Here are the notes from our recent weekly build. A few things in here… but most of the work still goes towards quizzes next week!

Note: Anytime we do a release, it is best to hit CTRL-F5 in your browser to force all files to refresh.

Profile Enhancements

1. Your latest twitter message now appears in the right-column of your profile page if your twitter account is added to your AKAs.
2. The Last.fm music feed has been added to the right column of the profile page for users with their Last.fm account in their AKAs. In general we are just experimenting with these various non-gaming related network APIs… so the locations of these might change… but we have to keep the interns busy!
3. When clicking images off the pic-strips, you are now taken to a stand alone image page instead of a popup.
4. Fixed the DNA Panel to use the image thumbnail in the panel properly instead of the full size image simply scaled leading to better performance.
5. There is now an Images sub page in your profile that lists out all of the images, and allows you to link people directly to your image collection.

General Site Enhancements

1. We upgraded to Rails 2.1… which is pretty cool… you will see performance improvements in the site.
2. Added Socom, Socom 2, Socom 3, Socom Combined Assult, and Socom Confrontation to Tier 3 so they appear in the drop downs.
3. All moderate image requests now feed directly into our support form for better response.
4. Battlefield: Bad Company promoted to a tier 3 title with icon and info.
5. Everquest characters can now specify a level.
6. Added guild URL to the support form and also added user screen resolution to better help track down issues.

Guild Hosting Enhancements

1. New Fallen Sword Theme was added
2. The ability to preview a post before you submit it has been added to the Guild forums.
3. New DOMO Guild theme has been released!
4. Fixed an issue where logging out on a guild page would take you to some random test guild. It now takes you back to where ever you logged out.
5. Fixed an issue where IE7 users were having problems changing themes.
6. Fixed an issue where deleted guild forum posts were still showing in the “Most Recent Post” column and causing an error when clicked.
7. Fixed a bug where favorites couldn’t be turned on and off. It now behaves correctly.
8. Fixed a long standing bug with guild progress never going to 100% even when you invite members. It now works correctly.
9. Added ability to easily rename guilds from the support pages. So if you want your guild renamed it is easier for us to handle that.

Coming soon (same as last week)
These are bigger projects we are working towards that will see life in the coming weeks.

1. An entirely new and revamped quiz system that will help you discover your gamerDNA.
2. A new guild event management and notification system.
3. Enhancements to games so that we have more information and more games in the system for you all!
4. OpenID support

Be prepared (same as last week)
Here are a few changes we will be making in the coming weeks. We will be contacting you if you are affected by this.

1. Due to OpenID we need to fix about 8,000 user names that are using non-compliant characters in their names. These users will be asked to rename their accounts so that the openID system works correctly on their new names and profile locations.
2. The current blog system will be going away. We will allow people to migrate all content into the new Experiences model, complete with your comments. This will be optional if you do not wish to keep your content.

Feel free to leave any comments on the past, present, or future!