Release v1.37.0 - Muting messages

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In this release, we explore how muting of messages can work, starting with travel messages. If successful, this function will later be expanded to allow muting of characters as well.

Features

Mute travel messages

It is now possible to mute messages of other characters arriving or leaving a room, as well as waking up and falling asleep. To do so, type:

mute travel

This will cause travel messages to be replaced by small stackable placeholders. To see the actual message, you can hover over the placeholder with your mouse, or click on it:

muted_travel_message

Behavior:

  • Affected messages are: arrive, leave, wake up, and sleep
  • Messages of focused characters are not muted
  • Messages are muted until typing: unmute travel
  • Muting is done locally in the browser and will not affect clients on other devices

For more info, check the new help mute topic:

help mute

Area rules section

Areas now have a Rules section in addition to the previous About section. The new Rules section should be used for area specific rules. Those rules can also be viewed by typing:

area rules

The help rules topic has been updated to refer to the new command.

Thanks to @Kai for posting the suggestion in this thread!

Improvements

Focus persisting across sessions
The focus command will now persist any information on who is being focused on across browser sessions. Instead of using sessionStorage, the client now stores the information in localStorage.

Focus help clarifications
The help focus and help unfocus topics have been updated to be more clear on how the focus and unfocus commands are related.

Strip trailing quote on say
When using the quotation mark (") alias with the say command, the message may now optionally end with a closing quote.
The help say text has been update to reflect this.

Thanks to @Shinyuu for the suggestion in this thread!

Fixes

Deleting exits corrupts list
When an exit was deleted, the list of exits got corrupted, no longer consistent with what the real list should look like. This has been fixed.

Thanks to @Xetem for reporting it in this thread!

Administration

Lookup char by first name (moderator)
A new command allows moderators to lookup characters by first name only:

lookup John

For more info, see: help lookup

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