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The purpose of this section is to tell you about changes that have recently been
made to the website.
Changes July 17, 2008
- An RSS feed has been added for your status comments. You can subscribe to that feed on the My Feeds page.
- An RSS feed is also available that contains both your statuses and your friends statuses - if you like to keep up with what's going in in their lives. It's available on the Friends' Feeds page.
Changes June 11, 2008
- Added ability for certified members to put quick polls on their profiles.
- Added ability to edit trips under Edit Location.
- Added ability for iPhone users to set their status in the Profile tab.
Changes May 28, 2008
- Reworked the way navigation is done when you click on a profile.
- Added tabs for the various mailboxes when you are reading a message.
Changes May 28, 2008
- The menu structure has been completely revised to add Profile and Friends tabs.
- The Friends tab has the ability to show what your friends have been up to. And, of course,
it lets them keep up with you as well. Privacy Settings
lets you control what your friends can see about you.
- You can set your Status in the upper right area of the screen. Friends can
see what you're up to in the Friends tab.
- The eActivist and Boards sections have been removed.
- Gallery search has been updated and speeded up.
- Messages are now in a tabbed In Box which also shows Sent messages, Deleted messages, etc.
- Testimonials are also presented in tabbed format.
- Option has been added to Edit Interface to set the number of thumbnails returns in a result.
- Friend list and Message archive are now paged for quicker download.
- Calendar has been updated to display birthdays using a birthday cake icon on any days containing birthdays.
Changes April 12, 2008
- Most of the searches have been combined into an easier to use and more powerful Advanced Search.
Changes May 10, 2008
- Added "People You Might Know" to the right side bar.
- Enhanced View Invitations.
Changes March 17, 2008
- Added ability to invite friends from AOL, Hotmail, gmail and yahoo.
- Moved all Privacy settings to a new page in Account Settings.
Changes February 4, 2008
- Added new way to create New Messages to friends.
- Added ability to add a video from the Video tab directly to your profile.
Changes January 30, 2008
Changes January 28, 2008
- Enhanced member block to more fully block information from a blocked member.
- Allow Favorite Photos to be tagged.
- Added ability to search by height in the Advanced search.
Changes January 22, 2008
- Added ability to search videos by keywords.
Changes December 24, 2007
- Added ability to see your friends by state/province.
- Improvements to the way message notifications occur.
- Improvements to the way pop up blockers are handled for incoming Instant Connexions.
Changes November 29, 2007
- Added larger thumbnail option.
Changes October 20, 2007
- Fixed pop up blocker handler for Instant Connexions. Still more to go.
Changes September 18, 2007
- All searches now support a random sort order.
April-August 2007
- Allowed certified members to have 18 photos rather than just 9.
- Allow members to have customized home pages and customized profiles.
- Added code to handle member recommended videos.
- Added <section> tag for adding sections to profiles in HTML. See
the Help w/HTML page for more info.
- iPhone version of Connexion added at http://iphone.connexion.org.
- Message alerts are now shown just below the tabs.
- Made message alerts work even on browsers without Flash.
- Added ability to see unread message in the Sent Messages folder.
- Added notification of bookmarks that have recently been added to your profile.
- Added special "mini-ads" on the right for wide screens to show random interesting stuff.
- Reworked the News section to show both News and Potpourri stories.
- Completely reworked Who's Online to use Ajax.
- Added Ajax in lots of places.
- A bunch of other small things that I can't remember.
Changes March 26, 2007
- Added ability restrict who can send you messages. They can optionally be restricted to
friends only or to friends and their friends. The setting can be changed on the
Privacy page of Account Settings.
Changes March 15, 2007
- Added ability to set "Work Safe" mode on most pages where it matters.
- Added member photos to comments on news stories.
- Added member photos to Event List.
Changes March 14, 2007
- Added distance sorts to many searches.
- Added option to Privacy Settings to allow you to be private about your approximate location.
- Revamped Mail Groups.
Changes March 12, 2007
- Reworked the way the Chat tab is organized.
Changes March 6, 2007
- Made system only display 50 messages at a time.
Changes January 23, 2007
- Eliminated pop up for new messages and made it dynamically display the message of the status line.
Changes January 15, 2007
- Made "Who's Online" use deault search types.
- Made member location more accurate using GoogleMaps to determine the location.
Changes January 14, 2007
- Added ability to sort members in "Who's Online" in various ways.
