MeetFighters News

Due to the request of some members, and some hopefully-soon-to-be-members, it is now possible to restrict your profile to registered members. A restricted profile will not be indexed by internet search engines, and visitors of the site will not be able to see the profile.

The profile will still turn up in searches, but when the visitor clicks on it, he will be brought to a page where he is asked to log in or register.

Also, blocked users will not be able to visit each others' profiles any more. I'm hoping this will help cool tempers a bit. Or not; either way, blocking a member sort of implies that you are no longer interested in any sort of exchange, and blocking the profile might just be a logical addition to that. Since blocking is a two-edged sword, you won't be able to visit the blocked member's profile either.

To hide your profile from non-registered visitors, visit your profile, and set your profile's visibility to 'Restricted'. You can set it back to 'Public' any time.

That's it for today, suggestions and comments are welcome.

– Admin out.

You may have noticed the new front page. Or maybe you haven't, that's good too because it means you already know the side inside out.

Also, there was a bit of a downtime today as I was upgrading the memory of the AllFighters.info server from 1GB to 4GB. As membership and site usage have been climbing steadily in the past 6 months, this, along with the new database management system, will hopefully be able to serve the next 1000 members with adequate speed.

I recently got a request from someone who is not a member yet. The guy wrote:

Is there a way to post a profile that is 100% not public?

right now anyone can see member profiles without even having an account. Also the profiles become very public and are easily searchable by google. Is there a way to post a profile that cannot be found on google searches and is only visible to members who have profiles?

Do you think this is a good idea? Tell me.

Hi All Fighters,

I've been busy, working behind the scenes on deploying a new database management system for AllFighters. The site now uses the open-source database PostgreSQL. Hopefully it will prove more robust and the site slowdowns of late will be a thing of the past.

Thanks so the new database, I have been able to re-enable the "online users" list. The previous database just couldn't handle the extra work.

Also, thanks to all the members who have donated, I will soon be able to buy a much-needed memory upgrade for the allfighters.info server. As a token of appreciation, it is now possible to search the members list for our donors. Thanks again, guys!

What else... Ah, yes: the suggestion box can now send you a message when a particular entry has changed! It's easy to subscribe to entries: navigate to the entry's page, and click the Subscribe button. (Unsubscribing is just as easy.)

– Admin out

Dear members,

I know it's been a while since the last site update and I'm sorry. In fact this might be the last site update for a while now as I am busy with some issues unrelated to AllFighters. I'm sorry if your favorite feature request is delayes as a consequence.

On a brighter note, here's the list of changes:

• Tracker/2009-05-27 2: You can view your messages with another member as a thread. You click on "thread" next to one of your messages, and violá! A list pops up with all the messages between you and the other guy.

• The Favorites page lists all your favorites, past opponents and blocks. It now got a clearer layout: instead of lots of buttons, it now has one combo box with all the stuff you might want to change.

• The World Map of All Fighters marker layout algorithm has been rewritten.

• The "Online users" feature has been disabled for performance reasons. I'm looking to buy more RAM for the server to alleviate some of the performance issues with the site. If you can help out, please do so.

Today I have finished work on a bunch of new features.

• Tracker/2009-04-14 2: Members now each have a picture gallery. You may upload up to 100 photos to your gallery. These will appear separately from your profile images. The same rules, however apply: no pornographic images. You can insert these photos into your blog (this is not implemented yet – work in progress).

• Based on a blog entry and the following discussion, the recommendation system has been changed. Positive recommendations are the same as before, luckily, most of the existing recommendations were positive. However, based on experience the negative recommendations no longer have free-form text, and are "multiple choice" instead. To prevent abusers from abusing the abuse reports (read that again), only members with at least three good recommendations can post these.

• Tracker/2009-05-15: You can now suspend your member account. While suspended, your account will not show up in searches and other members cannot send you messages. They can still read your blog and comment on it. You can restore your account to active status at any time, by simply logging in.

As always, your feedback helps make this site better. I would like to invite everyone to participate in the following discussions:

• Real vs Cyber Past Opponents
• Battle Reports

– Admin out