MeetFighters News

Hi AllFighters,

This is just a quick notice that our web server has just received a RAM upgrade. You might experience a noticeable speed improvement, especially during busy hours when 100+ members are online simultaneously.

– Admin out.

This site news article contains information about changes in the messaging functionality. Please read on to see how it might affect you!

Dear members,

When you visit your inboxes, you will notice a new link at the top, labeled "Download all messages a .zip file". This is, in fact, what the link is for: it lets you save all your messages on your computer. Please don't forget that (unless you have donated) starting next month old messages will start expiring; this new feature will give you an easy way of preserving them.

Also, the message history page now shows the contents of the messages between you and a given member, hopefully simplifying your conversations.

– Admin out.

Hi everyone,

Hopefully the performance problems that the site has experienced in the past week are now over. This is the largest website that I've ever created; I am learning new ways of improving performance as I go. It's all very exciting from an engineering point of view!

On the plus side, I am fairly confident that the present software and hardware will comfortably scale to a few hundred online members.

Thanks everyone for putting up with the slowdowns.

– Admin out.

This site news article contains information about changes in the messaging functionality. Please read on to see how it might affect you!

Messages

Since its creation, AllFighters has helped deliver over 360,000 messages. This is great as our mission is helping fighters get in touch; one way to measure success is how much communication we have facilitated. However, some of these messages were never deleted: either because they were unread or because a member likes keeping old messages. This has caused the message database to grow very large.

To mitigate this, starting in July, messages older than 90 days will be purged from the system, whether they were read and replied or not. For convenience, I will be creating some way to download your entire message history.

Donating members will not be subject to this, and will be able to retain their old messages as before.

Reflection on Incomplete Profiles

It's been a week since the site rules have changed, prohibiting members with incomplete profiles from initiating messages. The intention of this change was creating an incentive to update and complete these profiles. I am happy to report that this has been a huge success, with over 300 profiles completed in the meantime. This is almost like 300 new profiles. :)

As expected, there were a handful of guys who tried to weasel their ways around the restrictions by uploading drawings, photos from known production houses or dogs. Thanks to all those who helped flag these images so they could be quickly dealt with!

Small Fixes

I have fixed a bunch of small entries from the suggestion box:

• Tracker/2009-09-23: The member ticker doesn't display the same member twice in a while. Donating members appear more frequently in the member ticker.
• Tracker/2010-05-18: Certain instant messages are now properly translated to the recipient's language.
• Tracker/2010-05-10: The recommendation help is updated to reflect site changes.
• Tracker/2010-05-12: It is now possible to go to your next/previous message without returning to the message list.
• Tracker/2010-05-30 2: You can now delete all your messages with a given user quickly.
• There is a new help page that hopefully addresses common site usage issues.
• Additionally, there are two new photo flags: "duplicate" and "not a personal photo".
• There is a "Translate" button on profiles and recommendations.

If you have ideas or suggestions, let us know!

Hi everyone,

Following a rather lively discussion of my previous blog entry about providers and consumers, I have made the changes outlined in that entry. It would have been good to get more feedback from those who have incomplete profile, but there's been two weeks for that, and I can't wait forever.

Basically this means that if your profile is incomplete, you won't be able to initiate communication on the site anymore, until you fix your profile.

Profile checklist

• Make sure your height and weight are set correctly.
• Mark at least one of the styles.
• Upload at least one profile photo. (Private or gallery photos will not do.)
• Write an introduction for yourself.

What functionality is unavailable if my profile is incomplete?

• You won't be able to initiate messages or challenges. (You can still reply if you receive one.)
• You won't be able chat.

Can't you make an exception? I really can't upload a photo!

No. I am sorry!

If you need computer help, try to get some from your friends. I'm fairly certain you can do it if you really try. Also note that your photo doesn't have to be an ID photo.

There are actually two exceptions: members who have donated are exempt from the restrictions above. This is not an attempt to get you to donate, though! This is a simply gesture to those who have encouraged me and helped the site; it would seem unfair to suddenly make the site they have helped no longer work for them.

The other exception is that you can always send a message to me, the site administrator, so you can ask for help if you need any. :)

– Admin