Ready for a pretty big update? (Once again might need to clear your cache, CTRL+F5)

Here we go!

----- New Features -----

Favorites! This was a feature in KU 1 & 2, but was never included in 3. Up on the toolbar when reading an article there will be a "favorite" button. You may not favorite your own content. When an article is favorited, there will be a star next to the title along with how many times it was favorited. In someone's profile it will also show how many favorites each article got. Favorites are listed in the same area as your articles and shouts. The buttons are now white, and there is a "favorites" tab on them now.

New theme: Plum

Caching! This is the first build to implement caching. Caching is when one user loads a page, and the data is saved in a little file on my server so that anyone else that accesses the page can QUICKLY just get the file instead of having to fetch the same information from the database each time the page is loaded. The reasoning for all of this is speed improvement! If tons of users are on the site at once it could go very slow from how many times the database is called. With caching, it lightens the load very noticably. With our current beta build you might not see much of an improvement because not everything has been cached yet, and we don't have hundreds of users browsing the site.

The following pages have been cached:
Profiles
Articles & Comments
Notifications
The footer
Recent Activity Panel
Statistics Panel
Categories page
Locations page

Netbooks: The CSS has been tweaked a bit to make the site look a lot nicer on smaller screens. I tested with my 10.1 inch netbook, and everything looks great!


----- Changes -----

The notifications panel has been optimized to look like the other panels. (It now takes up less space.)

The recent activity panel no longer displays (Alaska) if you are on the home page.

When you are on a location page and go directly to the Activies page, it will now show activities only for the location you were in. (Same concept as different data on the panels, but this shows much more information)

All themes now show a darker snippet.

The "My comments" box in profiles now has the bottom border between each comment again. Colors were also updated on each theme for this box.

Removed the ability to view the newest shouts on the home page. When the site gets more busy they would probably spam the page. The main focus needs to stay articles.


----- Bug Fixes -----

There has always kind of been a problem on the site related with cookies and login sessions. I've now made it so you can only be logged in at one place. If you login somewhere else, and then go back to the original computer, it will auto-log you out and send you a message stating you've been logged in somewhere else.

Messages in the inbox were spaced improperly, and line breaks weren't allowed. Both of these problems have been fixed. Ironically, your current inbox messages might look a little spaced out, but the new ones should be fine!

The notifications panel will now always show the correct person your message is from (Sometimes it would show your username)

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Thanks again for helping me out. I'm kind of going with the Blizzard method on this site. It won't be released until it's finished. But as you can see, I'm progressing quite quickly. There is no estimated release date.

Any kind of feedback is helpful!