Young Writers Society

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.

I adore that it looks like twitter.

But I adore you more!! *gives cake*

Edit:

So, I roamed around and already have a stupid-silly issue. xD It's a wee bit dumb? But, yeah. So I just recently set all of my blog posts to "friends only" and even before that they were "members only" but if I log out and look at my profile, there's still a brief thingy on my recent blog posts. Of course if you click them you get a sign in page. o.o but I'm paranoid about my blog and don't like that people can read stuff from my profile. It gives me the ookies. This is a dumb complaint. Other than this THEY ARE SO AWESOME I SWEAR! And I'm probably the only person that cares about this too. >_> yeeeeah.

Heh, always a couple bugs! Fixed Suzanne

Thank you! Now creepers cannot creep on me. (sorry I'm such a weirdo!)

Also, while checking this out for the second time, I noticed that it sent me right to the "info" tab where I had left it. I don't know how your magical coding did that but it is so cool.

Links from blogs don't work yet!

Neither do links from My YWS -> My profile. :O


We're probably irritating you about stuff you already know. xD I should go to bed...

Links are all good.

Suzanne ->> That's due to the script I used for tabs, which I got from here:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicinde ... bscontent/

Amazing Nate! They look great, and I'll tell you if I find any bugs.

NATE THIS IS REVOLUTIONARILY COOL.

(P.S. My portfolio is empty though?)

Thank you, nate!

Wow, I love this. I rarely go to my profile page, but now I think I'll be visiting it more often - it's so easy to navigate, really clear, it's a great place to easily see all my blog entries and links, there's more info in a smaller amount of space, like the guestbook comments. Awesome.

This is awesome! 'Cept one thing. In my portfolio, it says that I haven't posted any literary works yet.

Nate = Awesomosity!

(Oh, and my Portoflio works just fine.)

People with Porfolio Problem...

Here! This has been up for a few days.

Loving them <333