welcome to the new face of ytmn(d|sfw)!
posted by max on November 25, 2005 at 09:10:18 PM
ladies, gents, trolls -
You may have noticed the site has been stagnating for the last few weeks. I've been busy working on the new site and adding features, fixing a ton of problems and overall, increasing performance. Two new powerful servers have launched and the site should be substantially faster for everyone.
I've outlined a list of what's new and what to look out for in the future.
On the horizon:
Thanks for bearing with us, and hopefully you stick around for all the good stuff coming up.
You may have noticed the site has been stagnating for the last few weeks. I've been busy working on the new site and adding features, fixing a ton of problems and overall, increasing performance. Two new powerful servers have launched and the site should be substantially faster for everyone.
I've outlined a list of what's new and what to look out for in the future.
- New site skins for both YTMND.com and YTMNSFW.com (big ups to ross and snaxe)!
- New comment layout on site profiles page, optimized a few queries to load faster.
- New news system with content management system and comments
- New URL scheme for users (aka the "I AM NOT A NUMBER I AM A FREE MAN" feature):
/users/profiles/username will now link to your user profile, ie. www.ytmnd.com/users/profile/max - New Content Boxes
- Up and coming: Shows high rated sites made in the last week
- Today's top rated: Shows the most voted on sites of the day
- 2 new servers totalling 10ghz across 4 CPUs and 8GB of ram added to the server pool.
- Fixed a ton of caching issues which were causing a lot of problems
- A lot of query optimization to speed things up in general
- Fixed the Random content box, and random.ytmnd to show truly random sites.
On the horizon:
- User created Lists
- Amazon style lists that users can create and share to group together sites by any criteria.
- Will be the back end for a real "favorites" list
- Possibly group managed lists
- RSS Feeds for some of the content boxes.
- User Profile changes
- Real user profiles which will include optional user information, images and an avatar.
- More content boxes, more selection
- A community run help and FAQ section outside of the forums
- Report this site feature similar to craigslist.
- General clean up and XHTML compatability
- YTMND Hall of Fame
- A list of notable sites which will no longer show up on the front page.
- This will allow users to see a list of all of YTMND's most famous sites without having them clog up the front page for months at a time.
Thanks for bearing with us, and hopefully you stick around for all the good stuff coming up.
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Please add a more in-depth search that at least includes the title, description and an optional search that searches 1st, 2nd, 3rd Lines and the domain. We can't rely purely on the keywords to search for ytmnds the current quick search is weak. And if you have an advanced search in existence make put it somewhere where I can find it, please. Thank you for all the changes and looking forward to new ones. =) Rock On YTMND \m/
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Hay, I actually had an idea. Like maybe instead of the up-and-coming list which still seems just like the top 5, you could another list, although I wouldn't know what it would be called. Basically, everytime a YTMND not already on the top 15 or the top 5 gets rated a 5, it gets "bumped" (like a thread on a forum) to the top of the list and pushes the rest down. That way, YTMNDs that were pushed quickly off the last 5 created even if they were good can get "bumped" onto the list and stay bumped if they are good (like good forum threads stay bumped up at the top of the forum) until they are in the top 15 or top 5 or bumped off by better YTMNDs. That way YTMNDs that were created when almost nobody was on, or when everyone was creating YTMNDs really fast don't get instantly knocked into oblivion by the sh*t sites in the last 5 created, and can help eliminate the system where you can get in the top 15 easily after the server resets.
There's an odd problem. I can't vote when I'm on ytmnd.com; I can click on all the stars I want, but they go away after I leave. Yet when I'm on www.ytmnd.com (note the www), I can vote just fine.
I also second the descriptions thing, every single one of them has vanished all of a sudden. I can still see them when I edit my sites, but they don't show up in their profiles at all...
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