After nearly 36 hours, Lush V2 is finally here.
If you find anything odd, out of place or just broke, please post it here.
Thanks!
Hi All
I am aiming to publish a new version of Lush next Tuesday 25th October 13:00 PST, the site will be unavailable for approximately 24 hours.
The main feature for this release is a new database backend. We are migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to MongoDB, which should give us better performance and stability.
For the initial release, there are a few things missing. Some things to note:
- There will be no members migrated across who have not confirmed their membership details
- No new badges will be issued (a patch will be coming in the weeks following to fix this)
- You cannot change your username (again a patch will be coming that will allow the username to be changed once again)
- Initially you will have no activity on your profile page. As you interact with the site, your activity will accumulate again. This was not able to be migrated away from the old system.
Together with the new database, there have been various cosmetic, functional and bug fixes made. Some notable changes include:
Chat Room
- New log out button to cleanly exit the room
- Ability to paste in youtube videos and have the player appear
- New scramble algorithm for gagging so that some (Sam) cant predict the scrambled text
- Various bug fixes
Settings
- Added timezone to personal details for display local times (forum)
- Group settings and privacy into logical order
- Images can be moved between gallery and albums much more easier
Profile
- New Friends List Lite view (avatars only), enabled from settings page
- Sorting of friends should work now
- Performance improvements to the image gallery
Stories
- Include the one liner in the stories list for the home page
- Stop users from being able to select the story text and also right click on the page (eliminating some of the plagiarizers)
Moderators
- Various goodies.
If you have any questions, thoughts or concerns do not hesitate to contact me.
I shall start a new thread once we are live, so you can inform me of any problems or bugs you might find.
Cheers.............gav
The daily limit currently is set to 100. This doesnt include messages sent to your friends, just anonymous ones. This is to stop spammers sending out hundreds of blind messages to our users.
There have been no changes made to the story scoring process for sometime now (although we are due for an upgrade in the next week or so). I had a quick look at a sample of those stories, all the scores from member votes have been 5's, with the exception of a single 4. You may want to disable anonymous scoring from your settings page if you are still concerned, we can track scoring behaviour much better if its tied to a logged in member.
Thanks
Thanks for all your feedback, looks like we are going to get two versions then!
Hi
Just wanted to find out if having a friends last blog entry on your friends list page is useful? I've had requests for a lite version, just showing username, avatar and whether they are online.
Would this lite view suit everyone, or do some people like reading the last blog entry for all your friends in one view?
Thanks
gav
I shall send you a PM on this.
What type is the image you are trying to upload?
If it is a gif, jpg or png then send it to me please ( )
Unfortunately this is the time the server takes a backup, slowing the site down sufficiently enough to start causing timeouts.
This period of downtime will be history once I've finished the database rewrite.
Be patient folks, not long to go now.
That's a great idea. I was thinking of a way to make them accessible once you leave the page. Wonder how 'busy' this feed might get, might need some kind of filter.
Here's the definitive list:
Avatar
Country
DOB
Firstname
Location
Marital status
Sexual orientation
Star sign
Bio
Favorite books
Favorite authors
Favorite movies
Favorite music
Interests
At least one blog entry
At least one image
At least one video
It takes 24 hours after you update these for the badge to appear.
Hope this helps.
I think that had a lot to do with it!
between you and me, the winners are 6 
