So, it’s been a month (and a third) since we launched the site on June 1st. The reception is honestly otherworldly. I started this revival with my brother as more of a pastime, to get closer as family and have something fun to do. But mate, did it escalate. I did NOT expect so many new people in this community. Almost 4000 tags and over 200 individual members. Those numbers baffle me, really. I’m legitimately thankful to each and one of you for finding this niche website worthy of your time and brain power. We’ve had some bumps, like the 4chan raid on the first day (though the bumpiness of that came from me neglecting to tell the admins important things because I was away studying for my finals, whoops), but even then we’ve been doing incredibly well. Again, thank you all, and I earnestly hope you continue using this site as we add more features to it and make it so much greater than the original TF2Tags could ever hope to become.

And with that noted, it saddens me greatly that I must indefinitely depart with this community. No, I don’t have cancer, and no, I haven’t been outed as a sexual predator yet. I live in Estonia, which has mandatory conscription, which starts for me on the 15th. Starting then I’ll be nigh unavailable for 11 months. Until my return I appoint my right hand man Walumancer as the head admin (don’t be jealous Arthur you have a job to focus on). I will come back and regain my, uh, throne, but until then please forward your worries and such to Walu or any other admin.

It’s been an incredible month (and a third) for me, and I’ll miss this place greatly. I bid you all farewell until my unfortunately inevitable return. Keep having fun tagging mates.

P.S. My bad to the Discord users who basically got this notification twice. Oh, right, join it[discord.gg] if you haven't already. Is an all right place, especially with me away now.

TGRobert

https://tags.tf/


Tell your parents! Tell your grandparents! Tell your friends! Tell your uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews, nieces! Tell your neighborhood hobo! Tell hobos from other neighborhoods!


Tell them that the best place to find renames for weapons and items is tags.tf!

Hey All, Cammie here! I'm currently writing this post getting all my school work done before graduation!

But enough about that, we got some HUGE news this week, and some opportunities for a lucky few of you!

Before I get to the logs, remember that you can also join our Discord server[discord.gg] to keep up to date on the latest news, and just interact with us if you don't have Twitter!

I'll turn it over to Shed now. :)


It's been nearly a month since our last update. What a month it has been. In these four weeks, we have implemented the majority of the MVP feature, which means that the release is basically around the corner now!

Before we can release the MVP to everyone, we need to test it thoroughly, and we need your help with that. If you're interested in being a beta tester, please reach out to me in whatever way you like, and I will give you access to the QA website \o/ (Please note, there are limited slots)

Without further ado, here are the latest MVP features.

We have notifications!
https://i.imgur.com/nwL6DNQ.gif

And a profile page, where you can see all your posts, comments and posts in progress.
https://i.imgur.com/Bxu3Oft.gif

Since we're allowing people to create very long posts, and we didn't comments section to be unreachable, we've implemented Imgur style "Load more".
https://i.imgur.com/6xwzkNI.gif

There is now an About Us page and a Policies page.

Among these features, we've also significantly improved our security, fixed bugs and improved the UI.

As always, if you have any question or suggestion, don't feel afraid to reach out to me directly.

Mandatory Tweet: https://twitter.com/TF2Tags/status/1265658493413064704

Much love,
Shed



That's all for this week! Be sure to check back next week hopefully! And I hope to see some of you on the site!

~Cammie

Hey All, Cammie here! I'm currently writing this post hopped up on ADHD Meds, I wanna die. But let's not focus on that, shall we? Instead let's talk about what happened this week!


Before I get to the logs, remember that you can also join our Discord server[discord.gg] to keep up to date on the latest news, and just interact with us if you don't have Twitter!


As for last weeks update, I'll turn it over to Ancient.

This week I've been focused on polishing things and getting one paramount feature done that was the bane of my existence. So without further ado, this week I have:

1) Properly implemented "Login with Steam"! It's been a complicated project that has taken ages. But, finally, after agreeing to many compromises, I have managed to get it to work correctly.
https://i.imgur.com/I5IhlZL.gif

2) Added "Infinite Scroll" to the homepage. Meaning that you will only load more Posts when you reach 80%-ish down the page. Also, this should help anyone who's internet struggles from time to time.
https://i.imgur.com/oN5X7uD.mp4 (didn't realize that's a video)

3) We became compliant with the GDPR's Cookie policies! Basically, you know those "we use cookies, please accept" popup on every website? We have one of those now.
https://i.imgur.com/o3kjL9s.gif

4) Lots of small fixes and improvements. For example, the Users now have ranks based on their total score, which correspond to TF2's Strange Ranks (https://bit.ly/2VPDHkX). You can even be "Negative" by having a negative overall score if that's your thing \o/
https://i.imgur.com/EiVIA35.png

I've created an Imgur album with all the showcases: https://imgur.com/a/OPD5gJI

As always, if you have any question or suggestion, don't feel afraid to reach out to me directly.

Mandatory Tweet: https://twitter.com/TF2Tags/status/1255904855446761472

That's all for this week! Be sure to check back next week hopefully

~Cammie

Hey All, Cammie here! I'm writing this post at 5:04 A.M. while Scott the Woz plays in the background, I'm suffering from something called sleep deprivation

So what better cure than to post some updates related to the site?

Due to the Coronavirus, our program now has a lot of time to work on the site.

As you already know, Rick May, the voice of TF2's Soldier among many other roles, has recently passed. To give respects and love to him, we made our first ever Twitter to wish him the best in the afterlife: https://twitter.com/TF2_Tags/status/1250006332977164288


Before I get to the logs, remember that you can also join our Discord server[discord.gg] to keep up to date on the latest news, and just interact with us if you don't have Twitter!


As for last weeks update

It's been a bit over a week since I started working on TF2Tags full-time. During this time, I've created a comment section that will allow us to:
1) Comment
2) Reply to comments in a YouTube thread-like fashion
3) Edit comments
4) Delete comments
5) Apply various styles to the text

I've created a gif to showcase all of the above: https://twitter.com/TF2_Tags/status/1252724501781102594

Also, as discussed before, I've created a Twitter post summarizing this post. If you fancy it, please like and retweet it, and follow our Twitter account, so that we can grow our community.

If you have any suggestions on what we should use the Twitter account for other than updates, please @ÄncientShed in any channel or DM me directly.

As always, if you have any questions, comments or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out \o/

Much love,
Shed


https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/535133917204840448/702283582407966760/CommentsShowcase.gif




That's all for this...four months? WHAT THE FUC- (REMOVED TO CONFORM WITH INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS AND SAFETY LAWS)


Apologies.

~Cammie