Information and news about SkaDate community site software.
Project website: SkaDate.com
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Here comes another SkaDate 6 Unity maintenance update!
3 new languages in stock!
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
Feel free to download those languages from customer area.
Improvements? Improvements!
Of course we couldn’t resist making SkaDate even better with all those micro-enhancements, optimizations, and fixes.
1) Profile preview (topic)
2) Admin notes to profile (topic)
3) direct link to profile from admin (topic)
4) Whois online update (topic)
5) New members list (topic)
6) Ability to delete language prefix (topic)
7) Admin panel, search profile by id (topic)
8 ) direct link to original photo (topic)
9) top photos update (topic)
10) mailbox: change “not read” (topic)
11) professional match template (topic)
12) top rated profiles: add score and rates (topic)
13) Add google analytics ability (topic)
14) Automatic happy birthdate email (topic)
15) A heap of other micro-enhancements, optimizations, and bugfixes.
The update has been packed today. Feel free to download your copy from the customer area.
Thanks to those customers who constantly contribute to quality of our software with testing and reports on Skalfa Boards. We have some candies for you guys, let it be surprise!
Posted in News, Products, SkaDate | Tags: update
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
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
We made a few additions to SkaDate EULA’s for both Software and Managed solution. Summary:
Software solution EULA:
3.4 Customer’s rights to modify software source code.
Managed and Software solution EULA:
8. How we use information about you.
These additions reflect common sense and are usually figured out on skadate.com website materials and via communication with customers. Thanks to one of our prospects, they are now in the EULA as well, effective from this moment.
The new copies of EULA can be found at their regular place:
http://www.skadate.com/eula-managed.pdf
http://www.skadate.com/eula-software.pdf
Posted in Products, SkaDate | Tags: eula
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Hello all!
Promoting dating site is not an easy task; it requires a lot of time, effort and dedication. Some people say that internet marketing is not all that difficult as soon as you become aware of the most popular techniques that can be applied and how well you use them will dictate the level of your success. Let’s say you have already launched a new dating site. On this step, your site is just a nice picture on the screen and no more, nobody knows it, nobody ever heard of it. You are about to start one of the most indispensable thing: you’ve gotta bring people to your site and make them come back again and again.
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Posted in Marketing, Products, SkaDate | Tags: dating · promotion · tips
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Long time we didn’t write anything about SkaDate but that doesn’t mean there’s no news in the camp. In fact, A LOT is going on in SkaDate development rooms.
First of all, we are receiving a lot of useful feedback from our customers on the public SkaDate forum. Especially interesting is the feature suggestion section where our customers let us know what they want to see in SkaDate. If you don’t participate yet, there’s a heap of reasons why you should.
This update is going to be all about feature enhancements and we believe it’s going to make life much easier for all our customers and their users.
A list of confirmed changes for the upcoming update is also available. You should hurry to check it out because there’s still some time left to submit what you find necessary.
Our development dept is humming and romping.
Posted in Products, SkaDate | Tags: feedback · suggest feature
Monday, March 10th, 2008
We are glad to introduce chuPPito - a small object for engaging users into your running copy of chuPPo Chat. It’s a variable size widget that reflects what’s currently going on in your chat rooms.
You can place this widget anywhere on your site, for example on index page. You can set your own custom widget size to make it fit your page layout. This can be a great little tool to engage your customers in your site activity.
An improtant notice to SkaDate users: chuPPito will be integrated with the next SkaDate update but you can have it in advance. All others chuPPo Chat users, feel free to make inquiries for chuPPito installation assistance.
This particular chuPPito object is connected to chuPPo webcam chat software demo by simply indicating its URL in connection parameters. Feel free to look at this post page source to find out how to install it yourself. We’ll follow up with more detailed installation instructions on chuPPo.com.
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Posted in Miscellaneous, News, Products, SkaDate, chuPPo | Tags: addons · chat · chuppito · engagement · promotion
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Just a quick note to let you know that we updated SkaDate.com site with a new look. Hopefully this interface is better and more usable. Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions.
Thank you.
Posted in Products, SkaDate | Tags: design · facelift
Monday, February 18th, 2008
We are opening up Ideas exchange board for SkaDate-powered sites. We are receiving active response to our feature suggestion section, that proves that there are people around willing to exchange insight and help each other.
We welcome anyone with a fresh SkaDate installation to take part in this action. In best scenario this can bring incredible value for webmasters and a vast source of information for us to see how we can make your life easier.
We are sure there is a lot to share. Things like our recent discussion of membership models are only a top of an iceberg. Promotion, spam issues, interaction stimulation, keeping members active, anyone?
Now, feel free to participate!
Posted in Products, SkaDate | Tags: community · discussion · exchange · forum · ideas
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
SkaDate
It’s that time of the product life-cycle again. We are planning next major upgrade for SkaDate, version 7. We are at the stage of gathering all the feedback and putting on paper what should be implemented.
We target the following 3 objectives with SkaDate 7:
1) Several major new features (groups, classifieds, etc.)
2) A lot of enhancements and optimization of the existing features. This is the neverending mission across the product existence history.
3) Performance optimization. We made some custom performance tuning for several big customers. Some of that can be implemented in the main product.
And of course, SkaDate 7 is not going to be a great thing without your suggestions. We found great value of communicating with customers, so new SkaDate can’t go without your contribution.
chuPPo
chuPPo applications do not have any versioning because of the hosted model and constant incremental development. You do not need to download anything, you just see your chat, IM, and recorder getting better, often on a daily basis.
Currently we are eager to hear from our audience what chuPPo can do for you.
Skalfa Boards
Now, for some action go to the new Skalfa Boards and let us know how we can make running your business easier. From now on this is the right place to give us some insight on improving our products.
Posted in News, Products, SkaDate, chuPPo | Tags: features · forum · ideas · suggest feature · support
