The BlogShares Blog

... This Is What You Get. After spending several hours going through every post in the Feature Requests forum, here's the lowdown so far, plus other happenings. ;-)

• Karma Rewards - Initial Implementation: Double Artefact Usage.
  You vote correctly, get good Karma, you should be rewarded for it, and this is the first of several perks for your effort. The bad news? You need 750 Karma to take advantage of this feature, but other rewards are in the works that will not require such a high score to achieve.


• Easy Message Deletion
  So you purchased then claimed 100 bonds, now you've got 200 messages sitting in your inbox that you want to get rid of... now you can clear the whole lot out with a single click.


• Automated Rankings
  No more reminding an admin to run the monthly rankings script, it's now automated, so you know when the next month rolls around, your info will be up to date.


• Spider Optimizations
  You may have heard about it, the little buggers were getting so efficient, their bandwidth requirements were going up into the several-megabit range. So, we've had to slow them down a bit, but found a few more optimizations to squeeze all the performance we can out of them in this reduced state, hopefully without frying network switches.


• Bug Fix: Folder Deletion Caused Missing Stock
  Found and quashed a bug (Discovered by MrPilot) that caused stocks in a folder you delete to vanish into the ether. Also discovered another 900 or so stock entries in the same situation, moved them en masse to everyone's main folders. So, if you had some stock pop up out of nowhere, that's why.


• Good People
  Finally, kudos must go out to Alan Williamson over at Blog City, who responded to my queries in record time, providing all the information I needed and more. Thanks Alan, it's appreciated.