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December 2018 - Web Updates

31 Dec 2018, 00:00 AndroidiOSWebRace viewerUI / UXNew feature(s)
  • Added New and improved friends list embedded in home page
  • Added New home page layout saving space and cleaning up UI
  • Added progress bar animation to test laps
  • Added car / livery previews to driver standings
  • Added detection for when a user has joined the game via a league link, prompting said user to join the league they launched the game with
  • Added new weather API provider (Dark Sky API) as old provider (Weather Underground) is closing at the end of the month
  • Added preliminary support for right-to-left aligned languages
  • Added team colours to all standings
  • Added team colours to race results and practice results
  • Changed rules on forum to allow admins/moderators to not be subject to any restrictions on posting (e.g. posting back-to-back or time limits between posts) as it is often necessary for announcements and support
  • Added new forum rules so that banned users can no longer create forum threads
  • Fixed UI bugs within Headquarters while doing construciton projects
  • Fixed beginner tutorial getting stuck when app opened via a league link
  • Fixed the beta version of the race viewer settings as the default for all users after saving changes on the 'Settings' page
  • Fixed bug that caused active / pressed state of buttons to not show button depressed
  • Fixed bug where black team colour was saved as '0' instead of the correct hex code '000000'.
  • Fixed URL used to launch the website not loading after user login
  • Fixed bug with highlighted buttons during tutorials turning white when pressed
  • Fixed empty team names or team names containing special symbols not allowing beginner tutorial to progress beyond league selection.
  • Fixed incorrect temperature readings with new weather API provider
  • Fixed missing icons on help page.
  • Fixed poll NaN error when 0 votes
  • Fixed translations on weather forecasts to match new 7-day format from new weather API provider
  • Fixed water depth not always showing accurate values for practice laps when data was available
  • Fixes to various deeplinking glitches within the beginner tutorial - if a user signed up after launching the app via a link.
  • Hotfix for notification ! icon showing as ..." in Chrome."
  • Hotfix to new tabs glitch introduced by putting tabs on the home page.
  • Improved UI SFX to not play irrelevant SFX on login/initialization of app, e.g. money sounds as balance updated on launch
  • Improved display/layout of livery on team page
  • Improved efficiency and loading times across the site.
  • Improved layout of poll answers.
  • Improved league select page to ensure at least 3 leagues exist so nobody can become stuck on the league join step of the beginner tutorial
  • Improved loading times of friends list
  • Improved layout and organisation of information by setting universal picture dimensions and cropping images to fit in areas like comments, news, standings (previously dynamic sizes and aspect ratios were allowed, creating messier text)
  • Removed Export CSV button on tablets (this is now a Web-only feature)
  • Rolled back race viewer to version 3.3 from 3.34 as there were numerous reports of laggy/stuttery viewers on 3.34.
  • Thread in the 'Bugs' sub-forum now require the first post to begin with template questionnaire
  • Various hotfixes and performance improvements to the back-end service.

Stability updates

05 Dec 2018, 00:00 AndroidiOSRace viewerRace simulationLivery editorService
  • Fixed IAP failures during network issues
  • Fixed memory leaks in certain scenarios in the race viewer
  • Fixed livery showing numbers in place of sponsors when a team has no sponsors
  • Improved tyre selection during pre-race weather changes.
  • Improved livery editor performance to run better on mid and low end devices
  • Improved rendering on 18:9 displays
  • Improved performance and error handling on loading screens
  • Various other fixes and improvements

November 2018 - Web Updates

30 Nov 2018, 00:00 AndroidiOSWebRace viewerLivery editorUI / UXNew feature(s)
  • Added new standing water level indicator on home page and for practice laps - this information is collected from data on any other laps performed within the last 5 minutes by any team
  • Added forum notifications pane which notifies user of replies to threads they are following
  • Added Japanese language translation
  • Added language selection to start screen
  • Added emoji support to league descriptions, manager bios, forum posts and comments
  • Added Instagram follow reward
  • Added new 2018 car shape livery placeholders to Cars page
  • Added support for native share method in apps instead of old method which only supported Facebook or Twitter sharing via URL
  • Added ability for league hosts  to delete comments on their league wall
  • Added forum ban Appeal System
  • Revised UI first pass - increased use of rounded corners and gradients across UI
  • Fixed insufficient parts/engines prompts not opening the parts/engines dialog and not re-enabling button to buy parts/engines.
  • Fixed 'Preparation level' translation wrapping on to two lines on home page in some languages.
  • Fixed bug whereby putting a single driver or staff on auction it would say you've reached the limit
  • Fixed bug which could result in the beginner tutorial becoming stuck on a particular screen
  • Fixed issues with car design scaling when promoting within a league
  • Fixed bug with new moderator permissions that resulted in the comment module being hidden for ordinary users
  • Fixed 'Research' dialog not showing correct previous race design levels after more updates were applied
  • Fixed some game-breaking bugs with tutorials in Chrome-based browsers
  • Fixed language selection changing erratically (not being reliably stored) when not logged in
  • Fixed numeric hex-codes starting with leading 0s not exporting/importing correctly in livery editor
  • Fixed swipe menu opening on the start screen before it should be visible when opened via swipe motion
  • Fixed various tutorial bugs.
  • Fixed bug with thread title input check when replying to posts, as they don't have titles and this was preventing replies
  • Improved reliability of various app calls, reducing potential for failures including IAP failures.
  • Improved performance / reduced loading times of all HoF categories
  • Changed forum to block topic titles written in BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS
  • Improved forum thread title display to be contained on a single line
  • Significant optimisations across service to loading times and stability
  • Removed G+ from social networks in share dialogs
  • Removed Halloween background.
  • Removed language selection from team creation screen.
  • Updated WebGL livery editor and race viewer to align with those in version 3.3 of the apps
  • Various fixes, revisions and improvements to UI updates
  • Various translation updates.