Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
What’s New
- Forums feature! Open admin area of your network, Features/Layout section. You will find a new box, “Forum”. Drag’n'drop it to your index page and press the icon for settings. Now you can offer your members simple and attractive discussion boards. First, you will need to create sections and forums, after that your members will be able to start posting.
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WackMasters network (http://dev.wackwall.com/) - useful resource for all WackWall webmasters (wackmasters) with forum. Suggest features, report bugs, and exchange ideas about WackWall and its getting better for your needs.
- Numerous fixes and micro-enhancements of the whole system. Perfect software doesn’t exist, even excellent software is hard to find. We don’t really see us stopping improving existing features during the whole project lifetime.
- A new portion of ongoing SEO effort to optimize network pages - means more traffic for your network.
- iBATIS database layer support instead of Hibernate
Currently in development
New cool social networks created on WackWall
Posted in News, Projects, WackWall | Tags: weekly
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I’m glad to announce the long-awaited SkaDate 6 Unity update: revision 6.799
It contains numerous fixes and enhancements mainly reported and suggested by our customers.
So, what’s new?
Admin Features:
- Giving new membership type when actually viewing a member detail
- “Send test email” button for mass mailing, activity scheduler
- Admin can set the priority of profile order in search results with these options: by last activity, by paid members, by photos, by join date
- Quick Search - configurable location. Zip or Country/state/city
- Send only new matches - admin can set to send only new matches for specified period
- “Select All” in admin photo approval area
- Admin gets notice if profile a member with recurring membership unregisters
- Changed the order of profiles for review in Admin Panel: latest profiles at the top
- Possibility to hide “Important Tips” on member home page via Admin Panel
User features:
- Ajax Chat/IM - overall stability, display improvement, speed, opponent connection status tracking - thanks to the new backend.
- “CHECK ALL” button to the bottom of the members emails into Mailbox
- Date of user subscription in the profiles
- Option for users to accept only matches who have profiles with pictures in them
- “My neighborhood” feature enhancement
- Tags - member can delete tags which other profiles posted on his profiles
- Possibility to upload image or insert URL for profile page background
- Readable messages change - members will be able to read and answer readable messages
- Fullsize photos
- Highlighting members on search results by membership type
- “Unsubscribe from emails” in email template
- Members can see who recently looked at their profile
- “Remember Me” option at sign-in
- “Subscription” page redesign
- Fixed basic components on “Build Profile” page
- If a free member can’t use IM, they still can answer IM initiated by a premium member
- Text box to add personal message on the “Invite a friend” feature
- Friends request redesign
- Captcha image on contact form
System changes
Fixes
- If someone is removed that a member has referred that they still have that number of referrals
- Ajax chat window jump
- Featured Profiles “Next” link on home page - Skips the first full page of featured members
- Not sending matches email if no matches
- Moderators review profile photos in Admin Panel
- Language Management: `Language Key Types` alphabetical sorting.
- Suspended photos appeared while browsing randomly (fixed).
- Photo Rating module APP many fixes and improvements
The new update is now ready for shipping. Check out SkaDate demo.
Posted in News, Products, SkaDate | Tags: update
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The long awaited SkaDate 6 Unity update is now available for beta-testing. Some of the most active customers expressed wish to help us in that, so we gratefully accepted this help. Right now we are gathering reported issues and making quick fixes.
Thus we are awaiting the stable update release to be available for everyone by the end of this week. It includes some of the very important enhancements requested by customers in our public forum.
This is the latest update of SkaDate 6 Unity before the upcoming major release.
Posted in Products, SkaDate | Tags: beta
