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Apparently Twitter, in its infinite wisdom, decided it would be a great idea to remove the feature that lets us display tweets on the sidebar.  Instead they’re trying to get everyone to use their ugly widget.  Fsck that.  So I signed up for a free wordpress site, added news syndication to there via my hootsuite account (which I love), and hacked up a javascript reader to pull its RSS.  Hopefully the resulting news pipeline won’t be too easy to break.

TLDR: Newsbar should work again and I officially hate twitter now.

Today I’ve added a new telepad type, the Public Telepad.

With the public telepad, anyone can teleport to your telepad with a simple command.  They do not need to be a member of the town (and in fact, the telepad doesn’t even need to be placed in a town).

With this update, I’ve also moved the three kinds of telepads to their own submenu under the usual Construction category.

Public Telepad commands:

• /publicpad name <LOCATION NAME> – Sets name of nearby public telepad to LOCATION NAME. (owner only)
• /publicpad list – Lists all public telepads
• /publicpad tele <LOCATION NAME> (or you can just do /tele <LOCATION NAME>) – Teleport to location

Enjoy!

I’ve added a new door today that has been hotly requested: the Fee Door.

With a Fee Door, you can charge other players gold to open your door.  You configure the amount with /feedoor fee <amt>.  As the owner, you get to enter for free.

When another user presses E to open the door, they see the door’s cost.  They can pay the cost and open the door by typing /feedoor open, or just /fdo

The door comes in both left handled and right handled varieties — but since they charge independently, I don’t recommend using them in double-door pairs.

The door also acts as a temporary safe — gold is deposited into the door, and when the owner opens it with E they can see how much gold it contains as it is then deposited into their main account.

Thanks to Bruno, Meep, and everyone else who voted and commented on this suggestion in the suggestion box.

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