Year In Review 2024

[Death]

It's been an exciting year for modding with the trend towards more complex and visually appealing plugins, and we're happy to be at the forefront of it! Here's our Year In Review for 2024 with an overview of everything we've accomplished and what's in store for the future!

Evolved Customer Experience

This year, we focused heavily on improving the user experience by drastically simplifying navigation and ensuring a dedicated support channel for all purchases. Here's a detailed roadmap of everything we've added and changed for our customers!
 

Creators Directory - We know how important it is to protect your ideas from prying eyes, and finding someone you can trust to develop the idea can often times be a pain. Who do you trust to not only develop, but also maintain the confidentiality of your original idea? Our Creators Directory makes it easy finding the right person for the job.

    
 

Protecting your purchases - We want you to be confident in all your purchases, so we now enforce a 6-month SLA (from publish date) on all files purchased and also offer a 2-year warranty for Codefling+ members from the time of purchase for hassle-free refunds in the event a file becomes abandoned or discontinued.

 

Improved Site Support - We've simplified our support channels to ensure you get fast support regardless where you go. With the addition to our AI support bot that has been training for 8 months now to give you answers to frequently asked questions as well as reliable responses to most inquiries thanks to our growing help articles and support agent responses. Our new bot can also find files for you if you're having trouble remembering its name. We've also added tickets to our Discord to make it even easier to reach out!

        
 

Search Engine Improvements - We've made several improvements to our quick and advanced search algorithms to improve results while not completely destroying the discoverability of similar files. 

    
 

Improved UX and Speeeeeed - This year has seen major improvement to both user experience and page speeds by advancements in technology and our own wreckless spending to ensure the fastest paint speed with the lowest possible payload possible by using upper-tier servers, edge cache and aggressive image processing to give you the best experience possible.

    
 

Wishlists - We've made it easy for customers to keep tabs on files by adding them to their wishlist, and will be notified anytime the file is updated or goes on sale. You can arrange items in your wishlist based on your own preferences by dragging them around. You can also make your wishlist public and allow other users to purchase files for you. Useful for server owners to get their players more involved!

        

Improved Purchase Dashboard - The purchase dashboard has been overhauled to give you more options and useful information about your purchased files. With tabs to easily separate files by category, the ability to now search for files, new sorting options, date of last update and a version tracker to let you know when a new file version is available!

My Downloads Dashboard - Offering the same features as the purchase dashboard, this page shows you any files you've downloaded, including free files, to give you the same benefits as the purchases page, like seeing when a new version is available, etc.

Cart System - If you've been around for a while, you'll remember the old POS system, which required you to buy files individually without the ability to add to a cart and checkout with a single transaction. This was a huge undertaking, and we're thrilled with its reception.

    
 

File Flairs - When major changes happen in the game that require a major refactoring of plugins and maps, you'll be able to see at a glance what files are compatible with that version of Rust. A badge is displayed on the file's card as well as in your purchases and downloads dashboard. The most recent example of this is the World 2.0 Compatability flair.

    
 

On-site support is mandatory - Previously, we've allowed creators to disable the support tab on their files to offer their own support channels. We felt this level of freedom would improve the overall experience. While this was mostly true, it often fell short, with customer inquiries becoming lost in the void and us not being able to mitigate requests made off-site. Because of this, we removed the option to disable the support tab to ensure customers always have a dedicated channel for support. Creators are still free to integrate their own support, but they're still obligated to handle support requests made on-site.

    
 

Mandatory Change logs - Change logs were always optional to eliminate the need to push a new version anytime the details of the file are edited. We've fixed this by improving the experience for creators and not forcing a new version when file details or product screenshots are changed. In addition, we now require changelogs to ensure each version is properly documented so customers know exactly what to expect.

 

Buying and selling graphics - We expanded our catalog and now offer the ability to buy and sell graphics for all of your needs. From icons for plugins, to server logos, headers, etc. We're happy to see so many talented individuals utilizing this service to sell their art!

Reduced clutter of features files - Featured files has become a vital part of our platform by enabling creators to improve discoverability of their files, as well as allowing customers to find exciting new files that they may not have found organically. It also gives us the revenue we need to keep platform fees down for creators. We've seen a huge uptick in featured files, which is fantastic for us, but for customers it was starting to clutter their feeds. Because of this, we now limit the amount of featured files that show in each category (limited to 3 rows) and rotate them randomly to give you new content each time you visit. We've also made sure you only see files you don't own, further reducing the clutter.

