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How to use DragHatch Scroll Security

 

Hi. You may have gone to your scroll and seen this:

 

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This is the part where you freak out. ohmy.gif You wonder if you have been doing something wrong. Well don't fear, my friend. I'll explain everything here.

 

I recently added a new security system to DragHatch which I think is pretty unique for hatchery sites at this time, but for those who have requested it, it is a lovely addition.

 

How does it work and what does it do? Let's take a look.

 

If you click that link you'll be taken to a Dragon Cave page that looks like this:

 

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To be sure that it is Dragon Cave and not a scam, check your URL bar. It should say this:

 

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Enter your Dragon Cave password and you'll be taken back to DragHatch. My site will get a message verifying that you are who you say you are. Now that we have that cleared up, we can secure your account.

 

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Your scroll is now locked and nobody can get add or remove your dragons from DragHatch except you. With that being said, make sure you allow yourself to use DragHatch on your current browser!

 

If this is a private computer then allow it permanent access.

 

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You'll be taken back to the front page to enter your scroll name. Let's see what it looks like this time...

 

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Yay, your account is secure. biggrin.gif

 

If you want to use DragHatch on multiple browsers/computers you'll have to repeat this process.

 

Oh and what will it look like for anyone else trying to use your scroll?

 

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Yep. No intruders allowed. No daycare workers overstaying their welcome. It's just you and DragHatch. Welcome to the new world.

 

I hope you learned what this is all about. Enjoy.

 

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Thank you smile.gif

 

edit: Well, how do I add my totally secure scroll now? All I get is the log in parts, but I never get to see my dragons. I made sure that cookies are allowed, I deleted and re-collected cookies ...

Edited by Ruby Eyes

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Thank you smile.gif

 

edit: Well, how do I add my totally secure scroll now? All I get is the log in parts, but I never get to see my dragons. I made sure that cookies are allowed, I deleted and re-collected cookies ...

Unfortunately it's still in beta, and a couple times I've noticed it fails to recognize the cookie. sad.gif

 

It probably has something to do with the space in your name again. In the meantime, I deleted your security entry so you can access it again.

 

If anyone else gets stuck in an infinite login loop please let me know.

 

EDIT: I changed the code a bit and reset the entire security database. Try it again.

Edited by evina

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I can't use the site now! sad.gif I don't see a security message or registrate/login either! Nothing happens whatever I do and there's no images for the nursery, only for the low times. I checked that cookies are allowed, I've deleted and re-enabled cookies! What more can I do?

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I can't use the site now! sad.gif I don't see a security message or registrate/login either! Nothing happens whatever I do and there's no images for the nursery, only for the low times. I checked that cookies are allowed, I've deleted and re-enabled cookies! What more can I do?

- Is JavaScript enabled?

- Does a hard refresh work? (Ctrl + F5)

- Did this happen when you first started using my site today or after you secured your scroll or something?

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It started yesterday when you had changed the valentine theme and all. I have used your hatchery just fine for a long time without any problem.

 

Yes, javascript is on as always and I have tried hard refresh too. It's still the same problem. sad.gif

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It started yesterday when you had changed the valentine theme and all. I have used your hatchery just fine for a long time without any problem.

 

Yes, javascript is on as always and I have tried hard refresh too. It's still the same problem.  sad.gif

Wow I'm really sorry about that. I wish I had a better explanation but it's puzzling.

 

The fact that nothing works (I'm assuming buttons) and that the low time viewer works when the nursery viewer doesn't, points to a problem is JavaScript still.

 

Oh I think I got it now! ohmy.gif I upgraded to using jQuery 2.0 and that doesn't support old browsers. It's all about optimization and I guess I didn't think about whether people with older browsers actually used my site. xd.png

 

What browser do you use? If it's IE 8 or below then it won't work. If you can't upgrade (because you're on XP or something) and can't use another browser, then I could revert it back to the old version if you really want.

 

EDIT: Never mind I'm reverting it back anyway.

Edited by evina

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Good you noticed earlier. You can use a program which takes screenshots of specific browsers so that you can make sure that your site works on different settings.

 

I like your user login feature though, I had thought about it but I don't have the time to implement it. I might as well hire someone to code it for me in order to keep up with the latest features of fan sites xd.png.

 

For me, I've stuck with the modern browser javascript/ajax on my site as I don't have the time to create a similar theme which works on older browsers. Sucks how I am way busy now a days and not able to manage my site much and improve the features etc. Just keeping it simple.

