Eyewire Release Report 3/25/2016

As detailed here, every few Fridays we’re sharing which bug fixes and tiny features our developers have released into the wild. Apart from bigger changes that have received their own posts, here are the releases on Eyewire since the last report.

• The 50 Trailblazes badge was requiring one additional TB before being awarded. This should no longer happen, nor should it happen for other badges.
• A change in our timing code meant that some players were receiving 0 point cubes. This should also no longer happen.
• When you submitted a cube, sometimes your trace would seem to disappear after the button was clicked. This, too, should no longer happen. Unfortunately we had released a hypothetical fix but this bug is still happening. Tune in next report, hopefully.
• When using Inspect mode, random dust fragments could appear in the consensus. Sometimes this happened when jumping from one cube to its parent or child (preserving the dust from the previous cube), or it happened randomly. Now this is fixed. As with the above bug, this unfortunately doesn’t seem to be fixed after all. We’re working on it!
• The “jitter bug,” where the plane in 3D would get stuck in place and just jitter back and forth, is also fixed.
• There had been an extremely rare bug where the image of the 3D trace from your previous cube would be overlaid with the 3D of your current cube. This should be gone.
• After some changes caused by the new 2D, we have now made sure that 2D loads first if you’re tracing, while 3D loads first if you’re inspecting, based on what’s most convenient for each activity.
• Your next cube now preloads before you submit your current one, further speeding up your gameplay.
• Middle click on a mouse now centers the 3D in-cube.
• Chat collapses when you click “Start Playing,” to spare your 3D from being covered by chat scroll on small monitors. Clicking the chat box will still open it back up for you.

Next report will be in a couple weeks, though in the meantime you may see new feature posts anyway. For science!