Patrons are again

Taluntain · Jan 30, 2012

Adless. I've gone through all the old records and set you all up with renewed ad-free status. Everyone with an account upgrade also gets the Patron tag. DU didn't include who had it and who didn't in the interface he's provided me and unless there's a pressing urge to re-add the ability to be without it, it's not going to make a comeback very soon.

The forum donation system is now automated via account upgrades. This is also accessible via your username tab/dropdown menu in the top right corner of all the forum pages. Everything should be working properly, but as always, post here if something's not working as it should be.

A few of you who have donated during our transition to the new boards haven't left your usernames in a note along with your donations. If you don't want your donations to be considered anonymous, PM me with the following information:

1) the DATE on which you have donated
2) the PAYPAL E-MAIL attributed to your donation
3) the SUM you have donated

I'll set you up manually.

Damned Registrations · Jan 30, 2012

Cool, it's even an image, unlike all the custom titles floating around.

Taluntain · Jan 30, 2012

Yea, I've set it up special and all.

Haba · Jan 30, 2012

Where is mine? :/

Edit: Oh nevermind, I guess I used my anonymous account for some reason, hehe. Enjoy the additional plating to your golden toilet.

Forest Dweller · Jan 30, 2012

Also, I would recommend scaling the upgrades to save you more the longer the upgrade you purchase. As it is there's no incentive to not just buy one every year.

DarkUnderlord · Jan 30, 2012

Dicksmoker said:
Also, I would recommend scaling the upgrades to save you more the longer the upgrade you purchase. As it is there's no incentive to not just buy one every year.

I know, right?

Also Taluntain, the "donate and get rid of ads" link down the bottom should link to the account upgrade page.

Taluntain · Jan 30, 2012

Oh yeah, I didn't tweak that after the initial setup which was a bit awkward. I could also set up recurring subscriptions but it seemed like a bad idea at the time... I imagine there'd be a lot of headaches with cancellations and/or refund requests due to people forgetting they signed up for this. I'm not sure if it's possible not to allow automatic refunds given PayPal's buyer protection. Would anyone here prefer recurring subscriptions to having to renew manually on expiry?

Something that's potentially problematic is also the fact that multiple donations can't be automatically stacked with the current system as far as I can see. So I'm not really sure what happens if someone donates for 6 months and then 1 year... the way it looks is that both upgrades would be applied simultaneously, which obviously isn't what we want. But the only other option XF gives is disabling other upgrades at the time of a new upgrade, so if you donated for 1 year, your 6 month subscription would be nixed... but the end result would be the same, right?

I'll fix the link too.

Haba · Jan 30, 2012

Now please add the rank images back:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/user-ranks-in-css-no-images-required.7731/
http://www.xfteam.info/threads/custom-rank-tags-template-modification.1375/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/using-images-as-user-ranks-can-i-use-a-sprite-sheet.21232/

Also; spoilers?

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...b-code-in-xenforo-a-comprehensive-guide.6320/
^ Tutorial on creating spoiler tag

CappenVarra · Jan 30, 2012

Great, thanks for getting around to it! VIP adless codex looks and loads much better

Mangoose · Jan 30, 2012

Hmm I had it on my old sn, I think. But am I too lazy to go look up info and PM Taluntain? I think so. Meh.

Azalin · Jan 30, 2012

Hey we can see when our ad-free times ends now,cool :thumbsup:

Taluntain · Jan 31, 2012

OK, we've reduced the number of available upgrades to 5 and adjusted the pricing to scale, so the longer the duration, the relatively cheaper the subscription: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?account/upgrades