Toying With This Week (May 30 - June 5)

Tease Support & V2.0

This is going really well.

Editor:

Setup when selecting a Tease to play:

So far I've implemented:

• Image uploads
• Ability to show random images from 1 or more subreddits
• Add patterns from your library with controls set to specific values
• Prompt the user for a .funscript file at run time
• Play a Pornhub video
• Prompt the user for a local video at run time
• Start/stop video triggers
• Display a specific image/video from the tease library or a random one
• Phone number verification before image upload (for when I inevitably need to ban people for violating the ToS)

There's a ton of things I need to do and figure out before production though:

• Allow showing of timers
  
• Handling of text. I'm thinking about allowing text to either be set to show in the main area or in a status bar. So a Tease can have the usual text bubbles of the Tease but also a permanent line of text for showing whatever the author wants. I also need to figure out how best to safely allow formatting and colors for text.
  
• Handling of buttons/user input. This one's going to be a mess and I'm not sure how to implement it yet. My biggest concern is that the whole Action/Trigger thing doesn't work well for user input because the Tease author would have to add both an action to show the button and a trigger to react to it. It seems overly complicated for just wanting to have a clickable button.
  
  I also want to support permanent buttons that aren't tied to a specific Step of the tease (or maybe that's how all buttons will work), as well as controlling where to position buttons.
  
• Cover image for the Tease
• Handling audio in some way?
• Only loading the entire Tease after the user selects it
• Layout stuff
• Direct links to Teases?
• Limiting to 1 active Tease and handling switching Teases
• Handling online (I don't plan to sync Teases for now so I just need to show somehow that it's not synced)
• Handling settings and somehow allowing for adjusting the pattern offset
• How free vs Premium users are being handled

I still feel like it's at least another 2 weeks or work if not more, but we'll see how this week goes.

----Past Weeks Changes----

Bug Fixes

I found a few annoying timing bugs while testing Teases and they've now been fixed for Scripts as well. When a step changes any actions or trigger checks that the code is still processing ended up looking at data for the new step which often caused triggers to re-fire when they shouldn't have.

I also found that toys kept resetting their pattern to the basic On pattern if you changed views, which is now fixed.

Page Load Time Improvements

The web changes too fast. This weeks unplanned frustrating refactoring project was to move to Firebase v9. It introduces tree shaking and I know Firebase is by far the largest contributor to the size of the site so it was worth it to get it updated.

Also even more significantly I noticed that I've been bundling all node modules into a single .js file instead of splitting them. So all users were downloading the code for for example the huge pose detection library instead of it only loading if they intended to use the motion detector. This is fixed now and the site loads in half the speed and with way less bloat.