November 24th Release Notes
Hi everyone. Sorry for the delay in the notes. With the database craziness and everything yesterday I didn’t have a chance to really iron these out. So here we go… all the changes from Monday.
This was mainly an infrastructure week. We moved a lot around on the back end, both in our main environment that you all use and in our development environment. But we did get some pretty cool new features and tweaks in. Check them out.
Member Profile Changes/Enhancements
- Created new World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King signature images that run off your character and item history. As things happen to your character and new items are obtained, that information will appear in your signature. Up to 10 random events will display on each view each day.
- Built a new character add/view page that offers up a signature.
- Some of the styles on the personal game pages were reverting to old versions. This has been fixed.
- If a game is in your list with no traits, it will now say ADD TRAITS instead of 0 TRAITS
- Fixed situations where the last login date was incorrect.
- If you add a game, one of the "What’s Next" options is to view your personal game page.
- Changed the game list in the header to sort correctly and changed it to "Recent games" since it could have games that were recently added and not played.
General Site Changes/Enhancements
- We put in a new login/logout process that is smoother and uses less redirects.
- Created a page that displays when you need to login to a protected area of the site.
- Added a new Helix API for requesting Guild Profile information. Check out the documentation!
- Added a new Helix API for requesting a guild roster. Check out the documentation!
- Corrected some CSS issues with the display of avatars on other parts of the site.
- Fixed some errors where certain people weren’t seeing a game page due to older games they have added.
- Repaired a javascript error that was occurring on logout for IE7 users.
- Corrected some javascript and CSS issues that were appearing in IE7 on the homepage.
- Made enhancements to Xbox 360/Steam/Xfire game detection that better match up the games played on the network with our internal game names.
- The trait system has been optimized to better weight multiple trait matches with higher relevance.
- After you trait a game that is new (meaning you added it), you will no longer get broken discovery entries.
- Cleaned up some orphaned characters for warhammer sigs.
- Changed some instructional wording on the game trait page.
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the giving of respect.
- Fixed some css width issues on the registration confirmation when coming from a referral.
- Fixed an issue where buttons were jumping around in IE7 when taking a quiz.
- Wrote some better logic to handle the truncating the titles of the blog on the homepage.
- Cleaned up the game activity system by removing duplicate records and merging tier 3 and tier 4 titles.
- If traits aren’t matching, it will let you know why the match is there (style/genre) and hide the non-relevant links.
- On the discovery page, the game titles and box art for the suggested titles are now clickable.
- Fixed an issue that was causing partially complete achievements to appear in the member profile API.
Group Hosting Changes/Enhancements
- Added Brigade as a group title option.
- If you try to post to a form you no longer have access to, the error message will be much more friendly.
- Fixed an issue where the story gadget was causing strange errors on certain group homepages.
- Resolved an issue where new guild sigs were throwing errors when choosing the base image.
- Repaired some problems with the Aion group theme default coloring. If you are seeing an issue and you are using this theme, you will have to reselect the theme in your group management.
- Added a divider to the guild forum posts to better differentiate the start of the signature in the posts.
- Fixed a display issue with the theme slider on the group creation page.
- Fixed a broken link on the group creation confirmation page.
- Removed LFG terminology out of the guild hosting creation pages.
- Corrected the list of most popular games on the group directory to use the correct/new game names.
That’s it for now! If you notice any craziness from the database cut over, be sure to let us know.
