October 22nd Release Notes
Here are the notes from Monday’s build. As always they are a little delayed because we had to clean up a few things (and continue to clean up a few things). Funny enough, during the build day we were published on WoW Insider which made it double fun dealing with new features and new amounts of traffic! Never a dull moment over here!
Profile Changes/Enhancements
- All games played over Steam now appear in your profile if you have the AKA added.
- FriendFeed is now supported for publishing your gamer activity automatically!
- If a game is marked as ANTICIPATING in your game list and we see you play it off a network, we reset the status so that it appears in your QUEUE for you to mark if you liked it or not.
- If you have your Sony Playstation Network AKA added, the PSN card will now appear on your profile at the bottom of the right column.
- Fixed an issue where the social media feed was truncating when it saw a & or =.
- If a user tried to click "upload" without adding an image to the field it will properly validate and no longer throw an error.
- If a social media feed had only one item, it will properly use a singular or a plural.
- Repaired some missing text from image upload activity sent to the social media feeds.
General Changes/Enhancements
- Made some edits to the registration confirmation to better explain some new features.
- Updated the initial private message users receive when joining to showcase new features.
- Added a new Tools drop down to position the Developer API and the Warhammer sig generator. Anything new we put together can live here for more visibility.
- Made performance improvements to everywhere that we display experiences, speeding up counts for things like paging.
- The Alliance co-branded registration is complete. It will allow sites in the alliance to link into our registration system using OpenID.
- We moved one step closer to having over 40,000 games in the system for use in your profile and in groups.
- Groups link was taking users to the wrong page. Routing fixed.
- Fixed the quiz results to only return 5 games instead of the dozens it was returning in error. This was due to an API change that altered the count default.
- Solved a bug where registration would let you submit even if the validation did not pass. The Registration did not complete, it would simply refresh… but it was unclear what was happening. This is now much clearer.
- Corrected an issue that was causing errors in some cases when trying to log in from the member sub domain pages.
- Added Sorcerer class to Warhammer game information.
- Fixed a scenario where the global nav header was appearing on the wrong side of the page for some users.
- Added a min-width to the nav bar to prevent it from collapsing when the browser is re-sized to be too small.
Group Hosting Changes/Enhancements
- New customizable signatures launched for use with your guild/clan/group!
- Permission system extended to the image gallery for guilds to give guild leaders control over image posting.
- Curse WARDB support for Warhammer Item markup added to all forum pages in the site (public and group).
- Cleaned up some CSS bugs in the group layouts.
- Changed the functionality for managing the time that you play and ensuring that it appears correctly in the guild directory. Also fixed the time zone popup.
- Fixed a long standing issue in the Age of Ownage themes where it was not using rounded corners correctly.
- Made some more tweaks to the guild editor so that it is showing in IE7. We added a show/hide button so that if it doesn’t load, users can at least manually load it.
- Fixed up the roster to work better with IE7.
Our next big goal is to work on more performance issues… do some clean up on the group invite process… and complete the roll out of our new game database which impacts many places in the site
