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| I need you to take my poll in a bad, bad way. | January 16, 2011, 12:33AM |
 by: eon |
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Please take 30 seconds to answer the following poll question. Even if it doesn't sound interesting to you, I need to know that it doesn't interest you so I can get an idea of what percentage of our community would be on board with it: Are you ready to take it? No means yes. Thanks, guys! | |
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| On the second of our first timid steps into a new decade... | December 30, 2010, 10:39PM |
by: eon |
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I hope you kids are tearing it up tonight and tomorrow night. I hope all of your resolutions come to fruition and FFS, I hope you have an awesome friend to kiss at midnight. As always, be safe and report your exploits back to headquarters. (That would be right here.) | |
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| The Holidays, They Are Upon Us | December 8, 2010, 8:49AM |
by: eon |
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Just a wish that you all enjoy the season safely. Be merry and bright and FFS, only sober when you have to be! | |
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| Halloween... | October 31, 2010, 10:40AM |
by: eon |
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Yeah, about Halloween. Have a safe one. Bah... get outta here, you crazy kids. Go have fun! | |
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| Free 7 hours of StarCraft II play to the next 1 year Andromeda purchase. | September 30, 2010, 9:35PM |
by: eon |
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I know, kind of lame, but if you're jonesing for an SC II fix and need to restock on Andromeda, maybe this sounds good. I can't guarantee you'll get it--first come, first serve. Just purchase a year and leave me a comment. First comment I get will receive the SC II trial. I'll post the winner here. THNX! | |
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| Updated IM Features | August 27, 2010, 1:56AM |
by: eon |
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Two important features have been added to the IM system: The ability to block other members from IM-ing you, and the ability to remove the IM bar completely from your screen. Blocking a user from your IM is easy. Just block them the way you normally would by visiting their profile and clicking their 'Add [name] to your block list' link. If you've already blocked someone and are still getting their IMs, you will need to un-block and then re-block them. To remove the IM bar entirely, go into your control panel and find the link for IM Settings. Change 'IM' to 'Disable' and you're all set. | |
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| New IM System | August 23, 2010, 12:18AM |
by: eon |
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You may have noticed the new Facebook-esque IM bar at the bottom of your pages. It does exactly what you'd think. If you click the "Who's Online" tab, you'll get a list of all of your friends who are online. Clicking on any of them will open up an IM conversation with them. Currently, the "friend" system on this site is a little bit loose. That is, someone can add you to their friends list without permission, so "friendships" aren't necessarily mutual relationships. The effect this will have on the IM system is that people who have added you will be able to see your online status whether or not you've added them back. I'm going to see how that aspect of it goes for a bit. If it doesn't work out, we're looking at a major overhaul of the friend system on this site, where all friend requests would have to be approved. Before we jump to that, let's give this a shot. Remember that you can always remove yourself from anyone's friends list by clicking the link from your profile which shows those who have friended you. And of course, if you have trouble with someone re-adding you, you can always block them. For Andromeda members, this opens up an interesting new possibility. Andromeda invisibility operates separately from invisibility on the IM system. Therefore, it is possible for Andromeda members to be invisible to the site at large, but still visible and available to their friends for chat. Pretty neat. (All members have the ability to go invisible on the IM system by clicking the little 'gear' icon to the far right of the tool bar and then clicking 'Invisible'. You should do this if you don't want to receive any IMs!) This system has replaced the previous IM system by UserPlane. Frankly, good riddance! So, guys, play around with this. Please comment me if you find any bugs, suspicious activity, or large piles of unattended cash. And, as always, Enjoy . . . | |
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| Andromeda Feature Update | August 12, 2010, 12:12AM |
by: eon |
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The Andromeda list of recent profile visitors will now include the number of times each individual has visited the profile, thereby increasing the creepy, stalker-ish powers of Andromeda account holders. The number of visits will only increase for any individual once per ten minutes. This way if someone visits your profile and clicks around for a bit, they won't run up a huge number of artificial "visits". (Either accidentally or on purpose!) This will make the count a more accurate reflection of unique visits. Want to know more about Andromeda membership? Enjoy... | |
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| AVChat replacing TinyChat. | July 30, 2010, 1:24PM |
by: eon |
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I've replaced the previous chat (a TinyChat room) with our own in-house chat server (AVChat). There are some tradeoffs here, but overall, I'm liking AVChat much better and most seem to agree. We have it on a 30 day demo before I must make a purchase decision, so try it out and let me know what you think. When playing with it, realize that all of the cam and chat windows can be moved around and re-sized any way you like. (To re-size, use the red tab on the corner of any window.) So if it looks a little messy when you first enter, don't let that deter you. A bit of playing around and you can have a nice display! On the plus side, the new server doesn't have the same annoying character limit as TinyChat. I don't know about you guys, but it was intensely frustrating when I needed to type a message longer than like 64 characters. (Which happened frequently.) Also, there will be no random fuck-tards invading the room from the great internet abyss. Only registered DS users are allowed to enter the chat, so there will be no reason to have a password or anything like that. In addition, the chat is more tightly integrated with the site. Users are displayed with their DS icon and link back to DS profiles. There are also a few other nice features in AVChat that were not present in TinyChat. (Like inline display of images and YouTube videos!) The only real negative I see is that it's hosted on our own bandwidth, so I've had to impose some sensible limitations. Namely, you'll only be able to view a maximum of 4 cameras at a time. Of course, you can close / open any cams you like, allowing you to watch the 4 people of your choice. I don't see this as a huge drawback, as opening more than 4 windows tends to hog up screen space anyway and really, do we need to watch 8 people simultaneously? ;) Having said that, I may eventually allow additional cam views to Andromeda members. I need to watch the bandwidth utilization for a while first, though. Hope you guys enjoy it. | |
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| Chat Room Password | July 17, 2010, 4:37PM |
by: eon |
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Because of trouble from no-good-so-and-sos, the chat room is now password protected. Password: dschat This will hopefully keep random people from the tinychat site from jumping in and causing so much trouble. For now, this will cause the main chat entrance page to always report that there are zero people in chat. Just ignore it and go ahead and enter the room to find out for sure. I'll be back in a few days to evaluate everything further and fix the splash page if possibe. Later! | |
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