October 14th Release Notes

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Behind the Scenes

Due to the holiday, our build was on a Tuesday this time… we like to shake it up on you all! Here is the master list.

Profile Enhancements/Changes

Infinite scrolling has been added to the DNA panel for experiences so that if you have a lot of experiences, the performance is faster because it does not try to load them all before displaying.
The Quiz Traits gadget from the quiz results has been added to the member profile page.
The icons in the games list of the DNA Panel are now clickable.
When you take a quiz, the results will now show in the social media feed.
The social media feed will now be smarter about displaying game names in situations where you have played multiple games.
Games played on the Steam network will now be automatically added to your game list.
The Explore section of member home for Last 24 hours now runs on a sliding 24 hour scale so that the title of the section is accurate.
Cleaned up the display of the play time percentages on the profile page.
Corrected an issue where Twitter timeouts and authentication issues were preventing the twitter gadget from displaying on the profile page and causing errors.
Removed quotation marks from around comments on experiences.
If gameplay on Xfire is above 5 hours, it will state that the person played for "several hours" instead of listing it out due to the inaccuracy of the Xfire reporting during larger time periods.

General Enhancements/Changes

The Warhammer Guild Roster API has been documented and released.
Fixed a performance issue with the game landing page.
Redirects have been added for all old PlayerVox content to properly redirect to the dev blog.
Made performance improvements to the global site header… continuing to make improvements that will reduce # of requests to render a page.
The bottom of every company/dev blog post now links back to GamerDNA.
The Bartle test has all new richer and deeper buckets associated with them. Go check out your results and see how you are profiled.
Company blog URL converted from company.gamerdna.com to blog.gamerdna.com.
Built out some custom error handling to provide better notification. We still have some work to do in the guild sections, but we are making progress with softer fails.
Restructured the member profile CSS to be more IE7 compliant.
Corrected a bug that was causing the games on the game landing page to not fully display.
Fixed an issue where the game links on the group directory were not linking to the correct sub list of groups.
Fixed the quiz trait gadget to display a default trait if the member does not have one.
If you already have a game in your profile, you will no longer be able to accidentally add it through the "Other" selection.
All links in the social media feeds no longer use http://www.gamerdna.com and instead use http://gamerdna.com
Fixed an issue with the edit button on the favorite page in IE7 that was causing a redirect to the homepage.
Removed places where we had duplicate words in the social media feeds.
The tab for quizzes on the panel has been removed. All that was there was a notice to go to the nav section of the site, so this isn’t a major change.
Added validation so that if the person off the homepage tries to create a group when they already have one, they will get a proper notification.
Cleaned up some formatting issues on the open ID authenticate form.
Cleaned up the game list formatting on the explore page.
Fixed an issue where the Warhammer Online signatures were missing guilds for some servers. This involved adding proper timeouts and using the cache when realmWar is not available.
Fixed a bug on the HOME nav item where the GAMES link was turning white.
Fixed an issue where possessive logic (his, her, etc) was not working in some cases in the social media feeds.
Forum posts now work correctly in the social media system, and the link for them will take you to the thread.
Added prevention of duplicate posts to social media for both creating and updating experiences. It will only do one within an hour.
Fixed some missing icons in the user activity feed.
Cleaned up some of the links for experiences and attitudes.
Shortened the social media text around number of achievements, time play and gamerscore.
A social media update about commenting on an experience was removed as no history is generated for that. It was assumed in error that this was the case.
Searching for characters will now give you a link you can click to go to a profile!
Added "Sarnak" to races for EQ2 at user request.

Group Hosting Enhancements/Changes

We made a bunch of changes to the guild roster in the group sites. There are default options the guild leader can specify for what displays. there are two views. One for gamerDNA members, and one for Character specific guilds… Also some sorting options that were requested.
We added a new "MEDIA" option to the guild editor. You can upload Flash, Quicktime, Shockwave, Windows Media, or Real Media content. This can be used to show video or play music on other servers. You have to provide a full URL to the file. (http://www.domain.com/myfile.mp3)
Added a button to add your own stories to the group stories page. This pops open the panel making it easier to find. You have to be sure to select the guild you want to link the story to when you save the story/experience.
Added a button to upload your own images to the group image gallery. This pops open the panel making it easier to find. You have to be sure to select the guild you want to link the image to when you save it.
Repaired a problem where games added to groups were not being correctly inserted into the database and causing recruiting errors.
Cleaned up the formatting and behavior of the recruiting form to hide and show depending on the proper actions.
When you add a new post to a group forum, it will now jump you to that post instead of the first post of the thread.
The preview directory link in the guild management screens now point to the correct location.
Fixed an issue where editing the Roster would cause the list of members to disappear.
Warhammer had a duplicate name in the database that was preventing recruiting applications from working properly. The names have been merged.

A ton of stuff in here… more on the way each week! As always, feel free to send your comments!