This week’s build was pretty massive. We expanded our game data to include over 40,000 titles plus all sorts of game information that you will begin to see trickle into the product over the next few weeks. We had to go through some pretty old code and change how we relate everything to games… so if you see something weird, let us know! Here is the full list of changes:

Member Profile Changes

• Adding games using the gamerDNA panel now uses a type-ahead.
• Changed the game selection when adding a new character to use the type-ahead.
• Changed game selection to a type-ahead when adding or editing an image.
• Changed the game selection to a type-ahead when adding an experience.
• When using the game type-ahead in certain places, such as your gamerDNA panel, you can add games that we don’t currently have in our database.  Type in the game name, and select the "Create ???" option.  Then a select box will appear that invites you to choose a game platform. Choose a platform, and bam! Your new game is created!
• Fixed a bug that was causing logout requests from the profile pages to throw a 404 error.
• The LFG (Looking for Group) functionality for individual users has been removed from the site. It was never utilized, and the feature never lived up to expectations. We will revisit this in a much lighter-weight method in the future and focus on guild recruiting in new ways shortly.
• Fixed the DNA Panel profile like to point to the correct new profile location.
• Fixed the badges page layout to show the badges at full size in your member profile.
• Changed the social media feed link for adding a game to go to the user game page instead of the user profile homepage.

General Site Changes

• In the news section, you now choose the game filter, by typing in the game name of the game you want to check out news for, and then choosing the game from the dropdown that appears.  If no news exists for your game, you can submit the news you find interesting!
• The games landing page has been updated to reflect some of the new awesome games data.  Of note, anticipated games, and new releases are highlighted.  Expect to see more in future builds!
• When filtering groups by game while in the group directory, choosing a game is now done via a type-ahead.  Enter the game name you want, then choose it from the list that appears.
• All manually entered games have been merged with the new games… if you see duplicates, let us know and we can correct them.
• gamerDNA is busting at the seams with a massive influx of game data.  This data has been integrated with current games, and we have added thousands of new games.  We also have added platform, and genre classifications to the data model, and in the coming weeks you will see this data manifest itself more on the site.
• Added caching to the first page of the quiz to speed up the user experience and reduce load.
• Caching has been added to the quiz API that displays results to reduce load.
• Now preloading the background image for various menus to make appearance/hiding smoother.
• Now preloading large background images on the front page of the site, for smoother transitions.
• Caching the summary of the company blog where we show it, to improve page loading speed.
• Switched the individual game pages to use box art where we have it.
• Documentation added about the Curse WarDB content that can be added to the group forums.
• Fixed a small CSS bug in the forums that was the result of another hotfix.
• Fixed issues where the type-ahead for games was bleeding through some of the backgrounds on the pages.
• Fixed an issue with launching the DNA Panel from the navigation.
• Removed some duplicates from game type-ahead
• Fixed an issue where caching was preventing the avatar and other quicklinks items from displaying. they should now appear correctly despite the cache.
• Fixed the company blog summaries to pull more consistently across the site.
• Cleaned up how the login pop-up box renders for some browsers to clean up the design.
• Cleaned up some CSS design on the registration page.
• Added better caching to quiz, trait, and guild signature badges to reduce server load.
• Fixed a broken image on the homepage.
• Fixed an issue where some Javascript libraries were not loading correctly.
• Added some missing Javascript files to the header as required by some site features.
• Added back some missing content from the quiz landing page. It no longer causes performance issues.
• Made more changes to the global nav header to prevent wrapping for really long names.
• Fixed the case of gamerDNA on the dev blog call to action.

Group Hosting Changes

• New guild theme, Gears of War! Get it while it is hot!
  When creating a new group, the game selection now uses a type ahead to properly pick the game and platform.
• When managing your guild(or clan)’s games, you now choose the games you play by entering them in a type ahead.  Enter the game name, then select the game from the list that appears.
• Cleaned up the invite form a little more to differentiate between the two options of inviting people via email or using a join link.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the Shaiya theme to appear blank.
• When creating new guilds, the custom pages were being set to UNDEFINED preventing them from being edited.
• The games tab of the group management now uses the new type ahead for picking from all games.
• Fixed an issue on the guild image pix strip that was preventing scrolling.
• Changed the text on the group creation confirmation page and corrected a typo.
• Fixed issues where certain games were not working for recruiting.
• Cleaned up some styling that was conflicting with the button colors for certain guild themes.
• Fixed an issue where you could nuke your entire guild site by resubmitting a request from a browser that was closed right after a POST comment.
• If you have been invited to a guild, but you have not accepted the membership, you can now go to the Group’s page > Settings and there is a link at the top that lets you know you were invited but not a member and a link to remove yourself or respond to the invite.
• The group HTML editor no longer allows script blocks/tags in the editor. It converts them all to comments for security reasons.
• Fixed an issue where the guild story gadget was not displaying content when the shortname was in use instead of the guildID.
• Fixed an issue where removing Bartle score from the group signature images also removed the recruiting text.
• Added a caching message to the group signature configurator for leader and members. It can take up to 10 minutes for everywhere your signature is used to properly refresh any changes.
• Fixed image scrolling on group pages.

As we like to say around here… this is only the beginning. The first step was getting all of the game data in… now we have to add the special sauce! Look for that in a couple weeks.