March 12, 2010
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
February 15, 2010
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…)
January 18, 2010
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…)
January 15, 2010
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…)
December 14, 2009
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…)
November 20, 2009
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…)
November 1, 2009
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…)
September 25, 2009
Wikipedia movie synopses on Filmaster
Missing movie synopses was one of the most irritating features of Filmaster, at least to us. If you hated it that your favorite films didn’t have a proper description, worry no more. Overnight we deployed the new Wikipedia synopsis fetcher to solve the problem. (more…)
September 12, 2009
Formatting posts and reviews
You’ll like this one. We (eventually) added some better formatting options for reviews and forum posts. (more…)
August 30, 2009
Facebook Connect on Filmaster
It was rather quiet for the last couple of weeks on te blog but this does not mean we were procrastinating! Far from that! Last night we performed an update on Filmaster.com bring one big new feature and many minor bug fixes. The big new one is obviously Facebook Connect integration. (more…)
