Marauder's map and will hide people under a cloak of invisibility.

Hello to all,

I am continuing my rewriting work, and I have completed the complete rewriting of the text editor, of which I am particularly proud (all handmade, very light, without external codes)

This one comes with a small loss of functionality (I promise, it should be the only of the whole rewrite) that was indispensable: the one to be able to use the mentions with "@". These still exist, but with bbcode (or an icon) and it is necessary to type the name.

I know it's not great; and I'll try to replace it in the future. But in the meantime, it allows me to remove very heavy libraries that were thousands and thousands of lines of code just for that. I promise, this will be the only deletion! Don't blame me too much, it was worth it!

By the way :

• the signature is now displayed for messages sent with the quick reply (and has been restored on all messages posted so far);
• all the elements that are displayed and hidden (reducios, previous messages and owls, dots, stories...) have been rewritten (without Javascript) ;
• the word counter has been rewritten (without Jquery).

A lot of things in the last few days!

Main visible changes :

• the display of avatars, names and functions now more readable on the phone : for those who are rarely in front of their computer, it was difficult to see the house, function or image of people ... I am not yet completely satisfied so this may rebound in the coming days ;
• it is now possible again to filter unread messages (in addition to the tabs);
• added icons to go directly to the first and last page again (after many long unsuccessful attempts to find a better navigation mechanism);
• the topic edit buttons are now inside the message: this allows to have the same width on all pages, and therefore a preview of the messages that corresponds to the pixel precision you will get.

In addition, many bug fixes :

• added the ability to move a message when it is open in the owlery ;
• fixed a bug that caused a reply to a topic to unsubscribe you (I temporarily created another bug that locked topics... sorry for the inconvenience!);
• added the "discussion" category that was missing when creating a new topic;
• the color palette works on Safari (macos version);
• the text editor now proposes to fill in the URL when inserting a link;
• page titles in the search ;
• added the drop-down menu to move on the search page;
• fixed a display bug in Internet Explorer 11 ;
• fixed the ability to select previous messages when posting in a topic;
• fixed a bug in the word counter;
• fixed page selection;
• the scroll bar on the right side of the page has been expanded to be easier to grasp;
• added subject icons in the correction of assignments.

A few new features since yesterday:

• the color selector has been improved to make it easier for you to reuse the same color ;
• it's now possible to sort the address book by date of last visit (this feature comes from the forum engine and remains indicative, the order and the indication don't always seem precise to me) ;
• it is again possible to mark messages as read in a forum.

In addition, various bug fixes :

• how the text editor works on Internet Explorer and older versions of Edge ;
• improvement of the display and resolution of some bugs when editing messages from former players;
• possibility to access the reminder settings when there are no notifications;
• realignment of the action buttons in the owlery.