Hey everyone! I haven't posted much of any update in a while, you must all think we haven't be doing anything at all.

However, that is not quite true. We have been busting our butts lately. Although I haven't been able to do much the past week due to corporate tax time .

So here are the new things out and some in progress.

Image Stuff

Due to some good work by ӝmook and ӝmoeffju (and a little by yours truly) we are now supporting full views on screenshots. Pictures and Fan Art are supported as well, but we don't yet have the cosmetic code in place so you can't get to them quite yet. If you do upload them however, we are retaining the originals, so as soon I can get the templates up dated those will be visible too.

Before the new Images code went live earlier this evening, we were not retaining the original image at all, so if you try to view the full size it will work fine, but you will still only see the large size. All new stuff will retain the size you of the original you submit.

An example here: http://spot.napalmriot.com/screenshots/432/

You may notice I also did a little cosmetic work on the screenshot meta-data area. I will be moving this over to pictures and fan art here soon.

Forums

You may have/do notice some weirdnesses with forums the past day or two. ӝmook is working on getting some stuff fixed up and with the complicated nature of the forum code, sometimes inconsistencies leak through. Hang in there with us, and it should all be back to good soon.

Formatting & Emoticons

ӝmoeffju has been working on resexifying the text formatting parser, which has caused some hiccups here and there, but he is confident that it's all back to new now. Hopefully soon ӝmoeffju is going to be able to implement the code we need to properly handle image use in formatting. Not sure when that will be exactly.

As you have most likely noticed we have some emoticons. This base legend is being created by ӝTheHalcyon and she has been working her ass off trying to fullfill all my evil demands. I thank her for it.

We will be releasing a legend reference table soon, but right now we are changing things around a lot until we get a good feel the emotes. As soon as I feel confident that we don't need to change anymore, I will be releasing the legend. More on that as it comes available.

Before anyone asks; yes, we will be accepting emoticons from everyone eventually (assuming they work with the look we are trying to achieve). However I want to get this base set done, in place, and happy first.

Site Speed

Recently ӝmoeffju completed his Javascript aggregator which took the large amount of separate calls your browser had to fulfill with every page load and dropped it to one (or two, cant recall).This has greatly sped up the load time of pages. Hopefully you have noticed.

There are some other internal tweaks and fixes that he has been putting into place to speed things up. I look forward to seeing how these affect the browsing of the site in the coming future.


Upcoming

This has turned into a long post already, so I'm going to breeze through these. A lot of cool stuff coming. ӝfluffy is finishing up the site wide search engine which will be really cool. ӝmook is working on a nice interface for developers to use to add Changelog entries, which will greatly help in keeping that updated, and through that all of you. I am working on the Achievement System and some other stuff that I would rather note disclose right now. ӝmook will also soon be adding Categories to Images so that you can specify what type of an image you are uploading.


Ok that is about all I want to say right now. I have a lot more, but don't want to give away all the surprises.

I would like to give a special thanks to the team who is working so hard. They include the following (random order):

ӝamras ӝmoeffju ӝrotane ӝfluffy ӝkevin ӝmook ӝnirach

and ӝthehalcyon for her help with emotes.

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