MMORPG.com Development Blog
Keeping site users abreast of changes here at MMORPG.com

It's been in the wings for a long time now with other projects and priorities pushing it around but Skywisenight and I finally got around to wrapping this thing up!  It's an exciting change from our old list in that this one is fully customizable.  You can choose how you want to view the data and build your own custom lists.

MMORPG.com members can also save their custom gamelists, up to 5 of them in fact.  So head over to the new gamelist and check it out.  We've added more data fields to it and made it ALOT more useable than the old list ever was.

Let me or Skywise know of any issues that pop up or any other sweet ideas you might have for the gamelist area!

Just a heads up to all bloggers I've setup pings to the major blog aggregator sites to alert them when new entries are created on your blog!  The sites I currently have setup to receive pings are:

1. Technorati.com
2. Weblogs.com
3. Icerocket.com
4. Google.com

As I come across more aggregators I'll add them to the ping code.  This should help get our blogs more exposure around the internet which is always a good thing!  Another small item I updated was injecting each blogs RSS link into the browser so it can be picked up by the users browser and added to a users subscribed RSS feeds easier than before.  This new feature goes hand in hand with the RSS feed link already present on each blog.

Just a heads up to all of the bloggers that this afternoon the contributor functionality went live!  What does this mean?  Well you can now invite up to 5 MMORPG.com registered users to join you in having access to posting in your blog!

To access this new functionality go to your blog and click on the "Manage" link to the right of the "Owner" text in the left menu of your blog.  You'll then be whisked away to a page where you can add / delete contributors to your blog.

We really hope to see some cool blogs result from this.  So what's next on the plate of todo's for the blogging system?  Well I'm currently working on a ping functionality to hit the major blog aggregators out there(technorati,weblogs etc) when a blog is updated so it can be indexed and be seen by a much larger audience then just the traffic surfing through MMORPG.com

As always I look forward to suggestions / comments about the blogs and am always looking for new cool features to implement!