Hello everyone,

I just deployed my first fixes and changes on WTM and here is a summary (nothing fancy) :

- fixed awesome button showing solved shots when a tag is specify (even if "include solved shots" was unchecked)
- fixed awesome button showing our own shots (except if a tag is specify and you check include solved shots)
- fixed AUs always having a "hard" difficulty and then cannot be seen with the random button if easy/medium difficulty is checked
- fixed Scruffy shouts don't appear in your home page
- fixed a LOT of errors 500 in favmovies, favcharacters, search (not all), login, register, logout, accept friends...
- removed "about" when its hours ago (and added "ago" in last recent visits", don't important)
- added pagination to the user search & the tag search. Now you don't have to wait forever if you want to search shots with the tag "animation", it's paginate. See : http://whatthemovie.com/search?t=tag&q=animation
- User search is working like the movie search, if one result, it goes directly to the profile
- Admins & Mods shouts can't be deleted from now on your profile, unless It's Scruffy. There were too many people who deleted our shouts when we warn them
- Mentions in spoiler, other profile, contest page, movie page, review, are now handled in your home page and the # of Tales should be correct now
- Fixed "NaN" showing when an user doesn't have upload with favs
- Favmovies now choose the best rating shot in the DB not deleted and with AT LEAST 10 votes. If no one can be found, it takes the first not deleted (like before), and if there is no shot at all in the DB, a "no shot" image will appear on your favmovies page to handle the previous error 500 which was caused by a movie with no shots at all.
- User will be redirected to his rejected shots when he deletes one of them instead of a random shot. That was boring when you wanted to delete more than one shot at the same time, you needed to go back to the settings etc, now if you delete your own shot in the rejected shots section, you will be redirected there after deleting
- You can now login by pressing the "Enter" key in the password input instead of having to click to login everytime
- If a movie doesn't have archive shots BUT has title/end shot, they will appear on the movie page index and they are now counted in the "snapshots total" link. See : http://whatthemovie.com/movie/beowulf_grendel
- fixed Friendships go wrong when somebody (hey Pala!) wants his account back, it was because only friend requests sent were deleted when somebody deletes his account and not the "received" one also
- fixed wrong "days left" for WTM supporters, now you should have the correct number of days left before your subscription expires
- New page for movies with no title shot (just better look and correct URLs) : http://whatthemovie.com/page/titles
- Fixed your total solves number. Before, that was including archive shots where you requested the solution. Bad!
- Fixed friendship does not work when you try to accept one from an user with a "." in his username
- Deleted a LOT of duplicate movies or invisible dupes (movies sharing the same url) or foreign movies with weird urls
- some text fixes here and here
- Added a lock function for movies. I have already locked 129 movies. From now, you will see a lock image on the movie page if the movie is a short, or a tv movie, or a porn/racist movie etc and you won't be able to upload shots from these movies. See :





If you see any movie on WTM which is not locked and should be, please leave a shout on my profile about it and i'll add it to the locked movies.

Really great work kinoute ! It's very nice to see that WTM keeps getting better and better. :)

Thanks for all your hard work, you seem to be a great addition to the Mod Team.

I'm looking forward to all these nice new features soon!

great job!
looking forward to the new features.

Good work kinoute :)

i agree with all of the above!! really great job :)

 

Just wanted to pop in and say awesome work Kinoute! Looking forward to see the features on your "What i'm working on" list!

EXCELLENT work!

BTW, I have a small request to ask, if possible: sometimes I found movies added to the db with the correct original non-english title only but with the wrong flag (usually the standard english one). I can edit info (abstract, title, year, IMDb link) but not the original language/flag related. I know that I can add alternative titles, but sometimes this is not possible because it's the only title available, but I think it's also a matter of accuracy...

Thanks a lot for your attention and help!

Oops, I missed it, sorry! :(

I think favmovies should only choose from the shots in the archive (or closed vault contests maybe). If the best rated shot from a movie is still in the FF or the NS it could out now still be displayed on the favmovies, what could give away the solution to this shot.

