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Hey everyone. It is that time of the week again. Build time! This build focused on a lot of quiz cleanup. Once we see things running live, there are often tweaks to make based on how things behave at scale. But there are also a few cool features.

Member Profile Changes/Enhancements

1. Tweaked the badges page in the profile section to have more information.
2. The quiz master achievement badge has been reset. In order to qualify again, you have to take all 4 of the quizzes.
3. Implemented a new gamerDNA Trait signature image file. Get to it in your Badges page of your profile… You can chose between four versions, each emphasizing one of the quizzes with your results. Here is an example of it using mine:

   

4. Made some tweaks to the Twitter and Last.fm boxes on the profile page.
5. Fixed a problem where item lists in the character pane of the DNA panel were all linking to the same item description (the One Ring). They now link to the proper descriptions.

Guild hosting changes/enhancements

1. A new images roll-up has been added to the guild hosting. It is activated by default, and available via the image gallery tab. Any images uploaded into a gamerDNA profile and attached to the guild will appear on that page.
2. The guild leader can also add a picture strip to the guild homepage showing the most recently added pictures.
3. Cleaned up the guild hosting pages so that the buttons are readable in all cases and template selections.

General Site Changes/Enhancements

1. All Bartle results for existing members have been converted into the new system so that retaking is not required.
2. Any call to a game with no icon will return a default icon.
3. Added new footer links that point to the B2B site.
4. Built out OpenID Login and trust pages for the identity provider. (can’t see this yet but soon!)
5. On the quiz landing page, clicking the quiz title now takes you to the quiz homepage.
6. Made tweaks to the company blog including redirects, some side bar gadgets, some new plugins, etc.
7. When Darkfall was added, a data issue was preventing the theme picker from working properly. This has been corrected.
8. Fixed an issue where IE7 was sometimes failing to display the quiz results page.
9. Fixed a bug where users who were giving respect were not getting the proper fame. It has not been corrected to give fame in the correct manner.
10. Made multiple tweaks and enhancements to the quiz results pages to clean up text wrapping, positioning and some more general copy.
11. Made some SEO enhancements to the member page so they will appear better in search engines.
12. Made some of the forum icons transparent at the request of the user community!
13. Fixed a rounding issue in the quiz system to make the test results more accurate. You will need to retake your quizzes to take advantage of the higher resolution.
14. The numbers of people reported to take the quizzes was not right. We corrected the counter.
15. Fixed an issue where the next button was jumping around on the quiz page when some answers were selected.
16. Quiz badges now properly display the avatar. The issue was that the sizes and file types weren’t uniform, now there is a process to complete that correctly.

    Note: In order for your badge to show the avatar for a quiz, you must visit your results page and that will re-generate the badge correctly.

17. Fixed some typos in the gamerDNA bot quiz responses at the request of the user community.
18. Fixed a few display bugs in the Activity feed.
19. Added the mini profile popup to the quiz results pages, so that mousing over a gamerpic shows the user profile information.
20. Fixed an issue in quizzes where the meta-takeaway was not reporting consistently making it seem like your traits were changing. It now sorts correctly.
21. Corrected an attitude question that said GuildCafe… should be GamerDNA.
22. Fixed some 404 errors on the homepage for images. These were hidden images that couldn’t be seen.

Coming down the line

A lot of outstanding issues here… but things everyone should continue to be aware of:

1. Blogs will be converted into experiences and turned off.
2. Users will be prompted to rename themselves if they don’t conform to OpenID naming standards
3. We are aware of performance issues and looking into them.
4. Guild Roster updates eminent.
5. Still working on the search engine performance and bringing it back.
6. Working on challenge gadget performance and bringing it back.

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