Changes October 17, 2006
- Added ability to show friends of friends in "Who's Online" and separated the notion
of where someone lives from other qualities about them.
Changes September 26, 2006
Changes August 25, 2006
- Added switch to suppress the display of unreviewed photos or photos that might show too
much skin or be too sexual for a strict work environment to the home page.
Changes August 28, 2006
- Added random members from your state or province to the home page.
Changes August 25, 2006
- Added ability to suppress the display of unreviewed photos or photos that might show too
much skin or be too sexual for a strict work environment. The mode can be enabled
in the Edit Interface section of Account Settings.
Changes August 19, 2006
- Added ability to search through your old messages.
Changes August 3, 2006
- Certified members now have their thumbnail show up as an icon in chat.
- Also upgraded the UI generation for future enhancements - though no one should
really notice that...
Changes June 27, 2006
- Added code to support placement of youtube.com video.
Changes June 21, 2006
- Upgraded Most Viewed Members to let you
search based on gender and, to a limited degree, location.
Changes June 19, 2006
- Added options to Search tab to display the number of profile views in various ways.
Changes June 12, 2006
- Added suggestions of interesting groups to join on the home page.
Changes June 2, 2006
Changes May 26, 2006
- Added ability to pause scrolling pictures in profile as well as increase or decrease the scroll speed.
Changes May 18, 2006
- Added code to stop the dragging or copying of full size images.
Changes May 2, 2006
- Added limited interface for Blackberry & Treo. The interface is accessible via:
http://bb.connexion.org
or
http://treo.connexion.org
Changes April 10, 2006
- The Who's Online page now automatically refreshes after one minute.
- The friends Online page now automatically refreshes after one minute (rather than every two minutes).
- On the WHo's Online page and the Friends Online page, made the names of people that just
logged on show up in red.
Changes April 1, 2006
- Added smileys. And aded ability to enable or disbale them in the Interface section of Account Settings.
Changes March 18, 2006
- Added ability to put captions on photos.
Changes March 16, 2006
- Moved all settings related to viewing profiles to the Interface
section in Account Settings.
- Made photo scroller in profiles available everywhere.
- Added ability for news stories in groups to use HTML.
- Fixed ability to select an initial chat room.
Changes March 14, 2006
- Added ability to store only your email at log on and not both the email address and password.
- Added ability for groups to have private banner ads.
Changes March 12, 2006
- Added option to ignore the "style" tag in member's profiles. It allows you to suppress
most of the ugliness.
Changes March 11, 2006
- Added ability to add HTML to the About Me and Want to Meet sections of the profile.
- Added ability to override the autostart of embedded assets on an HTML page.
- Added HTML help.
- Update Terms of Service to cover HTML issues.
Changes March 8, 2006
- Added personalized URLs for profiles. Those can be set up here.
- Added scrolling thumbnails to all profiles making it so you can see all someone's pictures easily. This feature is only available to certified members.
Changes January 10, 2006
- Reworked all searches so they can tolerate the Back button.
Changes January 6, 2006
- Added ability for members to subscribe to comments on Quick Polls.
Changes January 5, 2006
- Added ability for members to comment on Quick Polls (thanks for the idea Greg).
Changes January 3, 2006
- Added ability for members to comment on news stories.
Changes December 22, 2005
- Added ability for group moderators to conduct Quick Polls of their members.
Changes December 19, 2005
- Added ability sort bookmarks alphabetically.
Changes December 16, 2005
- Added ability to display only unread messages.
- Added ability to search by first name in the Age/Location search.
- Added ability group moderators to add a specialized color scheme, a skin, to their groups.
Changes December 10, 2005
- Added ability for group moderators to invite group members to events.
- Added ability for certified members to see which certified members are online.
Changes December 9, 2005
- Added ability for people to be informed when guests respond to a party invitation.
Changes November 19, 2005
Changes October 21, 2005
- Added ability to have groups which are restricted by gender or state/province.
Changes October 19, 2005
- Added ability to have groups. This function is only available to members in the US and
Canada, however, only certified members can create a group.
Changes August 17, 2005
- Added ability to email stories to friends.
Changes September 29, 2005
- Added ability to attach a private note to a profile. This function is only available to
certified members.
Changes August 2, 2005
- Added day of week info when setting appointment. This function is only available to
certified members.
Changes July 30, 2005
- Added ability to show a subset of friends when adding guests to a party.