I only mentioned it because i noticed for one movie that the displayed shot was one, that's still in the ff.

Ok, just wanted to have mentioned it. ;)
PS: I removed the example from my previous post.

You're doing an awesome job kinoute! Many great fixes already and the ones planned are very nice too :)

I do have another request:
Would it be possible if a shot gets deleted (in FF) to check the next and previous shot and connect these with their '< previous'- and 'next >'-buttons? If the next shot used to be a now deleted shot, you will get redirected to a random shot, which can be very annoying if you're walking through the FF that way.
(or has it been fixed already? last time I had it is quite some time ago)

i just removed the FF

^ Thats because to prevent any malpractice.

Great work kinoute..!!

THNX FOR ALL YOUR WORK!! AWESOME! AND LOVE THE NEW IDEA'S TOO..

Great. I'm impressed! Fingers crossed for the results. Merci.

First of all ... great work.

But I have some comments
"- Favmovies now choose the best rating shot in the DB not deleted and with AT LEAST 10 votes. If no one can be found, it takes the first not deleted (like before), and if there is no shot at all in the DB, a "no shot" image will appear on your favmovies page to handle the previous error 500 which was caused by a movie with no shots at all."
I think 10 votes is to small a number. 25 would be a fairer number. The reason being the that awesome uploads get to high a rating imo. Whether this is because only fanboys vote for the screenshot I can't say, but I have seen awesome uploads with 11 votes and a rating of 9.5 and I think a regular uploaded shot with 45 votes and a rating of 8.25 should take preference.

"* crosbow
* CommentTime3 days ago
When upload a shot and he is in NS now, so one does only find out after the whole process, instead of into the begin? "
I think was he/she means is, that when uploading a shot, why not check the eligibility of shotuploading before the Captcha check rather than after. And I agree. It's a little annoying to have to guess what the Captcha is spelling, only to find out, that there allready is a shot in FF/NS.

The main thing is about the captcha, is to avoid people writing scripts that try the whole imdb library in the uploading step, so you get a nice list of which movies already have a shot in last 7 days/ns, which you can nicely start filling in.

kinoute: your suggestion would give people the exact time where the previous shot is, giving them almost a free solve :P

@Solhanne trust me, you're wrong about people making scripts. We have informations about guesses on shots and we had by the past some users with scripts answering automatically by parsing the tags of the shot.

So i won't be surprised if the captcha won't be there to see players using scripts to determine in a pretty little interval if a slot is free for a movie to be the first one to upload (for movies which the DVD is out today for example).

I stand corrected, then :-)

excellent work again, kinoute ! Thank you very much :)

I got another suggestion which at least in my opinion could be improved.

I don't know if I am the only one here or how the other users think about it, but I find this "You posted this snapshot"-bar on every of our shots extremely annoying.



It makes small shots which are 720 x 300 even look smaller. Plus it doesn't really add any advantage when we have it there. To see this white bar in the NS / FF overview that users can identify their shots very fast, yes that's an advantage but once you click on your shot, you know anyway it's yours (because everyone knows what he has uploaded), then there is no use for it anymore to see it on your actual shot.

So in my opinion it should be kept in the overview yes, but not on the actual shot since it makes the snapshots look smaller.

If you say it must be there, maybe another fancy solution could be invented to make this bar not appear on the actual shot, for example put it under the shot a bit or some smaller sign could do the same job as well etc.

Would be keen to hear how other people think about it or if I am the only one who is annoyed by this white bar. :)

Well done ,kinoute ! Thanks for the great job!

Regarding the white bar that Fireball mentioned: I also find it a bit annoying, even in normal shots when it only shows after solving, because it always takes a few pixels away from the shot. My suggestion would be to move the white bar below the shot, maybe even below the 16:9 frame that stays black for smaller pictures.

@rulo ok i'll change that
@alex68: alright too
@fireball i'll stick to the white bar for now since its our shots its not really important, but i'll think of an another way to show it if people still complain
@mikebozzio very good idea but that means a lot of work. I'm gonna definitely think about it and how handle it (great idea to keep the favs etc).