Site Update — Weasyl

The secret testing version of Weasyl

Posted by charmander

12 March 2021 at 23:41:23 MST

March 19th update: Thank you for testing, everyone! The main website has now been upgraded.

We’ve been working on some wide-reaching changes to Weasyl and could use your help with one last round of testing! ~~If you have a moment to log in, please try using https://testing.weasyl.com/ over the next week in place of the normal https://www.weasyl.com/.~~ As is traditional, the changes are supposed to be invisible, so with any luck you’ll find that it’s exactly the same as the website you’re used to. If you find otherwise, we’d appreciate any bug reports or improvement suggestions sent to support@weasyl.dev. :)

Also, for those curious about the specific technical details of the change: we’re moving from Python 2 to Python 3! And for the even more curious, Weasyl is open-source, so feel free to see the code behind all this at https://github.com/Weasyl/weasyl.

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bsdims on 13 March 2021 at 00:39:11 MST

I anticipate RSS feed subscriptions for artists and site-updates at some point, when manpower has the energy & time for it of course. No other art-site I've been to supports RSS subscriptions, which is a shame, since I like to unify updates to my favorite things in one spot. :D
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  reedman on 13 March 2021 at 11:04:50 MST
  
  I really hope they add RSS
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Note on 13 March 2021 at 01:16:53 MST

I might spend a little time withe it. One thing I have noticed is how surprisingly responsive it is, even on my really shity mobile plan.
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CROWFACED on 13 March 2021 at 03:32:31 MST

I will definitely be testing!
I dunno where to leave suggestions (not bugs), but have you considered making submission management more convenient? Like mass deleting? Or having a set of frequently used tags up as suggestions? :)
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  ManictheMod on 13 March 2021 at 09:02:34 MST
  
  Those would be really cool things to add! I second this motion!!
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Sniffeh on 13 March 2021 at 09:17:30 MST

Seems to work for me.
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TheCGDL on 13 March 2021 at 11:19:18 MST

I'll try it.
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The Pink Rose Of Texas on 13 March 2021 at 12:42:30 MST

I just tried the testing part, and it works fine. I might try the "Submit" function soon.
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Hazel3 on 13 March 2021 at 13:50:05 MST

I can't really login cos the 2 factor auth thingy doesn't work, but i'm looking forward to the update! ^-^
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  charmander (admin) on 13 March 2021 at 15:10:05 MST
  
  I have it on too and was able to log in. Hmm. We’ll look into it!
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    Hazel3 on 13 March 2021 at 17:47:22 MST
    
    yay! ^-^ btw i just want you guys to know that weasyl is one of my favourite sites, thank you ^w^
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KappaSpider on 13 March 2021 at 19:12:53 MST

I tested it for a bit and have found no issues so far. One thing of note though is I do think the site is running faster on the testing version so that's interesting.
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Meg James on 13 March 2021 at 19:48:10 MST

So far so good! 🐻👍
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Fredrick2 on 14 March 2021 at 18:32:10 MDT

I did not even know that was happening.
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Chaaya.Chandra on 18 March 2021 at 10:03:20 MDT

Only somewhat related...
Is it possible to install the open source version on a hosted shared server? I have a friend that wanted to try it, but it was giving him fits.
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  charmander (admin) on 18 March 2021 at 16:42:49 MDT
  
  Probably, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Is it just to experiment with, or are you hoping to set up a production website of some kind?
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    Chaaya.Chandra on 18 March 2021 at 18:37:33 MDT
    
    Just a small community group type thing, so nothing that will stretch it at all. We just really like the feel of this place and it supports a lot of formats.
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Note on 20 March 2021 at 09:20:06 MDT

SFW filtering isn't working correctly. I had to add tags.
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  charmander (admin) on 20 March 2021 at 13:05:13 MDT
  
  Hi! Could you clarify what you mean by that? (If this is about SFW mode, make sure the rating set at https://www.weasyl.com/control/editpreferences under “Maximum Viewable Content Rating in SFW Mode” is what you expect.)
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    Note on 20 March 2021 at 20:22:46 MDT
    
    I always use Weasyl with SFW on, but only since the update I've had to add NSFW tags to filter out that content.
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      charmander (admin) on 20 March 2021 at 20:30:05 MDT
      
      Can you give an example? Maybe a screenshot?
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        Note on 28 March 2021 at 07:32:26 MDT
        
        This sort of thing shouldn't be showing up under sfw. https://cdn.weasyl.com/~wolfarter/submissions/2006915/075c0b34f832f515673b1bd0647c411dee52ba0ab97331e0a199ab3fc7b5aed8/wolfarter-butt-after.jpg
        
        Either people aint tagging their work correctly or the filter is broken.
        
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        charmander (admin) on 28 March 2021 at 17:44:03 MDT
        
        That submission was rated “Mature” and your SFW mode maximum rating is also set to “Mature”, so SFW mode is working in this case.
        
        I re-rated the submission. There’s also a report button you can use to report submissions with incorrect ratings.
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BronzeHeart92 on 21 March 2021 at 04:45:22 MDT

Still looks the same to me... Is the community still active in general here or something?
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Kihari on 25 March 2021 at 01:01:58 MDT

Great news and great work! I was wondering when this day would come. My sincerest apologies for the lack of foresight that went into choosing Python 2, as I'm sure update this was no simple task.
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  charmander (admin) on 27 March 2021 at 06:04:40 MDT
  
  Appreciate it ❤️
  
  And hey, Python changed a lot in nine years. Thanks for making Weasyl!
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CoasterDragonMaker on 31 March 2021 at 16:43:04 MDT

"Also, weasyl is now open source." Holy moly, this is why I love Weasyl more compared to FA and DA by a loooooooong shot.