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NS Version 3.9.5
- AddThis links added to Media Contest entries.
- Added the ability to quote thread topics.
- Leaders again have the ability to mass message.
- When writing posts in the forum, users may now preview their post before saving.
- Fixed rendering glitch in cults when blog titles are very long.
- Fixed bug that prevented users from adding new events.
- Added AddThis sharing links to all content pages including Blogs, News, Cult News, Pictures, Videos and Events.
- Included number of ratings in gallery video list.
- Fixed bug where MyThreads would not properly link to Cult forums.
- Fixed problem with forum Quote feature that may prevent users from quoting certain text.
- Fixed witdh of NS Store page to fit properly in new layout.
- Fixed minor spelling typos.
- Fixed INBOX popup which sometimes did not show new messages.
- Upgraded MyThreads to show threads that are new, old or that you create.
- Fixed bug with moderator tools in Feedback page.
- Fixed multiple bugs on Keyword Reports page.
- Fixed bug in profile header when in Reviews.
- Contributors have been renamed to Donators.
- Cult Chat bans now last 24 hours, instead of 36 to 48 hours, and ban time is more clearly indicated.
- Reverted Forum styling to clearly indicate new threads and remove hover effect.
- Removed unused ad targets to speed load times.
- Cults
- Cults have been overhauled with new features and a new look.
- New tools have been created for inviting and managing members.
- Cults now has embedded chat for cult members.
- A cult management page has been created for all members of the cult to manage their cult settings.
- Cult news now supports a news slider /w images, and a list of cult member blogs shows Blogs written by cult members.
- Cult Forums now show the cult header at the top so you can easily return to other cult pages.
- A cult online list is now part of every Cult page.
- The My Cults listing page can now be ordered by Title or Num Members.
- New advanced cult features are available for advertisers.
- Instant message notifications are sent to members when they are joined, invited, kicked or promtoed within a cult.
- Members
- Members now access their Account and Blogging tools through a member area of the header once logged in.
- Messages can be access from an Inbox through the Member area in the header.
- Quicklinks have been moved into the Member area in the header, and now appear in a dropdown.
- Friends are available on every page from the Member area in the header through a dropdown.
- The Blog management tools have been updated to make it easier to add and edit blog content.
- Adding images to Blog posts is easier now that you can upload files directly to your post.
- Blog content can now be shared with Cults! So you can write one article and post it in multiple places.
- The left sidebar of NS is now disabled on certain pages to allow more room for content.
- The navigation bar has been re-arranged to be more concise and easier to use.
- Video and Picture galleries have been updated with a new look and feel.
- The News and Landing pages have been re-designed.
- A greal deal of optimisation has been done on the site to help with download and render speed.
- Upgraded the GUI editor to the latest version (7.0.23)
- Upgraded the JW Flash player to version 4.6
- Added a new page for Salomon FreeskiTV
- Encoder quality for videos has been increased 40% to 1.4Mb
- Cults Searching has been added.
- The viewing page of the new Video Gallery have been upgraded to be cleaner.
- Small rendering issues fixed, and rating stars changed.
- A slew of updates to the new Video Gallery have been completed. The listing format has been changed and the viewing page re-arranged.
- Increased our encoder bitrate to 1Mbit from 800Kbit.
- Increased encoded video size from 400px wide to 480px wide.
- Upgraded RSS feed reading for Blogs/Cults.
- RSS 2.0 Fields "dc:creator" and "content:encoded" are now supported for RSS feed reading.
- Direct links to site content from the splash page have been added.
- Upgrades to the Video Gallery pages.
- Lowered online timeout to 10 minutes.
- Removed tracking of guests on site due to high volume. :)
- Ordered friends in profiles by username.
- Upgraded Media Contests comments to use the standard Newschoolers comments.
- Upgraded Media Contests video player to our new player.
- Upgraded Media Contests and new Mini Sites to provide feedback during upload.
- Upgraded Karma to include karma points for comments from all sections.
- Several bug fixes and back-end improvements.
- Fixed a bug in member search results.
- Fixed several rendering bugs.
- Guests now have basic Account Tools for Net Speed, Splash Page and and Page Justify.
- Upgraded mime type handling to support more video and picture types.
- Fixed a recent bug causing early session timeouts.
- Extended comment length in NSTV.
- Added profile view counter.
- Fixed GUI editor linking so upgrades are picked up automatically by clients.
- Re-enabled the quick chat module for the streaming page.
- Upgraded the GUI editor to the latest version which fixed some OSX bugs.
- Swapped the old video player in News and Media for the Video of the Day.
- The site's handling of PNG images has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug with placeholder images for flash showing int he forums.
