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New official URL for Improved Initiative (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-16 03:55:32
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2026-06
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Hello GMs,

Improved Initiative has a new official URL! The app can now be accessed at https://improvedinitiative.app/.

The old URL is still down for now. Azure support tells me I'm looking at mid-March for a resolution so I decided to take the opportunity to move on to a shorter url with no hyphen and a more "modern" TLD.

I'll push an update to the D&D Beyond Importer Extension to update the default target URL. If you're having any difficulty recovering or migrating your data, check out the workarounds post.

Thanks for your patience during the last few weeks. I'm very grateful for the kind words and grace that you've extended.

Take care!

-Evan

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Improved Initiative

The original combat tracker for D&D 5E. Prep and run fast, adaptable combat encounters. A free alternative to the D&D Beyond (DDB) Encounter Builder.

Comments

Roger Penn

You really need to find a new registrar. That's such BS. It takes someone 2 minutes to fix that. Do you think if your domain was nike.com that they would be screwing you around? I've dealt with "lapsed" domains many times, and they're generally back up within a day of payment. Nevertheless, I like the new name better. :D

Tactical Tokens

Thank you for the update. Thank you for the backup url! It saved my game a few days ago. Thanks for the new URL! I almost never like hyphens in URLs but it does work for this project, at least aesthetically. I hope you get it back soon.

Chris Bloom

Thanks for being proactive!

TheSheDM

Thank you for the update and the backup. I DM every week and I was able to quickly switch over and keep playing with barely a hitch.

Swagger

Thank you very much for your work!

Timothy R Havens

Thanks for the support on getting the old data. When the old site was down I realized just how much I use this to run my games and how much I store in it. FYI, on the new site, the option to store characters as part of an encounter has disappeared. Any chance it can be put back in?

Timothy R Havens

The option to save characters in encounters is now back. Thanks Evan.

Jeremy Buege

Does this change impact Custom Encounter IDs used for hosting player views? An encounter Id I was able to use 2 weeks ago from the backup domain is showing "Id Unavailable" for me on the new domain. Easy enough for me to work around, but curious if this affects others as well and whether it's easily corrected.

Will Schwab

The SSL error is occurring with multiple web browsers on several different devices even after a hard refresh and incognito mode. It means that however you generated the certificate, the certificate authority is not recognized. It appears you are using a Cloudflare Gateway ECC Certificate Authority. I found this article on what you need to do to resolve this: https://bobcares.com/blog/cloudflare-origin-certificate-not-trusted/

everett

its not letting me import things from dndbeyond and i dunno why it keeps telling me its only for people who back you on paetron which i do?

everett
>>102864781

yeah it was the url i thought i changed it but i messed up lol

Xathien

Glad to see things are slowly recovering! I've gotten most of my settings recreated at the new URL, fortunately. One minor problem I've discovered in the switchover: I lost my Custom Encounter ID. I'm using a second one for now, but I sure wouldn't mind my original one being made available to me again. :) ETA: Looks like I'm not the only one on this thread who has run into this.

Scott

This is such an important tool in running my games - I really appreciate all of your hard work in getting this back operational!

Victor Navone

Likewise! This tool is a joy to use and has become indispensable in my games.

Quickhakker

Hey just thinking what happened to the "wolf" in the monster section

Lagongo

Hey there! I'm having a problem connecting - I'm getting "An error occurred during a connection to improvedinitiative.app. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR" This is through Xfinity. However, if I connect through my VPN, it works fine! Very weird.

M M

Hi, is there something wrong with the site? My playerviews don't seem to respond, they are stuck in the default styling and none of the creatures appear into it, requesting other id's doesn't seem to do anything.

Evan Bailey
>>105469441

Player views are a little flaky right now due to a database upgrade. I'm hoping to have it fixed on Wednesday, I'm unfortunately away from a computer the next couple of days. Thanks for the heads up!

Mitch Kanig

Hi, I cant generate a player URL anymore... is there a bug?

Mathew DeGauven

Does the Improved Initiative importer import character sheets from any other tools besides DND Beyond? I thought there was a list of things that it could import monster blocks from, but I can't seem to find a reference to that.

Evan Bailey
>>107048442

The chrome extension only targets D&D Beyond sheets. What's the other tool you'd like to import from?