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You may have noticed I added a couple of features today, nothing major. Other sites have them and I thought it would be good to have them here.
1) Moods - You can select your own mood now underneath your username. This isn't required, and you can leave it as "none" if you prefer. I'll be making some new ones, so they'll be somewhat less lame in the coming weeks.
2) Profile Status - If anyone uses any of the social media sites, you're probably familiar with the concept. Underneath your username is now an "edit" button, which you can click and add a status if you'd like. If not, just ignore it - but it's there for the people who want to use it.
3) LiveTopic - This feature was disabled due to the fact that it was taxing the server at busy times and unfortunately just couldn't stay due to the amount of Ajax database calls it made. The author has since changed the number of queries executed, and also restricted it to only logged in users - which should hopefully keep the load much lower. As a result I have upgraded it, and it's been reinstalled and enabled.
For those who don't know how it works, if a thread becomes busy, the "LiveTopic" icon will appear, and anyone who is viewing the thread will magically see the posts appear in real-time, almost like a chat. So instead of sitting there refreshing a thread, just leave it open and you'll see new posts appear automatically.
4) Posting Frequency - This one's pretty self explanatory. The more you post, the further the bar will go.
I'm working on a couple of other things, and I'll announce those here as well as soon as anything new is added.
Also - I posted a thread yesterday regarding any site issues. I've gotten a couple of reports of the board crashing browsers. If you're having this problem, please post to this thread:
1) Moods - You can select your own mood now underneath your username. This isn't required, and you can leave it as "none" if you prefer. I'll be making some new ones, so they'll be somewhat less lame in the coming weeks.
2) Profile Status - If anyone uses any of the social media sites, you're probably familiar with the concept. Underneath your username is now an "edit" button, which you can click and add a status if you'd like. If not, just ignore it - but it's there for the people who want to use it.
3) LiveTopic - This feature was disabled due to the fact that it was taxing the server at busy times and unfortunately just couldn't stay due to the amount of Ajax database calls it made. The author has since changed the number of queries executed, and also restricted it to only logged in users - which should hopefully keep the load much lower. As a result I have upgraded it, and it's been reinstalled and enabled.
For those who don't know how it works, if a thread becomes busy, the "LiveTopic" icon will appear, and anyone who is viewing the thread will magically see the posts appear in real-time, almost like a chat. So instead of sitting there refreshing a thread, just leave it open and you'll see new posts appear automatically.
4) Posting Frequency - This one's pretty self explanatory. The more you post, the further the bar will go.
I'm working on a couple of other things, and I'll announce those here as well as soon as anything new is added.
Also - I posted a thread yesterday regarding any site issues. I've gotten a couple of reports of the board crashing browsers. If you're having this problem, please post to this thread:
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