Patch notes v.0.9.2.19
Hello!
Today's update firstly introduces an important central system we call "Game Control Service". This system gives us more control of how we can manage games (actively played or inactive) - for example, it gives us control of a game, outside of being in that game - to be able to control it via Admin/API calls, and not run into issues where the game's state in memory/Redis/DB could get into an "overwrite loop".
The first use case for this is - we now have an admin panel, which allows us to edit settings of public lobby games, change their settings, show/hide them, change their names... Something which was an extremely convoluted process before, typically requiring maintenance/server restarts.
More importantly, this system sets a groundwork in place, that will be necessary for management of games as we introduce tournaments in the following months - tournaments will need to have control of all of the games within them, so such a service becomes mandatory.
And beyond that, it will in the future give us ability to improve our process of rolling out updates, such as being able to pause and unpause all games before/After an update, vs games being potentially cleaned out during the update. And many more useful situations...
Please note, that immediately after the update, a different set of public lobbies might be (not) available - this is something we'll adjust in the coming day, as we utilize the new system to have full control manually of which rooms to display and their settings.
The update also has some other changes mentioned below:
BUGFIXES:
- Fix for admins/Unseated players chatting and typed message not clearing.
- Waitlist typo fix/link.
IMPROVEMENTS:
- Chat showing just last 6h aged messages or minimum of 3, of any age.
- Added message ago text on hover to all chat messages.
- Adjusted dimness of non winning cards, to be a bit more dimmed.
- Auto actions increased size & tap area slightly, to make it more useful on mobile.
- Other misc typo, UI adjustments.
- Poker Patio team