User Profiles Have Just Been Updated

Nate · 2010-06-10T05:53:46Z

User profiles on the Young Writers Society have just finished a huge update. Indeed, the entire format has changed and a lot of new stuff has been added. Now, this is a huge update. Everything about user profiles has been rewritten line by line, which is something I've never done before. Even the portfolio system received a total re-write, which was an incredibly frustrating and tedious task! Since this is a total re-write, chances are that there's a few bugs. I've done my best in testing it out over and over again, but there's always a few I miss. If you come across a bug, please report it. In any case, start fooling around with them! Edit 1 Okay, one bug. You can't go any further than the first page of the guestbook (now the 'wall'). Will fix this later. Edit 2 Now that I've had some sleep and feel somewhat rested, I thought I'd share what's coming next. The new profiles are actually just the first of three features/updates that are designed to make YWS feel more like a social network than it has before. The second feature will be a notifications area, and this will let you know when you've received a new comment on your wall, a reply to one of your comments on someone else's wall, when someone has started following you, comment to a topic you posted, reply to a blog entry you made, etc. The notifications area will be on the front page of My YWS, and there'll also be a small place afforded to it in the header (next to the search box at the very top). The third feature is the newsfeed, which I've talked about a lot recently. Whereas the notifications area is all about you, the newsfeed is all about the people you're following. You'll be notified through your newsfeed when someone you're following has made a status update, posted a new literary work, made a blog entry, liked something, etc. Once it's all implemented (probably by the end of this month), YWS will feel a whole lot different. Up until now, the entire site has revolved around the forums. Pretty soon, it may feel like the entire site revolves around the profiles.

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:57 pm

Rosendorn says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:57 pm

And I finally get to see my six-page long friends list.

Awesome.

There's just one... not a bug, but a design thing that's not really important but I noticed it anyway. The username of the person is really close together, like so:

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Makes the username a bit hard to read.

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:59 pm

Nate says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:59 pm

Demeter, Elinor Brynn: Fixed!

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Rosey: Fixed!

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:10 pm

LastPaladin says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:10 pm

Nate, I love what you done. It's simple amazing and much more easier to navigate and it feels more like a profile page.

. Great job

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:26 pm

Demeter says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:26 pm

Awesome! Thank you!

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:42 pm

Rosendorn says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:42 pm

Thanks!

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:47 pm

Ranger Hawk says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:47 pm

They're amazing! I love it, thanks Nate!

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:59 pm

Evi says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:59 pm

AWESOME. I approve. It's fantastic.

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:04 pm

Day says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:04 pm

I found a bug for you to fix. When your viewing someone's page, and you click "search" next to their post count it will search for YOUR posts not whoever's posts.

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:11 pm

Nate says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:11 pm

Day: Fixed!

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:49 pm

Kamas says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:49 pm

This is absolutely fantastic! <3

If I find a bug, I'll mention it.

Edit: OMG. My points are fixed! =DD

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:55 pm

lilymoore says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:55 pm

Okay, so I don’t know what the deal is but my page is definitely freaking out!

I don’t exactly know what happened, but when I look at my page sometimes it looks like this and other times it looks normal. There’s creepy coding stuff on the top and that huge white space.

*help*

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:09 pm

Nate says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:09 pm

Lily: Next time that happens, can you copy and paste the coding stuff at the top? What's going on is that someone's avatar in your followers/following area is giving the page errors. If you can send me the coding stuff at top, I'll be able to fix the issue.

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Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:45 pm

Mr.Knightley says... · Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:45 pm

These are awesome, Nate! I wasn't expecting them for a while, so I freaked out when I went to check my guestbook.

And then I freaked again because my profile picture was right at the top of my info page, and I'm used to it being safe and sound on the bottom of the screen, where not many people bother looking.

And as far as the portfolio thing goes, mine is looking a bit scarce, as well, but that's only because I hardly ever submit/write anything. xD

*high fives Nate* Thanks!

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