👑

spark

spark

🛡️ Staff 👑 Supporter

Questions are responded to as regularly as possible. Questions that are about site issues or feedback are prioritized over fun, but fun questions will be responded to at once at the end of the week!


Ask a question
spark 1731119144971
1

Neospring v1.14.0

https://neospring.org/@spark/blog/r1.14.0

#release
spark 1731258817302

Neospring v1.15.0

https://neospring.org/@spark/blog/r1.15.0

#release
spark 1731305014527 *

Big changes in little circle land


Hey,

We're changing circles to no longer receive questions, but instead allow you to post your responses (and general posts) to them through a new tag in the expanded response options!

The ability to post to circles ended up making the code for creating questions and responses unordinarily complicated. On top of that, the profile.html template is the longest and most complicated HTML template in the Rainbeam codebase, and having to maintain it twice was not fun. This resulted in circles often being many stages behind user profiles, creating an incoherent look on the site.

I've decided to repurpose the original "lists" idea which I never finished making and instead turn circles into an organizational feature.

You can still have multiple members in your circles! Only members who are a part of a circle can actually post to them. I'll likely add a button for it at some point in the future, but for now you can copy the circle ID and paste it into the "Circle" field when creating responses to publish them to the circle. For posts, just go to the circle and press the "Post" button!

I know this may be kind of annoying for existing circles users, but this is the best move available for keeping the Rainbeam codebase enjoyable to maintain

For developers: the circles API has been changed to match the general authentication API v0. The only real changes for circles is that /avatar and /banner now use the circle's ID instead of name.

Thanks!

#release

fern/elliot ! 1731381267558

will the still seeing blocked peoples posts be fixed soon? I just had to block somebody for posting an inappropriate image with no warning and i can no longer go past that post because of the chance of me seeing . whatever the hell that was again 😭😭

https://neospring.org/+r/af85377c53

spark 1731434564434
anonymous 1731427955747

Hey :) I can still see posts from people I’ve blocked as well as from people who have blocked me in the global questions timeline as well my following timeline when my mutuals have responded to a global question from the people I have blocked. I really do not want to see any of the content from this person, yet I still see their stuff. I understand seeing my mutual’s answer to the person I have blocked’s question, yet I wish there was anyway to have a ‘you have blocked this person, are you sure you want to view?’ or something like that. sorry if I haven’t worded this correctly. If it’s a specific problem with my account I can message

Yeah I’ve been testing it locally all this time and it worked fine, but somehow it doesn’t work on Neospring. I like the idea of having like a choice to still view it, so I’ll likely implement that later today!

spark 1731434542335

For some reason my navi bar is at the top even though I have my theme set to “dark” (not legacy dark) and I’m on mobile

It's back up there now since I've pivoted to using floating buttons for quick actions in the bottom right.

I much preferred the bottom bar, but I've decided it's easiest to just leave it at the top ATP since then you only have to write CSS for one platform instead of both desktop and mobile.

spark 1731270639691
4
anonymous 1731214493122

is there a way to disable the screen dimming effect when you hover over "neospring" on the nav bar?

Removed

spark 1731258533439
pixel 1731242001919

I’ve been unable to switch both my site and profile theme to any of the legacy themes. Whenever I switch to “legacy light” is doesn’t apply to the rest of the site and whenever I switch to “legacy dark” the text turns to the dark mode text but still has the light mode background, making the entire site unreadable :-( The app themes are also having trouble for me, but end up working more often than not

Fixed, sorry!

spark 1731258529491
anonymous 1731252574543

Can you please revert the update or make it so it's a theme you can set it to, now my theme's messed up and a lot of other people are complaining about that too

You've been able to restore the old themes since this update was released. As stated in the update announcement (which has also been at the top of the site for a day), you can use one of the "Legacy" themes in your profile settings.

spark 1731258524543
anonymous 1731255790550

HII when I change my profile to legacy view it doesn't work on my screen 😣😣😣 it like doesn't preview my profile on the old layout is this a bug or something ?

Fixed

spark 1731258452939
randompcb 1731179226216

nevermind i have perms again and still cant edit from any device

Managed to check your metadata value. The page is failing to parse the JSON data (JSON.parse), which is causing globalThis.update_kv to not register, which is causing you to be unable to save metadata values.

