October 27th Release Notes

We are right in the middle of a huge update to our games data… we thought it would be ready to rock this week… but there were still a few things we want to tweak before we unleash it upon the gamerDNA world. So instead of a full build, we rolled on some hotfixes for various bugs and small enhancements.

Group Hosting Changes/Enhnacements

• Added the ability to add multiple people to a group invite before sending so you do not have to do them one at a time.
• Made some fixes to guild sigs including the centering of the avatar, the size of the slogan, text alignment, the addition of the member name, and some font fixes throughout.
• Added a new guild theme called SniperVision! Designed to cater to FPS fans, Sniper Vision features two distinct styles to choose from which are available under the advanced option settings as "Rusted Metal" or "Night Vision" versions. Also this theme allows the replacement of every image it uses so you can supply your own graphics to completely customize this theme.
• The hosted group urls are: http://yourgroup.gamerdna.com… many users were passing out these links as http://www.yourgroup.gamerdna.com… this use to not work, but it now will.
• A new stories gadget has been added to the guild sites. The top 10 latest stories for your guild will now appear in the gadget on the homepage. For an example see http://gamerdna-war.gamerdna.com
• Fixed a bug where all members of a group where showing as unclaimed.
• Corrected duplicate ranks that were showing up in the guild members tab.
• Fixed an issue where group pages (custom ones) were missing their titles and there was no method for changing them.
• Fixed an issue where choosing your existing theme would break your theme with a blank background and missing css styles. Now if you click "Choose" on your existing theme, it will remain.
• Fixed an issue with CSS design problems in the frostmorne guild themes.
• Cleaned up the layout of the guild Image Gallery and the pix strip with the approve buttons… still needs a bit more work though to integrate into the themes.
• Changed the default group emblem image to be a new version that blends in better.

General Site Changes/Enhancements

• Made some search enhancements to better handle no results with some possible options based on "sounds like"
• When you perform a search, whatever you select in the drop down will be saved on the results page… it won’t reset the search box anymore.
• Corrected some layout issues on the game pages.
• Fixed an error that was causing profile pages to crash in some instances.
• Fixed the broken links in the search results for groups.
• Added some performance improvements so the login box loads faster in the header.
• All generated sig images will not make a request for 10 minutes after initial query. This will save round trips to the server for performance.

Member Profile Changes/Enhancements

• Created a new layout for the badges page of member profile to accomodate the wide badges and a smaller ad format.
• There use to be a link on the guild list for a game. This link is no longer valid because some guilds are associated to multiple games… The guild link is in the profile, but not attached to the game directly.
• Xfire occasionally incorrectly reports very small game time, if the total is under 0:15, it will post a generalization, not the exact time.
• All COD4 multiplayer Xfire game titles are merged into COD4. They will no longer appear as duplicates.

These next three builds are going to be pretty crazy… we are all over here cranking towards some pretty cool changes. Stay tuned.

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