Site Update Log And Gaming Session Improvements

Site Update Log

It's not all fun and game streaming here at TGN towers — we actually spend the vast majority of our time working on improvements to TT, TrueAchievements and TrueSteamAchievements.

We log everything we work on in a project management system called Asana, and we thought it would be very useful for the community to be able to see everything we put live with each site update, including new developments and bug fixes.

So we now have a new Site Updates page where you can see a list of devs and fixes, including additional information such as the thread it was requested or reported in.

New site updates page

You can see the current version number of the site down in the footer, and this also links through the updates page.

You might be wondering why it says we are currently on version 5.0.1 of the site. I had to choose a starting point, and I think that we've probably had at least 5 huge site design changes since we started TA, so that's what I've gone with. Large updates will increment the second number, and smaller ones the last number.

And now, some gaming session features...

Gaming Session Features

Clone Gaming Session

If you go to any gaming session page (you can click through to one from the Gaming Sessions page), you will see a new Clone session button:

This will take you through to the session creation page, and copy over the following information:

Game and trophies the session is for
Session type
Length of session
Gamers required

Additionally, if the session you are cloning is one you made yourself, the following data is also copied:

Session notes
Friends settings
Approval settings
PM settings

Useful, eh?

Changes to Session Score Calculation

When we updated all of the site badges, we made a change to the feedback score badge — to make it a percentage rather than just an aggregate of your feedback scores. The new calculation we used for that was effectively double counting negative feedback, so we have made a change to that calculation.

It is now worked out like this:

1. For every session you are in, you get a score from 0 to +1.

2. Each vote you get in each session is divided by the number of people that gave feedback.

Positive votes are worth 1 point, neutral 0.5 points, and negative are 0 points.

So, if it's a 3 person session and the other 2 give you +ve feedback you get a score of 1 for that session.
If one gives you +ve and one neutral you get a score of 0.75.
if both give you -ve you get a score of 0.
etc etc

3. We add up your scores for all the sessions that you have at least one bit of feedback from, and then divide the total sessions with feedback by that amount.

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Written by Rich Stone

Rich created TrueTrophies in order to reward gamers properly for the hardest trophies they earned. The site has now become one of the leading PlayStation communities around, and Rich is just as passionate as he's ever been about trophies and PlayStation.