Aug 17th 2008 06:01:54 am

A few baby step-type site changes to tell you about…

The details: Founders can now make officers and members co-founders. Any founder can demote or remove another founder, but you cannot demote or remove yourself from a founder position. Also, group swaps should now still stay on the group homepage through the sign up deadline instead of being removed the day before. Finally, the list of users on the Manage Group Members page is flowing into three columns now instead of just one. That last one is a small change, but it makes viewing members a little easier.

BIG CHANGE: We have made a reversal of policy and now allow members to delete their own accounts. Threats of legal action led to this change. Now, when a user deletes their account ALL info (except username and past comments made throughout the site) is removed from our system completely. Deleted accounts absolutely canNOT be retrieved. However a special “address token” is created and kept in our database which prevents users from creating new accounts with the same address. So, only delete your account if you are completely sure. Fraudulent and rule breaking accounts will still be fully suspended, not deleted.

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Mar 2nd 2008 12:06:42 pm

We have been working on a few small site changes this weekend. Here are the details:

• Swap partners are no longer auto assigned. This has been a confusing subject mostly due to my own mistakes and bad info, however we have now come to a solution which we believe will be most effective. Coordinators are now completely responsible for assigning partners for their swaps. The Swap-bot computer will NOT auto-assign partners at any time. Coordinators have one week (7 days) to assign partners for their swaps. If partners are not assigned within one week the swap is DELETED by the Swap-bot computer. All participants will receive an email letting them know that the swap was deleted.

  Side note: If a swap has been deleted because the coordinator has not logged in for over a week and never assigned partners, we consider it perfectly acceptable for one of the swap’s participants to start a similar swap.

• You can now drop from swaps at any time before partners are assigned. Before you could not drop from a swap if the sign up deadline had passed, now you can drop after the sign up deadline if partners are not assigned.
• I have revised the FAQ to reflect these changes, but as always let me know if you notice any errors.
• One more little change for group founders: We have added the date that users requested to join a group under their info on the group “Approve Join Requests” pages.

We hope you like these changes. Happy swapping!

UPDATE: My wording above may be slightly confusing. Coordinators do not actually have to pair up the participants in their swaps, they simply have to initiate the process by clicking the “assign partners” link. The Swap-bot computer still matches all partners. It just does not ever initiate that process automatically. Sorry for any confusion.

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Aug 20th 2007 10:01:53 am

Travis worked hard making a few improvements to the site this weekend. Here is what has been improved:

• There is now a “games” category for swaps. You select up to three swap categories when creating each swap, and you can search by category on the “View all swaps” page.
• The image uploading problem when editing newly created swaps should now be fixed. You should have no problem uploading .jpgs, .gifs, or .pngs to represent your swaps now.
• The account self deletion option should now be working correctly. If you choose to delete your account (permanently) you can now click on the link at the very bottom of the “Edit Profile” page and, if you are not in any open swaps, your account will automatically be deleted. Previously this option had a few bugs.

Please let us know if you notice any problems with these three improvements. Thanks!

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Apr 16th 2006 01:40:22 pm

I made a change this morning to the way the database indexed the rows and it screwed everything up. All the swap partners in every swap got changed. Not good. The solution only took a few minutes to figure out, but I took the scare as warning sign to fix how partners are stored. So now swap partners are stored a little more statically, which is a very good thing.

Please email or comment if things aren’t looking right.

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Mar 8th 2006 10:52:06 pm

Changes made tonight:

• SB now sends a reminder email one week in advance to the close of the swap signup
• Added a “Drop from swap” link at the top of the swap details page if you are signed up for the swap
• Fixed a “Forgot my password” error where the text of the email was being displayed before the email was sent (ooops…)

Update: I got the “nag” email reminders setup. For the first month following the end of the swap, anyone who hasn’t clicked the “I sent my items” link will receive a daily email from Swap-bot letting them know they need to send their items.

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