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A New Encyclopedia

Slumbering quietly in an ever-so-slightly neglected corner of our website, there has always been a feature known to its visitors as The Encyclopedia.

And now, as a big ‘ol Glitchmas present to all of you, we've just launched a pretty comprehensive overhaul of the beast itself!

The newness includes...

A general increase in attractiveness

A smidge of spit here, a dab of polish there... mostly polish, though, because who wants to browse an encyclopedia that's covered in spit? Anyway, it did the trick.

Find-as-you-type search

Ever wanted to know more about Lem, Lemburgers, the street Tlemcen and the skill Element Handling, all at once? Now you can, just by entering the letters "l", "e" and "m" in the search box on the main encyclopedia page!

There are also find-as-you-type boxes in the other sections of the Encyclopedia, for quickly unearthing the items, achievements, skills or locations you seek!

New Skills and Achievements pages

Both Skills and Achievements are now categorized to help you make a bit more sense of the dazzling array of options.

In addition, when you're logged in the page will indicate which skills you're skilled in, or the achievements you've achieved. For the go-getters out there, you can filter the page to only show the things you haven't done yet.

Better Location listings

Who wants to read a big long boring list of street names? The main location index now lists locations by hub, with a small map of the region beside a list of its streets. Each hub has its own separate page too, with a full-size map so you can get the lay of the land.

Finally, all the location pages will show you which streets you've visited, which should make it easier to track down those elusive Completist achievements you've so tenaciously pursued.

Giants!

The mythic founders of Ur have now been brought juuust a bit closer. The pages of the Encyclopedia now hold each of their stories, a portrait in their likeness, and references to the skills that fall under their domain.

We hope that you like the new and (we think) vastly improved encyclopedia. Happy browsing!

Note: Some Greasemonkey scripts, extensions, and browser add-ons may not work and in fact might cause you trouble with the new encyclopedia pages.

Posted 12 months ago by hitherto Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • AWESOME!!!
    Thank you!!!
    (always loved the Encyclopedia!)
    Posted 12 months ago by feifei Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love the new Achievements page! Merry Glitchmas to all Glitchen. We must have been good this year :)
    Posted 12 months ago by MaryLiLamb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love you.
    Posted 12 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks so much!!! Great Improvement!!! Yes, we must have been very good! ...lol
    Posted 12 months ago by im4noles2 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aww yiss. This is excellent.
    Posted 12 months ago by Stuv Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Outstanding! Thank you!
    Posted 12 months ago by justpeace Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love the ability to hide the achievements I've already been awarded!
    Posted 12 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • YEEESSS! Map markers!!!
    Posted 12 months ago by DamitaJo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very nice New Year pressy thanks for all the work TS
    Posted 12 months ago by Viroj Subscriber! | Permalink
  • love it!!!  the giants never looked so sexy!

    (though i coulda sworn it was Potians and Lemmites...)
    Posted 12 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well done!  I have been wishing for this and my wish has been granted in time for Glitchmas!  Many Thanks!
    Posted 12 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +75, 000!!1123
    Posted 12 months ago by Sheepy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome improvements! Love them.
    Thank you Glitch~
    Posted 12 months ago by Cocomoes Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is the best of the updates!!!  Thank you!
    Posted 12 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is by far my favorite of all the updates--it looks wonderful on all accounts. THANK YOU!
    Posted 12 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay! It looks wonderful :D
    Posted 12 months ago by Millie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow! It's like the devs took a look at all the 3rd party Greasemonkey scripts and said, "Clearly our players want to have this functionality... let's bring it to them!" But who ever does that? :D

    Thank you!
    Posted 12 months ago by Vortexae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Positively loving the way this is set-up, now!!

    TY! TY! TY!!

    Y'all out-did yourselves!! <3 <3 <3
    Posted 12 months ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's really wonderful. Thank you, Tiny Speck!
    Posted 12 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • hell yeah, great work!
    Posted 12 months ago by ruptures Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very nice!
    Posted 12 months ago by DUG1138 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • been wanting some more infos regarding the glitch cosmology : ]

    hopefully these new revelations will lead to many excited converts and devastated apostates.

    shifting allegiances and whatnot.
    Posted 12 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • also, giant genders. maybe now people will use the correct pronouns.
    Posted 12 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great work!
    Posted 12 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The location listing is bugged for me. (See the map and line spacing)

    Bugged

    I will be even better if the teleport here button was moved beside the set as destination button and have the landmark lines sorted in ascending order. There are also some minor text spacing issues such as the player names under unlocked by. It will be helpful to have the region name included in the breadcrumb location.