 

Overhauled public API - We've spent a considerable amount of time this year completely reworking our API to give you more options to automate your workflows and get the fastest responses possible, thanks to our revolving cache that ensures instantaneous responses with reasonable stagnation. The perfect balance (probably). https://codefling.com/db

        

New sorting options - New filter options have been added to help customers filter by files that are on sale to help them get the best deals possible. Additionally, we've added the ability to sort files by best deal and the lowest or highest sale price on the deals page.

    

 

Review moderation transparency - This has been the center of most controversy over the years so we've taken community feedback and have improved our transparency of file reviews. We've polled the community and majority of our customers approve of how we moderate reviews, so not much in that regard has changed, but now you can see a public feed of all reviews that get accepted and declined, as well as the reason why. We hope this improves transparency and enables us to continue blocking manufactured or overly vague reviews that serve no purpose other than to boost or degrade a file's rating based on personal reasons verses actual feedback.

    

Improved deals page - The deals page is by far our most frequented page by customers. So we felt it necessary to improve the user experience as much as possible by adding additional sorting and filtering as well as tabs to enable separation based on the customer's preferences. Additionally, we've improved the "Best Deals" sorting option and made it the default option when viewing the page. Now you will see the actual best deals first!

    

 

Evolved Creator Experience

This year has also been huge for creators with major features to streamline development, deployment and monetization. We're thrilled to bring on hundreds of new creators this year and are excited to release new features that will make it much easier for both creators and customers!
 

Creator API - This new API allows creators to interact with the platform via code exactly like they would through the browser. This enables endless possibilities to automate workflows and improve the experience of their customers. This is by far the feature we were most excited about this year!

    

CoAuthor Support - Coauthors enable file owners to add co-authors to their files to help spread the workload, from managing file details, pushing file updates and handling support requests. File authors can optionally split revenue with these co-authors to automatically split revenue.

    

Bulk File Sales - This feature allows creators to discount their files all at once, or select multiple files to discount all at once to make doing mass sales easier, and without the need to edit each individual file.

More control in your file's ecosystem - We've overhauled creator tools to give you more control within your file's page, such as the ability to hide posts, feature comments and add file messages both public to share information with your customers and private to leave yourself or the team information about your file as well as the ability to toggle purchases and hide your own files.

        

Improved approval times - One of the biggest growing pains we've faced is the ever-growing approval times for new files uploaded to our platform due to the volume of files uploaded on a daily basis. To help combat this we've onboarded additional curators and have increased the commission on file approvals. We're always interested in bringing more curators onboard, so this will improve more over time. I don't really have a screenshot for this to make it uniform with the other entries so enjoy this cat gif.

 

Improved transparency and terms - Over the years we've handled situations on a case-by-case basis, and while this is still true, we've put together a detailed policy to cover most scenarios to give you a good idea of what to expect as a creator on Codefling. While this information will give you a good idea, it's not absolute and may change periodically to align with the best interest of creators and customers. https://codefling.com/creator/

    

Reordering file screenshots - Prior to this update, creators were forced to upload screenshots in a particular order to show in the carousel a certain way. We felt this was a tad annoying and have implemented the ability to drag screenshots around to order them how ever you'd like. This can be done in both the new version and file edit page.

 

We hope this overview is helpful for you to discover new features and changes you may not have been aware of. Please note there's hundreds of additional bug fixes as well as small UX and design changes that didn't make the list. We only wanted to highlight the larger changes for the sake of brevity. We hope your year was just as fantastic as ours and look forward to years to come! 

[Whispers88]

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[BippyMiester]

29 minutes ago, Whispers88 said:

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bitch lol

[Mals]

Some cool stuff there. What is the plan for 2025?

[Whispers88]

2 hours ago, Mals said:

Some cool stuff there. What is the plan for 2025?

More Plugins!

[Malkizid]

A slightly more wise Manky

[Death]

On 1/1/2025 at 5:01 AM, Mals said:

Some cool stuff there. What is the plan for 2025?

[Whispers88]

7 minutes ago, Death said:

I heard you are going to be getting some new moderators