Hello, and welcome to the latest updates and bug fixes at Criticker, on this fine bright day!
Let's take a look at some of the problems we've patched up, and new additions we've made in the latest code drop for Criticker. As always, thanks to everyone who's been helping improve the site by pointing these things out!
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New Features
Trending Titles - Check them out here. We'll be writing a full article about this long-awaited new feature soon!
Notification: New Star on your review - When someone stars one of your reviews, you'll be notified about it, in the notification icon. This is a continuation of what is going to be an on-going effort to build out Notifications.
Bug Fixes
Build out Recommendation Subnav - Recommendations is no longer just a simple link to the Recommendations page. It now opens up a dropdown that contains:
* Recommendations
* Trending Titles
* New Releases
* TCI List
* PSIs
Starred Reviews link missing? - We always had a link to the Starred Reviews in the footer, but that wasn't prominent enough for such an integral part of the site. So you'll now find another link in the navigation, under the Explore tab.
Rating not shown on PSI Page - Yep, this was a dumb one. On the PSI Explain page, we just weren't considering whether you had already rated the film. So, if you had already rated "Sinners", but now wanted to see why your PSI was an 83, you would go the PSI Explain page, and be prompted to rate it again. This has been fixed.
Mobile: Improve Collections Tab Style - When you were on mobile and looking at the compact list of collections for a title, the formatting could get real ugly, real quick. We've totally redesigned the way these rows are displayed.
The "Parent" input field clears
Cannot add parent games for game expansions (again) - These two were actually the same issue. When submitting a new expansion for a game, one of the required fields is "Parent". But when you tried to fill that out, Criticker wasn't saving it. So, it was an endless loop, almost like Criticker was trying to mess with you. We've stopped playing those mind games now.
Mobile: Cast missing on non-film films - This was a complicated one. If you were on a regular film, on a mobile device, you could easily get to the Cast tab. But if the title was anything other than a regular film (such as a TV Series, an Episode, a TV movie, etc), then the cast tab was blank.
Sorting a Collection bug - When a user switches views on the Film Database, between "all films" and "my ratings", then the order-by options should update as well. Like, if you're looking at All Films, then "order by PSI" should be an option, but if you're on "Your Ratings", obviously we need to allow "order by rating".
Link to Favorite Players Broken - Yeesh, yeah it was. Anywhere Criticker prompted you to "Check out your favorite actors!", we were just linking to the wrrooooong thing.