 

Just a tip though, if you start using modern browser technology, expect to lose a huge chunk of users.

 

I noticed that when I first released my new theme that I started losing users who were using somewhat the latest browsers and when I upgraded the backend of my site to the latest browser technology I took a huge hit in users. I mean a huge hit LOL. People from other countries and some in the US who use older computers and browsers whenever they visited my site had a blank white page.

 

Basically you need to check on a browser testing software to make sure your site works, it may work on chrome but not firefox.

 

From my tests, my basic css and html site 200/200 browsers worked, then once I updated a bit 150/200 worked and now it is at 100/200.

 

I don't know LOL I think either updating my site caused some people who use my fan site not to be able to use it OR my fan site just sucks and is lacking features. (I have to admit the code to my site is very inefficient and cluttered, wish I had the time to fix it and add all these new features that many of the fan sites have) Who knows, I run the fan site non-profit and for the joy of it.

 

In the end, not everyone may like the improvements, which is why I offer an old version of my site which nobody uses, but then again I don't have time to check if my template is compatible in every browser as there are so many. There is probably 100 things not displaying right on my site on different browsers, I would love to fix it but have no time.

 

I run my fan site as a hobby xd.png

 

I may be wrong here, as you probably know more about CS&E then me as it is not my field of study. But then again, your site runs pretty fast on shared hosting, way faster than my site which runs on 2, 8GB servers on gigabit ports LOL. probably because I am not using mass view. But keep up the good work and good luck with all the changes!

 

 

/back to doing homework lol.

It's not just shared hosting, but the cheapest shared hosting I could find. laugh.gif

 

My extreme attention to performance was needed to make the site run under its rules. At first it just kept crashing the server over and over again.

 

For example, to avoid constant database reshuffling of codes I put them all in predefined groups that are displayed one by one in the viewer. And the code to load the images is mostly generated by JavaScript. Over time I made enough changes so the site uses extremely little resources.

 

And about themes, I don't have to worry about compatibility too much because I keep them extremely minimal. wink.gif

 

Thanks for your comments.

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Wow I'm really sorry about that. I wish I had a better explanation but it's puzzling.

 

The fact that nothing works (I'm assuming buttons) and that the low time viewer works when the nursery viewer doesn't, points to a problem is JavaScript still.

 

Oh I think I got it now! ohmy.gif I upgraded to using jQuery 2.0 and that doesn't support old browsers. It's all about optimization and I guess I didn't think about whether people with older browsers actually used my site. xd.png

 

What browser do you use? If it's IE 8 or below then it won't work. If you can't upgrade (because you're on XP or something) and can't use another browser, then I could revert it back to the old version if you really want.

 

EDIT: Never mind I'm reverting it back anyway.

Aww, thank you very much <3 It's working great now! smile.gif

 

I'm using either FF 3,17.. or IE 8 (yeah, they are very old) and an old crappy laptop with Vista. I really should get something newer/better... some day!

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Um... I see you reverted back to unsecured login (right? unsure.gif), but what happened to the 'Codes' button? I really like being able to add/remove by code - it's one of the main reasons I use DH as a primary site. Please tell me it's just an oversight, and it's not a deliberate change.

 

(For the record, as browser versions were coming up earlier, I have Chrome Version 32.0.1700.107 m, which I think is the latest version possible, at least for Windows 7. /run-on sentence)

 

Thanks,

Shala

 

PS: love the theme idea, the Valentine skin is pretty! happy.gif

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Um... I see you reverted back to unsecured login (right? unsure.gif), but what happened to the 'Codes' button? I really like being able to add/remove by code - it's one of the main reasons I use DH as a primary site. Please tell me it's just an oversight, and it's not a deliberate change.

 

(For the record, as browser versions were coming up earlier, I have Chrome Version 32.0.1700.107 m, which I think is the latest version possible, at least for Windows 7. /run-on sentence)

 

Thanks,

Shala

 

PS: love the theme idea, the Valentine skin is pretty! happy.gif

The only thing I reverted was the jQuery version so old browsers could use it, but the site is still version 7.

 

I'm sorry to tell you that the removal of code inputs was a deliberate change. sad.gif And I can't bring them back.

 

The coding to make it work was buggy at best and frequently broke. There were countless things that could go wrong, and it would defeat the purpose of the new security system. You are one of the few people I was aware of who actually used it, and to be able to maintain this site I had to decide which features were the most important, and which will be important in the future.

