New feature – you can now subscribe to any of the sets and get a short mail whenever it gets a comment (or vote, if it’s one of your sets).

To use it, just look in the menu on the left when you’re on the page for any set and there’ll be a “subscribe” link. You can also turn it on by checking a box that’ll be on the form whenever you post a comment. If you want to subscribe to all of your sets drop me a message and I’ll do it for you as it’ll be a lot quicker than you going through them all yourself.

The only other thing to mention is that you should hopefully find the site a bit quicker now as I’ve implemented some caching here and there.

L8rz, Jon.

Evening campers.

Just spent the last day or two tidying up loads of little things that needed doing so you might notice a few things here and there working a bit better.

The next couple of days should hopefully bring some cool new features so I’ll keep you posted here on those. It might however introduce some bugs so as always, if anything doesn’t work properly make sure you drop me a message.

Cheers,

Jon

Just adding a few quick(ish) features before I get started on the collections which will take me a fair while to get through (sorting 1500 sets manually – fun!).

New for today is the first of the notification system – you can now get sent a mail whenever you get a message posted in your guest book or a private message arrives in your inbox. They’re inactive by default so if you want to make use of them, activate them by going to the same page where you update the rest of your profile info (link is on your profile page in the bottom left corner of the box with all your personal info in it).

Cheers,

Jon

OK, so here it is, the new site.

While it may look largely the same on the surface it’s had a complete rewrite underneath and other than clearing up all the little annoyances it’s now in a great state to build on and improve.

The old site was based on this system called Drupal and while that’s a great piece of work, it just wasn’t meant to do what I was trying to do with it. Over the last few months I’ve got pretty nifty with this other framework, Rails and so rewrote it in that.

So what do we have?

Well, I think maybe about 80% of the old site’s functionality has been recreated, except they’re, well, better designed and easier / nicer to use now. At the core there’s the mix database of course, which is pretty much identical – mixes, comments, ratings, download tracking, etc. Categorisation’s been swapped for tagging which will be a bit more flexible for us.

A few things are gone too. The blogs were never used so I didn’t bother with them, as have the user galleries. It’s much easier for me to implement galleries in other parts of the site so I plan to provide places for you to upload pix in more appropriate places.

What the future holds

First on the list is ‘The Collections’, which I gave up on making before. In a few weeks I hope to have every single Essential Mix and a good wedge of Solid Steel available which I’ll offer for download in return for people just interacting on the site – commenting, reviewing, uploading new sets, etc.

Another thing I need to do (which I might just slip in before the collections) is notifications, that way you’ll be able to get daily emails telling you about what’s been uploaded in the previous 24 hours.

If you run into any problems…
In most situations I should be made aware of it by an automated mail, but hopefully you shouldn’t have any. The only problem I know of so far is to do with avatars. I haven’t worked it out but in certain situations the site barfs when you try to update your avatar.

Update: think I’ve fixed that now, and that the problem was a bit more than just avatars.

Anyway, if there are problems please bear with me while I sort them out, though I’m pretty confident there shouldn’t be any big issues.

Cheers,

Jon