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Improvements to giving away pets

Postby Nick » Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:05 pm

Hey all,

The adoptions board has been so popular over the last few weeks! We're going to be making some improvements to this system over the next month or so to make it easier to give pets and trade them with others. For example, you'll eventually get a PM when someone wants to give a pet to you, and you could accept it or deny the request.

I've noticed that when people post pets up for adoption, it's hard to tell whether the pet has been given away yet or not, which is why I added a new feature. If you add a little bit to the code for your pet when you post it, the forum automatically updates the pet's picture once your pet has been given away to add the text "Already taken". This way, people will instantly be able to see which pets are still available! :).

Eventually, you'll be able to get this special code straight from your pet's page, but at the moment you have to add it manually. You add "&owner=XXX" after your pet's ID in the image link, where XXX is your ID number on forums. If you hover over your name in the forum, you'll see your ID in your browser's status bar at the bottom (it'll say ...&u=1000 or something, the number is your ID). My ID number is 65, so I can post my pet like this:

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If you're feeling really adventurous, and you want to try out this complicated feature with the pets that you're giving away, then go ahead! :)

I've posted some pets of mine as an example, I'll give them out to the first few people to post so you can all see how it works.

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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby emgeal » Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:13 pm

I'd like one. I could just go adopt one of them, but this is sooooo much cooler. :) I'll give it a special name or something so I'll remember. ;)
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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby wolfblazer » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:38 pm

Thats really fantastic.
You guys keep making this site better. xD
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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby emgeal » Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:58 am

Wow, that's so cool! I love this feature.
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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby MoofinKai » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:57 am

Woah, neat~! Keep up the good work! ;)
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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby Lusitano » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:49 am

That's an awesome idea, and it works on my website! Good job :D
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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby Kabloosh » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:11 am

Could I adopt one? :)

Great idea! Thanks for taking the time to work on it. That's probably one of the biggest problems on those forums- it's hard to tell whether or not a pet has been adopted by someone else.
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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby Petzi » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:14 am

I'd love one of those pups ;)
Great feature btw
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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby Roonie-Roe » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:40 am

Yay! *bows down to your greatness* xD Thank you SO much! This will definitely be very useful as I have a ton of pets that I'll be trading/giving away in the near future and keeping track of them will be quite a chore. This'll make it far less stressful. :D

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Re: Improvements to giving away pets

Postby Nick » Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:17 pm

I'll keep that last pet so you can see the slight improvement. It prints "Adopt me! ID#", then the ID of your pet, so people can say which one they want when they go to adopt it.

This is also designed to discourage you from using the special adoption code on your pets even if they are not up for adoption, as the special code places a little more strain on our servers.. (so don't use it if you don't need this feature) :)
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