- Several small bug fixes and improvements.
- Fixed PNG handling and embed problems in forum.
- GUI Editor loading times has been improved.
- The Net Speed selection is now set per computer, not per user, so the setting is kept on each computer instead of with your user account.
- Upgraded the portal TV player to be based on top rated member videos, chosen daily.
- Video thumbnails are now scaled and cropped properly insted of squished or streteched.
- Added a new NSTV page to showcase the top rated videos from our members.
- Lowered the online timeout to 15 minutes from 20.
- Upgraded the Rating stars to have half stars.
- Increased max video upload size to 200MB from 100MB
- Upgraded our rating tool to have stars instead of a drop-down.
- Our streaming video quality was upgraded from 200Kbit/sec to 800Kbit/sec.
- Watermarks have been removed from member videos added to the gallery.
- Several small bug fixes and improvements.
- Fixed the signatures newlines which were being removed.
- Added the Alpha version of the PriceGuide!
- Upgrades to several back-end tools.
- Fixed a bug with some browsers when embedding messages in forums posts.
- More of our media has been moved to our new CDN which is used to delivery all our media.
- The login script was upgraded to reduce the load on the server and speed up crawling for search engines.
- Added a photo download tool for adding member pictures to mobile phones (service provided by Mobilize Central).
- Chagned the media path for new pictures to the Member Gallery to use our new CDN for content delivery.
- Fixed a major bug in our thumbnail tool that could have been used to cause pages on Newschoolers to not load.
- Changes to several back-end tools to help make NS faster to load and render.
- Improved the name change list in profiles to be clearer.
- Changed behaviour of new paragraphs in our GUI editor, it should work better now.
- Fixed file type detection in the Gallery Upload which was failing for some members.
- Added a new icon to the VideosBeta to indicate remote files
- Converted the Featured Video Of The Week to use our new Falsh videos.
- Several small rendering fixes and bug fixes.
- The max size of videos has been increased from 50MB to 100MB.
- An upload message has been added to our gallery upload to make the process more clear.
- We've launched a Beta version of our new video section that uses streaming H264 and Flash.
- Changed the max age of top rated journal entries for the right sidebar to 14 days.
- Changed Featured Media to only show images from the previous week.
- TOS & Privacy Policy change.
- Several small bug fixes and improvements.
- Minor sytle improvements.
- Fixed bugs when creating new Cult News.
- Rendering fixes in News.
- Added regions to profiles.
- Several small bug fixes to Articles, Updates and page titles.
- Top level investors now have a silver icon.
- Added a new Locations system to allow most items on the site to associate with locations including member profiles.
- Events: New Venue field, new locaiton field
- Removed the right sidebar, and modified the header, navigation and QuickLinks.
- Several generic rendering improvements.
- Added iPhone icon.
- Home Location for Review Profiles are read from the user's profile location.
- Idle time to be considered offline was changed from 30 to 20 minutes.
- Added an option to save the chosen page justification to a cookie.
- Comments can now be submitted/updated through AJAX for compliant browsers.
- Member icon uploader has been updated with new icon delete feature.
- Added option to allow users to change the position of NS between left/right/center.
- Major upgrades to Search.
- Better moderation abilities.
- Added RSS/Atom feed reading for Blogs and Cult news.
- Added auto image resizing when using the GUI editor.
- Fixed the searchbar in the header for IE7 users.
- Added dates to comments.
- Fixed a bug with cult member navigation.
- Added message history to message popup window.
- Other minor bug fixes and style improvements.
- Nomensteven pointd out a bug in the Review Profile navigation which has been fixed.
- Modified site to allow no right sidebar.
- Fixed bugs with the Karma system calculation.
- Added a new tab to profiles called Profile Feedback.
- Fixed bug with Karma calculation on Members page.
- Allowed Blog and Team/Resort update entries to be rated again.
- Upgraded the Karma system. Added AJAX to the profile karma rating tool.
- Upgraded the Members page with a new look and the top rated members.
- Fixed the Karma help popup in member profiles.
- Upgraded member search to use members page.
- Mods can now moderate Karma XChanges between users
- Updated the registration form with AJAX features.
- Added a new color for industry members.
- Industry members now have a private forum.
- Splitted the "Ski Equipment" forums in 2 (Buy/Sell/Trade and Gear Talk).
- Added a new Karma tool in the forums.
- Fixed the profile reviews bug.
- Fixed the Polls section which has been broken far too long...
- Updated the Quick Chat.
- This update brings a slew of changes to the SSE to minimize manipulation and add the stats sidebar.
