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Very good. Stephen Send a noteboard - 31/08/2011 01:19:45 AM
Hey folkses,

I've been working on a bunch of new functionality over the last few days, some of which has been instantly noticed and other stuff which hasn't.

First off, I realised that it's now been over a year since I introduced premium accounts, and the number of renewals has been extremely low (to the point of being non-existent). I put this down to a lack of the site informing people when their account was due to expire/had expired, so I've put a warning message in place that will inform when the premium account a) is due to expire within 30 days, and b) has expired.

I wondered what was up with that. Good to know its nothing weird happening to me only.
In both cases, the warning will hang around until it's dismissed by the user, by clicking a link; it's not going to be annoying and continually get in the way. However, it will appear for all users initially, as everyone was given a premium account for a month (and the way the functionality is set up, it's going to want to notify you that it's now expired). Sorry if that annoys you, but, well, tough :P

Thats okay. A mouseclick isn't to bad to deal with.
Secondly, as has already been spotted, I added a "Latest tweet" box. I'm aware that some people would prefer it if it were moved further down the screen, and I'm considering it. I'm also considering making it a premium option to be able to reorder the sidebar to your own liking, which might be a nice way of encouraging premium account renewals.

I'm not as vehemently against it as some of the others, but it would be nice to have the option of moving it.
Thirdly, I've added functionality to the Profile page which allows users to see how many posts that person has made on the various messageboards, as well as their most recent comments. I'll be extending this in the near future to add messageboard specific stats (e.g. number of posts in the last day/week/month/year, total posts, top posters, most viewed threads, most commented on threads, etc).

That's really good. The only problem is now I want to spam up the boards to catch up with other post counts.
As it's now been two years since the site opened, I'm also going to make another "Where we're at" thread soon, as I did last year, showing traffic graphs from google analytics and discussing how the site's doing.

That would be interesting to see.
That's all for now; let me know if you've any questions or comments.

Probably a good time to reiterate the need for a rule/guidelines/help combo of links added to the boards.
Thanks!

Thank you.
Ben

Stephen.
"I mean, if everyone had a soul, there would be no contrast by which we could appreciate it. For giving us this perspective, we thank you." - Nate
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Premium account renewals and other new functionality Nebhead - 30/08/2011 09:35:44 PM 2844 Views
Cool beans. Nate - 30/08/2011 09:54:57 PM 1174 Views
burn the Games board instead Yunalesca - 30/08/2011 10:05:38 PM 938 Views
Can't we just merge them? Role-Playing Games are games. *NM* Great Lord of Chaos - 30/08/2011 10:28:54 PM 366 Views
we actually roleplay on the RPG board Yunalesca - 30/08/2011 10:35:03 PM 834 Views
We don't want those dirty RPers on our Games board. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 30/08/2011 11:36:20 PM 359 Views
it would save on burning snoopcester - 31/08/2011 12:04:56 AM 692 Views
Pfft. That's one of the three boards I visit. I'd lose a third of my reason for coming here. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 30/08/2011 11:34:27 PM 413 Views
I'm surprised to hear such sentiment from someone named "Yunalesca." *NM* Aemon - 31/08/2011 02:09:00 AM 380 Views
hey, i like games i just haven't taken to the board Yunalesca - 31/08/2011 05:44:34 PM 757 Views
No? Hm. I've seen Golden Sun threads get pretty big in the past. I know we have some fans... *NM* Aemon - 01/09/2011 02:29:15 AM 360 Views
there are only 5 mentions of golden sun on the games board Yunalesca - 01/09/2011 11:27:51 PM 731 Views
The problem Camilla - 31/08/2011 08:21:31 PM 874 Views
That was meeee Zeeb - 01/09/2011 12:03:48 PM 885 Views
Re: That was meeee Camilla - 01/09/2011 07:28:37 PM 767 Views
Random functionality note. Nate - 30/08/2011 10:14:50 PM 975 Views
Thanks for letting me know. Nebhead - 30/08/2011 10:20:04 PM 760 Views
Awesome. I like the "Recent comments" thing, and the automatic search function in the stats. *NM* Legolas - 30/08/2011 10:23:41 PM 379 Views
STATS! STATS! STATS! Dark Knight - 30/08/2011 10:23:58 PM 809 Views
You need to add more boards snoopcester - 30/08/2011 10:24:47 PM 862 Views
Yeah, because it wasn't annoying enough the first time you ran all around them and posted as fast as nossy - 31/08/2011 12:41:16 AM 787 Views
You are such a hater *NM* snoopcester - 31/08/2011 07:07:16 PM 383 Views
Uh, yeah, I should get on that. nossy - 31/08/2011 12:19:45 AM 791 Views
On Premium Account Renewals. Druid - 31/08/2011 01:05:23 AM 915 Views
Re: On Premium Account Renewals. snoopcester - 31/08/2011 08:26:46 AM 774 Views
Re: On Premium Account Renewals. Camilla - 31/08/2011 03:48:10 PM 804 Views
Re: On Premium Account Renewals. snoopcester - 31/08/2011 07:07:55 PM 761 Views
He's becoming senile, it's been showing for a while now. Wibble - 31/08/2011 07:15:40 PM 1015 Views
We are not supposed to talk about it. jh - 31/08/2011 07:29:11 PM 728 Views
Still, that doesn't make him necessarily wrong. Palatine - 04/09/2011 05:33:57 PM 798 Views
... Rebekah - 04/09/2011 07:29:17 PM 831 Views
Very good. Stephen - 31/08/2011 01:19:45 AM 916 Views
I'm taking use of "folkses" as tacit endorsement of the term "RAFOlk". Joel - 31/08/2011 05:03:15 AM 731 Views
Excellent. Camilla - 31/08/2011 07:22:44 AM 832 Views
No, it only warns you when you're about to end up with no premium account at all. Nebhead - 31/08/2011 09:24:08 AM 979 Views
Re: No, it only warns you when you're about to end up with no premium account at all. Camilla - 31/08/2011 03:45:14 PM 904 Views
So I got one reply on the WOT board. Shocking! ironclad - 31/08/2011 08:07:55 AM 838 Views
I have 16 Camilla - 31/08/2011 03:49:12 PM 785 Views
I like how my favorites came back when my premie did. Cockatiel of Doom - 01/09/2011 01:22:03 AM 1298 Views
A little bit of a suggestion Danu - 01/09/2011 11:34:33 PM 769 Views
Don't know if this is related to it but, I can't log into the site anymore Praziquantel - 02/09/2011 03:12:34 AM 915 Views
That doesn't sound good at all. Nebhead - 03/09/2011 12:26:21 AM 719 Views
That's hopefully it fixed. Nebhead - 03/09/2011 11:10:08 AM 748 Views
It works! Thanks *NM* Praziquantel - 03/09/2011 07:54:19 PM 366 Views
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