artSIG Information

artSIG version 2.3.1 (March 28, 2003)

Bug fixes

• Problem with users being sent to the Interrupted page when uploading a file that is too large has been fixed.
• Fixed the internal error that occured when users clicked the Upload button without selecting a file.
• Fixed the comma that appeared as part of the link at the bottom of notification emails when the ID in the link was greater than 999.
• Fixed some bugs with the administrative features.

artSIG version 2.3 (March 27, 2003)

New or improved features

• Premium Members can now receive email notification when a variety of events occur.
• Premium Members may now create and send an unlimited number of invitation membership passes.

Bug fixes

• Minor spelling and formatting errors corrected.

artSIG version 2.2 (March 26, 2003)

Details of Terms of Service change

New or improved features

• Critics now receive three points for each helpful rating they receive if they write one of the first three qualified critiques for any work.
• Users are now limited to submitting four works every three days for Premium Members and one submission every three days for Basic Members. Users may temporarily increase their quota by writing critiques. See the Submit Work page for more details.
• The Neglected Works and Random Works pages now work properly. There is also a new Hot Works page.
• artSIG is now using the new 3.0.6 version of the MySQL connector, which the MySQL connector team estimates is 50-100% faster than the old 2.0.14 version.

Bug fixes

• The reply count for the forum is now updated correctly when a reply is saved.
• Overlapping table cells in the work critiques lists have been fixed.
• Fixed the error that appeared if the user entered the wrong account name or password.

artSIG version 2.1 (March 20, 2003)

Major Terms of Service change

Instead, when a work is submitted, a user may choose to make the work committed or uncommitted. A work that is committed may be edited or deleted within one hour of its being submitted, but may only be withdrawn and replaced with a thumbnail after that point. A work that is uncommitted may be deleted by the user at any time.

The status of the work, either committed or uncommitted, is displayed along with the rest of the work details on the view work page. Critics may choose to refrain from writing critiques for uncommitted works, since those works, and their critiques, may be deleted at any time.

A work may be freely changed between committed and uncommitted within one hour of its being submitted. After one hour, the work may be changed from uncommitted to committed, but not vice-versa.

As part of this change, the window of time in which critiques, discussions, and replies may be edited has also been reduced to one hour. The edit window for these types of contributions used to be 72 hours, but that was mainly in order to be consistent with the edit window for works.

New or improved features

• Mail forwarding now properly handles <BR> tags in the message.
• Format of work critiques pages improved.
• An icon now indicates a new work, critique, discussion, reply, or mail message.
• HTML filter now strips out unallowed tag attributes, closes unterminated quoted attribute values, and adds missing end tags.
• artSIG News forum integrated with the main page.

Bug fixes

• Various typos fixed.
• Premium membership page no longer displays non-existent fax number.
• Complimentary pass activation page no longer claims that it is sending the user a Premium Membership pass code if the complimentary pass is for a Basic Membership.
• Clicking continue on complimentary pass activation page without entering a name or email address now generate the proper error messages.
• The relevance qualifier had a bug and was not working; it has been fixed.
• The works filter now correctly filters user works and user portfolio pages.

artSIG version 2.0 (March 7, 2003)

artSIG version 2.0 was in beta testing from February 9, 2003. It went through six beta versions and is, as of this date, released to the public.

Although this version of artSIG is "complete," there are many pages and feature that exist in name only. These fill be filled in over the next few weeks. You can check here to see what we've recently completed.

Improvements over version 1.15f

• New account names uniquely identify users.
• The new critique qualifier seeks to restore integrity to the rating system by detecting and disqualifying critiques that appear to be intended to "pump up" or "put down" other users' ratings.
• Direct support for replies to critiques (no more links to the forums).
• Support for editing works, discussions, critiques, and replies after they have been saved.
• Better notification of new works, critiques, discussions, and replies.
• Ability to display the ratings for a critique.
• Optional ability to use the Editize HTML editor instead of typing HTML codes into the text area control.
• Better administrative controls, which allow us to respond to requests and deal with abuse more efficiently.
• Support for paid Premium Memberships and additional features for Premium Members.
• Integrated artSIG mail system eliminates the need to display user email addresses.

Bug fixes since version 2.0 beta 6

• Invitation feature fixed to properly locate the next available membership pass.
• Invitation page allows member to specify the name and email address that will appear on the invitation.
• Forwarded artSIG mail now includes the account names of the sender and recipient.
• Mail message form now rejects account names that have slashes or other illegal characters.
• Problems with the number of entries displayed on the My Works, My Work Critiques, and My Discussions pages resolved.
• Fixed the delete link on the help administration page.

February 9, 2003

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