05/30/2007 - WIM Developement Update

[DevTeam] [Zeke]: I love that I get emailed when someone reports spam on the boards, but I can't do anything about it.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: lol i got you
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: How about "hide email address from public checked" and it's still visible in all my posts...
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: I'd delete my account on this site, but by the time I realized the problem half the spambots on the planet had it already
[Developer] [Pazza]: Astaldo if you log out and view your profile with a refresh you'll see that your email is hidden.
[Developer] [Pazza]: Your user level on the forums permit you to see emails even though they are marked hidden.
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: Ah.. thanks for the clarification and apologies for "crying wolf" in that case :
[DevTeam] [Kaidenn]: PAZZA! i miss you.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Lol, it's funny how it takes spam message reports to get me to come back
[DevTeam] [sylvanaar]: Check out the beta tester forum. Need alpha testers and feedback so I can come up with a maintenance plan.
[Developer] [Pazza]: loaded some new spam prevention modules... lets see if this stops the bastards.
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Thought I'd check in and say Howdy Doody from Australia
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Yeah the spam from shoes salesmen was becoming insane
[Guest] [Delakando]: What ever happened to the ability to track friend's location by wim? Other then just showing their general zone location.
Zeke pokes his head around the corner.
[DevTeam] [Zeke]: Anybody home?
[Guest] [Theillur]: I would like to know if it is just me.
[Guest] [Theillur]: http://www.wimaddon.com/forums/index.php/topic,1796.0.html
[Guest] [Nev]: I'm here
[Guest] [Nev]: I don't think anyone else is though
[Guest] [tomasio]: great site [url=http://freeonlinemusicvideos.net].[/url] [url=http://freepeopleclothing.org].[/url]
[Guest] [Theillur]: Nev it is not working for Zeke as well.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: im here
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...
lothaer yawns sleepily.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: sooooooooooooooooo
[Guest] [j3ff]: Hello. It is very quiet. I would love a response to my thread directly below your "Been very quiet" thread!
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Check out my new post in the Skins forum
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Posted a new download in the skins forum check it out
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Zeke, Maziel, Pazza, Nachonut, sylvanaar, Kaidenn, Astaldo where are you?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: It would be a real shame if WIM was left to die.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: i think these forums are dead, Sylvanaar dosnt post on them as he only bug fixes when possible. WIMs future isnt very bright
[Guest] [justgiz]: Yea, its rather sad.
[Guest] [silvercola]: I wish it had skype
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: noy possible for a addon to do.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...........
[Guest] [elzershark]: where is the download file?
lothaer beckons everyone over to you.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: has anyone been able to take WIM to the beta yet?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PTR*
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: *sticks head up and looks around*
lothaer cries.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: who the hell flagged my post as spam?
[Guest] [primalforce]: Hey guys
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: hello Primalforce.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PAZZA COME BACK!!!
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Ahhh memories
[Guest] [Ignis]: wtb update
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: soooo.....
Pazza starts to complain... Kinda reminds you of Sloans dont it?

[Pazza]

I have been working diligently to get an update for everyone. Feedback has been great and everyone has been a lot of help in reporting bugs. I have been working on some bug fixes as well as added a new feature to WIM. As suggested by one user, a window fading effect was added. A brief summary of the feature:

• By default it is disabled. Found in display options of WIM.
• When out of focus and mouse is not hovering, the window will fade to 50%.
• Breifly fades in and fades out when new message is sent or received, unless conditions are met.

I have been tweaking the behavior of this feature to what I feel is the way it should operate.

Aside from that, I have modified WIM's handlers to allow you to report spammers by right-mouse clicking the user's name in WIM windows (just like in general chat). This was a new format introduced in WoW 2.1 so now that I made the necessary changes, it is working as intended.

I have been brainstorming and modifying both the plugin interface as well as the Spam Blocker. I will be adding an option (disabled by default) to report anyone who does not respond with the authentication code within a specific time frame. This basically will revolve around WIM - SpamBlocker's garbage collection. The time frame might have to be adjusted. Currently the user is allowed 5 min to respond. This shouldn't be an issue since reporting works whether the user is online or not.

I have received some updated translations as well.

Release date? I am shooting for Tuesday, June 5th.

I encourage you to leave comments on these ideas. While I am developing, the decision making processes are currently being made by myself and friends. So now that I have given you a spoiler of whats to come, this is your time to add your 2 cents.


Sincerely,

Pazza

[Maziel]

Sounds good matie. =)

Does this 'Report Spam' option you talk of - is it just the default Blizzard one being added to the whisperers right click options (when we right click their name) ?

If so, great!

One problem with SpamMeNot is it silences the gold spammer (which isn't bad) but, it means you cannot right-click and report them when you see them in StormWind or what-ever. You can't even click them and bring a report spam option down from the target frame. If we want to report them we must disable spammenot then hear their spam and then report. Now if WIM had that default blizzard option, we could simply target the person, open a whisper message and then right click their name and report them from within WIM.

Same with WIM's SpamBlocker, if we only rely on WIM's SpamBlocker, I beleive it should give us the default report-spam option that Blizzard has inbuilt.

Is this kind of what you meant?