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Reading the latest Intiface update, it's only their dongle that's getting deprecated.
They say not to use it cause it's somehow just Bluetooth with extra steps and complications, to use a regular Bluetooth adapter of high enough version instead.

It's not supposed to change until in 5 months. Gonna wait a bit and see if it works again.

Posting a comment here is enough for me to notice major bugs. This plus people on the Discord server that can ping in case of immediate major issue.

I prefer talking about issues on IM apps in any case, those who really care and want updates, please use the Discord server. Thank you.


Edit: feeling less shit, toned the message down.

Hey,
I understand the reasons behind asking this.
I made devlogs when I felt I could and felt it was relevant (that's why there's a few), I don't have justifications other than I simply haven't been able to keep up with "PR", and I didn't want to have to.

It's hard to make public anouncements that are gonna disappoint people, "Hiatus yet again", after a while I just shut up and worked when I could. That sums it up.

Because of how difficult it is to put work into this, and one could say I'm about to do this out of guilt, I'm considering releasing an open beta, yes. Instead of a good finished app. And that's probably a bad idea. But I can't stand the pressure of expectation that is building up and I'm hoping the pressure that an incomplete release will bring won't be worse.
Cause I can't exactly put work into this, most of the time.
I wish I could "use the opportunity to fortify the game", that is SO not the problem. Player feedback will be the main problem, and I'll say this upon release, but I ask that no feedback is given and I will ignore everything until I've gotten the game in the state I want it to.

I did closed beta testing for a reason.
Anyway, just to be clear, this message isn't influencing what's about to happen, but coincidentally a release is probably near.

Generally it's a connection issue with the website.
Website blocked in your location, internet down, anything like that.

Oh, yeah yeah forgot that. Just did, thank you!

Technical limitations on my side.

I got some way working (IndexedDB) and should be usable on mobile in v2

It will probably still be a while before I feel v2 is good enough to publish.
But I post updates on Discord sometimes, just not sure at all when anything will go public yet.
I've definitely been considering maybe publishing a playable version even if it doesn't have everything I want to do in it yet, just cause it's such a nice improvement already.

Tl;dr issues and hiatus. Not giving up yet

With the search API, you don't need to sign in to get results that are normally blacklisted by the default blacklist on the main site.
I put the default blacklisted terms as default in Heat Control.

And I agree, I can't really call this a game, it's like a sort of hybrid between app and game. This seemed like a good place to publish it!

An invite is in-game, first screen when opening it!

I'm aware of inconveniences.
Your comments are frankly misplaced for the level of skill that went into this app, I'm lucky it even functions without serious issues.
And maybe you'd think of making the UI less crap before doing standards and polishing.

The Itchio comment section is not a good place for technical discussions. I work better through Discord and teamwork through IMs and calls, that's all. People are free to play along and help or not.

Anyways, translation and stuff would be great, but I won't improve v1, waste of time. I'm working on v2 and we'll take it from there. People are free to do whatever they want in the meantime.

Noted for hotkey and popup. Will skip confirm if using hotkey, so it doesn't need using the mouse.

Not sure I get the relevance of that a11y thing. Contact on Discord if worth explaining.

Couldn't make it work. Only found a way in Electron, so the Win/Linux version.

This shouldn't need a guide.
Select the "local" option, click "select folder..." and it lets you pick a folder on your computer and get the images in it.

That was a misunderstanding, issue sorted on Discord.
There's a "mod manager" unofficial version, but that itself is a modded version done by someone else, available on Discord.

Same reply as below, suggestions can be dropped on the Discord and need some level of detailing to be useful later. What does it do, how does it work and why, etc.
I'm not sure what a "cum queue" is in your mind.

Suggestions can be dropped on the Discord and need some level of detailing to be useful later. What does it do, how does it work and why, etc.

Something looking like that would work.
file:///C:/Users/Yourname/Documents/image.jpg

You need to run the local version of the webapp, by downloading the zip and opening index.html. (or the Win/Linux version)
Browser security doesn't let you from Itch.io, looks like.

Not adding features to v1.

I guess there's no workaround that wouldn't be tedious. I'll definitely do something about it in v2.
If you'd like this done quickly, feel free to mod the game or ask if someone can do it on the Discord.

As I told you a few months ago, I'm not adding features to v1.

