Astrobotany News

2021-05-22

Summary

This update includes a large revamp to the astrobotany UI/UX. Several pages and links have been adjusted to display a consistent style and theme.

Changes

• A new location, the koi pond, has been added. Now you can finally exchange your useless flower petals for brand new (and still useless) karma!
• An audio synthesizer has been added to the store. Once purchased, it will unlock the ability to create a custom MIDI song for your plant.
• The leaderboards have been re-worked and moved to a separate page. In addition to the ASCII-formatted tables, leaderboards can now be downloaded as CSV files.
• The landing page now displays the total user count and recent activity.
• "🚶 Go back" links are now always displayed at the top of the page, below the first header.
• The badge selection tool has been moved out of settings and into the main menu.
• Unauthenticated users will no longer be redirected to "/app" before being prompted to present a client certificate.
• Multi-line message board postings are now formatted correctly.
• Plant generation & growth rate are now displayed alongside the plant's details.
• You can now fertilize other player's plants for them.
• ASCII art was added to the community garden page.
• Prevent accidentally double-posting to the message board.
• The astrobotany changelog has been converted to use the "gemfeed" format to allow users to subscribe to updates.
• There are new public links to view your plant without needing a client certificate.
• A JSON API endpoint has been added to get details for plants in the garden.