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