New System Upgrades:
1. For a whole lot of reasons (that would require another thread to explain), the forums 'remember me' function keeps you logged in for 7 days now, not a whole year.
2. When you log onto the forums it logs you onto the main www.arcade-museum.com site and vice-versa. Same with log offs.
3. The VAPS log on/log off process is not as quite as separated from the main arcade-museum.com log on as it was before since it was confusing people apparently. It's hard to explain exactly what the changes are but in short the system should nag you less when you head into VAPS.
4) http://www.arcade-museum.com/members/photos.php
A new page shows all the member primary profile photos together. If not logged in, you don't see any new images (< 30 days old). This gives us plenty of time to deal with questionable photos before the world gets to see them. Additionally, the VAPS stats page shows how many members have added profile photos.
5) You can now add multiple images (up to 10) on your profile. The newest upload becomes your primary image. Previously uploaded photos get shown at the very bottom of your VAPS entry. A future update will allow you to choose which is your primary profile photo and to delete existing ones.
6) In VAPS, submission links are now on their own page
7) VAPS: Looking at a member detail page...when logged in, shows you how recently someone updated their profile and other info. Ie: for my page:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/members...mber_id=270392
*Signup: December 2002 or most likely earlier
*Updated VAPS/CAPS Bio: February 2010
*Updated VAPS/CAPS Game List: February 2010
*Last Login: February 2010
[All signups before December 2002 are listed as 'December 2002 or most likely earlier']
8) the KLOV.com site now pushes you more quickly and consistently to arcade-museum.com for a variety of reasons tied to long term plans here. One is that it makes it easier to log in, stay logged in, etc. It's now actually hard to get to a number of pages on klov.com, though the same pages exist on arcade-museum.com and the klov.com pages are still valid for the benefit of external links etc.
9) A couple hundred more database entries were added to the encyclopedia.
10) Now when you go Arcade-Museum.com and click on a letter to see, for example, all the games that begin with the letter 'A', there is a Filter bar near the top of the screen, so you can look at all machines, or just all the videogames or just all the pinball machines. This is one of my favorite new "why didn't I think of that before" features.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_list.php?letter=A
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_list.php?letter=A&type=Pinball
11) The VAPS menu bar has been rearranged slightly for clarity, and to highlight which items are available just for logged in members.
12) Throughout the site, I'm beginning to try and identify extra features someone is seeing because they are logged in to promote the benefit of being logged in... (like that logged in members get up to 100 results back on a search instead of 50)
13) A couple minor bugs and cosmetic issues on the main site were dealt with. It's an ongoing endeavor.
1. For a whole lot of reasons (that would require another thread to explain), the forums 'remember me' function keeps you logged in for 7 days now, not a whole year.
2. When you log onto the forums it logs you onto the main www.arcade-museum.com site and vice-versa. Same with log offs.
3. The VAPS log on/log off process is not as quite as separated from the main arcade-museum.com log on as it was before since it was confusing people apparently. It's hard to explain exactly what the changes are but in short the system should nag you less when you head into VAPS.
4) http://www.arcade-museum.com/members/photos.php
A new page shows all the member primary profile photos together. If not logged in, you don't see any new images (< 30 days old). This gives us plenty of time to deal with questionable photos before the world gets to see them. Additionally, the VAPS stats page shows how many members have added profile photos.
5) You can now add multiple images (up to 10) on your profile. The newest upload becomes your primary image. Previously uploaded photos get shown at the very bottom of your VAPS entry. A future update will allow you to choose which is your primary profile photo and to delete existing ones.
6) In VAPS, submission links are now on their own page
7) VAPS: Looking at a member detail page...when logged in, shows you how recently someone updated their profile and other info. Ie: for my page:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/members...mber_id=270392
*Signup: December 2002 or most likely earlier
*Updated VAPS/CAPS Bio: February 2010
*Updated VAPS/CAPS Game List: February 2010
*Last Login: February 2010
[All signups before December 2002 are listed as 'December 2002 or most likely earlier']
8) the KLOV.com site now pushes you more quickly and consistently to arcade-museum.com for a variety of reasons tied to long term plans here. One is that it makes it easier to log in, stay logged in, etc. It's now actually hard to get to a number of pages on klov.com, though the same pages exist on arcade-museum.com and the klov.com pages are still valid for the benefit of external links etc.
9) A couple hundred more database entries were added to the encyclopedia.
10) Now when you go Arcade-Museum.com and click on a letter to see, for example, all the games that begin with the letter 'A', there is a Filter bar near the top of the screen, so you can look at all machines, or just all the videogames or just all the pinball machines. This is one of my favorite new "why didn't I think of that before" features.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_list.php?letter=A
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_list.php?letter=A&type=Pinball
11) The VAPS menu bar has been rearranged slightly for clarity, and to highlight which items are available just for logged in members.
12) Throughout the site, I'm beginning to try and identify extra features someone is seeing because they are logged in to promote the benefit of being logged in... (like that logged in members get up to 100 results back on a search instead of 50)
13) A couple minor bugs and cosmetic issues on the main site were dealt with. It's an ongoing endeavor.
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