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Challenge system now open - send challenges to your friends for PPVs!

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:55:04 -0500

I've opened up the challenging system now so you can issue one-on-one challenges for PPVs against anyone on your friends list. I'll say right away that it's not PERFECT and there will still be improvements and additions coming. So please let...

Include Profile Images in Your Blogs

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:01:43 -0500

This is step 1 of being able to put images in your posts. You can now have user profile photos appear. To do it, use this code in your post: ::profile-[USERNAME]:: Replace [USERNAME] with the person's username. (don't include th...

Updated Help/FAQs, Fantasy Blogs Now Included in Recent Blogs, and Help Wanted for 4-UP

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:10:53 -0500

I've made some updates to the Help/FAQ section to try to make sure everything there is accurate. A lot of changes had happened to the site since the guides had last been updated. Please let me know if there is anything you would like for me to...

Site Speed Increased

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:01:40 -0500

Let me know if the site seems faster to anyone. I made a ton of database improvements today. It took the PPV prediction game page from taking 5 seconds to generate to less than 1 second, so it should be pretty noticeable there.

Friends List Coming Soon

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:38:02 -0500

I've started working on a friends list, so you will be able to add other players on the site as friends. I always shied away from this since I felt leagues were where friends should be connected, but I can see lots of people here are friend...

Chat Room Launched - Feedback Welcome

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:53:46 -0500

This was requested quite a bit over the past few months, and I said I'd do it and then it completely slipped my mind.. But it's here now! There's a new Chat Room link on the left that will take you to the main page for the room - it has quite a...

Automated Random Picks on PPVs - Should this happen?

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:38:33 -0500

This is something I've always stayed away from, but I thought I'd go ahead and ask everyone what y'all think. It'd be relatively simple for me to add in a feature so that you can have the site automatically make a random pick for a PPV for you if ...

New Top Blogs Section

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:36:41 -0500

Since blogs are getting posted so quickly these days, I thought it would be nice if there was a way to feature specific blog posts - whether they're important blogs about the site/season or blogs that people really enjoy. So here's what determines...

Blog Shows Linkable Now like Users & Leagues

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:33:00 -0500

Well, I think it is.. this is the first test. $WWE Beta$ $Hall of Fame 101$ Also I think I have it where when you enter an invalid user/league, it won't show up with the @/# codes. Let's test it out! Okay that didn't work. More testing!...

Updates to 4Down Superstars & Hall of Fame

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:47:51 -0500

I've updated both the "4DOWN SUPERSTARS" and "4DOWN HALL OF FAME" (found at the bottom of every page) sections to show leagues now in addition to users. So you can see what leagues were ranked #1 for each item based on either p...

Bug Fix: Username Change Hides Old Blogs

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:21:23 -0500

I didn't realize this was happening until @Diamondjt5887@ (formerly jmt5887) emailed me.. but if you changed your username, all your blog posts from before were no longer showing up. I updated the code to fix this problem so it won't happen ...

Small Update - League Displayed in Comments

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:11:45 -0500

Made a small update last night - Now on blog comments (or any other comments - users, leagues, PPVs, or wrestlers), it will display the commenter's league. It also says whether you're the admin or just a member. I also updated the blog head...

New Hall of Fame and Latest Blog Show Posts

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:08:20 -0500

You'll find now at the bottom of every page the latest 5 fantasy blog show posts and the latest 5 non-fantasy blog show posts. And after that, the 4-Down Hall of Fame! It shows the winners of all past seasons in the three main predict...

Beta Launch of Forums

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:57:00 -0500

I've launched the forums - http://www.fourdown.org/forums It's VERY VERY basic. This is hopefully nothing like the final product will be. I just wanted to get it started and play around with it. Anyone with an account on the site can login to...

Update to Automatic Prediction Blog Posts, Also.. Message Board Coming Soon

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:51:18 -0500

Seeing the two posts from @Whammer1@ and @blakef11@ with their TLC predictions where they had to put "*contains spoilers in body*" in the title made me realize I should have it automatically put predictions in the Spoiler text when you choo...

Ability to Close Your Polls

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:04:57 -0500

You can now close a poll you've created on your blog by editing the blog post and using the CLOSE THIS POLL button.

Let me know if you have any problems!

If you have an AOL, AIM, or Netscape Email..

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:40:44 -0500

..right now you won't receive emails from the site. For some reason, a couple people who CHOSE TO RECEIVE EMAILS complained about the emails - marked them as spam, or whatever - and so the company I use to send emails shut down my service. I...