    Picture with improvements

    Another possible improvement is to make the locations map an image map so when one clicks on a street in the map, they will be taken to that street's info page. That saves having to look at the list at the bottom. Also make clicking on the region go buttons link to the other region so the user does not have to click the back button as much.
    Posted 12 months ago by Macs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • uh.. giants... so many eyes... which giant has the most eyes?
    Posted 12 months ago by roderick ordonez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • so when i read the categorization of skills and acheivement i went "oh thank god"

    thank you tiny speck!
    Posted 12 months ago by Jugni Subscriber! | Permalink
  • YAY! *leap* YAY! *leap* YAY! *leap*...etc
    Thanks TS : )
    As a side issue, I can now become the Queen of Completist. I will be called, "Your Minceness", and everyone will have candy and a new hat...
    Posted 12 months ago by mince Subscriber! | Permalink
  • oh my giants dear giants!:)everytime i think i could not love you more, you do something even more amazing! my heart and mind are exploding with love for you!
    Posted 12 months ago by mira gaia maia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Encyclopedia is fabulous! There seems to be a problem, though, in the Locations section with the spacing/printing of the streets lists when I view it using Safari. It is just fine with FF. 
    Posted 12 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Excellent! I really like the locations - as finally an easy way to see where I've NOT been.

    Thanks Devs!

    Merry Glitchmass.
    Posted 12 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the improvements! Awesome! :D
    Posted 12 months ago by Glitch E Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There is a ton of work that goes into this kind of effort! Thank you!

    Will now take some time to poke around in there again :D
    Cheers
    Posted 12 months ago by BlueBetsy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *jumps up and down, clapping wildly*  Woooo HOoooo!!!!!!
    OMGiants... is that Cosma??!?!  
    *wipes tear from eye*  thank you TS.... Thank YOU!
    Posted 12 months ago by RainyRain Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just had a massive GLITCHGASM. Someone get the mop. Yeah, I just said that. MOVE ON.
    Posted 12 months ago by elka Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So beautiful! And so much more useful!

    A small bug: The Pollokoo map doesn't include Axis Denyde, but the street list does.

    Third-party extension users beware: I had the Glitch Achievement Checker active, and the new locations page crashed and gave me an error message. I deactivated the extension and everything went fine.
    Posted 12 months ago by Ximenez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OH, BTW, TS... The ONLY things we're missing now for perfection would be: BRING BACK ROOK WOODS so we can all complete that for Leaderboards and FIX people with the "glitch" (ie the ones that got in Lisa by mistake ;D) AND, and and and, BETTER WALLS, where we can EDIT OUT POSTS and NOT see post by people we've blocked, etc...pretty pleaaaaase and thanks!
    Posted 12 months ago by elka Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh my!  Is that list of locations checking off all the places I've visited?  If so, that may be one of my favorite improvements ever! :D
    Posted 12 months ago by Xopher TAF Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow, very nice! LOVE it! :D Thank you! Merry Glitchmas!
    Posted 12 months ago by Wynella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • awesome
    Posted 12 months ago by Arietty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The locations page won't load for me. Alakol comes up and then it stalls and crashes. Gotta figure that one out!

    Update: It's definitely a Chrome glitch (no pun intended!) because Firefox works fine every time I use it.
    Posted 12 months ago by Mollie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The new encyclopedia is awesome. Thanks, guys! I never before realized how much I love Cosma and Lem. Before, I figured I was a Zille or Grendaline. So, it's cool that you've cleared that up for me.
    Posted 12 months ago by girlthulhu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • chrome freezes on the Locations Page :/ then crashes
    Posted 12 months ago by Chanteusse Subscriber! | Permalink
  • wow locations is such a fantastic leap forward - awesome work!
    Posted 12 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm also on Chrome and I can see the Locations page just fine. Although, individual street images seem to come up as tiled because you can see the repeat in the pattern on either side of the main photo.

    Despite that tiny glitch... it looks awesome and you guys did a great job in the upgrade. The explanations of the Giants with the imagery there are really cool.
    Posted 12 months ago by OPP Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gah. Locations. Awesome. Thank you!
    Posted 12 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
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    Posted 12 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Chant - Chrome crashed for me as well till I disabled the greesmonkey scripts. Now it works fine.

    I love this new encyclopedia!
    Posted 12 months ago by Codex Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *uninstalling scripts*
    Posted 12 months ago by Niks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you TS!!! Also, thank you to elka for using the word i needed to describe the feeling i was experiencing... Epic GLITCHGASM happening over here.... ^.^ 
    Posted 12 months ago by starrkittyface Subscriber! | Permalink
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