2021-02-17 - Abandoned Page Updates

[TJ09]

Now that the bulk of the event season is over, it's time to get back into the swing of making changes. There's a number of things in the pipeline that will hopefully see the light of day in the coming months, but to start off with, I'd like to take a look at long-standing issues with the abandoned eggs page. I've said a bit in the past, and what I hinted at then has finally come to pass:

 

Visible eggs in the abandoned page are now limited to no more than 24 eggs per-abandoner. Similarly, event eggs (like the Valentine's eggs that are currently in play) are simultaneously valuable but also can get in the way of hunting for non-event eggs, and will be limited to 24 visible at a time. I think that this represents a good start—and if it turns out to be enough, a good end—but there may be more tweaks in the future, depending on how things play out. Only time will tell.

 

In the mean time, let us know how the changes feel.

[TCA]

Ooh, exciting update! Thanks! This should make things a little more fun in the AP.

[alyelle]

I love this idea, looking forward to seeing how it plays out!

[Terrafreaky]

Man did this freak me out at first!!  I saw the new AP before seeing the announcement and had a moment of panic that the wall was ending. Even though I knew that couldn't  be true.

Edited February 17 by Terrafreaky

[XDLugia]

I'm interested to see how holiday hunting will be in the future.

[Marrionetta]

Thanks for the clear and concise update. We appreciate your ongoing hard work.

[ChickpeaHummus]

Interesting update!

EDIT: whoops asked a stupid question

Edited February 17 by ChickpeaHummus

[BlueLatios]

To me, I feel neutral about this, for the time being. But I am curious how it'll affect massbreeds and walls in the future 👀 thanks for the update, TJ!

[Mangrit]

Sounds great, thank you!

[Arcy]

pleasantly surprised by the updates, and eager to see what's in store to the future  

[Long_Before_Sunrise]

I'm seeing the last two spaces on the bottom with the every day eggs as empty. Two eggs a short of row.

 

And now it's back to all Valentines.

Edited February 17 by Long_Before_Sunrise

[animetriplicate]

I rather like this decision. If nothing else, it’ll help unclog a lot of the holiday backlog quicker. We’ll see how it goes once the holiday log is out of the way and normal activity resumes, but I find it to be a welcome change. 
 

Though I think it may need a little attention, as the non-Valentines appear to have left the building. 

 

[BlueLatios]

Aaaaand now one row of the AP has been vanquished

[Stromboli]

Heck yes, we can Ides of March and not feel so bad about it this year 😆😆😆

[SpyroForLife]

Looking forward to seeing how these changes work out! But unfortunately I think we uhh accidentally the AP

 

Currently the bottom row has just vanished and there's only four rows of the holiday eggs left.

[tjekan]

I'm glad to see some improvements being tried!

I'm stumped by this part, though:
"Visible eggs in the abandoned page are now limited to no more than 24 eggs per-abandoner."
How will that help? Only 24 eggs are visible on the abandoned page at all now, so the whole page could still be filled with eggs by the same breeder?

Edited February 17 by tjekan

[animetriplicate]

Just now, tjekan said:

I'm glad to see some improvements being tried!

I'm stumped by this part, though:
"Visible eggs in the abandoned page are now limited to no more than 24 eggs per-abandoner."
How will that help? Only 24 eggs are visible on the abandoned page at all anyway, so the whole page could still be filled with eggs by the same breeder?

There should be another row of eggs below the 24 Valentines right now. It appears to have wandered off. Once that’s been wrangled, there will be mostly eggs from the one person, while the other six slots are free to be from others. 

[Shinoaaa]

this update is pretty nice (imo)

[Tinibree]

oh nooo two days away from the nd thing D:

[random_dragon_collector]

I'm confused.  There are only 24 visible slots on the AP.  How is this a change?

[tjekan]

1 minute ago, animetriplicate said:

There should be another row of eggs below the 24 Valentines right now. It appears to have wandered off. Once that’s been wrangled, there will be mostly eggs from the one person, while the other six slots are free to be from others. 

Ohhhhh. I thought that was by design. If it's just a glitch, then sure. Might help at least a little.

[random_dragon_collector]

There's no extra line for me--just the usual 24 eggs.

 

ETA:  no, there it is!  Thanks, TJ!

Edited February 17 by random_dragon_collector

[Tehpikachu]

tj you ate my eggs : (

 

in a couple of years (or just next halloween) this will probably be useful, but choosing now to do it is unintentionally funny as hell. gotta test it somehow i guess LOL

[InvaderAlexis]

yeah this timing was way unfortunate, i wish we could have done our AP ND wall ;;

[Sylph264]

Ah, the missing row has returned!