2025 main site improvements to date (TAFA uploads, Member Photo Uploads, & More)

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You can always see main site major news here: https://www.arcade-museum.com/news, and a more extensive list of updates here: https://www.arcade-museum.com/news-system-updates.

Continuous work continues to improve the site. Here are a few highlights from 2025 so far:
  • A member contribution leaderboard was launched: https://www.arcade-museum.com/top-contributors
  • The ability to link game entries to eLibrary pdf pages were released. See the eLibrary Links section of Star Wars for an example: https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/star-wars
  • The ability to view an eLibrary magazine issue in a gallery thumbnail was released. See: https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com/Atari-Coin-Connection/1977-February-1-03/gallery for an example.
  • An expanded 'Contributions' tab on VAPS Member detail pages help give credit for recent content contributions made by members.
  • Significant improvements have been made to members private stats pages (Account -> Stats).
  • A new Video page has been created (Games & Machines -> Videos), which displays all the videos linked in the encyclopedia, with the ability to search and play any of them. See: https://www.arcade-museum.com/games-and-machines/video/game
  • Manufacturer detail pages now show a lot more information, expanded with multiple tabs providing quick access to generation manufacturer Information, Media, Video links, Patents, People, machines for sale by members made by that Manufacturer, and more.
  • We've (finally after a year) re-added the ability for members to upload photos to their VAPS member profiles, and now also allowed those images to be resorted. You can also remove an image to vote.
  • The tech manual upload process was improved
  • For image uploads, we added support for the Apple iPhone .heic image format.
  • We finally fully integrated TAFA. We removed the TAFA manufacturer database and now all TAFA records are tied to the main game and/or manufacturer database tables. And we've finally added the ability to upload new flyers (which must be tied to a manufacturer or game entry, so if such doesn't exist, it needs to be added first).
 
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