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discobiscuit

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  1. Today using back in the browser didn't work for me either. Also, the refresh worked but I had to retype what I was searching for. That wasn't happening yesterday. I'm not sure what I'm doing differently that made it work the other day so I'm going to temporarily suspend my pro-tip until I work this out.
  2. old days: get prices through shop wizard, hit reload to get a new list of prices, click back in browser to search for another item today: get prices through shop wizard, hit reload AND submit the search again. Hitting back in browser seems to work OK. I think this wasn't working well last week because I remember having issues with hitting reload but it seems to be working now. It's still more clicking than the old days but I'm not getting errors any more.
  3. trudy's surprise old days: there was a tiny message in the header with a link that said trudy's surprise had reset. You had to hit the right part of the link to actually go to trudy. Otherwise you went to your neomail and then you had to find the message with the link. today: you should get red circle & a number in the header over the yellow bell letting you know you have a message. Pro tip: once you click on the bell, you have to click on the "alerts" tab to see the message about trudy. I said should because it's clearly bugged a little. It only shows up after you've gone onto a non-beta page that shows you the alert the old days way.
  4. I'm curious how other people are adjusting to the beta interface. Pre-beta, I pretty much clicked through my dailies in a few minutes and went on with my life. Now that I'm forced to use the new interface, I'm going to have to adjust how I do things. Professionally speaking, I'm curious how people have adjusted their "Neopets workflow" For example: inventory in the old days: I got to my inventory by clicking on my neopoints score. Admittedly, that was never intuitive, but it was quick and on every page. Today, you click on your pet's icon in the corner and then click "inventory" No pro tips necessary. Workflow is about the same. Feeding my pets in the old days: I'd click on an omelette, feed a pet, then back page, so I could feed the 2/3 omelette to the next pet, and do it again a third time. Today, doing this from the new inventory is a lot of clicks and reloads. I discovered it's faster to look at "My Pets" first, click on a pet, then click feed, and select the jelly or whatever. Here's my pro tip - do not click on "close and refresh" - just click outside the box about the food. You're right back at my pets. Still slower than before, but you skip several reloads. Anybody else got any workflow pro tips?
  5. Take a look at Let's Encrypt. They're all about free SSL certificates because encryption should be for everyone. The catch is that you have to renew your certificate every 90 days instead of annually. There are tools that can do that for you automatically or nearly automatically depending on what your hosting service provides.
  6. Can you imagine what that player has equipped that they'd want to swap out a 30M weapon into their inventory in the first place? I want to know the other 8 things they are using!! Not that I've ever changed battledome equipment and forgotten about it being in my inventory for weeks. Nope, not me.
  7. I'm sorry getting banned for a silly reason traumatized you, but I'm not sure coming to an active fan site 13 years later to say you're hoping bad things happen to the game everyone on the site is playing happily is the best way to deal with that trauma. You could try playing the game again? It, or you, may have improved some since your childhood.
  8. It did not happen to me today. I have had it happen in the past, but it was always related to a change to (or from) daylight savings time, which seems to confuse the clocks Trudy uses.
  9. When Charity Corner comes around again, you'll have the opportunity to purge your safety deposit box, which has been a helpful event against my hoarding tendencies. My brain doesn't like the idea of throwing out stuff that could be useful or valuable which leads to having thousands and thousands of items in the sdb. I was able to donate 5,000 items over the last few charity corners without having a mental breakdown by using the price checker tool. You've discovered by now that you can't dump the html source of all your items into the tool at once. Here's some tips that helped me stay sane. go backwards - when you have 10, 20, or 50 pages worth of inventory, you're going to be doing a lot of cutting and pasting into the pricing tool, so it's important to not do it more than you have to. If you start at the first page, any time you move an item to your inventory, an item from the second page moves up into the first page. After a few items are moved, that first page will have changed enough that you'll have to cut and paste the html into the pricing tool again. If you start on the last page and go backwards, all those items that you move only affect the pages you already processed. break it up into smaller bits - nobody has time to actually inspect 25 pages of items in one sitting. Ideally, you'd do a page or two and walk away, but how do you remember where you left off? Using categories like books or toys, for example, lets you break up the pages into smaller amounts. If you only have 3 pages of gifts to cut and paste, it's a conquerable task. Once you process a few categories, it may reduce your overall number of pages to something you're comfortable dealing with (backwards, of course). Go for easy victories early - you've probably acquired hundreds of healing potions or omelettes along the way. Definitely deal with them first. Donating or discarding 100 jellies doesn't reduce the number of items in a page, but it reduces the overall total, and that will make you feel good. I realize that this doesn't directly give you a total or show you what is the most valuable items in your hoard, but the process of cleaning the SDB will show you the valuable items as you go. And once you've purged a few thousand things, those valuable items will be easier to find later.
