User blog:Capt679/A Changing of the Guard

Hello Diep Wiki! Before we get into the news, I would like to personally congratulate everyone who has stepped up to the plate and been eager to join the news team! You have all done an outstanding job of covering all of the new from the Changelogs to Under the Hood. I remember back in the old days when it was just Ursuul doing the updates but now we are DEFINITELY heading in the right direction.

If you would like to personally join the news team, please contact. He will give you all of the information you will need to get you started. Anyways there is a TON of news to cover, including a new leader, chat bridge and more!! So dig in folks!


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Arras Project
The time has come to really get to work on. To that end, our will be overseeing a project, whereby Arras pages are created and expanded. Everyone is encouraged to participate, particularly since there will be definite ! The person who contributes most will get a “hero” medal and everyone who creates or performs significant work on five or more pages will also get a medal. It is up to our Admins as to what constitutes “significant work,” but it typically involves doing so much work on a page that the Stub template is unnecessary. The number of pages each person has done will be kept track of, so get cracking!

Discord-to-Wiki Chat Bridge online
After many months of waiting, the Discord-Chat Bridge is finally complete and fully functional! Users in Chat can now directly talk to users in Discord via our good old chat bot, Özün Oldun! While it works for now, emojis cannot be used in The Bridge without it crashing. Ursuul is working on a solution for that, as well as a highlight feature for Staff members using The Bridge.

Third Conception Tournament Recap
If any of you by chance missed the final results of the Conception Tournament, here are the winners of every category. Once again a Congratulations to all of the winners and a huge thank you for everyone who participated in the Tourney.
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 * Enemies: . Medal awarded to.
 * Game Modes: . Medal awarded to.
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 * Simple Bosses: . Medal awarded to.
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New Senior Administrator!
After a long month of debate, we have the results of the election! The winner of the Senior Administrator vote by 9 votes is. Hayden would like to thank everyone who participated in the vote and everyone who debated in the comment section below about why they felt either Banana or Patrik should have been Senior Administrator. Hayden would also like to congratulate as not many users get the opportunity to even have a shot at such a high position. He wishes the best of luck to the candidates and hope they will have many more positive contributions to come!

Promotions

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Gadgets
has created a to standardize buttons across the Wiki, and has also been working on the Scrollbar Gadget to improve its aesthetics and cross-platform performance.

Miscellaneous

 * Minor tweaks to tabbers and the site wrapper were made.
 * Content Volunteers (ConVols) now have in our.
 * A avatar bug was fixed.
 * were standardized.

The Bridge in depth
For those interested in the methodology of the Bot, this more in-depth Tech report is for you. runs off the chatbot.rb chat bot by. The application is written in and is sustained by  via the. This application was able to be used as a Chat Bridge thanks to a chatbot.rb plug-in authored by. Unfortunately, a unicode issue with the plug-in causes the application to crash should emojis be used in the Chat Bridge channel in the Discord Server. Heroku will instantaneously recover the bot should this happen once, but logs for the past 30 minutes or so will be lost, and if it happens repeatedly The Bridge will collapse entirely for up-to an hour unless Ursuul is present to perform an emergency recovery. To resolve this, Ursuul is working on a completely different method of implementing a Chat Bridge using, which has a tougher unicode parser and thus should not have the same issues as the Ruby plug-in does with emojis, although the Ruby application will still be used to. Meanwhile, as soon as the are reviewed,  will be used in conjunction with  to provide colors for Staff members using Chat via The Bridge.


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