Woohoo ! It’s complete.
I’ve done a heavy upgrade to the redirection service, now sexier than ever.
There was a big flaw with the previous version, as you could only use it if you knew what was the number of the site you were looking for.
Well, you could try all the numbers one by one, but you’d probably get bored before you reach the end. Long story short : Using the service required some “external” knowledge.
The new version gets rid of that requirement by introducing a dropdown menu, with all the anime websites listed in their own category.



My goal was to provide a much better experience for people using the service, while not giving myself any extra work each time I introduced new anime in the list.
Adding a new anime will only take a couple more seconds than it did with the previous version, so it’s a pure win for me.

For the little story, the dropdown menu is created by doing an Ajax request to the server (to get the list), and then built from the ground using Javascript. I’ve left the Javascript unminified, in case you want to have a look. I’m no JS expert, but I like the end result.
The menu uses CSS3 for some sexy styling and animation. It’ll degrade nicely if your browser doesn’t support the latest CSS styling tags, so no worries on that side.
Untested on IE (is that a browser anyway?), though it should work as well. You’ll also get a nice warning box if your Javascript is disabled.

Whenever I update a chart, new anime in the list will be marked with a “NEW” animated image next to them. This way, you can quickly know where the new stuff is, without necessarily taking a look at the chart.
I’ve also added two new background images to the main page, to complete the “set”.
The image will change randomly at each pageload.
On the blog side, I’ve modified the “Website” menu on the menubar to add both the Neregate and Baka.bz websites.

I have other plans for the future, like alternative displays for the menu :
Menu > Anime Season > List

Well, this is just an idea for now. Your ideas and critics are more than welcome to expand the functionalities of the service

Feel free to have a look at the new version : baka.bz.
Sharing the base URL of the service now has a real meaning, unlike the previous version.

Side note, but I noticed two holes in the anime index, so I filled them with Train Hero and Beyblade Zero-G. These websites’ redirections won’t work if you pick them.
Also, the “Gakkatsu!” anime has the same code as the Jewelpet TV series. I’ll fix that in the v4.

Now that was a wall of text.

It seems my lolis are so popular that hackers became jealous.
Someone managed to delete the primary database using some nasty SQL query (I wish developers would stop coding like rookies and sanitize their code properly).
Everything’s back in order, though some things are gone, as you may have noticed :
- Comments from the past 31 days are gone. I’m working on bringing them back, though this’ll take some time, and I may not be able to recover them all.
- People who subscribed to posts or comments’ notifications within the last 31 days may need to register their mail again. Sorry for the trouble.


Theoretically, the whole installation should’ve been compromised but since the access to my admin area is protected by htpasswd, noone could install fresh things or screw things some more.
Permalink structure is intact, which means there should be no broken links floating around. Though if you find any, please notify me.

Overall, I couldn’t care less about the attack (that’s what backups are for). I just wasted some time restoring things, but whatever. Quite sad to see that even small places like this one are targeted. Some people must be pretty bored or desperate for some results out there.

This may or may not be the last time this happens, so thanks for your patience regarding those issues Tomorrow, I’ll be resuming what I had planned to do.
If you find anything broken, don’t hesitate to tell me about it : the mail address’ on the right.

Regards,

Your Uncle Zana.

And it’s that time of the year again!
Had no time to do something fancy like Halloween, but I still changed the banner and my avatar, as well as the Homepage.

Just like Halloween, I’ve compiled two packs featuring xmas artworks.
The normal one is located here and the extra 18+ one is located here. If you want everything, you have to download both. Both packs are NSFW.

The changes will last until the beginning of next year.

Merry Chirstmas, folks

The moment you were all waiting for (or not)².

I wish I had more invitations to distribute to you guys but still, better than nothing
It looks like Valve is sending more and more invitations, so if you haven’t been lucky with this event, I think you still got good chances to be selected for the beta.

Anyways, on to the results :

Number Guess Event

The number to guess was 94151.
Congratulations to Coal, who had the closest guess with 95365!

The second closest guess was MacbobXD, who submitted 98495. But like McLeod would say : There can be only one.

Mizugi Event

There were some nice entries (and a troll entry, rofl).

The win goes to Erulim, with a submission of Patricia Lancaster from Hyper→Highspeed→Genius

I’ll make an image gallery with all the entries once I finish tweaking the new gallery system.

The winners will receive their invitations in a few minutes.

Thanks to everyone who participated !
I’ll hold similar events whenever I get the chance to do so.

Happy Halloween people !
Quite funny for me to say that, as I don’t celebrate Halloween myself (aside from the blog). This ain’t much, but I hope you’ll like the visual changes These changes will last for one week (until next Monday). I also uploaded a pack of Halloween Pixiv pictures, which can be downloaded by clicking on this link (mirror). Pack contains some NSFW, but no 18+ content. The gallery will come later (to avoid putting too much stress on the server).
Not seeing the new design? either press CTRL+F5 in your browser, or empty your cache.
You can hide/show bottom graphics by clicking on the eye at the bottom-right side of the page.
Once again, happy Halloween

Oh well, one thing less on the TODO list

Just like the Twitter feed, the Facebook feed will automatically publish new blog posts on the “Wall” of Neregate’s fan page, with a maximum latency of 15 minutes (not really important).

Like Twitter, 18+ content will not appear on the fan page. However, there will still be NSFW content with the picture’s thumbnails, so be careful.

The feed will always try to fetch the 150px thumbnail version of the first picture of a post. If no 150px thumbnail is found, it’ll fetch the first image of a post. If the post contains no image, then no image will be returned on the fan page, just so you know.

You’ll find a link to Neregate’s Facebook fan-page on the right sidebar, below my avatar.
There also is a “like-box” at the bottom of the right sidebar, to keep track of the good souls :p
Hope some of you will find this useful.
Feel free to press the “Like” button of course (no, not the one from the picture above, you lil’ perv).
Uncle Zana won’t mind

I’m still tweaking the fan page a little bit, as well as the rerouting of posts between the blog and Facebook. If you encounter any problem (or if you have any suggestions), feel free to tell me about it.

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