AspNetDating Demo Site - News

New features in AspNetDating 7.0

Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

New features

Themes gallery with automatic theme download and installation
Mobile version for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre and other modern mobile devices
Added dedicated "Browse Videos" page with global site video search
Twitter integration (status updates are posted to Twitter)
Scheduled announcements (administrators can schedule announcements to be sent on specific dates, specific dates after registration or inactivity)
Support for "Salute photo"
Support for "Link" profile question type
CCBill payment processor support
Daopay payment processor support
AlertPay payment processor support
New "Top Voted Users" web part
New "photo stack" effect for user primary thumbnails
Groups auto join feature (administrators can specify groups to be automatically joined when a user is registered; filtering by country/state/city is supported)
"Redirect to url after logout" setting
Ability to display site theme based on the selected language
Plugin diagnostic and status in admin tool

Upgraded features

Completely rewritten payment handling
Simultaneous support for credits and subscriptions
Mailbox can show additional status - whether the message has been read and/or deleted
Enhanced user search page with dynamic search fields
Video uploads feature support widescreen files (16x9)
More title/meta tags settings
Enhanced news editing page
Migration to Google SDK for YouTube embeds and GMail invitations

Cosmetic changes

CKEditor supported for HTML editing
New icons for web parts
New icons for message status
Theme updates

New features in AspNetDating 6.5

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

New features

Option "Only paid members can read e-mail". If enabled then free members will see "upgrade to read" text instead of the actual message.
Option "Auto approve classifieds"
Option "Maximum number of active classifieds per user"
Support for comments on the home page user events (similar to Facebook)
Billing plan option whether users can view explicit photos
Photo capture via webcam
Added "Relationship status" user field. Users can select if they are "Single", "In a relationship", "Engaged", "Married", "It's complicated", "In an open relationship". The user can also specify the other user in that relationship and a link will be shown on their profile.
Users can post their status updates directly to Facebook
Users can easily invite their friends from Facebook
User events page that shows all the recent events and details for that user
Option to generate square thumbnails (crop if necessary)
Option to disable gender information (for single-gender or other sites that do not need the gender info)
Option to disable the age information (for sites that do not need the age/birthday info)
Experimental support for "lazy load" for images
Integrated in-site translation for messages and profiles (using Google Translate API)
Ability to specify which profile questions are editable by paid users only
Ability to specify which profile questions are visible by paid users only
Added support for social bookmarking via AddThis (over 50 services including: Blogger, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Google Bookmarks, Live, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Twitter, and many more)

Upgraded features

Ability to send announcements per region
Banners can be targeted by country, state, city, gender, paid status, age and non-logged visitors
The admin part and user part translations are now separated
The import friends from e-mail feature now allows users to select which friends they want to invite
Added color picker to the edit skins page
Gadget file names can be changed from the settings
Showing new e-cards in the Vista gadgets
SEO Meta tags support for the Classifieds section
Users can change their albums visibility
Users are notified when another member gives them access to private content
Existing users can link their account with Facebook
FaceFinder plugin is now 100% managed code
Better caching for the banner
All javascripts are combined in a single load for up. Page load time is shortened by 40-60%
The payment with credits system now supports charging for chat, blog post, send e-card, view videos, view photos

Cosmetic changes

Users are automatically redirected to edit their profile after the registration is completed
Replaced FCKEditor with the Ajaxtoolkit html editor
Combined the "Find mutual friends" and "Find a connection" features

New features in AspNetDating 6.0

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Added new action "View mutual friends" when viewing a profile
Added an option to limit the number of comments users can leave on profiles, photos, blog posts. Default is 5
Added new privacy level - "Friends and their friends".
Added options "Can rate profiles", "Can rate photos" to billing plans and user level
Added CoolIris (formerly PicLens) support. For more info visit http://www.cooliris.com
Added "maximum word length" setting (default 30). The software checks and trims longer words to prevent layout distortion.
Added support to store images to disk instead of database.
Added checks for proper write permissions to the cache, logs and userfiles folders. The admin tool will show warnings if the permissions are not ok.
Added support for Classifieds.
Changed the last online feature to show "more than a month ago" instead of the exact number of days for inactive members.
Added profile answers region cache for improved performance.
Added ad blocking detection. If enabled the users using ad blockers will not be allowed to use the site.
Automatically downloads and updates the IP data files each week.
Greatly enhanced and redesigned online events popup. Better notifications for new messages and status changes.
Added support for extra smilies.
Added notification when someone is viewing your profile.
Optimized events for improved performance.
Enhanced bad words algorithm to increase accuracy.
Added "hot or not" functionality for the user photos.
Added "location" field to the group events. Using Google Maps for visualization.
Added support for comments on classifieds.
Added support for "warnings" in the groups.
Users are not auto-logged in after registration (if auto activation is enabled).
Automatically selects language based on the browser language or country of IP address.
Created and integrated Silverlight-based image and video uploader.
Added password check when user is deleting their account.
Added option "Visible only to paid members" for each profile question.
Automatically import profile from Myspace account
Support for MySpace Data Availability
Support for photo gallerie
Support for photo notes (both users and text notes)
Automatically import profile from Facebook account
Support for Facebook Connect
Support for Polls. New Polls home page component
Added option "Do not show ads to paid members"
Switched to the Microsoft Chart Control