Okay, so we’ve been working on a bunch of random things in the background (hence the title of this entry)… The main thing being implementing a brand new design for the entire site, which should be launching shortly. We’re also in the process of moving hosts, which is why we’re holding off on putting up anything major right now. Okay, that’s all I really have to say right now, I just wanted to let you all know what’s going.
-chad
For all 3 of you that actually read this blog, you might be interested to know that Gerbick from studiowhiz.com did a full-blown article/interview with yours truly. Find it here:
http://studiowhiz.com/discussion/54/get-your-chat-on-tworlcom-interview/
-chad
So Jay put in the new method of accepting chats that I mentioned in the last post called “Planned Site Upgrades, pt II”…. The basic idea is that in order to formally “accept” a chat now, you have to clickon the “accept chat” button on the tworl chat information page rather than just opening the chat information. Also, all of your “unaccepted” chats will appear in your history for 48 hours… If they are still unaccepted after 48 hours, they will automatically be deleted.
-chad
Okay, so we didin’t forget about the things we mentioned in the first “Planned Site Upgrades” post… There have been a few unforeseen issues that have caused us some major delays (and headaches) in regards to changing the way that the chats are initiated. Anyway, I just wanted to say that we haven’t forgot about it, and the seeming lack of updates over the past week is really a result of the amount of time those updates have been taking.
In other news, we’re planning on upgrading the whole method of accepting a chat, probably sometime later today. The basic insipiration is this: we got some requests to add a feature to allow members to more easily keep track of links to tworl chats that they’ve initiated in case you accidentally close the AIM window, or somehow just lose the link. We also received some requests to be able to look at a tworl chat info page for a chat that you’ve been invited to without actually “accepting” it.
So basically, this is what’s going to happen once these changes are up: in order to “accept” a chat, you will have to actually click an “accept this chat” button on the tworl chat info page (this is if you’ve been tworled… if you were the person that initiated the tworl chat, it is assumed that you’ve accepted the chat). Additionally, all of your ‘unaccepted’ tworls, meaning any tworl in which you are a participant and both people have not accepted, will appear in your tworl history for 24 hours. After 24 hours, if both people haven’t accepted it, it will be automatically deleted.
-chad
Hey all, I just added a small little box to the chat information page that basically reminds you to log in if you’re one of the two people shown on the page if you want to be able to accept the conversation, rate the other person, or see all the contact information (which is hidden unless you’re logged in as one of the two members whose chat you’re looking at). Okay that’s all for now.
-chad
We made an additional 1,000 beta testing accounts available again today. Get ‘em while they’re hot! 
-chad
Something weird has been going on with internet explorer… It’s been giving some of our users a “Cannot Load Page. Operation Aborted” error message on some of the pages of tworl. We think we identified what was causing this problem and resolved it, but if anyone is still having problems, please let us know and we’ll try to fix it asap.
I also optimized a bunch of our pages so hopefully they’ll load a little faster than they used to.
-chad