One-on-One Challenges Coming Soon

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:58:00 -0500

The next update to the site will be individual one-on-one challenges for PPVs (and possibly 4-UP weeks, but that'll come second). I may launch it alongside Season 10 - though possibly sooner - so if you wanted to challenge someone at the Ro...

Any requests on site upgrades?

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:26:23 -0500

Does anyone have any requests for enhancements to this website? Is anything difficult to figure out, or are things that you want to see hard to find? Or is there anything that isn't on the site that you'd like? I had always planned on ...

Blog Shows & Blog Ratings Now Live

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:04:05 -0500

Okay, the updates to the blogs are here now. There's still some work-in-progress things, but it all seems to be working. I went ahead and set up a CZW blog show for kaihtafc's fantasy show - CZW Blog Home. Anyone else who has a sho...

If you're not receiving emails from this site at all or on time, read this..

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:20:32 -0500

For some reason, our automated emails (both when registering and any you've opted-in to receive for alerts) are not getting to every intended recipient. This definitely seems to be affecting people whose email address ends with @yahoo.com, ...

Launched New Play All and Your Rank Pages

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:45:37 -0500

You'll find some changes to the site today - the old Overview/Command page is gone (well, it's not gone, you can still get to it at http://www.fourdown.org/fw_command.cfm if you still want to use it) and it has been replaced by two new pages. The...

Removal of ECW

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:24:26 -0500

I haven't done it yet but over the next week, I'll be making sure ECW doesn't appear as a choice for TV ratings and things like that. I'll also make sure NXT gets added so you can rate that show. As far as ECW talents moving to new brand...

PPV Comments Enhanced

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:36:52 -0500

On the PPV prediction game pages, you can now enter as many comments as you'd like. Before, you could only enter one, and just update it as you wanted. I wanted to make it more like blog comments, so this was the first step. I will ...

Recent Changes to the Site

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:07:07 -0500

If you're logged in, you've probably noticed some differences. Not going to write a lot explaining them, but this is what was done: The right-hand side of the site again displays the recent comments underneath the ads below the recent pos...

New Feature for Bloggers at the Site

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:29:36 -0500

Since I removed the part of the right-side of the site that listed the newest comments - which I know at least for me, I used a lot to check to see if any of my blogs had new comments (even though there is that New Comments link on the left-nav of th...

Changes to the Recent Blogs on Right Side of Site

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:23:06 -0500

I made a minor change to the way blogs display on the right side of the site. Now the latest 30 blog posts will show (broken up in the middle by an ad - which don't neglect if you enjoy the site please :) and the recent comments are not display...

Site Updates Coming Soon - Site Revamp, Roundtable, User Polls, and New Fantasy Game

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:36:20 -0500

Okay, all of the changes I've been working on lately are getting closer to reality. Here's a list of everything coming - Site Revamp: Hopefully what I'm doing will make the site a lot easier to use and navigate. This is priority #1 ...

Improved Random Pick - No Contest Never Selected!

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:29:06 -0500

By popular request!

I updated the Random Pick on PPV games - it will never auto-select No Contest in either the winner or finish select boxes.

Should make it a more useful feature - I know I use it occasionally for TNA!

Mail Server Issues - Sorry if you gotz more than 1 email!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:34:26 -0500

Had some mail server issues this week. I think it's all resolved now, but I had to send the No Surrender PPV update and the 4-UP End of Week reminder twice today. If you got it more than once (probably only affected about 400 of you in to...

4-UP: Better Roster Rollovers Now

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:42:49 -0500

I just updated 4-UP so that your previous week's roster will be pre-selected for you when you are making your picks for the first time each week. I got a lot of emails last season with people wondering why their previous week's roster hadn't rolle...

Updates for Blog Entries with Spoilers

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:06:05 -0500

It hadn't really come up before where people wanted to post about spoilers in a blog here, but now that there are so many people posting blogs, it was inevitable. So I made a few updates to the blog entry and blog view pages. Now, instea...

Bug Fix: Leagues Page

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:32:18 -0500

Apparently I didn't do enough testing when I switched the site over to season 6, and the private leagues page (using the Leagues link on the left - if you belong to a league) was breaking.

It's fixed now. Sorry about that!

