Hey everyone! Posting on behalf of our Maps Product Manager, Zac Cohn:
Hi all! Early on in the process of deploying Reveals to all users this morning, we detected some issues that were difficult to catch during small scale testing, but appeared when there was wider access to the feature.
We cancelled the rollout and spent the day troubleshooting, diagnosing, and working on some fixes. The issue is in the oldest and most delicate part of our codebase, so it's taking some time.
As an aside - I know there was some confusion when some people had access and others didn't. I'm sorry this update is coming so late in the day. We hoped some of our earlier workarounds would address the issue and we could still launch the feature to everyone today, until it became clear it was too late in the day to ship the feature.
I expect to have an update for y'all tomorrow as to our progress.
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Thank you for the update. In the future, could we be kept more informed throughout the process instead of receiving a single update at day's end? It would be much appreciated.
A couple of follow-up questions:
1. Does this delay impact the launch of the new 'My Library' section planned for tomorrow? 2. Will that revamped section be available on the browser, the app, or both platforms?
Hello, greetings from Bogotá, Colombia! I was really looking forward to my players trying out this feature. I have four sessions scheduled, and today is the first one of the week.
Thank you for the update. In the future, could we be kept more informed throughout the process instead of receiving a single update at day's end? It would be much appreciated.
A couple of follow-up questions:
1. Does this delay impact the launch of the new 'My Library' section planned for tomorrow? 2. Will that revamped section be available on the browser, the app, or both platforms?
Thanks for your time and work on this.
Sometimes more frequent updates aren't feasible due to the work going on to address the issue, but that is excellent feedback; we will be better about updating you as soon as we can.
To your follow-up questions (which I am late for, I apologize):
This did not delay My Library; it's live now!
I can confirm it's on browser (desktop and mobile) but not on the app. Right now there's no timeframe for when the app's library will get an update.
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Guessing that Reveals feature aint launching this year then? Its the 17th (one day later than expected) and some of us DMs are still waiting on the one feature that was promised from the last Maps VTT update article.
Great start! Really looking forward to user uploaded reveals, hopefully in the near future. In the meantime 1 bug and 2 suggests.
Bug: Some items from sources are not showing up, possibly because they're not technically within a chapter of the book in question. My example is the poster maps of Bral in Spelljammer: Adventures in Space. These are available in the Map Browser, but realistically I would only want these as a reveal, if for example an NPC was outlining to the party the layout of the underside of Bral. This kind of high level map is useful for this but not really for actually putting down player tokens. Ideally all maps should be available as reveal images.
Suggestions:
1. Don't show sources you don't have access to. I'm pretty sure I am seeing every book D&D Beyond has in my list, but any I don't have access to just say "No reveals found". This is just a ton of unneeded clutter.
2. The search is extremely helpful but it would be moreso if when you open it you could see the name of the image so I know what I'm looking at. This is most helpful with things like if I search for something like "giant runes". I see the Giant Runes of Power but don't know which is which.
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D&D StaffHey everyone! Posting on behalf of our Maps Product Manager, Zac Cohn:
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Update appreciated!
Apologies for the lack of grace. We got feature hangry! Excited to use the reveals in my next session.
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Thank you for the update. In the future, could we be kept more informed throughout the process instead of receiving a single update at day's end? It would be much appreciated.
A couple of follow-up questions:
1. Does this delay impact the launch of the new 'My Library' section planned for tomorrow?
2. Will that revamped section be available on the browser, the app, or both platforms?
Thanks for your time and work on this.
-Drew
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Hello, greetings from Bogotá, Colombia!
I was really looking forward to my players trying out this feature. I have four sessions scheduled, and today is the first one of the week.
I hope it will be ready for one of them.
Sorry for my English.
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D&D StaffSometimes more frequent updates aren't feasible due to the work going on to address the issue, but that is excellent feedback; we will be better about updating you as soon as we can.
To your follow-up questions (which I am late for, I apologize):
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Guessing that Reveals feature aint launching this year then? Its the 17th (one day later than expected) and some of us DMs are still waiting on the one feature that was promised from the last Maps VTT update article.
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D&D StaffWe are still working to have Reveals launch today. I will update announcements and inform everyone if that turns out not to be the case.
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D&D StaffJust announced: Reveals is now LIVE!
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Great start! Really looking forward to user uploaded reveals, hopefully in the near future. In the meantime 1 bug and 2 suggests.
Bug: Some items from sources are not showing up, possibly because they're not technically within a chapter of the book in question. My example is the poster maps of Bral in Spelljammer: Adventures in Space. These are available in the Map Browser, but realistically I would only want these as a reveal, if for example an NPC was outlining to the party the layout of the underside of Bral. This kind of high level map is useful for this but not really for actually putting down player tokens. Ideally all maps should be available as reveal images.
Suggestions:
1. Don't show sources you don't have access to. I'm pretty sure I am seeing every book D&D Beyond has in my list, but any I don't have access to just say "No reveals found". This is just a ton of unneeded clutter.
2. The search is extremely helpful but it would be moreso if when you open it you could see the name of the image so I know what I'm looking at. This is most helpful with things like if I search for something like "giant runes". I see the Giant Runes of Power but don't know which is which.
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D&D StaffReveals is launched as of about 2 hours ago minutes ago!