New MyProfile Editor

Revamped the MyProfile Editor section to a more streamlined version. Now it supports tabs and have a cleaner interface. All the clutter have been removed and better integration with the page.

Enhance Who's Online Module

Enhance Who's Online Module
This is an enhanced version on the previous who's online. New additions include an icon to indicate users with profile pic. An added bonus is the indicator for music profile.

The alogarithm has also been improved to accurately show the users online.
(A bug well known with the default mambo module).
This is achieved by adding a timing slice code within a period of 5 second to update the MOS session variable.

More works shall be done to use the AJAX framework to facilitate near realtime effect of users logging into the system.

Updates for Feb, Mac, April and May

PHYSICAL SERVER UPGRADE
Yeapp been too busy to update the update page (LOL)
Anyway, here are a few code changes being done to the site since January:-
- Registration module for the BALI Chub & Chaser Gathering
- Who's viewed you module :: so people know who are viewing them
- remove redundant e-mail data from profile to user data
- restrictions to Javachatroom, now only registered members can use the javachat.
- upgraded the physical server to a Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165


and Finally

LOGIN VIA E-MAIL

:: For an increase security, we have implimented login via e-mail address since there were complaints of the same people masquerading under different username. It's not yet fool proof but it does give an added security measure against fraud accounts.

User Profile Approval

One of the top priority for MyChub is user security and a peace of mind. Of late, there is a raising concern regarding anonymous people misusing the messaging feature of mychub. Thus, to make mychub a safer place, a user profile approval system was introduced. By integrating an approval system, only known users with a valid picture can message each other. This is by far the most common method of security for a typical profile based site like mychub.

Until i can think of a better way for securing people's identity.. the pic approval method is the best for now.

Performance Issue 2006

Lately, after re-introducing the full quality member pictures, we were hit by server performance issues. Among the many complaints we receive was that it's now difficult to login to the site especially when there is heavy traffic (afternoons & weekends). Thus, to optimize and find the correct balance between user exerience and acceptable performance, I have devised a new policy to limit full quality member preview only for members with updated picture profile. Thus, members without pictures in their profile will only be able to see the thumbnail version of other people's profile. This policy will hardly be noticed by our existing members as it will be done automatically. Only members without picture profile will feel the difference. And so, we hope that this measure will lighten the load on our servers and give users a faster user experince.

Happy New Year 2006

MyChub.ORG would like to wish
Happy New Year 2006

May it be a new beginning of a better times to come !!!
From: MyChub Development Team