Hi all!,

Yet another release of Shapado. As usual, lots of new features, usability improvements, SEO improvements and bug fixes.

On the new features front we have:

• new autobiographer badge

• more ajax, you can now vote from the front page with ajax, add question to your favorites with ajax, watch a question with ajax, follow users with ajax

• searching for users

• added an optional WYSIWYG editor

• more user profile fields (birthday and website)

• allow to mark groups as containing adult content, which adds a legal warning users need to confirm (18 years old only)

• improved comment styling

• added a language filter to the sidebar even to logged out users

• added various tabs to user listing for sorting

Usability improvements:

• added more tooltips to voting widgets, questions, links and buttons in general

• better error message when user forgets to add tags

• specify more clearly what fields are needed when creating a new question

• ease up limitation for asking short questions

• we auto-link @user names like twitter in every posts.

• questions index have links to latest comment/answer/update

SEO improvements:

• make use of rel=tag

• pretty urls for tags

• make use of h1 tags for questions titles

• make use of meta tag and description tag (using group tags and question tags)

• use asynchronical google analitycs (page loads much faster)

• compact all js files and css files into one big file each, makes the page loads much faster

• remove badge type from url

Bug fixes:

• fixed feedback

• fixed some redirection issues after login

• fixed notifying users of their own comments

• fixed auto-submitting questions on hitting enter

• make “hot” question tab work

• more translation

Thanks a lot to all the people who contributed to this release, be it with their code (Andphe, Shingara and Gobolindo) or their outstanding bug reports (Ron Gross aka ripper234).

Posted on 2010-04-12 07:56:06 UTC

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