 

The only benefit I imagine would be using it to clean out grown up dragons. And I may add something to do that in a later version.

 

Feel free to explain why you think the code inputs were important to you, because unfortunately I don't understand it. :/

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I used it to remove fogged eggs/hatchlings, since those won't show up in the scroll add function. Sadly, DH and AoND were the only two I could use this way (though AoND functions a bit differently, in that if you check the correct box in the scroll add, it will show fogged things, and auto-remove them when you hit update). AoND also has a way to remove stuff in the viewing window, which works well for users to help clean out fogged, adults and hatched ERs.

 

One other thing that I liked about the individual code add/remove is that I don't necessarily want ALL of my growing things to get an OV every time I add/remove something. I know, it's small, but when you're adding/removing things frequently, they add up. I know, too, that I'm in the extreme minority on this, but there it is. (I noticed that AoND does not add that extra Overall View every time, but I don't know what they do differently from every other fansite.)

 

So, I guess I'm down to one mostly ideal fansite, though I preferred DH's individual code add/removal method. :/ Oh, well. I'll still use DH, as I still prefer it to some of the other fansites.

 

Thanks for responding so quickly!

 

Cheers,

Shala

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Thank you for explaining this. It really helps me understand your perspective.

 

I will add a way to safely remove dragons (including your own) when they are fogged or grown up or something.

 

Also, I didn't know that getting an extra overall view was a bad thing, nor that it happened when the scroll opened. ohmy.gif

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When you open the scroll, you display the /image/ bit of every growing dragon, which adds a unique view (on first time) and an overall view (every time) to each of them. If it didn't work this way, most hatcheries wouldn't work at all wink.gif then you'd need specifically clicksites and dedicated clickers.

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Well I changed it so whatever...

 

Version 7.0.2 released

- Opening your scroll will no longer give your dragons a view.

- More themes added, including my favorite, Halloween 2012.

- changelog.php added. This shows the record of each version of the site.

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Love all the "new" themes. I'll be switching to the Halloween after Valentines is over (the dark is very easy on my eyes).

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*sigh* There are dead and dying hatchlings in the ER and without the code only feature no way to save them. Just getting viewed to death at 5 day, 6d 2h, 6d 18h...

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*sigh* There are dead and dying hatchlings in the ER and without the code only feature no way to save them. Just getting viewed to death at 5 day, 6d 2h, 6d 18h...

Yikes!

 

Overall Views: 13796

Unique Views: 1389

Clicks: 8

 

6 Days left

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Overall Views: 7521

Unique Views: 1229

Clicks: 8

 

7 days

 

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Overall Views: 14999

Unique Views: 1892

Clicks: 25

 

6 Days

 

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Overall Views: 24123

Unique Views: 2822

Clicks: 14

 

5days

 

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Overall Views: 14768

Unique Views: 1884

Clicks: 11

 

6 days

 

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Overall Views: 13032

Unique Views: 1914

Clicks: 12

 

6 days

 

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Overall Views: 14772

Unique Views: 1862

Clicks: 11

 

6 days.

 

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Overall Views: 15236

Unique Views: 1975

Clicks: 5

 

6 days

 

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Overall Views: 14814

Unique Views: 1888

Clicks: 7

 

6 days

 

 

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Overall Views: 16656

Unique Views: 1968

Clicks: 8

 

6 days

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Wow I have never seen anything with that many overall views!!! Hopefully I can get evina's attention to fix this problem!! Or else all those hatchlings may die!

 

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I just barely got the chance to come online and... I have no idea what's happening? Some are doing fine while other's are blink.gif

 

EDIT:

The uh... memory ran out. And not only once but like 10 times. Scripts were prevented from running. I admit, I got the cheapest host I could find but I didn't know this would happen. I'll see what I can do. dry.gif

 

Until then, please monitor your dragons here as you may have to remove them through your scroll manually.

Edited by evina

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Love all the "new" themes. I'll be switching to the Halloween after Valentines is over (the dark is very easy on my eyes).

How do you change themes? unsure.gif

 

It was changed around Christmas to the Christmas-y one, then recently to the Valentines one, and now it's back to the grey/basic one, but I don't see anything that would allow me to change it manually?

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Thanks for adding the scroll security! I used to use yours to supplement EATW and I still use your er. Its nice to know I can limit people adding my dragons somewhere through smile.gif

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