Notice about poll system

It came to my attention recently that there may be a bug with the poll system right now (in that it isn't updating the choice you select when you vote). Because of the nature of the bug, I don't want anyone voting on polls in the mean time, until I am sure it is fixed. If the choices simply haven't been saved, but the user has been recorded, then I will just record the user references for those who's vote didn't count, and then they could revote on the poll. I will check this out shortly... Hopefully tonight or tomorrow. [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Saturday - 18:16 - 20 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

Upgraded accounts receive huge increases

I've been playing with the custom member class tools today, since they were one of the things on my to-do list I was supposed to get done this week. Anyhow, now that I got the interface running properly, I thought it was high time to make the changes I wanted. Since normal members got a boost from 50 MB to 100 MB a week or two ago, upgraded accounts have finally be adjusted likewise. Also, the number of inbox messages an upgraded account can have has also greatly increased. To see how many messages you can have at one time in your inbox, or to see how many megabytes of data you now get (assuming you have an upgraded account), then go here: http://www.taintedthoughts.com/upgrade.php Of course, you could always just click the "inbox" button to see how many messages you have now, or "my items" to see how much web space you have. Additionally, users in the upper two classes get a couple of extra permissions: 1) the ability to disable ads (a new option is available in "settings") 2) the ability to ADD new ads (in the "tools" area) Shortly, any member with an upgraded account will also have the ability to create and manage clubs (I don't think part of the code is done for this at the moment, but it will be available shortly). [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Friday - 17:58 - 19 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

Improvement to live private messenger notification

You're probably all familiar with the normal mechanism we've had in place to inform you when you have a new private message (where when you browse around, you are redirected to the inbox when you have a new message). This has now changed, hopefully for the better. Instead of redirecting you, you will first hear a sound, and then a pop-up will appear. If you click "OK", you will be sent to the inbox, whereas if you click "Cancel" you will remain on that page, and the pop-up and sound will not launch again until you click another page. And now you do have some time to click around before even being prompted to redirect (I think it's about 10 seconds now), which means you can still click around and do quick tasks for a short bit before a redirection is prompted. Also, the "inbox" button should now fade in whenever you have a new message. Oh, and because the system has changed, this means you may want to update your settings. There are two new settings (which means you can enable either / or both the pop-up notification and sound effect). Tick the box to receive the pop-up notification, and select a sound effect from the selection menu in order to enable a sound effect. Can someone on IE verify whether or not sound effects on TT are playing for them? [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Thursday - 22:18 - 18 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

No more member icons!

I've finally gotten rid of the member icons. I've felt for a very long time that it was unnecessary to have both an icon and an avatar, but I hesitated to make the change for various reasons. Anyhow, icons are finally gone, so whenever you leave a public post, your profile image will display as your avatar instead. That is all. [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Wednesday - 12:14 - 17 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

Item listing filtering - suggests wanted!

As I am going through the feature requests this week, I came across one that I would really like your input on. I will adding a special pane that displays while browsing a section. This area will allow you to customize various filters in order to retrieve custom listings of items. For example, if you wanted to only view items you've rated, there could be an filter for this. Or maybe, you could easily switch on a filter that displays only tagged/untagged items, or possibly another filter would allow you to only show items by a specific user. While many of these are technically possible now, there isn't an "all in one" area that lets you set all the filters you want at a single time with ease. So anyhow, this brings me to my question: What are some ways you guys think you should be able to filter items while viewing sections or item listings? I'm sure some of you have probably had to have thought there needs to be a way to view only items that meet certain criteria. So what are some of these criteria? Please give me your input, because I really want to include as many helpful filters for sifting through items as folks would need. [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Tuesday - 19:08 - 16 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

Poll updates

I've made a few changes to the way polls work. First of all, the nice improvement being that when you vote on a poll now, the whole site does not need to be reloaded, thus voting on polls is much faster now! As with most live updates on TT, this is using AJAX, so folks on older browsers will need to upgrade to a web browser that was actually released in the last couple of years. Also, the page that lists all the polls will now simply show you the poll instead of just providing a link to a page you can take it. If you run into any problems let me know! [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Tuesday - 16:55 - 16 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

Congrats to rainingpoison!

Well, the contest has finally ended, and I think we all had a good idea who was gonna win. hehe Sure enough, it was rainingpoison (again! - she won a contest before, but I believe that individuals should be able to win as many contests as they like/can). If you have ideas for other contests, or any other idea which you think could increase either activity or new members, get in touch with me so we can make something out of your ideas! [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Monday - 19:11 - 15 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

Info on the newly added chat award

First of all, sorry for the really long lag from when this chat tool place and when I actually added the award. Everyone who did participate in the chat has just been given the award, since, even though the contest winner looks fairly obvious, I wanted to make sure the award was given before the contest was over since the chat took place during its duration. Oh, and if you get notifications when a new award is given, ignore the description which states that it is given for participating in the "first" chat. I copied and pasted the text from the first award and only remembered to change the date. The award has since been updated so that its description now states the "second" chat, as it should be. [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Sunday - 19:43 - 14 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

Have a feature request? Add it now...

If there is something you've really wanted TT to have, and you haven't created a feature request for it yet, I'd encourage you to do so now. This weekend, I am going to run down the list of scheduled and pending feature requests and decide which ones are the most important/urgent and then focus solely on them for the next month. If your idea is not on my list by this weekend, it probably won't be added for at least a month. On July 12, I will release the first public beta of Theia, so this weekend will be when I go over all the stuff that is currently on-hold and waiting to be fixed/resolved/added. I will create a detailed plan of what I will be fixing/adding and when I intend to do it, and if something is not added to my final list this weekend, it WILL NOT BE FIXED/ADDED FOR AT LEAST A MONTH! So yeah, if you have any bug reports, I'd encourage you to please add them before this weekend is over as well, otherwise they may not be addressed for at least a month. If I am good on time and manage to keep up with the schedule I create, then I may take on some other bug reports or feature requests as well, but there are no guarantees. I intend on using this next month to: 1) fix up the most critical on-going bugs 2) add the most necessary or useful feature requests 3) create a logo for Theia 4) create a website for Theia Because of these plans, I may be less active on TT in some ways, and updates may be less frequent, but once I have it all out of the way, things will return to normal! [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Friday - 12:41 - 12 June 2009 · posted by: Lev

1,000 more items need to be tagged before "related items" feature

As I've said before, I am waiting until at least half of the items on TT are tagged before I bother creating an automatic "related items" feature for all items on TT. Currently, 2,645 items have been tagged, out of a little more than 7,000 items, so once just over 1,000 more items are tagged, I will begin work on the "related item" feature. I hope it will make jumping around to similar content easy and effective. If you'd like to help get this push started, there is something you can do; TAG ITEMS! Not only will you receive AP for your effort, but you bring a new and important feature sooner, and you will be doing wonders at helping document the site to increase accessibility (search engines, our TT search, related items, etc). [ comments | leave a comment ]

posted on: Monday - 19:46 - 08 June 2009 · posted by: Lev