Changes July 29, 2005
- Added ability to block someone directly from a message without going to their profile.
Changes July 27, 2005
- Added photos to certain emails we send announcing friend requests and new messages.
Changes June 15, 2005
Changes April 26, 2005
- Whos's online now has ability to only show those that can chat.
Changes April 23, 2005
- Suppression of birthday display on calendar is now remembered as part of a member's prefs.
Changes April 7, 2005
- Added ability to supress birthday display in the calendar.
Changes March 31, 2005
- Added ability to specify your height and weight - though there's no way to search on that yet.
- Added ability to specify your tshirt size. That'll let us send you a nice tshirt as a
prize if you ever win one of our contests. We don't share your tshirt size with anyone, BTW.
Changes March 30, 2005
- Added abiliy for party hosts to set the response of guests (if the guests are Connexion members).
- Added ability to send messages to party guests if they are Connexion members and if you
are logged in.
Changes March 29, 2005
- Moved help into all sub menus rather than giving it it's own tab.
- Added Certified Members.
- Added appointment function for certified members.
- Added discussion boards for certified members.
- Added birthday alarms for certified members.
- Added ability for certified members to search for certified members.
- Reorganized Account Settings, Edit Profile, etc.
- Fixed bug that allowed testimonials of private profiles to be indexed by web crawlers.
- Miscellaneous UI improvements.
Changes February 15, 2005
- Added option in Account Settings to hide your profile from non-members.
Changes January 31, 2005
- Added ability to erase your conversation archive with someone.
- Added another catch all category called "Potpourri" for stories that aren't hard news.
Changes January 15, 2005
- Put National and Local GLTB News clips in the News section.
- Fixed Max Attendees in a party so that the limit is actually honored.
Changes January 14, 2005
- Added ability to all searches to look for people interested in a LTR.
- Added ability to set the above as your default search in Account Settings.
- Also added options to restrict which subset of the online members are showing. You can
now restrict it by sexual orientation, gender and relationship type as well as the usual
geographic location.
Changes January 13, 2005
- Added ability in Account Settings to limit who can see your profile. Setting it to
"Only Connexion members" or "Only Connexion members and guests" will prevent your profile from
being indexed by Google, for example.
- Added help for iSight users on configuring iSight to work with IC & Chat.
- Added help for people with misconfigured browsers.
Changes December 5, 2004
- Added ability to search for old news stories. Literal phrases may be enclosed in double quotes.
Changes November 10, 2004
- Added ability to see who's online is some state other than your own.
- Added the ability to see which of the people that have bookmarked you are online.
- I'm sure I've added other things since August 5th, but I can't remember what!
Changes August 5, 2004
- Added "Dating" and "In an Open Marriage" as relationship statuses. Note that if you select
these statuses, you will show up when someone does a search for people that are "available".
Changes August 3, 2004
- Added MTF and FTM as genders.
Changes July 26, 2004
- Added panel to show which of your friends are online. It automatically refreshes every
2 minutes.
Changes July 23, 2004
- Added highlighting around friends in Who's online.
- Added back a small list of friends on the home page whish was originally
deleted when news was added.
Changes July 22, 2004
- Added LGTB related news in the United States.
Changes June 30, 2004
- Added ability in Account Settings to filter out certain classes of "spam". A full
description of the capability is contained in Help w/Spam.
Changes June 29, 2004
- Added ability to have more than one host for an event.
Changes June 25, 2004
- Added option to require an exact match on the first name in search by name/email. Also
required entry of a first name if you're searching on a last name for security reasons.
- Revamped the UI when deleting a message and responding to a message to make it go back
to the full message list less often.
- Added the ability to see the archive when reading a message.
- Fixed a bug in calculating the points people received.
- A bit more added to the help section (about a week ago actually).
- Internal changes that only a mother can love. Many are in preparation for "Groups".
Have I mentioned that I'm adding groups yet? <smile>
Changes May 29, 2004
- Added a quick profile to chat windows.
- Added ability to see who's online within 75 and 100 miles of your location.
- Added ability to see which of the people you've bookmarked are online.
- Added a few countries to the country list (Iraq and South Korea among others).
Changes May 7, 2004
- Added option in "Chat/IC Prefs" to limit IC to people in your country.
Changes May 4-6, 2004
- Added option in "Account Settings" to default searches to only people in your country
or by relationship status.
- Removed old style "Who's Online" palette.
