Chris's IMVU Blog

08/29/07

Development, Aug 27 - 28

Categories: IMVU

Warning: This list includes features that have not shipped. Some things that appear may never actually ship.

Groups (shipped to VIP users)
- Change the groups page to show only the most active members (top 6) panel; tests updated
- Add pagination and sorting to the view all members page
- Change how avatar names were stored in the database to make sorting memberlists by name easier

Rooms (shipped to test users)
- Add display of total size of products in product detail page
- WIP on page for inviting more people into rooms

Outfits and Outfit Contests (shipped to test users)
- Make the "yesterday's contest" text on the sidebar be a link to that contest
- Change outfits contest header to read 'daily outfits contest - vote now!'
- Display some basic information to explain what is going on on the contest voting page
- For past contests display slot for outfits even if the outfit has been deleted to prevent standings from getting rearranged
- WIP on system for issuing prizes automatically and tracking monthly standings
- WIP on outfits contest panel for the main IMVU home page

Bugs
- Fix bug where IMVU did not work with Stardock's WindowBlinds product
- Fix bug where the first three days of the "chat on first four days" rewards were getting paid out even if the user didn't chat on day 1. This caused confusion when the user did not get the big reward on the fourth day. Now explain better to users the rules for this reward program.
- WIP on group chat bugs (specifically refactoring system so that we can bring it under test)

Misc
- WIP on internal tool to track the top terms users are searching on in the catalog
- WIP on internal tool for monitoring economy by summarizing all transactions
- Migrate crash reporting and user monitoring to new database hardware

Development, Aug 23-26

Categories: IMVU

Warning: This list includes features that have not shipped. Some things that appear may never actually ship.

Groups (shipped to VIP users)
- Add panel showing all groups you are a member of to the groups pages
- Add code to hide the active members panel if the group has fewer than 12 members
- Remove ability to create announcements in groups. The announcements are designed to show in all groups, which is not the right behavior for IMVU.
- Fix bug where page died after deleting group
- Fix bug where URLs in the My Groups panel were broken
- Fix bug where Join Group and Leave Group links were not showing up correctly
- Fix bug where IE7 does not show invitation sent confirmation
- Fix bug where you can not rejoin group once you've been removed
- Fix bug with navigation buttons after viewing a thread in a group
- Fix bug where signatures for forum in groups by removing signature feature

Rooms (shipped to test users)
- Add more monitoring of public rooms usage
- WIP on page for inviting more people into rooms

Outfits and Outfit Contests (shipped to test users)
- Add display of tomorrow's theme in the outfits contest sidebar
- Add filter to prevent outfits where the user does not own all the items from showing the submit outfit user interface
- Fix bug with display of scores and rankings if user has entered multiple contests (this caused votes to not be tabulated correctly for the entries that appeared to win in several contests)

Bugs
- More reliability improvement for purchasing products with credits by changing how we write to the database
- WIP on group chat bugs (specifically refactoring system so that we can bring it under test)
- Fix crash in Flash UI in the client

Misc
- Add code to get the total size of a product, including all products it derives from that are not part of the standard IMVU installer
- If user owns both a blue and gold try it pass, allow them to select the pass displayed by default
- WIP on internal tool for monitoring economy by summarizing all transactions

Development, Aug 20-22

Categories: IMVU

Warning: This list includes features that have not shipped. Some things that appear may never actually ship.

Groups (shipped to VIP users)
- Fix bug where create page did not display error messages or retain user input if there was an error
- Add most recent post link to take user to last page of thread
- Add display on group owner on main listing page
- Add contextual help for membership and access attributes on group home page
- Improve internal tool for gathering group statistics to hit the database less and return more statistics
- Remove feature to be notified on activity in a group forum via email (this feature wasn't working and we don't have time to get it working right now)
- Add internal tracking for user activity in groups
- Various groups bug fixes related to help content
- Fix bug where there was no confirmation dialog box for deleting a group
- Make category be a required field for all groups
- Display 6 most active users on group page and link to view all members

Outfits and Outfit Contests (shipped to test users)
- Add sidebar on outfit contest voting page showing yesterday's winning entry and past week of contests
- Improve user interface for paging through submissions on outfit contest voting page
- Change wording for past contests and submission deadline information
- Don't allow private outfits in contests
- Show private and restricted tags for those types of outfits in the outfits contest submit box, and don't allow them to be submitted
- Convert outfits page to vote and update using AJAX instead of requiring page refreshes (makes it much faster)

People Search
- WIP on new people search UI
- Improve performance/results of filtering search for people currently online

Bugs
- WIP on group chat bugs (specifically refactoring system so that we can bring it under test)
- Fix bug where you could not edit custom html in RSS panel and StreetTeam panel.
- Fix bug where group chats did not work once the fourth person was added
- Reduce the number of things being written to the data when purchasing with credits to improve reliability
- Add monitoring for tracking down bugs with awarding credits for chatting in the first four days
- Fix client crash when switching between rooms when rooms share a furniture item.

