Nice to see it coming along together. I certainly don't want them to rush the game, so I was quite sad to hear that they would cut many features. Good thing that they didn't cut the Linux version :)

I am especially sad for the horse AI, I still hope they will implement it later somehow (but my hopes aren't too high either).

All in all, I'll have to acquire new hardware to make it run, anyway. I will probably do it for the Half-life 3 release (SteamOS exclusive), so I an not in a hurry :D

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Quoting: OLucasZanellaThe notification about likes is amazing, big improvement just that. Since I haven't been quoted yet I'm not sure if it will send me a notification when it happens, will it?
Great work, Liam, this is almost becoming a social network!

I am pretty sure Liam needs to lay the basework for user tagging he talked about in the last article.

I am not sure why, the blue cross shows up as a blue square in firefox mobile, but not on desktop (even with ctrl+shift+m).

There is still some improvements I would like to see; most importantly:
- Stacking notifications: Your post X received n likes \n\n P new replies in the article A's comments
- Dismiss multiple related notifications at once when you click on one, especially for the one that should stack, as mentioned earlier.

I also think that the subscription manager should display a list with common controls and individual checkboxes instead of individual controls :)

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Not being familiar with the game, it took me a while to realize that it wasn't the Linux version's DLC, but the full game that was being delayed :)

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The notification area seems to be working on mobile devices, now, thank you :)

There's still one thing: I had a couple of notifications for this topic, taped on the first one, read the comments, and noticed that I still had some... For the same topic. It should mark the others as "read", IMO, and maybe combine them to avoid spam.
Again, great job, Liam!

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As @liamdawe and @m2mg2 pointed it out, they don't have to. But it's well within their rights to do so.

I will repost the Eff link I put in the comments last time :

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not-require-companies-tirelessly-censor-internet [External Link]

It's an interesting and not too long read, especially by lawyers' standards.

Disclaimer: IANAL

That's nice to see them going open source, I could see myself contributing some day (So many open source projects... :D)

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What a productive improvements streak, I'm impressed, Liam :)
I had a look at the subscription summary page,and if you intend to leave it here, I think it would be better to have a scrollable list (or better, table) with check boxes to update subscriptions in bulk, and avoid 40 different pages.

To make it clearer:
I think the title, check box and current subscription model could be displayed on one line, with buttons underneath to change the subscription model or unsubscribe.

There could even be an "unsubscribed topic list" underneath, maybe even (let's go crazy) with some "notification symbol" for unsubscribed topic with new answers :)

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Quoting: liamdawe

- I just received a private message, but didn't see the notification before actually looking at my profile. Maybe show the envelope icon if there are some pending noteworthy notifications, and enough room to draw it?

The notifications menu is updated on each refresh until I implement a way for it to auto-grab new notifications

Please note that those comments were only targeting the mobile site. I just do not see the notification area on my smartphone, even when I have one, be it portrait or landscape :)

Quoting: liamdawe

- I still have my username displayed in the navigation menu, no avatar (OK, granted, I have to change it, but I am waiting to find/create the right one

I don't entirely get what you mean? The user menu is supposed to have your username in the dropdown.

I wasn't entirely sure either if it was intended behaviour or not; just wanted to point out that the avatar did not appear on the mobile version of the site. But the username does, so that's fine.

Thanks for the clarifications on the other points. The site is great, I was a bit curious to see how you were handling the responsive part, so I had a look at the CSS part some time ago, and it was really instructive, as a non-web developer.

I know a lot of people ask you to make the site open source under the AGPLv3, and you have every right to agree or refuse for your own reasons, but I was wondering if the CSS (And maybe the client-side Javascript) could be opened up for contributions, since it is already "public". Or "publicly visible", at least.

Edit: oh, and quote notifications too, would be useful, I don't think that this exists for now (note that there is a small problem with usernames like mine, to handle when you implement tagging too :P)
And emoji support (for now, the form just deletes everything that comes after an emoji, which already made me lose some data once or twice)

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Great updates, Liam.

Just a few notes/questions I can think of right now, as I am browsing on mobile:
- has the contrast between comment text and the background been lowered? It seems a bit more difficult to read those, but it might be due to my screen's brightness.
- I just received a private message, but didn't see the notification before actually looking at my profile. Maybe show the envelope icon if there are some pending noteworthy notifications, and enough room to draw it?
- I still have my username displayed in the navigation menu, no avatar (OK, granted, I have to change it, but I am waiting to find/create the right one
- I thought about it while reading the comments, but horizontal real estate is rather scarce on my phone in portrait mode. It's rather annoying to see that ~30% gets wasted by the avatar column. Maybe put the avatar, badges, etc. on the top?
- The spelling correction is under the comments. Not sure if intended.

Edit: Maybe put an edit reason? Is it worth it?

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That's really nice of them fix those issues, that's what I like with these porting companies. So many games just go "port and forget". UT2004, for example.

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Quoting: tuxintuxedoFrom what I heard, without DAL, there is no Freesync. And although some people hope, it is still not clear whether DAL will arrive for the 4.11 kernel. So I am not sure what we are seeing on this presentation or more precisely, when it will happen.

IIRC, they ship, compile and insert the module as part of their PRO stack. Some distributions also patch it in.

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