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Well, I’m one (small) step closer to having this site the way I envisioned it before it reaches that big sought-after 1.0. Seriously, if it wouldn’t have been so ridiculous, I would have made this a beta.

Here’s are the updates in this release:

1. Search Highlighting
   Search results now show the keywords highlighted as opposed to, well, not. Hooray for ease of use!
2. RSS Limit Increase
   The RSS feed was showing 10 results per page, which is just silly. Netvibes supports paging, so let’s take advantage of it!
3. Summary Character Counts
   When submitting software releases, it was a pain to figure out if the characters were over the 255 character limit or not. Nobody ever knew that but me, but now they’ll never have to! Some handy-dandy JS counts the characters at the bottom of the textarea.
4. Links in Summaries are Clickable
   Kind of a no-brainer here; this should have been done in the beginning. Now links users post in their summaries are clickable.
5. Slight Design Tweaks
   The tab on the left is gone. Waste of space, anyone?
6. Severe Submission Changes
   This has changed substantially. First off, name and version have been combined, because it seemed confused (and also would mess up the API plans I have). Second, URL is no longer a required field. Why? Because this is soft
   Slight Design Tweaks
   The tab on the left is gone. Waste of space, anyone?
7. Severe Submission Changes
   This has changed substantially. First off, name and version have been combined, because it seemed confused (and also would mess up the API plans I have). Second, URL is no longer a required field. Why? Because this is software releases, not social bookmarking! Somebody may make a version of something and just have it available in ware releases, not social bookmarking! Somebody may make a version of something and just have it available in Synaptic or something. Point is, it’s software and not just URLs. Also: video games are now allowed. Again, this is software! Video games are totally software. Several tags have been added accordingly.

   Lastly, releases must occur within a month of posting and no more than 3 months ago. This is because the site is meant for new software releases. The constraints are arbitrary, sure, and they may change — but they’re meant to emphasize new.

That’s it so far! Relatively involved release… hopefully someday someone will find these fixes useful!

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