Dev Update: We Made Posts a Little Better

If you haven’t noticed, we’re pretty notorious for releasing new features really early in their life cycle here at GameWisp. It’s intentional.

First, we want to get things out the door quickly to ensure that we’re building things that our users find valuable. Second, despite communicating with users frequently, we’re never quite sure what the final form of a feature should be. This is typically why features are released on GameWisp with little to no early fanfare or promotion. Releasing without a lot of early hype keeps us from Molyneux-ing ourselves, and it lets us sit back and see how the bones of a feature are utilized by our users before investing a lot of time polishing up a feature that may turn out to not be as important as we thought.

I’m still waiting for the version of Fable where I can plant an acorn and see it as a tree later, Molyneux.

Posts, though. Wow, everyone. You really like Posts, turns out. Hundreds of posts have been written by GameWisp channels since its release three weeks ago, which is a pretty big indication to us that we need to spend more time making the feature robust. So that’s what we did.

First off, we rushed Posts out with a couple of niggling problems that manifested themselves in large ways. YouTube embeds, for example, worked in the text editor, but were parsed out by our backend, causing frustration for users when they’d link a YouTube video just for it to not show up in the published version of the Post. Oops. We patched that up so you can embed YouTube videos now. Have fun.

Secondly, an uncaught bug in our backend led to accidentally stripping out multiple anchor tags in a Post. This led to links being parsed from saved posts. We fixed that. You can now hyperlink in a Post to your heart’s content.

Multiple links and video embeds. Finally.

Thirdly, image embed works now. Simply pasting in a link to an image will convert it the image.

We put a Molyneux in your Molyneux so you could Molyneux while you Molyneux’d.

And finally, Posts now autosave in Draft mode, so there’s no reason to worry if you accidentally close the browser tab, hit back on your browser, Windows 10 decides to magically update, etc. Your Post will be there when you come back, likely without any (or very little) of your work lost.

That’s all for now. If there’s anything else we can do to make Posts better, let us know!