More accurate film recommendations with the new algorithm

We’re pleased to inform you about yet another enhancement on our website. Starting today the film recommendations are generated on Filmaster using a brand new algorithm. Quicker and more accurate than the previous one. And no, it’s not April Fools. It’s already May, damnit! (more…)

April fools: New revolutionary film recommendation engine!

It’s a pleasure for us to inform you that after a year of working on this conspiracy project, we’re finally able to provide you with the new revolutionary film recommendation engine on Filmaster.com! (more…)

Filmaster cooperates with GreenCine.com

Today we have a little announcement for you guys. We have a new partner we’re like to introduce to you. (more…)

Spoiler tag & small improvements

Dear Filmasters!

According to the new tradition, we have released a new version of the code: Filmaste 1.0.2 into the wild. This time the only new feature is the spoiler tag. By using it you will make the lives of fellow Filmasters easier by not forcing them to read these parts of your reviews / comments that tell more than necessary about the film plot.

How to use the spolier tag? Easily! Just enter the spoiler <spoiler> between the spoiler tag like this </spoiler> and Filmaster will automatically hide the text between the tags. Pressing the “show spoilers” button will unhide the spoiler.

Read more about the tags available on Filmaster in the Formatting section of the site.

That’s all as far as the new features are concerned. However, we have also added a few small improvements:
- IMDB ratings importing should now work fine again. It stopped working a few weeks before, as IMDB changes something on their side. Thanks to tueksta for letting us know via Twitter.
- All e-mail notifications are now being sent in 5 minutes intervals, not immediately. This doesn’t sound like an improvement at all but trust us – it is. Thanks to the queuing feature, the site does not go slow anymore when the mail server is struggling with traffic. If you have tried leaving a comment on Filmaster in the recent few weeks you might have encountered this problem of “hanging”. Not an issue anymore.
- On short review page, we now show in the sidebar not only other short reviews but also list other longer reviews. This was not very intuitive before, as you had to go back to the film page to see the longer texts.
- Optimizing and refactoring the code – i.e. things important to the project but not visible to you guys.

Wondering what comes next? Wonder no more. You can already take a look at the plan for the next release, hopefully in two weeks time.

Adam & Borys

E-mail notifications and better filtering of Planet Filmaster

We spent the last month implementing a couple of major features, that may not look that major but are so from the coding point of view: new filters on Planet Filmaster and configurable e-mail notifications. (more…)

Half a million film ratings at Filmaster.com!

We’ll be celebrating 1st birthday of Filmaster (at least the Polish version) soon, but we already have great news. We’ve just hit half a million(!) film ratings in our system! (more…)

Lots of minor features and bug fixes

Over the last few weeks we’ve been constantly updating Filmaster with new features and bug fixes. This post is a summary of those efforts. (more…)

A bunch of new features at Filmaster.com

We’ve been quite on the blog recently but that’s not all due to our lazyness. Lots of work being done in the Filmaster code repository. Today, we present a few new long-expected features. Read on! (more…)

25.000 impressions for 20 bucks – beta-testing the Reddit Sponsored Links

One of the ways of promoting a startup like Filmaster is through ads on other websites. We haven’t done much of this before due to small (non-existant?) budget but we’ve decided to sign up for the beta-testing of the new Reddit.com sponsored links system. Spending 20 dollars to promote the site doesn’t seem like a fortune so we thought: “what the heck”! (more…)

Filmaster’s tour de conferences

It’s been a while since we posted on the blog but that’s because we were so busy presenting Filmaster on multiple conferences and tech events. To keep you informed, here is a short update on what we’ve been doing in the PR area after our Democamp success. (more…)