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October 18
Editors who are uploading images to episodes (screencaps) will be happy to learn that you can now bulk add images for an entire season at once, instead of having to open each episode's upload form individually. Just go to the episode's gallery page -> "Create New", and you'll find the appropriate link there.
Lots of small changes over the last week, but there's too much of them to name them all individually! Some highlights are editor tools to easily spot which cast members and characters in a show don't have a picture added yet; the ability to search in a show's list of (main and guest-) characters; and improvements to the management of news articles.
If there's anything particular that you would like to see, don't hesitate to ask!
As you might have seen in the menu already, we just launched our Episode Calendar! If you visit it out as non-registered user you'll get a default view of the most popular currently running shows for this month, but of course the full potential is when you log in and start following your favorite shows: then you'll get a calendar with your favorite shows only.
The calendar was built for desktop, tablet and mobile; so check it out!
Besides a load of mostly-internal tweaks, we just launched the profile pages for the users (and writers!) here on tvmaze. For an example, check: http://www.tvmaze.com/users/23/cwm
Next up will be a dedicated "watch list" page, where you'll have an instant overview of which episodes from your favorite shows you still have to see. This should be completed any day now, so keep an eye out!
The watch list I was talking about earlier is now live! When you're logged in, you can access it via this URL: http://www.tvmaze.com/watchlist (if you're not registered yet, check https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2_c9D1CAAAWjQQ.png:la... for a screenshot)
Make sure to follow (follow button's on the show page, beneath the poster!) the shows you're watching, and they will automatically appear on this page. Mark the episodes that you've already seen as watched, and what's left is an overview of all your favorite shows that you still have to catch up on: never again completely forget that one of your shows started airing again :)
Over the last two weeks, we mostly worked on behind-the-scenes stuff, like even faster load-times, even higher data quality, and the importer for former mytvshows.org users. This one's pretty visible though: head over to your profile, and you can now upload a custom user avatar :)
You can now follow a show from multiple locations.
-From the Detail Showpage - http://www.tvmaze.com/shows/116/the-mentalist (Under the show poster)
-From the Search Page - http://www.tvmaze.com/search?q=game+ (Inside the show poster. Right bottom corner)
-From the Showpage Listing - http://www.tvmaze.com/shows (Inside the show poster. Right bottom corner)
Filters have been added to the Showpage Listing to make it easier to find specific shows. (right side)
The header usermenu has been modified to speed up access to user functionality. You can now access your watchlist from there as well. (right top corner)
Lots of changes over the last two weeks! Amongst them..
- Specials are now displayed seperately on the episode list, for a cleaner view of shows with many specials scattered throughout the season.
- Episode airdates are now displayed in a friendly format everywhere
- The schedule layout was updated to better handle long show- or episodenames
- The information boxes (like on the calendar or watchlist page) can now be closed and will then stay hidden permanently
- Your watchlist can now be sorted by the show's last airdate / the show premiere date / your watch % for that show
- Various tweaks to make the site even faster
If you've recently visited the login or register page, you probably already noticed that we have been quietly testing social login: logging in through your facebook, google or twitter account. Since everything has proven to be working properly, we can now formally announce it here :)
The concept is simple and you might already know it from other websites: it allows you to log in to TVmaze without remembering a new set of username/password. The first time you connect a (for example) twitter account that is not yet linked with an account on TVmaze, a new TVmaze account is created and linked with that twitter account. Any subsequent time you click the twitter button to log in to TVmaze, you'll be seemlessly logged in through your twitter account.
If you already have a TVmaze account, you can still connect your twitter account by logging in to TVmaze and visiting http://www.tvmaze.com/auth/settings. Through here it's also possible to connect an extra source (for example, both twitter and facebook) or disconnect any sources you connected earlier.
An account that's registered through a social connection doesn't have a password set, so you can't login the old fashioned way. If you are ever locked out of your social account, simply click the "forgot password" link on the login page, and we'll send a password (re)set link to your email.
We just added support for iCal feeds to TVmaze!
If you have no idea what to do with this information: iCal is a standard that allows sharing calendar events between different services and applications. The feed we offer is a list of all airtimes for shows that you're following; basically what you see when you visit the calendar while logged in.
You can take this feed and import it in, for example, Google Calendar to show your TV schedule alongside your personal calendar. Adding it in Google Calendar even makes the calendar available on your Android phone! Almost every other application that works with calendars has an iCal import option as well, like Apple's calendar, Thunderbird or Microsoft Office.
