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Dan The Man

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Good Morning!

I've been doing a little work behind the scenes this morning. Here's what's new:

Thread Tags
: This has been installed for a few days. When you create a thread, tag what it's about. Tags are just keywords. Think what would you type in the search engine to find your thread. This is great for SEO and is needed.

DJ News Feeds: Click the DJ News link on the navbar, there you can view a brief description of DJ news articles along with links to the full articles. Right now Google is our only source. Over time, I'll be adding more and may expand the topics. Suggestions are welcome.

Top 5 Statistics: You can now view the top 5 thanked people, referrers, newest members and viewed threads on the forum homepage below the shoutbox.

Private Profiles: You can now choose to have your profile viewable to anyone, members only, or friends only. Friends are defined by your buddy list. To set privacy, edit your profile.

Avatars in PM list: When you view your PM box you now see the persons avatar instead of a stupid icon. This isn't of much value just makes things look nicer.

I also reinstalled a SEO hack, which will give us better search engine rankings. I know of one bug: View New Posts on showthread doesn't work correctly on all threads. I'm waiting for a fix from the developer as soon as it's patched I'll fix it.

I also moved around the Google Ads. They looked ugly on the top of every page. I'll be placing some back on the homepage in the next few days once I figure out how to make it look nice.

Other than that, I've tested functionality as much as possible. As with any modification errors can pop up in different browsers, operating systems, etc. If you find any errors, please report them here. :)

This is just the latest round of new features there are more coming soon. :tank:

Keeping you in the loop,
Dan :walkman:
 
You are a busy man! :thumbsup:

Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Kirby & Coreen :D
 
Dan Great features rock as always but the unread posts button is not working again dammitt!!!
 
Dan Great features rock as always but the unread posts button is not working again dammitt!!!

I also reinstalled a SEO hack, which will give us better search engine rankings. I know of one bug: View New Posts on showthread doesn't work correctly on all threads. I'm waiting for a fix from the developer as soon as it's patched I'll fix it.

I answered above, I'm going to see if I can create a fix tonight and send it off to the developer. :)
 
One thing leads to an other..

Since implementing the Top 5 statistics on the homepage, I've gotten a few people have told me that they didn't know how to refer people to OurDjTalk.

There is now a link in your UserCP. Copy/paste it and you are automatically credited upon registration. Check it out. Keep in mind, this isn't fool proof if they remove your name during the registration process you are out of luck.

On another note: I believe the view new post bug mentioned above is fixed. Lord knows I spent enough time screwing around with it and my testing shows it's working fine. Let me know if you're still experiencing any problems.

-Dan :walkman:
 
...if there were a Dan's Nose button...

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A couple of updates:

Arcade updated:

iBProArcade Developer said:
Bugs fixed:
* cheating (cross-scoring) will be detected and no result saved
* Best Result Ever does not get overwritten by lower Tournament-Results anymore
* Tournaments now work with PNflashgames
* while deleting/uninstalling a Game its Tournaments get removed
* Error-Messages now use their language-file
* Scores of zero do not win if "lowest score wins" in a game
* Score-Separator "space" fixed
* Categories are shown per user/guest depending on his group-permissions
* sending of PMs works with vBulletin 3.6 without any error-message
* Firefox now shows colors while viewing tournament-table
* Avatars show up, even user-uploaded ones stored in filesystem
* several fixes and improvements, mainly to the Tournament-System

Improvements:
* improved Database-Performance
* Arcade Mainpage and most other pages are now 100% XHTML 1.0 compatible
* Administrators can enter closed Arcade
* Error-Messages shown in vBulletin-Style
* Tournament-Match which ends with same score will give both players one more try
* after playing a game you directly see your new rank in the game's highscore-table
* Archives/Files in "AdminCP->Add Game" are sorted alphabetically
* Alphabetical Sort-Bar for better Navigation in Arcade mainpage
* new compact postbit-information: trophy only (with mouseover-information)
* Filesize is shown in AdminCP and on mouseover on gameicon in the Arcade
* setup amount of new/popular games via AdminCP to show on mainpage
* added some links in logical places to make navigation more easy at all
* new setting per user: "can create tournaments" (set this to NO to ban single users from this)
* Tournament-Pruning via AdminCP
* League-Updating has improved performance with more logic and less queries

New Feature:
* compatible to new ibProArcade-Games with integrated cheat-security
* automatic Remind- and Disqualify-System in Tournaments (after x days, setup via AdminCP)
* Notification-System in AdminCP: turn each notification on/off and edit its messagetext including variables
* integrated Debug-Mode for faster support (displays 4 vBulletin-Settings + ibProArcade-Version to developer)

Also updated the statisics on the homepage, that was mostly just bug fixes.