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…)
Posts Tagged ‘features’
More accurate film recommendations with the new algorithm
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Spoiler tag & small improvements
Friday, March 12th, 2010Dear 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
Monday, February 15th, 2010We 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…)
Lots of minor features and bug fixes
Friday, January 15th, 2010Over 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
Monday, December 14th, 2009We’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…)
Wikipedia movie synopses on Filmaster
Friday, September 25th, 2009Missing 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…)
Formatting posts and reviews
Saturday, September 12th, 2009You’ll like this one. We (eventually) added some better formatting options for reviews and forum posts. (more…)
Facebook Connect on Filmaster
Sunday, August 30th, 2009It 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…)
Logging now case-insensitive, supports e-mail
Thursday, June 4th, 2009We have just uploaded a few small fixes on Filmaster.com related to logging and case sensitivity in general. (more…)
