Unity Spire of Slime - Demo out now! [Development Thread]

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Weekly progress report: (public post)

Updated OP development state section.
 
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Weekly progress report: (public post)

Updated OP development state section.
Thanks for linking directly to the post, since something's up with Subscribestar itself and the most recent post on your page is shown as March 22. I've heard of some other people having issues with that as well. I'm not sure if people who are subscribed can see more, but even public posts aren't shown, so clearly something's not working right.
 

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Thanks for linking directly to the post, since something's up with Subscribestar itself and the most recent post on your page is shown as March 22. I've heard of some other people having issues with that as well. I'm not sure if people who are subscribed can see more, but even public posts aren't shown, so clearly something's not working right.
Thanks for letting me know, I wasn't made aware of this issue yet.

Regarding the latest post being "March 22" - it's because that specific post is pinned/fixed, if you scroll down on the page you will see more recent ones.

Also, the link seems to be working fine for me (I tested it on different devices and asked some friends to do so as well).
 

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Regarding the latest post being "March 22" - it's because that specific post is pinned/fixed, if you scroll down on the page you will see more recent ones.
Huh. Nope, everything I see underneath that is older than March 22. A locked post from March 5, and public ones from March 3 and February 17. But we may have just identified the nature of the bug. Perhaps the issue is that instead of pinning a post properly, the website is accidentally just treating the pinned post as the most recent one, and showing nothing more recent. I'll see if the other person who was having this issue had also pinned the offending post... If I can remember who that was.

Edit: Well, I haven't asked them about the pinning yet, but apparently . (Note: The person tends to talk in the third person and call themselves "the hat".)

SubscribeStar post update workaround

According to SubscribeStar's tech support, there is an issue with the 3rd party service they are unable to resolve. So they have to update the posts manually.

So the workaround for the foreseeable future will be for the hat to to contact tech support on a regular basis to update this page.
Edit 2: And yes, the link directly to the post works just fine. The issue is that the post can't be found on your page in general, which is why linking to it seems to be the only way to see it.
 
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Huh. Nope, everything I see underneath that is older than March 22. A locked post from March 5, and public ones from March 3 and February 17. But we may have just identified the nature of the bug. Perhaps the issue is that instead of pinning a post properly, the website is accidentally just treating the pinned post as the most recent one, and showing nothing more recent. I'll see if the other person who was having this issue had also pinned the offending post... If I can remember who that was.

Edit: Well, I haven't asked them about the pinning yet, but apparently . (Note: The person tends to talk in the third person and call themselves "the hat".)



Edit 2: And yes, the link directly to the post works just fine. The issue is that the post can't be found on your page in general, which is why linking to it seems to be the only way to see it.
Contacted support, hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Once again thanks for letting me know.
 

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(Public Post) - Weekly Progress Report



I decided to migrate the Development State Section (which from now I will be referring to as "RoadMap") to another platform with the goal of making it easier on the eyes and available to people outside f95, because of this migration I won't be updating that section until after the migration - I'll have it done by next weekend.
 
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Development State Section renamed to Roadmap which now links to our public .
 

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SubscribeStar is no longer allowing me to make public posts so now our Weekly Progress Reports (including the latest one, posted today) are available at our .

also updated.
 

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SubscribeStar is no longer allowing me to make public posts so now our Weekly Progress Reports (including the latest one, posted today) are available at our .

also updated.
Wait, it's literally no longer letting you make them, or are you just referring to the previously discussed issue of them not being visible? If there's some new development in the whole Subscribestar issue I'd like to know, since I'm trying to spread awareness of what's been going on and should ideally be doing so with up-to-date information. Unfortunately, since I'm not directly involved in any side of this issue except for "public viewer", I can mostly only get second-hand information, and there isn't nearly as much public discussion of it as you'd hope (hence my efforts to gather and spread the info).
 

