
We finally got a WEB PLAYER on the website, and it WORKS! Just a little note from behind the scenes here, Second Life doesn’t play https streams. Websites don’t like to play http streams, because they are not secured, whereas most websites are, including ours. This poses a problem. You place a web player, and it just refuses to play, because the website won’t play something it doesn’t feel is secure on the site. This posed a huge issue for me (Aurora), because I’ve run internet radio stations in the past (before https was widely used a popular), and of course, never came across this issue. I hit roadblock after roadblock, until I finally found a plugin with a proxy to allow http streams to play on https sites. The best part is, you can click the popout icon and listen to it even if you leave our site! This is better than just the random player centova gives you haha.
We also got rid of the “future plans” section in the left side bar, and replaced it with an RSS feed. This plugin makes posts for each RSS update made using the subscribe o matic device I use inworld to notify subscribers of major changes to the club or new sets. Now they will also post to the website! Sadly, I can’t figure out how to make it pretty, so it’s really just a gray square on each post, with just the date, but it’s there! Once I can figure out a way to do maybe a default photo for every post, or figure out a title for the feed, it may look better. For now, it shows the notice in each post, when you click on the newest update to the feed.
For our discord friends, this feed will now be posted right into our server as well!
As for the club, I have received many compliments about the new look, and people seem to want to stick around longer than they did at the old club. This was a great move, and I’m so excited about it all! As for the future plans tab going away, I generally keep news posts updated with future plans, so keep checking back for news posts to see what I’m cooking up! Also, our top scroll bar tells you what upcoming events we have planned. As always, if you have any suggestions for an event, please feel free to let me know inworld (AuroraJade.Venus) or join our discord server and connect with me there! Link is in our “Links” tab.
See you soon! <3