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Changleog - June 10, 2006
by mike (Mike Macgirvin)

 

Photo albums now have dates on them. The photo page is now sorted a) by number of votes, and then b) by reverse creation date. This puts new and/or popular stuff on page 1 instead of the oldest stuff first.

Since the avatar collections are shared amongst 'regular' and 'adult' websites, I've moved the adult oriented avatars to a separate collection with a tag to indicate that they are adult oriented. The site you are viewing this message on isn't configured as an adult site, which is a long way of saying that the inappropriate images have vanished from here. 

All the teeny little cartoon avatars have been removed. I'm trying to standardize on 100x100 avatars. If you had an avatar in one of these other collections, I mapped it to the closest match I could find in the 'large' collection. If my choice isn't right for you, feel free to change it - or you can always upload your own avatar.

Added the top rated photo to the front page. Also removed some of the forum/weblog stuff (Top Articles, Recent Comments, Recent articles, Categories, etc.) from the menubar when you're not looking at articles. This is a performance issue - so that we're not wasting time looking up articles (which you obviously aren't looking at) every time you vote on a photorater page.

Check to see if new comments have been added since your last login - and 'open' the 'Recent Comments' menu if that's the case. 

If a certain number of people rates an image as offensive it won't be shown, but the site admin(s) can reset the counter and also block images completely - this is to reduce mischief. The exception is the top rated photo on the front page -  since this has higher visibility, offensive ratings have a more immediate impact.

Image uploads - now preserves the last used server folder name so you can upload to the same folder repeatedly instead of being required to change the folder name each time.

Weblog URL's now have 'weblog' added to the path (i.e. sitename/weblog/mike instead of just sitename/mike). I mentioned this change was necessary several months ago but finally got around to doing it.  This was to prevent a naming conflict if somebody chose something like 'forums' or 'tags' as a username; since these are already used as system paths and could have made their weblog inaccessible. The old paths will still work - provided they don't conflict with system paths. If that's the case the system path will win.

There will likely be a few more bug fixes and useability enhancements, but this concludes the development phase of version 3.0. 

 

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Comments:

Cheryl (Cheryl)
June 16, 2006 02:09
Cheryl
Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of concluded because I see a lot of new stuff. Censorship, tolerance? What's that all about?

mike (Mike Macgirvin)
June 16, 2006 02:43
mike
Semantics... I've in fact concluded development of version 3.0. What you see now is version 3.1

:-)

I was going to roll this up in the next changelog, but you've forced my hand. I've added a lot of features which let folks put lots of stuff on the site. If we ever get more than a handful of users, the task of moderating all the content could get to be huge. I'm going to turn this job over to the community (that's you). If you see that somebody has posted something clearly offensive, any member can censor it. It's just like voting, except you're voting against it rather than for it.

But you can also choose your personal tolerance level if this kind of stuff doesn't bother you. The default is zero tolerance. If something is censored even once, you won't see it - unless you raise your tolerance level.

I'd recommend no more than 5. If five people on this site have complained about something, it's pretty raunchy - and it's compounded, because once there's one vote for censorship, only the tolerant folks will see it. If *they're* complaining, then it's pretty bad.


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