FR staff, when doing maintenance, will give tells in the dev tracker if an update is backend, 'boring' updates that the users have nothing to really care about or interact with; it's routine. if an update has a sleeping snapper emote with a ZZZ emote next to it, that's what it means.
if an update DOESN'T have these emotes, however, this means there's something users can interact with, and therefore isn't 'boring' maintenance.
anon is telling you it's something to look forward to. we don't know what the maintenance is for, but staff has hinted it's not just routine. it's possible they just forgot to apply the emotes, but staff has gone out of their way to use this hint method so we can know when to temper our expectations when maintenance is scheduled.
Yep, exactly this! That's what I was trying to point out by bring up it wasn't labeled as boring. I hadn't realized some folks might not be familiar with how staff usually does updates/maintenance like that.
Typically maintenances lacking the "boring" label or sleeping snapper emote usually indicate new stuff like a new feature or something, a surprise sometimes, whereas the stuff labeled as boring is usually just some backend work users won't or need to care about. Users used to hype themselves up into a frenzy whenever ANY maintenance was announced, going crazy with theorizing over what new feature it was going to be- until Aeq steps in and squashes it announcing it being boring backend stuff. For a time "BACKEND HYPE!!!" was a meme in FRD because of this kind user behavior. lol So they started stating in the announcements for maintenance whether it was boring or not (onsite and off) to avoid any unnecessary hype altogether.
This time it seems like it was for a new scroll that flips dragon images! And some new apparel.
a lot of users don't use the dev tracker, or even know about it at all since it's on the front page. then you add in that the emote hints were briefly mentioned by staff on maybe a few occasions, and it makes for pretty niche knowledge. it's unfortunate, since the dev tracker is a fantastic tool! it's so important to use chances like these to educate so others can use it efficiently.
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Re: Maintenance?
(Anonymous) 2024-07-01 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)FR staff, when doing maintenance, will give tells in the dev tracker if an update is backend, 'boring' updates that the users have nothing to really care about or interact with; it's routine. if an update has a sleeping snapper emote with a ZZZ emote next to it, that's what it means.
if an update DOESN'T have these emotes, however, this means there's something users can interact with, and therefore isn't 'boring' maintenance.
anon is telling you it's something to look forward to. we don't know what the maintenance is for, but staff has hinted it's not just routine. it's possible they just forgot to apply the emotes, but staff has gone out of their way to use this hint method so we can know when to temper our expectations when maintenance is scheduled.
Re: Maintenance?
(Anonymous) 2024-07-01 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)Typically maintenances lacking the "boring" label or sleeping snapper emote usually indicate new stuff like a new feature or something, a surprise sometimes, whereas the stuff labeled as boring is usually just some backend work users won't or need to care about. Users used to hype themselves up into a frenzy whenever ANY maintenance was announced, going crazy with theorizing over what new feature it was going to be- until Aeq steps in and squashes it announcing it being boring backend stuff. For a time "BACKEND HYPE!!!" was a meme in FRD because of this kind user behavior. lol So they started stating in the announcements for maintenance whether it was boring or not (onsite and off) to avoid any unnecessary hype altogether.
This time it seems like it was for a new scroll that flips dragon images! And some new apparel.
Re: Maintenance?
(Anonymous) 2024-07-01 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)a lot of users don't use the dev tracker, or even know about it at all since it's on the front page. then you add in that the emote hints were briefly mentioned by staff on maybe a few occasions, and it makes for pretty niche knowledge. it's unfortunate, since the dev tracker is a fantastic tool! it's so important to use chances like these to educate so others can use it efficiently.