Changes Wednesday April 14, 2004
- Added ability to restrict which members are showing in "Who's Online" in
interesting ways.
Changes Monday April 12, 2004
- Converted calendar to show as a grid. The list format is still available via a link.
- Added birth dates, basic secular holidays and political events to the calender
when displayed in grid form.
- Added unread message count.
Changes Friday April 9, 2004
- Added news clips on LGBT issues to the eActivist tab!
- Added ability to restrict people in "Who's Online" to just be people in your state.
Changes Tuesday March 30, 2004
- Added lots more stuff to the eActivist tab. Check it out!
- Added a list of who you've ICed with in the last 7 days.
- Added a link so you can chat with someone directly from the "Who's Online" page
rather than going to their profile.
- Added ability to create your own parties.
- Added more help pages.
Changes Wednesday March 3, 2004
- Added a spelling checker for messages and profiles.
- Added ability to unsend unread messages.
- Added ability to delete testimonials that you've given to others.
- Added ability to read mesasges sequentially without returning to the list of messages.
- Added a number of things related to political activism in the eActivist tab.
- Added ability to allow members to enter contact information used when writing to elected officials or the press.
- Added ability to help people register to vote.
- Added ability to contact elected officials.
- Added ability to contact the press (Colorado only at present).
Changes February, 2004
- Added ability to report messages as SPAM.
- Added ability to remove yourself from another person's group message list.
- Added a number of things related to political activism in the eActivist tab.
- Added ability to show your significant other in your profile.
Also allowed for 3-way relationships.
- Lots of changes only a programmer would care about for multi-server environment.
Changes Wednesday January 21, 2004
- Changed search by name to look up variants of the first name
(e.g. searching got "Susan" will find "Sue", "Susie", etc.).
- Also changed search by name to require exact matches on the last name. This was done
to increase privacy.
Changes Monday January 19, 2004
- Added Instant Connexions (like instant messaging). Flash must be installed in the browser
for this to work.
Changes Friday January 16, 2004
- You can block members from sending you messages with a link in their profile.
- You can unblock members either from the link in their profile of from the list of blocked
members available in the Chat section.
- Allowed you to suppress photos in the messgaes section for quicker display.
- Added a Calendar section as the future home of eVite-like functionality.
- Added things to the Chat section in preparation for the forthcoming "Instant Connexions".
Changes Monday December 8, 2003
- Added birthday list under "Search" tab.
- Added more countries and converted date and time format for non-US users.
- Added time zone adjustment to dates and times.
Changes Wednesday November 12, 2003
- Added option in Account Settings to suppress all but the "New Messages" alert at log on time
as well as the "Message Sent" alert. That does mean you have to pay more careful attention to
the "To do" list on the main page though.
Changes Thursday November 6, 2003
- Added option in Account Settings to share your last name, but only with friends.
- Added abbreviated profile pop up to New Group and Edit Group in the Messages tab.
Changes Tuesday November 4, 2003
- Switched to Connexion.org address.
- Added ability to create mail groups of friends and send them messages.
Changes Friday October 24, 2003
- Messages in your Sent folder can now be deleted.
- You can now select all messages for deletion in a folder.
- A convenient method to access your prior conversations was added.
- Sent or deleted messages older than 30 days are automatically purged from the system.
- Any message older than 60 days is automatically purged from the system.
for Coloradoans only at present, adds !!! if they aren't registered to vote. [If this info
about you is incorrect, let me know because I'm trying to debug the voter matching.]
Changes Wednesday October 15, 2003
- Added option to require entry of last name before someone can be added as a friend.
Each member selects whether this option applies to them or not in Account Settings.
Changes Tuesday October 14, 2003
- Account Settings has an option to let you suppress the emails that are automatically
sent when new messages or invitations are received.
- Option to search on orientation added to all searches.
Changes Thursday September 25, 2003
- Made friend acceptances email the originator of the invitation.
- UI changes to make the site more woman-friendly.
Changes Saturday September 6, 2003
- Combined Gallery and Search.
- Added Chat tab in preperation for Chat capability.
- Added "Send to Friend" to make sending friends a message easier.
Changes Sunday September 1, 2003
- Added "First" and "Last" options to navigate through large searches.
Changes Saturday August 31, 2003
- Added ability in Gallery to search on relationship status and sexual orientation.
Changes Thursday August 29, 2003
- Made green circle on message tab turn red when unread messages are present.
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