Since the iCal feed is personal to every user, every user has their own specific URL. Head over to your dashboard to retrieve it, import away, and let us know if you have any questions :)
April 12
Added tags to help organize your favorite shows, watchlist and calendar.
April 20
Added the ability to add a show AKA for a specific country. For example: http://www.tvmaze.com/shows/82/game-of-thrones/akas
April 28
Fix black background on thumbnails for transparent images.
May 3
Added show genres; visible on a show's page, or as a filter in the show index.
May 17
Added statistics for each user
Added badges/achievements
May 27
Revamp the notification header menu
June 23
Forum search
June 24
Store "episode order" and "premiere date" with a season; displayed on the show page when relevant
June 28
Launched the "pending features" forum with voting
July 6
Filter shows based on whether you are following them
July 11
Make it possible to sort shows&networks on popularity, alphabetically, or date created
July 12
Show recently added shows on the front page
August 8
When searching for a person in a dropdown, include the TVmaze ID in case there are multiple matches for the same name
August 9
Improve and clarify image uploading system; include previews
Add "language" property to shows
Add "alphabetically" sort options to the watch list
August 15
Sorting for followed items on your dashboard
August 16
Show episode watch status in your calendar
August 26
Add sort options to the schedule
September 14
Allow adding a "name" to Seasons
September 19
Add support for "voice only" credits
September 20
Add Private Messages (for Curating Contributors and higher only)
Bulk Import episodes (for Trusted Contributors and higher only)
September 23
Add tool to request new shows
September 27
Improvements to the search function for shows
October 3
Add Editor Wiki's for Shows
October 8
Add the Show Status panel: http://www.tvmaze.com/showstatus
October 11
Make Recaps property of the user who wrote them, instead of an item that can be edited by anyone
October 12
Make it easier to add (Guest) Cast entries by trying to automatically look up the Character once a Person was chosen
Make it possible to start your calendar's week on Sunday instead of Monday
October 22
Protection against Edit Conflicts
October 25
Make it possible to use short URL's for shows and episodes: http://tvmaze.com/shows/1 and http://tvmaze.com/episodes/1
November 1
Add the "Uncredited" cast type
Improve information on the search results for shows
November 9
Improve show search relevancy by taking popularity into account
December 13
Extended the information available for seasons/season pages
December 25
Make it possible to display the calendar & schedule in your local timezone
January 11
Add support for IMDB id's in Shows
January 17
Bulk entry for Cast Appearances (Trusted Contributors and higher only)
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These are of course only the highlights. Next to this list, there's a huge list of bug fixes and performance improvements!
It would seem that I'm not very good at keeping a changelog updated. Here are once again some highlights that you might have missed!
January 31
More fair calculation of Contributor Points (smaller edits give less points than larger ones)
February 15
Add the Contributor leaderboard
February 18
Bulk entry for Crew Appearances (Trusted Contributors only)
February 21
Remove airtime for Web Channel shows
April 9
Allow selecting multiple 'Scheduled On' days; and account for scheduled days when pre-filling the airdate when creating an episode
April 17
Display season names on the episode list
May 7
Restructure the site's footer for quick access to common pages
June 4
Display a person's age on their profile page
June 6
Allow former LocateTV users to import their data on TVmaze
June 29
Mark episodes as Acquired or Skipped instead of just Watched
July 11
Various improvements to the show search
July 31
On the show page, display ordered episodes & premiere date for future seasons, if available
September 18
Launch TVmaze Premium
September 19
Add episode summaries to the weekly calendar
September 22
Protect episodes that have already aired and have information attached to them from being deleted by non-Curating contributors
September 28
Add various new genres
October 1
Various tweaks and improvements to rate limiting to protect against attacks
Add "Award Show" as show type
October 3
Improve opengraph tags for previews of TVmaze urls
October 9
Display followed shows, people, networks and webchannels on a user's profile
November 19
Extensive infrastructure maintenance, to guarantee a stable and fast performance while we continue to grow. As part of the maintenance, parts of TVmaze like the login page, register page, dashboard, user-level API and RSS feeds now use HTTPS
December 4
Improvements to the show search matching
December 11
Allow all users to view external ID's (thetvdb, imdb) for shows
Deprecate tvrage ID's: the existing tvrage ID's can still be referenced in the site and API, but they can no longer be added or updated
December 13
Premium only: RSS feeds for your favorite shows
Premium only: Allow setting the weekly calendar as default