Demo Update v0.8.0 - Mentions, Markdown, & Platform Sorting (Patreon)

You can put spoiler tags in game notes now! Also other much less  exciting markdown features.  

Implementing support for mentions turned out to be way more complicated  than I anticipated, ultimately requiring several tangential modules to  be modified,  as well as several unplanned UI and backend changes. I  really like how it came together though!   

There's a lot of relatively small improvements that could still be made  here. Things like auto-completing usernames as you mention them, being  about to jump to specific notifications from the notifications menu,  built-in editor for markdown, etc. I'm planning to leave things as they  are for now (sans any bugs that need fixing) and focus on the remaining  features to be added. That sort of additional polish can wait till  after launch.

New to the Patreon? All patrons can check out the demo at backloggery.club. Non-patrons can look around but won't be able to use an account if they register. The demo's data is not connected to the current site and will not carry over to the public release. You can see current plans and known issues on the Trello.

v0.8.0 Patch Notes

New Features

• Mentions:  Just include an @ sign before someone's username to alert them of your post. There's a lot of small details here, but this is where things stand right now:
  - No username auto-complete (for now)
  - Limit of 5 mentions will be notified per post (to help curb spam abuse)
  - While you can @ people in your page and game notes as a quick way to link to them, they will not be notified. (curbs notification spam and some technical reasons)
• Markdown: Bold, italic, strikethrough, links, and spoiler tags are now available in posts, game notes, and page notes. Same syntax as Discord.
• Custom Platform Sorting: Found under Settings -> Platforms. Drag and drop however you like  them hit save. Unlike the current site, this will also reorder how  platforms are sorted in the Library tab.

Tweaks

• Multitap: various tweaks to layout and UI. Posts and game updates can now be filtered under both the Global and Timeline tabs.  Your own posts now have a darker background instead of being right-aligned.

Bug Fixes

• Backlog: removed superfluous outlines on some backlog breakdown bars.
• Multitap: your newly submitted posts now display immediately in your multitap feed without needing a refresh
• Multitap: page no longer scrolls to top when multitap loads more content

I decided to hold off on physical/digital designations for games since implementing mentions took so long. Look for that in the next batch of new features!

Also, let me know if you prefer this style of New Features video or the old, slower, rambling format where I explain things in more detail.

Enjoy, and thanks as always for your support!