The first major update of 2019, but not REALLY the major update of 2019.
Although it's a Quality of Life and Performance update (some of the major features is already on the site before this), there's some new stuffs, mostly focus all around livestream.
you may notice that I'm ditching the [MM/DD/YYY] format thing in favor of "Windows 10-style update schedule with a bit of Insiders stuffs. starting from this blog post, the [MM/YYYY] format will cover the major improvements and additions while the minor improvements or fixes will be updates stealthily. The Website update note will still cover the changes in the past few months.
Streamlabs Creators Site
This one's for Desktop users.
Ever since I moved to America, I have stopped doing live streams for a long time until, although, i don't have a proper audience, I still do it for funz.
While I was exploring Streamlabs while I was working on the Donations (more on that on its own section), i accidentally found Streamlabs Creators Site, Streamer's own hub webpage. and i thought to myself; "I might replace my current Livestream page in favor of this". and so, I decided to remove the Livestream page, it will now redirect you to Streamlabs Creator Site.
of course, you can still click the Twitch logo (that sends you directly to my Twitch channel instead of Streamlabs) if you prefer that instead of going to Streamlabs.
Donation Strip
I've been planning for this ever since I managed to upgrade my current Internet Connection after moving to a new house. but after the April 1st Special Stream (of torture) and the rest of my family members encouragements, I decided to postpone my return to Livestream til I can get the Donation system working.
starting on April 28th, 2019, The Donation sites is now live.
You can now donate money to me via Streamlabs and Paypal. of course, it's not a requirement and it won't be locked under "EPIC VIDEO EXCLUSIVE" or "EPIC LIVESTREAM EXCLUSIVE" and whatnot, but I always going to appreciate it regardless.
Hopefully, this donation money can be used for Food, Getting Better Equipment, ability to buy (and hopefully stream more games) and...stuffs? heck, it might improve the stream (and maybe Mainline videos?) in the long term.
Of course, later on, I'm planning to make a announcement video (because every YouTuber does it every time they create a Patreon page) on YouTube later this month or 2, depending on my laziness.
A piece of warning before you decide to send money to me, Donations are not refundable and is consider a one-time transaction, so use your money wisely.
Performance Improvements
Over the 2 years, Wix has been updating their system, some of them are major performance updates that benefited all websites built with Wix, including The AL2009man Website. this website used to be pretty slow, but in the past year, the website has made some minor performance improvements thanks to Wix's efforts.
but for this update, you may notice a slight performance increase, as the site loads much faster due to this major update.
Hopefully, I may be able to bring back the Original Sidebar Menu to the Mobile interface for unification.
sadly, the optimization improvements might have to kill...
Retiring the Old Wix Blog
As previously mentioned back in the August 2018 Update, It's time to shut down the Legacy Blog, primary to make room for faster load time.
Yeah, I may miss the Old Blog, but the New Wix Blog has made some improvements since then, it's not perfect by any means, but it's getting there. I probably see even more additions to Wix Blog (as some of them are server-side) that might reach the level of Old Wix Blog.
Website Update Notes:
General:
[Desktop] "Livestream" Page has been removed, in favor with replaced with Streamlabs Creator Site.
[Desktop] Updated the Sidebar Menu, the Sidebar no longer animates in but the text and icons will fade-in.
[Mobile] Updated the Sidebar Menu, now uses the new Wix Mobile Menu.
[Mobile] Welcome/Loading Screen has been added.
Cache Rendering is enabled for those pages: Home, Custom Stickers Collection and Dynamic Movie Camera.
Changed the design color from Grey to Semi-Black. it should compliment some elements for Dark Mode on Browsers.
Added Social Share functionality to certain pages, more will be added in a later date.
Changed Image Sharpening to Mild.
"Home" Page:
[Desktop] Livestream strips has been updated, removing Twitch stream embed in the process.
[Mobile] Changed Spotify strip. Media Player has been removed.
Readjusted all the strips for a bit.
Adjusted Twitter strip size.
"LBP - Custom Stickers Collection" and "LBP - Dynamic Movie Camera" pages:
[LBP - Custom Stickers Collection] Rewrote some of the paragraphs.
[Mobile] Background Strip now plays Video background.
Fixed Tweet Embed Video size and position.
Fixed grammars and typos.
Removed LittleBigForum link.
"Download/Install" pages:
Added 1080p AL2009man PS4 Custom Wallpaper.
Updated the Installation process for PS4 Wallpaper.
Known Bugs:
General:
You may encounter "502 Bad Gateway" error due to the Cache Rendering or when the site do a update.