I opened a new fanlisting for the first time in many, many years. Please welcome Simply Unaware, the Bidoof Fanlisting!!
I couldn't figure out how to share the database over to a separate domain by the layout deadline; while Bidoof will have an Enthusiast table, the website itself is running on manual updates.
I'm trying to fumble and piece together a more modern script, and though I don't think it'll ever be ready for public release, I named it "a plump mouse" in honor of my favorite Pokémon.
I'm still actively working on polishing the website; there's still plenty more to do.
To recap from my last post, I discovered the Madarame fanlisting's join form for BellaBuffs stopped updating the pending members queue, which was very, very, very bad. For however long this went unnoticed, no new members could join using the old page.
As a hotfix, I moved the join form to my Google super-form for joining all my fanlistings, and things have been working fine. In order to finish the transition, I converted it to join my Enthusiast family. Thank you for all your hard work these past eighteen(!) years, BellaBuffs!
For a slight QoL update, I now have the subjects of fanlistings pre-filled for visitors, based on the fanlisting you're applying from. Unless you want to join a different fanlisting from that form, this should be one less entry field to fill. :)
Hello! It's been almost six years since my last blog post, and I am still around!
Not much has changed since my last announcement, so I'll reiterate some things below:
Thank you to those who have stuck with me all these years, and here's to many more years of fanlistings!
After thirteen years of being dressed in the same layout, I've given the Mahou Tsukai Tai! fanlisting a new coat of paint, as well!
I hope this new layout is easier on the eyes than the old one was.
I originally had a banner created and had started on a new layout several years back, but I accidentally misplaced all but the image workfiles. After losing all of that, I initially gave up on the idea of updating the layout.
I finally had another stroke of inspiration after I overcame the hurdle that was implementing this fork of Enthusiast for PHP 7.3, and got to work on coding the layout on 30 July, with the initial layout replacement finished today. Though the website is not optimized for mobile, I've made it at least readable on both larger and smaller screens.
Long story short, I gave the upgrading another go. After a lot of unnecessary struggling, I was able to successfully bring my Enthusiast installation up to speed and compatible with PHP 7.3 thanks to this updated version of Enthusiast.
That, however, came at a price: I lost the customized members list someone had put together for me on the original Enthusiast. If I have free time left to look over and compare the original files, I can probably integrate the PHPFanbase-like members tables again.
For the time being, upgraded vanilla Enthusiast will do. I'm just happy enough that my site can run on PHP 7.3 now. I will continue to manually update the fanlistings since the forms have made things easier to check.