Misc
- WIP on internal tool for monitoring economy by summarizing all transactions
- Add support for segmenting a marketing campaign into sub-segments to compare performance
- WIP on marketing deal with PlayPhone
- Various improvements on internal tool for managing campaigns
- Refactor code that display avatar icons for group members to move towards a standard way of displaying avatars on the site
- Change policy - everyone now gets the Gold Try-It pass that lets you try things on by yourself in the dress up room. All users registered in the last nine months already had it, this change just makes it so our most loyal customers have it as well.
- Add monitoring of public rooms usage

Development, Aug 15-19

Categories: IMVU

Warning: This list includes features that have not shipped. Some things that appear may never actually ship.

Groups (shipped to VIP users)
- Fix user permissions that were corrupted by a bug that was fixed Aug 14.
- Remove the "publicize" options for groups since it was never actually implemented
- Add internal tool to collect stats on groups
- Add invite members links to the bottom of group specific pages
- Fix bug where link in home page messages sent to people invited to a group was broken
- Add VIP icon next to user names in groups web pages

Outfits and Outfit Contests (shipped to test users)
- Change outfit submission deadline to 6pm to avoid people submitting at the last minute and having their friends make them the winner
- Add voting status indicator to the outfit contest voting page (show you that vote succeeded or failed)
- Add outfits menu under the buddies menu in the client
- Allow only one submission per person in the contest
- Fix bug where contest voting service accepted votes after the contest was complete

People Search
- Add fields related to relationships to search engine index for people

Bugs
- Added new monitoring code for orders with credits that did not complete successfully to track down bugs
- Fix couple remaining bugs for orders with credits that were not completing successfully
- Added new monitoring code for registrations that did not complete successfully to track down bugs
- Fix bug where message about savings with gold pass was not displaying
- Fix bug where number of participants in a chat was not being updated correctly
- WIP on group chat bugs (specifically refactoring system so that we can bring it under test)
- Fix bug with window painting that was causing the client to lock up sometimes
- Fix bug where snap shots did not work with new window painting code
- Fix bug where changing users age to under 18 did not remove an access pass the already owned
- Fix bug where client was reporting a connect failed message incorrectly
- Fix bulk invite tool for Hotmail/Window Live (was broken by change on their web site)

Misc
- WIP on internal tool for monitoring economy by summarizing all transactions
- WIP on text chat box for client (available to admins only)
- Lots work on improving reliability of internal test system
- Improve our ability use Google analytics to track site usage patterns
- Ship pre-release 380.10 (details in forum announcement)
- Ship pre-release 380.12 (details in forum announcement)

08/21/07

Development, Aug 12-14

Categories: IMVU

Warning: This list includes features that have not shipped. Some things that appear may never actually ship.

Groups (shipped to VIP users)
- Add VIP badge to display of user images that own the VIP pass
- Add option to turn off display of VIP badge
- Add links to groups page to top of page in group's forum
- Add links to groups category to top of page in group's main page
- Fix bug where a group with no postings display a last activity of 1969
- Fix bug where joining or creating a group wrote over permissions for other groups the user was a member of

Outfits and Outfit Contests (shipped to test users)
- Fix bug where restricted products could sometimes become part of an outfit displayed as part of a contest
- Add requirement that user own all the products in an outfit submitted to the contest
- Add internal tool for removing submissions
- Tweak ranking algorithm for outfits

Bugs
- WIP on bugs where developers were not getting paid properly for products included in marketing bundles
- Fix bug where users could not edit music panel on their home page
- Add monitoring to detect cases where a customer was billed but did not get their products
- WIP on bugs related to invites to group chats and public rooms

Misc
- WIP on marketing deal with PlayPhone
- WIP on calling from Flash UI to main client code
- WIP on internal tool for monitoring economy by summarizing all transactions
- Ship pre-release 380.8 (details in forum announcement)

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