This appears to be caused by "\n\n" in "sparkler:biography"

spark 1731205545242
1

Each time I try’s to save my image in the css tab it keeps adding /api/v0/util/ext/image?img= each time it saves

Fixed, you'll have to manually remove that if it's saved, but it won't be added anymore.

spark 1731204676839
anonymous 1731193972696

I can't get my pfp to work, I posted the picture on twt and I'm linking it here yet it still shows the pink square 😭 multiple people have told me that is how they did it but it's not working

I'll check it out! The link to the image is https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gb-lNLWbUAAfwHV?format=jpg&name=360x360

spark 1731202707339 *
anonymous 1731199059451

I have a question. Why are you able to comment and like post made by people who you've blocked? If you blocked them why do you see their posts?

That's really odd. I've never been able to reproduce this locally since posts from people you've blocked are hidden in every timeline and can only be seen with a direct link, so I'm not really sure how you've done that

spark 1731202658096
laika 𓂃 1731177590932

my follower count is still 4 even tho its way higher than that do we know why that is

Probably a weird cache thing

spark 1731202615246

I’m so sorry for the amount of questions but how would I put a image about here on my profile (aka whete the circle is) https://i.postimg.cc/X7t117Fm/IMG-2614.jpg

.profile_avatar_container {
        width: max-content;
}

.profile_avatar_container::after {
	content: "";
	width: 50px;
	height: 50px;
	bottom: -25px;
	right: -25px;
	display: block;
	position: absolute;
	background-image: url("https://i.postimg.cc/TwxJyWxn/IMG-2596.webp") !important;
	background-size: cover;
}
spark 1731202600326
anonymous 1731185802260

you're trying so hard to be "accessible" but forget that most neurodivergent people can't handle change and there's far too much of that here, i can't even navigate anymore i don't know where anything is or how to use the site now.

I get what you're saying, but at the same time nothing has changed besides the position of the navigation bar.

Changing the muscle memory of using the top bar vs a bottom bar could be something, but everything is in the same place also looks the same. The app themes only put the bar on the bottom and make some buttons use a line instead of a filled background.

spark 1731203925275 *
1

What is the positioning that you recommend for this code to show an image next to my pfp? .profile_avatar::after { background-image: url(/api/v0/util/ext/image?img=https://i.postimg.cc/TwxJyWxn/IMG-2596.webp); } Sorry I have to make sure that I’m doing it correctly

… {
    right: 100%;
}

That should fully push it onto the right of the element, for example.

spark 1731175914514

Is there any specific class i should use if I want something to like float on my profile (specifically next to my pfp)

Nope, not really. If you want next to your avatar, you could likely set it up in .profile_avatar::after and then just position it.

spark 1731173957671
jeanne 🌟 1731172904956

hi! did you get rid of the search engine on profiles? 🥹 how do i search for a user’s response based on a keyword that i remember from it? thank you! 💖

It’s in the navigation bar now! It’s a little search symbol that’ll show next to notifications.

spark 1731173857226
1

How does one make a font “work” if that makes sense

Change the line in your custom CSS that says:

@font-face { font-family: porky; src: url(/api/util/ext/image?img=https://file.garden/ZjA6N6P0bFK6ND0Y/Jua-Regular.ttf); }

To:

@font-face { font-family: porky; src: url(https://file.garden/ZjA6N6P0bFK6ND0Y/Jua-Regular.ttf); }
spark 1731172773456
2
fern/elliot ! 1731172544851

Is this supposed to happen

Yes

spark 1731172695387
anonymous 1731172156572

i can't sign out 💔

Ctrl+Shift+R or clear browser cache

spark 1731172211730
عاليزنيا 1731172025551

question, next to a date, theres soemtimes a asterisk , why?

It's alerting you that the time shown there is its last edit date and not its publish date!

spark 1731172084398
spark 1731172189445 *
1

Neospring v1.14.2 (BREAKING)


Hello,

Rainbeam's latest commit is now marked as v1.14.2. This commit introduces many breaking API changes which you should keep in mind:

  • /api/auth endpoints are now under /api/v0/auth
    • You will likely need to do a hard refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R) or clear your browser cache for some things to work again!
  • /api/util endpoints are now under /api/v0/util
  • The "App" themes are now the default
    • You can revert to the old themes by changing your theme to one of the "Legacy" themes.
  • Sessions are now managed properly
    • Old Rainbeam servers will display incorrect information on sessions and delete the wrong sessions! Please update any locally hosted Rainbeam servers ASAP.

Thanks!

#release

Spark is there any way to put something behind the navigation bar. If so what is the code

Just give whatever it is a z-index of LESS THAN 6374. top should also be 0.

spark 1731168383450
Search

Pressing continue will bring you to the following URL:

Are sure you want to go there?


Continue