- Updated the Cover Page setting tool to appear in Account Tools if a member is logged in
- Increased base price of SSE shares to 10$
- Improved an issue with the GUI editor and analytics interference
- Inter-member Karma ratings are now out of 10 instead of 100
- Re-added our missing favicon
- Ratings have been upgraded to use AJAX
- Several back-end improvements including a fix to the dropped session issue
- SEE Dividends and stocks are issued every day at noon instead of midnight
- Various bug fixes and tweaks
- Fixed a bug with the Blog listing sidebar, links were incorrect.
- Fixed the counter for blog views.
- Added a new right sidebar to display Blogs & Cult News
- Added SSE
- Various minor bug fixes
- Added a Media Type select to the GUI editor's media popup. You can now filter by picture or video or both.
- Added moderation tools to Cult News and Blogs.
- Various bug fixes to address redering problems in IE.
- Upgraded the GUI editor.
- Included a new feature in the GUI edtior to post Embed Code from video sites like Google Video, YouTube, etc..
- Fixed image PNG handling.
- Various other improvements and bug fixes.
- Added the ability to use [IMG]...[/IMG] tags in Blog posts and Cult news.
- Fixed the dates being off by one day in the RSS feeds.
- Fixed news slide show button allignment to be standard accross all browsers.
- Fixed the splash page login boxes to be clickable in IE.
- Fixed cult forum moderation of Sticky threads for cult leaders/masters.
- Fixed IE rendering bug of Team/Park updates.
- Fixed the Flash video player on the NSTV page.
- Changes to the usability of the media selector with the GUI editor.
- Fixed video format icons not always working in the Video gallery.
- Removed Splash page for faster access to site news & content.
- Added Cult mass messaging.
- Replaced the gallery upload tool with a better system that supports multi-file uploading.
- Fixed several minor bugs and some back-end tweaks
- Increased the max video size to 32MB from 5Mb.
- Minor bug fixes and back-end improvements.
- Fixed a bug that prevented editing of reviewer profiles.
- Upgraded Team/Park Update lists to utilize their new cults.
- Fixed links to Cult forums for Team & Park Updates.
- Added the page rendering time in seconds in the page footer.
- A few small bug fixes.
- Added a tag for high post counts above 20000.
- Widened site to add more room for the content area.
- Many cosmetic changes.
- Re-vamped profiles with many new fields.
- Profile images are chosen from the gallery instead of uploaded separately.
- Profiles now include a list of the member's friends.
- Name Change history is displayed in Profiles.
- Inline editing of profile fields.
- Created a site-wide Karma system to give each member an overall rating.
- Splash page can support Landscape or Portrait images.
- Upgraded profiles with new editing features and additional fields.
- Combined many JavaScript & CSS files into one for faster load times.
- Updated Polls page with new look.
- Added Reviewer Profile and member reviews to Profiles.
- Created a new Navbar with cleaner look and better feel.
- Added message exchange history to the Read Message pop-up window to give more background on the conversation.
- Major facelift to many parts of the site.
- Removed Classified section, it was just it's time to go.
- Revamped Blogs to be easier to use and allowed editing of posts.
- Updated Team & Park updates to allow posting through Newschoolers directly, as well as the ability to add member corespondents.
- Re-wrote Cults entirely to be more flexible and easier to administer.
- Added the ability to have Cult News.
- Cult Masters and Leaders can now moderate their own forums.
- Moderators can now re-name cults when requested.
- Max image upload sizes were increased to 5MB, big enough for most JPG images from digicams.
- NS has been moved to a load-balanced server configuration for faster load times.
- Many, many minor bug fixes and minor improvements.
- Upgraded header search button to depress when clicked.
- Added extra moderation tools.
- Members can mark themselves attending or not attending to Events
- Minor bug fixes.
- Added Network Connection Speed setting in Account Tools to help load times on slower connections.
- Added a tool to allow members to more easily recover lost passwords.
- Added a Crash & Yardsale section to the Picture gallery.
- Moved banners into the header.
- Various minor bug fixes.
- Members can now change Member Names through the Account Tools
- Fixed a bug with My Threads not being removed after view one that has been moved to a new category.
- Removed profile stars to save bandwidth, and most members have them now.
- Added the ability for members to create forum categories for events instead of waiting for Mods to do so.
- Modified the Forum signatures to be distinguishable from the post.
- New automated instant message to notify members when one of their threads has been moved to a different forum category.
- Added list of new content on the right side bar.
- Various minor bug fixes.
- Added the Summer Camp Forums.
- Added the ability include Polls in News Articles.
- Added the ability for members to create events in the Event Calendar.
- Upgraded the look of news article headers.
- Gave the news article headers an additional list of links that can be configured to point to other relavent information.
- Improved style & mouseover effects for the category listing in the News page.
