posted by max on June 29, 2007 at 07:19:43 AM

howdy folks,

Just a quick update to let you know I'm still alive. Some quick tidbits: Batch site deletion will be in effect soon, I've added an undelete function and an easy way to tell when a site has been deleted. I've reset the delete dates to three days in the future to give you time to undelete sites you don't want deleted anymore.

read more for some small updates.

I've been working on the new punishment system in the moderation setup, and have a gigantic list of people to punish, which should be fun. Once I'm satisfied with it, I'm going to open it up to super mods to start dealing with problematic users.

In other news I've spent a significant amount of time working on converting sound assets to flash. My goal is to:
a) remove the need for quicktime/alternatives
b) make it so you can look at ytmnd from almost anywhere with little to no setup.
c) normalize sound volume d) reduce bandwidth usage significantly by converting wav to mp3 before flash conversion.
e) return the ability to have truly gap-less looping.

There are some surprisingly difficult technical hurdles to overcome, but I'm optimistic about it.


I spent a day or two on a new feature that will only be used by the two or three of you that know how to program; the YTMND Developer API.

Everyone is making an API so people can integrate their data into their own applications these days, and I figure it may add $10 or so dollars to the value of YTMND. I'm hoping some neat stuff will come out of it.

It will allow developers to grab a lot of data we don't currently show on the site. The hardest part of the API is writing the documentation on it, so if any of you have some technical writing experience and are up for it, let me know. I hope to have it up soon, and I'll write a few simple applications you dummies can put in your myspace profile or something.