New feature(s)

Hey everyone - I've implemented a couple new features that I'm hoping will a) help you out, and b) make things a little easier to use. I'd appreciate you looking for any problems you may encounter while using them.

1. While viewing someone else's portfolio, if the design has not been approved yet, it will no longer link to "nowhere", but instead you'll see the title of the work and the words "under review" underneath it. (If the under review doesn't show up in red, force a refresh - the CSS is being cached these days).

2 . While viewing your own portfolio, if a design has not been approved yet, there will be a link based on the title, but it will lead to the submission page in case you want to resubmit the design.

3. While viewing your own portfolio, there is now a link to be able to edit a few things about a design you've submitted. Clicking on the edit link will take you to a new page where you can a) change the thumbnail representing the design (remember - thumbnails are the graphics we use on the front page), b) edit your comments about the design, and c) add or change tags about your design.

Tags are a way to identify elements in your design that users can search on. The tags are free form so you can use create tags with your name, graphical elements in the design, ideological themes, etc. The more tags we get, the more rich the results that will be returned when someone is searching for a particular concept or element.

I just noticed that my cleanup SQL didn't quite remove comments correctly from every design. If you run across a design that has doppleganger comments, please let me know so I can edit appropriately. Thanks.

Optimization! Yeah! I have just implemented some new optimizations for the main page that should result in significantly faster load times. It was basically a rewrite of our core module removing a lot of JOINs from the SQL and doing separate queries to pull the data. Not the most elegant of code, but a better solution for speed. In testing I saw 50% - 75% improvements in page load times. Please let me know if you see anything that looks odd.

Also, this should fix the incorrect behavior of the "mine" tab. Previously this would only show threads you contributed to if you a) started the thread or b) were the last person posting to the thread. Now, it correctly shows every thread you've contributed to at all.

Yes, I see a difference already in load times on the front page.

Sweet.

Faster load times and the "mine" tab works better.Super sweet.

jeff wrote:
Faster load times and the "mine" tab works better.Super sweet.

Unfortunately, we're not using caching yet either because of the Safari problem. So that will improve things even more once I get that working.

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