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Okay, it's finally here. Vying Games with more gradients! Isn't it lovely. Okay, seriously, in addition to the updated looks, there are a lot of new features here, too. I'll try to post more in depth coverage later in separate posts (there's a lot to cover -- it's easiest to think of everything as new).
But, before we get to new features, a few words about... bugs. This release fixes a lot of bugs, but it also introduced a bunch. If you run into bugs, please let me know. There's a post on the forums right now (New Release... Many bugs...) that you can report bugs on.
In brief, here's what's new:
- Group Chat (hit the people icon in the upper-right corner)
- Search (archives, forums, blog, users, wiki, everything)
- Tourneys (mucho updates, including trophy case on your profile)
- Forums (preview posts)
- Wiki (help contribute to Vying games, most of the pages are open to editing by anyone)
- Ratings (recalculated, new weights: tourneys worth more, bots worth less)
- Unrated Games (withdraw, kick, join, find a bot, public chat)
- Variations (see A Whole New Kalah)
- Profiles (new look, tables, trophy case, change password, email address for resetting password, membership, vacation days)
- Notations (see the new checkers notation on the board and in review)
- Undo by request (for those pesky misclicks that get past move confirmation)
So, that's the big stuff that I can think of right now (it's been a long couple days getting this out). I'll go into details later.
A few things have changed that you should be aware of:
- The rules for Kalah (see A Whole New Kalah)
- 'forfeit' is now 'resign'
- Checkers is now American Checkers (getting ready for more variations)
- Open Invites are now called Tables
So, enjoy!
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