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Wait, it's literally no longer letting you make them, or are you just referring to the previously discussed issue of them not being visible? If there's some new development in the whole Subscribestar issue I'd like to know, since I'm trying to spread awareness of what's been going on and should ideally be doing so with up-to-date information. Unfortunately, since I'm not directly involved in any side of this issue except for "public viewer", I can mostly only get second-hand information, and there isn't nearly as much public discussion of it as you'd hope (hence my efforts to gather and spread the info).
It literally does not allow me to create public posts anymore. All I can do is select tiers and there is no way to unselect all tiers.
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Also, regarding the previous problems, they never answered my e-mails.
 
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It literally does not allow me to create public posts anymore. All I can do is select tiers and there is no way to unselect all tiers.
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Also, regarding the previous problems, they never answered my e-mails.
Interesting... This seems to track with something someone else mentioned about how this issue was only happening with certain content creators and not others, although I wasn't able to get a response as to whether the creators in question had actually posted anything more recent than March. But their theory was that creators of "darker" content were being essentially shadow-banned and removed from the public eye, likely for the same reasons that Patreon outright closes pages that include things like incest, rape, and mind control. The "dispute with a third party" they mentioned may have been Paypal, or whatever payment system they use, not wanting to support sites that "promote violence, abuse, and etc."

Of course, to verify before jumping to any conclusions, I'd need to check in with creators of more mundane content to compare their experiences, and I'm not sure how I'd go about doing that...


...Actually, wait. I just checked your main page and *all* older public posts have been removed, not just the recent ones. And looking at other suggested pages... Yeah, this shadowban theory is starting to sound more and more plausible. I'm thinking Subscribestar is now in exactly the same position as Patreon, except they're not telling people so they don't lose their reputation as "the place to go if Patreon kicks you out".
 
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Interesting... This seems to track with something someone else mentioned about how this issue was only happening with certain content creators and not others, although I wasn't able to get a response as to whether the creators in question had actually posted anything more recent than March. (The person seemed But their theory was that creators of "darker" content were being essentially shadow-banned and removed from the public eye, likely for the same reasons that Patreon outright closes pages that include things like incest, rape, and mind control. The "dispute with a third party" they mentioned may have been Paypal, or whatever payment system they use, not wanting to support sites that "promote violence, abuse, and etc."

Of course, to verify before jumping to any conclusions, I'd need to check in with creators of more mundane content to compare their experiences, and I'm not sure how I'd go about doing that...


...Actually, wait. I just checked your main page and *all* older public posts have been removed, not just the recent ones. And looking at other suggested pages... Yeah, this shadowban theory is starting to sound more and more plausible. I'm thinking Subscribestar is now in exactly the same position as Patreon, except they're not telling people so they don't lose their reputation as "the place to go if Patreon kicks you out".
Thanks for making me aware of this, we are considering other platforms to branch out in the meantime.
 

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New Weekly Progress Report out, it is available on our .

The public road map on has been updated as well.
 

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New Weekly Progress Report out, it is available on our .

The public road map on has been updated as well.

In addition, here's also a small announcement about the release of a alpha build for the testers:
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Here's the updated WiP of our combat system.
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So is Subscribestar still not allowing you to make public posts? The other person I was talking to who was having problems said his was eventually "fixed", but if you're still having the same problems you were before, it would seem to confirm that they're restricting people's pages on a case-by-case basis. But it would be nice to be able to see the updates somewhere more public again, since Discord is a pain in the ass when browsing in Incognito Mode, and I definitely don't want to add the channel for a porn game to my not-incognito Discord account.
 

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So is Subscribestar still not allowing you to make public posts? The other person I was talking to who was having problems said his was eventually "fixed", but if you're still having the same problems you were before, it would seem to confirm that they're restricting people's pages on a case-by-case basis. But it would be nice to be able to see the updates somewhere more public again, since Discord is a pain in the ass when browsing in Incognito Mode, and I definitely don't want to add the channel for a porn game to my not-incognito Discord account.
No, I still cannot make public posts.
 
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New Weekly Progress Report out, it is available on our .

The public road map on has been updated as well.
 
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Made a post on our explaining what's left until the demo release. It is available to the public.

The post is also available on our SubscribeStar: .
 
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Made another post on our , this time explaining what you can expect as a player on the demo release. It is available to the public.

The post is also available on our SubscribeStar: .