- Many minor bug fixes and general improvements.
- Added mouse-over effects and clickability to the Forum & Event listings.
- Built a new Main page, added multiple link lists.
- Fixed the time display in Events. Minutes used to always equal the hour.
- Upgraded the Event Listing to use div & CSS instead of tables.
- Various back-end improvements.
- Upgraded the look of the forum listing.
- Various back-end improvements.
- Updated the Event Calendar Major Events season to begin on Sept 1 2006
- Fixed bug in the Event Calendar that made event titles run into eachother with no line break.
- Added the new Reviews section.
- Various minor bug fixes & style changes.
- Fixed rendering bug with News in Internet Explorer.
- Fixed bug where returning to gallery browse page did not include the search string.
- Fixed video category listing bug in the Quick Links
- Added Search Engine Safe URLs to NS!!
- Fixed the QuickLink to Top Rated sections.
- Fixed rendering bug with blog titles on the main page.
- Modified the look of some moderator tools.
- Added ratings to Blogs.
- Added ratings to News.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Bug Fix: Fixed duplicate linking on URLs in signatures.
- Removed useless zero values from the Video Display page when a video is remotely hosted.
- Changed the minimum number of ratings required for an item to be shown in the gallery's Top Rated list from 15 to 20. It was lowered to 15 in versino 3.5.0 but the change wasn't well accepted.
- Changed the Private/Public selector in the media gallery to be a radio select.
- Updated the video gallery page to be a list style.
- Fixed the video search page. It now works. ;)
- Fixed a re-direction bug on the video & picture upload pages.
- Re-built the Picture & Video upload tools. They now have better error messages, a cleaner interface and are easier to find.
- Built new Picture & Video galleries. The new galleries now have thumbnails, edit tools, better Moderator tools and more.
- Picture & Video galleries now include view filters to allow members & mods to choose what media to display.
- Added the ability to edit Video & Picture information.
- Members now have a "Public" gallery, which allows members to upload images that are not immediatly made public. Members can use these images in Blog entries, Cults, Forum posts and Comments.
- The creation date for threads is now shown below the creator in the Forum Threads list.
- Gave a face lift to the Account Tools section. Also removed the Quick Chat enable/disable tool since the Quick Chat has been removed.
- The number of comments is shown in the image description area when viewing a single image.
- Added Press Releases section on the portal page.
- Added Next & Back buttons to browse blog entry pages. Before you couldn't see more than 5 entries at a time.
- Fixed the video link from Profile Videos to open the video.
- Upgrades to NS Registration system.
- A new pop-up help page to describe what the Idle Time from profiles.
- A link to view the Message Exchange has been added to the message reading pop-up.
- Profile pictures are now clickable to view the image full size.
- The post date of blogs has been added to the blog entry page.
- Added a counter for Blog views. As of now, all the counts are at 0.
- Changed the member's blog listing to show 50 blogs instead of 25.
- Included new text to describe how the member blog listing is sorted.
- Added a new list of the latest member blogs to the Blogs page.
- Fixed images not showing up in blog posts.
- Added profile images back to the profiles. I forgot this in version 3.3
- Added the author name to Park Update
- The author, date posted and number of comments are now posted in park & team updates underneath the title.
- Updated Member Contributions & Profiles to work seamlesly in the pop-up window.
- Added a link to Profile & Member Contributions to open a member's profile in the pop-up or main window.
- Profiles have been updated to use tab-like links for viewing a member's contributions like Threads, Videos & Pictures.
- Member Instant Messages are now rendered using DIV tags & seperators. Removed the use of obsolete HTML tables.
- Added the ability to message a member when viewing Threads, Pictures or Videos from the Member Contributions pages.
- Added a Home Mountain field to the member Profile page.
- Added a close button to the pop-up profile window.
- Implemented Blogs for members. Also gave top level mods the ability to flag a blog to be shown on the front page.
- Improvements to database structure to speed up queries when viewing Message History.
- Increased the max video size to 8MB from 5MB.
- After sending a message, the sender is no longer re-directed to a status page. Instead the sender is redirected back immediatly to the originating page where they sent the message, and the status is shown above the messaging form.
- Upgraded the back-end rendering system to use template files to draw all HTML. Profiles, Member Contributions & Blogs have been fully upraded to use the new rendering system.
- Re-built the back-end system for rendering the quick links.
- Changed the HTML formatting of the Comment box used in Videos, News, Pictures & Blogs. The obsolete HTML tables have been removed in exchange for a DIV box layout.
- Added a version information page with a link in the footer.
- Updated messages given to guests on certain pages to be more helpful.
TEAM UPDATES
PARK UPDATES
BLOGGERS
CULT NEWS
