Mutiny Community Development Notes - Version 5.5 - 2024/02/23

* Another undocumented feature (except for this devnote), /b64 command can be used to encode or decode Base64 strings.  I needed to do this often enough that it made sense to have a readily available tool handy for it, so here it is.

* Bulletins: When listing you can list from a certain message number, a range, or only unread.  I think this might have been in the last devnote update but the range part is new.

* Main Menu: Preferences is now an option so you can get to your preference menu from the main menu (same as /pref from chat)

* Password resets are now possible:
When new users register they are asked if they want to give an e-mail address (optional).  If you do, then after failing to log in (5 attempts) you're given the option to do a password reset.
Currently the system does not email you (for technical reasons) but it does send me an email here on this system with your username, email address, and a password reset code that I should send to you.  So you might have to wait up to a day to get your reset code since I need to send it manually but it's better than nothing.
You can use the Preferences menu (P) from main, or /pref from chat, to set, update, or remove your internet email address.  Again, this address is only used for password reset and is never shown to anyone except me and only when you do password resets.

* A few other changes around passwords, new users now have to enter their new password twice to make sure it's not a typo.  Since there's 3 areas where a password is set (registration, prefs, or password reset) they're all going into the same function so they all work the same way.

* Added Change your password option to preferences menu (was just a slash command)

* I don't know if I mentioned this in a previous devnote but somewhere between the last minor version and this one: increased the number of retries on login attempts from 3 to 5.  The last 2 will show the password in plain text (not echoing back '*') which can be helpful if you have a flakey keyboard.

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