v1.18.8 - Base Support for New Features
New Features Being Tested
Chat alerts mark the first expansion of the socket expansion, with the ability to deliver additional data and messages into chatrooms, independent of user messages. This is the first step in creating site-wide chat announcements as an alternative to site-wide banners. Channel announcements, channel notifications, and additional data structures.
Custom Stream Covers mark an expansion of bitwave's backend API services and expanded image processing capabilities. Uploaded images are recorded to each user, uploaded and resized to the required size (scaling up, and adding black bars if necessary) to fit a 16:9 aspect ratio at 720p. Improved asset tracking and ownership allows us to ensure users cannot delete each other's files, and we can removed unused assets when no longer in use.
These are the first steps we need in order to build additional scaffolding on in order to support additional features such as custom emotes.
This initial release is not changing anything the day-to-day user will see, but allows for further expansion and feature usage through server side updates and account flags, allowing us to do a slow rollout.