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Lospec Gallery Updates

Hey patrons, just wanted to give an update about what I've been working on with the gallery:

First and most notably are the additions to the gallery list, sorting  allows you to change the order which pieces are shown, and time limits  the pieces to just ones posted in the last day, week, etc.

Next is a new feature added to all like buttons on the site, you can  now click t...

The Lospec Gallery Has Entered Closed Beta!

After years of work, the Lospec Gallery is finally ready for some initial testing! You will be the very first people to test it out (along with kickstarter donators). 

Current Features

The current features are:
- uploading art submissions / thumbnail selection
- viewing art by category
- pixel art and standard image viewers
- liking/commenting

I recently did many large upgrades to the Lospec backend, most notably rewriting how submission form fields world,...

An April Update

Hey everyone! I pushed out an update which addressed a bunch of smaller bugs and minor features, not too excited but I figured you should know! If you pledged to the kickstarter, you've probably heard this all already!

The main feature is a new articles system, with it's own page that people can browse,  which i can submit articles too,  and a popup I can trigger to show people the latest updates.

I d...

The Lospec Gallery Has Officially Been Funded!

In case anyone didn't hear, after just 24 hours, the Lospec Gallery Kickstarter was funded to 100%. This means the Gallery is definitely coming to Lospec. We are still trying to raise more in order to do more, so far we are at 132%. I don't expect any patrons to make an additional donation (in fact patrons are better than kickstarter donations, so thank you all!), just wanted to keep you informed. In fact if you've donated over $10 total through patreon and would like a sticker/postcard, send...

Kickstarter Incoming

Hey everyone! In case you don't follow our social media, I'm going to be running a kickstarter campaign soon for the Lospec Gallery. I'm very appreciative of all patrons, and it has allowed Lospec to continue as I wouldn't be able to afford it out of pocket. Over a year ago I quit my job to focus on Lospec full time. I've made a lot of good improvements to the site since, including a lot of what would be needed for a gallery, but now I'm running out of funds, and don't make enough from Patreo...

August Update (okay, it's september...)

So after the game jam, I got back to work on Lospec. My current objective is mostly just making minor adjustments and fixes to various things new and old. A few notable ones:

• fixed tutorials not loading tweets
• fixed some notification URLs not working
• fixed palette examples not working when in gif format
• made pending palettes page public
• added discord hooks for when content is submitted (on the Lospec Discord)
• added a backup system for important s...

June Update - Palette Example Submissions

Hey everyone! 

So I'm deep into making it so people can submit examples for palettes, since currently I have to add them manually. It's a great excuse to work on image uploading / processing in forms in preparation for Lospec Galleries.   

Another side project that will be released at the same time is the DawnBringer palette analyser. You may be familiar with this tool,...

March Update

So I quietly pushed out some big updates to the back end of Lospec, which reorganized how community content (things that can be submitted, liked, commented) are defined, making it easier to create them in the future. This was another necessary step on the road to galleries. It had a few bugs but they're getting worked out.

You'll also now be able to see a description of every update I make to the Lospec repository. These may not show on the main website immediately, as I still have to ...

All patreon rewards can now be redeemed through your Lospec account!

As you may have seen, we added user accounts to Lospec. You can link your account to patreon which lets us automatically give you rewards through the site!

To link your patreon, go to your settings page, and scroll to the bottom, where you can click "Link your patreon account".

Once you've done so, you'll automatically be added to our Supporters page.

You should also now see a benefits link under you user menu at the top...

User Accounts

If you haven't seen through social media or visiting our site yet, we've finished adding user accounts to the site! You can join by clicking sign up at the top of the page.

Once you've signed up you can go to your settings, and link your patreon account, which will add you to our Supporters page and give you a badge next to your name, based on your tier.

Next I'll be adding a way to link people's palette and tutorials to their prof...

Lospec now has a discord!

And as a patron, you get extra perks! Link your discord and you'll gain a special role which gives you access to a few private chat rooms, which we can talk about Lospec Beta, or just hang out!

Pixel Art Scaler

Someone emailed me requesting a way to use the scaling feature of the Twitter uploader without going directly to twitter, so I isolated just the scaling ability so people can use it for other websites or projects. Will release soon, just gotta do some testing.

Trashman

Sorry I haven't posted here in a while, I'll try to start doing more. 

This doesn't really affect anyone, but I finally got around to writing a script that deletes temporary / old files from the various uploaders. A few times we filled up the harddrive (which I've also increased the size of). 

So hopefully trashman will help keep things clean and empty. 

/pixel-art-scaler is another small thing I'm working ...