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At Main Hall, TNT staffmember Snarkie has started a neoboard with some previews of the new premium:
Later she also replied to some questions:
| A few of us thought you might like to see it and the Premium team was all "go for it" because they're rad. It's not really a notification bar, honestly. It's, like, notifications mixed with a toolbar, mixed with Portal? Something like that. Might be hard to envision it without being able to use it, but hopefully it's still interesting to see. Oh, and if we're wrong and you don't want to see it, you can totally ignore this post. If we're right, we gladly accept candy and small marsupials as bribes for future sneak peeks. Full Bar https://images.neopets.com/premium/sneakpeeks/notificationbar.png So, it sits at the bottom of every page with access to your Premium stuff. (You can turn it off.) On the right: Space Faerie Scratchcard, Premium Collectible Cards, Premium Boards, and the Help Centre. SSW https://images.neopets.com/premium/sneakpeeks/notificationbar_ssw1.png https://images.neopets.com/premium/sneakpeeks/notificationbar_ssw2.png He can be used without leaving the page, which I find pretty handy. Dailies https://images.neopets.com/premium/sneakpeeks/notificationbar_dailies.png I know a lot of folks were worried about this going away with Portal. It's just moving here instead. Let us know what you think! |
Later she also replied to some questions:
| Heh. Yeah, the people working on Premium aren't switching to working on site content during the delay, you crazy kids. They're still working on Premium stuff. XP The site content folks are the ones working on site content. *nod* Anyway, let's see... 5th Neopet information coming soon, I think. (It will probably be me posting again.  ) I have a 5th Neopet on this account right now! *cackle*The bar is not Flash and it's not part of the browser. It's just regular code on the page that floats the bar at the bottom. So yeah, most mobile browsers should see it just fine. Safari will. @sweetaislingirl: Email the [email protected] with your ticket number. It sounds to me like you've checked all the regular things that were causing folks not to receive the emails, in which case I have no idea what the issue could be. But I've been told by the Premium team that they have access to that address and are expecting your email so they can look into it for you. Sniperspace mode: I'm honestly not sure. I never used it that way so I didn't notice! I emailed the Premium team to check. @ickle_pengu: Don't you mean NQIV? *winkyface* Okay, about Sniperspace... just because I'm curious. How do you like to use it? Why would you use that over the new bar version? In the bar version, I have the search results up and then CTRL-click all the shops I want to buy from so that they open in new windows. Then I go to each window to buy. Is that what you do with Sniperspace, only... from a pop-up? (I'm just genuinely curious from a design perspective, is all!) @shy_gurl1983: Yes! I also like the thought that we just program a feature as soon as we think of it. That would be awesome! But alas, the Creative department spend weeks, sometimes months, writing documents and paper-testing things before a programmer touches code or an artist starts to draw.  So just because the programmers are busy on certain things doesn't mean other things aren't being worked on.  Sniperspace: Okay, I gotcha. Basically the bar version is the same then. (All searches happen in that little module without reloading the whole page.) Storytelling Judge: Sometimes comes in later and leaves later. It's a preference. Better account security: It's not one system that can just be upgraded. It's a super elaborate set of multiple applications that are constantly being tweaked and updated as needed. It's *always* being looked into! My magical 5th Neopet is VanCleef. I'm heading home! Let me try to answer everyone before I go: - The Scorchio icon is a 5th Neopet reminder thingy. If you have a 5th, it goes away. (I think it also goes away if you don't create a 5th after a while, for people who don't want it so they don't have to stare at it all the time? I forget how it works. More will be explained when it launches, I'm sure!) - My 5th Neopet is not on my user lookup because new Premium isn't launched yet. In our development environment, he's totally there with the rest of my Neopets hanging out. All your Neopets will show up. You don't choose four out of the five.- You reload SSW results by clicking 'resubmit'. If you hit the reload button in the browser, it reloads the entire page (and resets SSW). - SSW results don't carry over from page to page. If you have one window open and are SSWing in that bar, it won't show up in your other window. - I believe they're looking at everything /Neopian/ from Portal that doesn't have a new home yet. I don't know if anything specific is planned right now, but I do know they're researching it all. I think that's it? I hope I got everything! I apologise if I missed you. I blame Sleepy Eye Syndrome. Good night! Tarla is Toolbar. Doesn't have anything to do with the notification bar, I'm afraid. (Though we may move her somewhere else in the future. We've talked about it some.) *really disappears this time* |
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