  10. I agree with alohadiscordia. They'd have to add a separate check to see if you had that specific avatar when the book gets "un-read" to remove it - and most of the time, like 99.9% of the time, that book isn't one of the hidden tower ones. It would be super thorough if they programmed the wheel that way, but the payoff would be so rare.
  11. Like all holidays in the US, Halloween season seems to come earlier and earlier every year. Stores begin selling decorations and candy in September or earlier. I expect we will see Christmas trees on sale as soon as Halloween is over ? When I was a little kid, Halloween was celebrated in school, so we would sit in class as a dragon or ghost or whatever. Some years there were "parades" where each class would walk through all the classrooms to show off their costumes. Teachers would dress up, too, and we'd have a party during the last class period. I went to public school, so this sort of thing is very unusual. I think only Valentine's Day had similar celebrations. However, because it was public school, eventually somebody decided the day was a religious holiday (or it offended religious students, I don't remember) so all school based activities were banned. One thing I noticed as an adult is that we no longer change our clocks for daylight savings time before Halloween. It always seemed to happen the day before Halloween, so that evening always felt super dark and scary. Nowadays, we change our clocks a week or two later, which means the little kids who go trick or treating earlier may still be in the daylight.
  12. I'm not an expert, but I can tell you that I do not get StackPath pages at all. I wonder if you're getting a badly built advertisement or something else external to neopets. I'd check this by logging into neopets with a different browser, just to see if you get different ads or just different problems.
  13. I'm having troubles too but it may be coming back up. Couldn't get through to any page at all 10 minutes ago, but just now got to the money tree page, only it can't handle clicking on any of the items. So it's better than before, but not quite there yet.
  14. The Charity Corner 2019 perk Refreshed Quest Request doesn't work the way I expected it to. It's not all that bad, but I'm putting it out here so that others don't get surprised like I did. I spent my points on the perk and it did indeed add the refresh option to my current quest, just like the Refreshed Quest Request boon does. I didn't actually refresh that quest and was content to get 3 defense points. The next day, I got an air faerie quest, and the refresh button was there, so I used it, and got a battle faerie quest (yay!). The next day, no refresh button. Sadly, today I have no refresh button and had to do an air faerie quest (noooo!) Returning to the perks list, I now have a countdown to June 20th, and a new statement (in-bold) that says "Once bought, this perk can be used once and expires in 7 days." I'm assuming I could buy the perk again after the countdown expires if I want to. So...this perk lets you buy the ability to refresh one quest over a 7 day period. I'd assumed it was the ability to refresh up to 7 quests over a 7 day period like the boon gives you, but clearly that is not the case. It may or may not be worth it to you to spend 1,000 perk points for the one shot at a refresh, so plan accordingly.
  15. Does anybody know how the Spiked! perk works this year? I seem to remember last year you spent your charity corner points by pressing the button and a message came up telling you which battledome stats had increased. This year, after you hit apply, a message comes up that says Spiked perk has been successful, but no indication of which stats have been affected. I did it a second time this morning, but got out my training stats first, and it doesn't look like anything has increased at all! Has it worked for anyone else? Am I looking at this wrong or does this sound like a bug?
  16. If you go back to the fairy quest page (http://www.neopets.com/quests.phtml) it will say what quest you're on and what item you're supposed to find. Sometimes you can get quests outside of the "something has happened" random events (there's a week in February when you get one per day) and you have to go to the fairy quest page to trigger them.
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