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0-knot support is now available for the interactive normal generator! 🔥

by Admin 3 years, 10 months ago

We promised it won't take long, and it's already here! 🔥 Today I've been working on adding left out knots support to the new interactive normal generator, and it went pretty smoothly, so it's already done and you can try it out! 🙂 I also found a few pretty important things to...

Updates to the interactive normal generator 🔥

by Admin 3 years, 10 months ago

Yet another quick update for the interactive normal generator today! From now on, the generator also allows you to add / remove strings from the left side of the pattern, and add / remove rows from the top. We've also added the ability to choose what type of knots to add to the pattern when...

Adding undo support for generators 🙂

by Admin 3 years, 10 months ago

Just a quick update for all of you today 🙂. Undo support for generators has been a feature we wanted to add for a really long time, as a lot of our users were requesting it 😉. So today we're more than happy to finally announce undo support for both 'interactive normal' and...

The interactive normal pattern generator is finally here! 🎉🎉🎉

by Admin 3 years, 11 months ago

I'm super excited to share this news with all of you today! 🙂 It really took us a long time, but the wait is now finally ending, and the new generator is here! To find it, just open up your pattern in the 'create patterns' section, and you'll see a new generator to switch to...

We now have a new Super Moderator! 🎉

by Admin 3 years, 11 months ago

We've been waiting a little while until things settle down after adding super moderators to the site, but some time has passed and it seems like everything is running smoothly! 🙂 So we decided to add yet another Super Moderator, and it's the 2. most active moderator from the last 3...

A big thanks to Johny! 🙏

by Admin 3 years, 12 months ago

Hey everyone! 🙂 I have some news to share with you. It might not be as positive as you would expect for the beginning of a new year 🙁, but don't be worried, I'm sure we've got this! 🙂 @Johny got promoted at his job, and was a bit worried not to have as much time for BraceletBook...

We're introducing a new rank! 🎉

by Admin 4 years ago

To improve the quality of our services even more, today we've introduced a new rank that we were discussing with our moderators for a longer time already 🙂. The name of the new rank is 'Super Moderator', and for the start we've chosen one of our moderators that will have some...

Online security - PLEASE READ❗️

by Admin 4 years ago

Over the last few days, we've been having issues with some very rude users on the website, and so we agreed with our moderators that we should write an in-depth blog post on that topic. I will be touching 3 main topics today, so please read all of them, and very carefully, as it's...

New restrictions for posting to the chat 🙁

by Admin 4 years ago

On the 15th of December 2018, we were removing restrictions for lower ranks in the chat, as we thought it won't cause any issues, and that also newcomers to our community should have the opportunity to chat with other users in the chat. Most of the time it worked really fine, and the chat...

Fixing ratings 🎉

by Admin 4 years ago

Yes, finally! 🎉🎉🎉 We've been thinking a lot with our moderators on how to fix the rating system on BraceletBook, and I can now finally say that the first stage is done! 🙂 We've made it so that only users with higher ranks are now able to give your patterns and tutorials lower ratings...

Introducing dark mode! 😎

by Admin 4 years, 1 month ago

We've got some great news to share with all of you today! 🎉 We've just deployed native dark mode support for our website just a few minutes ago! 😎 It took some time for the server to re-generate all the pattern and variation SVGs (yes, they also look different in dark mode!), so I...

Review guidelines got updated! 😇

by Admin 4 years, 1 month ago

Hey everyone! 😎 We've updated our review guidelines today, with some more details and info on various different topics that we discussed with the moderators on Slack over the time 🙂. Please read them when you find some time, to make sure you're up2date with the latest additions. We...

Server performance issues are fixed now! 🔧

by Admin 4 years, 2 months ago

Hello everyone! 🙂 I'm super happy I can now say with 100% certainty, that the performance issues we've been having with the server are fixed now. It was a long journey, that sometimes felt like a never-ending one, but it's a big relief to see everything working smoothly now. We...

Server maintenance and downtimes 🔧

by Admin 4 years, 3 months ago

Hello everyone 🙂. I just have a quick message for those of you who experienced downtimes throughout the day today. We've been having some minor problems in the admin interface, which have been caused by an overloaded database server. The patterns section was sometimes really slow to work...

Increasing daily variation limits and other updates 🙂

by Admin 4 years, 4 months ago

We've increased the daily variation limits today, and also changed the way they work a bit. They are now rank-based, which means the higher your rank is, the more variations you can create daily. It goes all the way from max. 5 daily additions, up to 30 for Bracelet Kings 🙂. We've also...

Review speeds are back to normal now! 🎉

by Admin 4 years, 4 months ago

I'm more than happy to announce this! 🙂 The 5 new moderators we've added to our team are helping us a lot! In fact, they've been such a help that we've managed to go thru the whole pattern review queue, and review all the patterns that were there 🙂. That means the review times...

Please welcome our 2 new moderators! 🎉

by Admin 4 years, 4 months ago

After adding 3 new moderators to the team 2 weeks ago, we've decided to add 2 more today, as the whole process went a lot smoother than we expected the last time, and as of now it looks it's already all settled down 🙂. And so we had 2 more polls with all of our moderators. The first...

Server upgrade 🔧

by Admin 4 years, 4 months ago

With 250k registered users, 120k patterns (including variations) and almost 100k uploaded photos, our old server setup was slowly starting to struggle fulfilling our requirements, and so we had to upgrade it to a completely new machine today 🙂. You might have experienced a brief period of...

We now have 3 new moderators! 🎉