Change in Plans, New Wrestling History Database Coming

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:16:34 -0500

I had mentioned before I wanted to add an MMA side to the site, where you could predict MMA fights and get ranked similarly to how you do right now for wrestling. However, I've decided a project like that would really deserve a completely separ...

Even More New Features - Blog Entry Listings

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:36:27 -0500

Added a few new features last night - First, there are two new links on the left. Full Site Blog and Full Dev Blog. They're just complete listings of every blog post in those two categories. But then I took that and added the same t...

More New Site Features - Turn On/Off Rank Box at Top, More Profile Features, etc.

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:12:00 -0500

I made a lot of small changes to the site over the weekend, but hadn't gotten around to letting everyone know about them. First up, I added your league information to that rank box that appears at the top of every page (note: if you aren't a regis...

Massive Speed Increase for the Site

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:50:56 -0500

I made some changes and the site seems to be about 10x faster for me now. Anyone else notice that it's faster? Going to work on some more updates over the weekend to make it even faster, too. Now we're playing with power.. SUPER pow...

New Features - Change Email, Send Message to Your League

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:28:20 -0500

Added a few new features to the site tonight. First up, you can now change your email address. Click Settings in the top-right to modify account settings, and you'll find it in there. You have to enter your current password when changi...

New Twitter Pages, ColdFusion function for Twitter

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:45:00 -0500

Added 3 new Twitter pages on the site - Users' Twitters - follow all the players here at fourdown who have entered their Twitter username into their profile. Want your feed displayed on this page? Click the profile button in the top-right of the...

Site Moved to New Server

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:27:26 -0500

The site was moved onto a new server today.

If you notice any differences, please let me know! If anything isn't working, or if the site seems faster, I'd like to hear both.

More New Facebook Features - Extended Privacy and More

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:06:17 -0500

Going crazy tonight with the Facebook application enhancements - You can now choose to hide your name, profile photo, and link to your profile from other Facebook users who are using the application. You can find this new setting in your acc...

New Facebook Feature - See How Your Friends Picked PPVs

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:37:12 -0500

Since I've been doing work today on the Facebook application, I guess I got a little caught up thinking about ways to improve it. Now, if you're using the Facebook application, and you have friends in Facebook who also use the application, you can...

Major Site Change for Facebook Application

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:50:19 -0500

Last night I made a major change to the way the site works. Previously, the website and the Facebook application both completely ran off the same codebase. This was really cool to do, but there were plenty of nasty tricks involved - since th...

More Twitter Integration - Add Your Twitter Feed to Profile; Official Wrestler Twitters

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:06:00 -0500

You can now enter your Twitter username on your profile editor. If you do this, your Twitter feed will appear on your profile page. To see what it looks like, you can check out my profile page. I've also started adding wrestler Twitter...

Small Updates to 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling Interface, Big Updates to Wrestler Pages, and More

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:53:43 -0500

Worked on the site for a good 5 hours tonight. Scored the past week of 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling to kick things off. So now you can see your rankings for the 4th game week. Thanks as always to all the 4-UP admins helping out with t...

Email Alerts for 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling are Live

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:47:09 -0500

Just finished getting the email alert system set up for the 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling game. You can sign up to be notified when a game week is starting (every Sunday), for reminders when the game week is coming to a close (every Friday), and to be no...

New Features: Leave Comments on Users and Leagues; Sign up for 4-UP Email Alerts

Sat, 30 May 2009 03:01:44 -0500

Had a little fun tonight making some upgrades to the site! First up, I copied over the new commenting module (which was previously only enabled on PPVs and wrestlers) to two new sections of the site - Users and Leagues! You can now leave com...

Tons of Changes for 4-UP Fantasy Wrestling Game Launched

Wed, 27 May 2009 18:51:12 -0500

Lots and lots of changes on the site today. First up, I noticed last night that I forgot to calculate the league averages for 4-UP. So I wrote those scripts, then re-ran the scoring from last night. Now, for the changes you'll see ...

More New Site Features Planned

Thu, 07 May 2009 20:43:00 -0500

Posting this kinda so I don't forget about all these things I need to do.. Obviously gotta make sure everything is in perfect shape in 4-UP for the kick-off week.. though I think most of it is pretty sound. At some point I'll need to make wa...

More Changes to the Site

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:54:12 -0500

Since I've been in all weekend, I was able to get a lot of stuff done for the site. First off, the fantasy game is extremely close to being done. I plan on wrapping everything up today and over the week, and then open it up next weekend.&nbs...