You go back to the main menu after the end of the session or mid session, and the pic browser appears with the bookmarked pics. It tells you, in a popup, "You have bookmarked pictures. You can now browse through them and add them to lists. Your bookmarks will then be discarded once you exit this browser."

So do just that and add them all to a list you call "favourites"

I know I could have done it better and that's exactly why I'm making a new one.

They get displayed after the end of the session or quitting.
Point is to just quick bookmark while in game, and sort them into lists afterwards.

Yeah, back when I made the first versions and thought it'd be a thing 100 people tops would play with, I thought the audience would be overwhelmingly male and the dialog was explicitely for dudes.

Later made it neutral as I could, without completely bleaching it out. It's complicated to make the dialog fit all cases. I could sorta adapt the different prompts to what I do, and I thought other people in the same boat would do the same.

Will be a different system and hopefully more fun in v2

Afaik, using "to come/to cum" is widely understood as reaching orgasm, no matter the gender or anything else about the person.
The rest of the comment is confusing. Files don't get "imported", either you load images from the computer if using the Win/Linux exe, or you load from e6.
And you can't load images from a phone, couldn't make it work. Gotta stick to e6.
Importing is for lists. They're essentially just links to e6 images.

Would only be able to do anything if you're willing to help troubleshoot. Join the Discord if so

Same as any type of local image, under the "local" option, "select folder..." that contains the gifs.
What's causing problems?

I'm a lady with standards, not quite happy leaving stuff half assed.

Degens like you and other cool people showing huge interest made it worth keeping working on it, so there we are. Still going.

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No more features, only bug fixes.
I'm working on a new version, takes time. And unfortunately your girl's been working on recovering from her issues first.
I've got to catch up on art work first, will resume working on this soon after. Hopefully in a couple weeks.

I don't see how this is helpful: I imagine you are stumbling upon the comic page in question while searching for regular tags. Hitting next on e6 for that search query will more than likely not show the next page of the comic.
Your description sounds more like pools, which are automatically shown if the image belongs to one. Most comics are in a pool for that reason: browsing pages in order.
If you need to elaborate, please talk about it on the Discord.

Suggestions are logged on the Discord server, can't keep track here.
Better to wait until most features are done anyways, some stuff will become irrelevant.

Someone came close, but couldn't make it work outside of their APK build from their machine. Won't be a thing unless someone can make it work and I'm able to build it.

I don't know what you mean by "more than one screens". Either way I'm working on v2 and not taking suggestions. They are likely to become irrelevant for the most part.

Turns out the problem was e621 being blocked in the user's location.
To anyone reading, if you are unable to access e621 in your browser, then it won't work in Heat Control either.

"E621 search" works for me. Contact me on Discord for proper troubleshooting.
And check out modding stuff on Discord to get what you want.

It's a bit unclear what you're trying to do. Adding an image to a list through the "Display results" screen, and then pressing "Edit Selected List", correctly displays the image I added to that list.
Contact me on Discord to troubleshoot faster, else please describe the steps you take to try to do what you want, and what you expect to happen.

Just messing around, nothing to be worried about,
I won't lie though, the amount of apologies and praise I'm getting in this message is hilarious. Not like I hate getting my arse kissed anyways!

Enough teasing, you're right, without experience all one can do is take a blind guess. Can't be blamed for that.
As much as I fucking wish it was, it's not a "change some URL and it works" deal. Except for e6ai, happens to have the exact same APIs.
Anyways. I'll do my thing and it'll get good. As "perfect" as this app is I still wanna do a lot better.

Damn, this comment is pressing my buttons. Usually, seeing someone beg me like this makes me just itch to punish them more.

"Jokes" aside, would have done it if it were easy. Current code is very hard to maintain and to add stuff to in a viable way.
I'm working on a more ambitious follow up that will be built with flexibility in mind. Everything will be much easier from there. But it'll take months.
Support for more websites is one of the many suggestions that have already been logged in the Discord server.

Even if someone was to contribute and code the thing, making sure it doesn't break anything else that's in there is too painful, and increasingly painful as more is added. So, everything is on hold till I'm done with the new thing.

Thanks, very helpful info.It'll get logged on the Discord server and looked into.

For anyone else reading this, minimum required Android version is 7.0
If you use an older phone, you'll get this error message.