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We'll continue to tweak the scoring after we get passed our overall stability problems.

Points in general though are a bit of a bunk science. It's very hard to figure out automated ways to calculate the worth of an edit.

This is accurate. And yes, we do use compass.

It's the secret platform only people in the industry about. You haven't heard of it yet.

Or, it's a bug. Noted. Thanks.

We'll get these moved into their own area. Not a priority atm though, dealign with stability first.

Hey guys. Thanks for your patience through the site relaunch. We're updating bugs throughout the week. Here's a general list of priorities we have at the moment.

1. Getting the site stable. Update: We're getting there, though we've disabled some features for now.
2. Fixing the RSS issues with the bombcast. This will fix the iTunes issues as well. Update: This is fixed
3. RSS truncating it's text to snippets, rather than full stories. This is not intentional.
4. RSS publishing some articles before they're live to the site. Update: This is fixed, but not yet deployed.
5. Getting the API up and running, this will also fix any problems you're having with your Roku / Boxee device. Update: We're back up, Roku should now work. Boxee still has some issues we're working on.
6. Addressing the email issues. These are temporarily shut off right now, but due to a bug people were getting emails that they weren't supposed to get. Update: We've addressed the main bugs with this, and emails for forgot password and billing will now work. We've disabled notification emails though for the moment. We'll get this back up soon.
7. Fixing an issue where a very small minority of people who had cancelled their membership were set back to recurring. I'm on it, it's not acceptable and wasn't on purpose. Update: I think we got most of these. If you still have an issue, simply re-cancel your account.
8. Getting it so you can't view the site on auth.giantbomb.com, and only manage your billing login there.
9. Dealing with individual edge cases (a few hundred) where users can no longer log in. Some of this has to be dealt with manually. Send us an email on the one that pops up when you run into this issue. Update: We're going through the support queue. Theres a few hundred, please be patient.
10. Various search ordering issues and the autocompleter disappearing when it shouldn't.
11. Search is not updating when you add new pages or change the name of a page. This should be working now.
12. Friends' activity not displaying.
13. The new releases module and all top news / video sidebars not working. This is back.
14. The front door twitter module not updating.
15. The premium RSS feeds are not working so hot with iTunes. This works again, you may need to add the new RSS urls though.
16. Scaling issues with our live chat streams.
17. Forums messed up in mobile. Update: This is fixed, and will be live soon.
18. Dealing with some banning issues. These should be fixed.
19. Localizing the upcoming box on the frontdoor. Update: This is fixed.
20. Dealing first with wiki bugs that can cause data degradation (aka deletion) of objects, then moving on to display, point and can't edit X bugs.

What we're not working on... right now.

1. Adding forums to the front door. Can't have custom queries per user while we have stability issues.
2. Achievements and quests. As discussed several times over many months, we had to remove these. They may return in the next few months.

@Zero_ said:

Hey dave what's going to happen to YouTube videos on the new site, still available for us?

Yep. Still available to subs through the site as usual.

@Mijati said:

I assume with the new video host this'll apply to downloading videos and not just streaming them? I need to update my Quick Look archive to 3500 from 1500 and would be nice to get good speeds while doing that.

That would be a correct assumption.

@EarlessShrimp said:

Will our PMs and such carry over to the new site as well? I'm assuming they will, right?

Yes

@MattyFTM said:

@snide: Once the final snapshot is taken of the live site, will there be like a huge banner or something on wiki pages saying something like "Due to an impending site migration, any edits made to this page will not be permanent" in like big flashing yellow letters or something? It would really suck if someone didn't read this and then put a lot of effort into editing something and it was lost into the ether.

Yes.

Good gracious, it's almost over. The engineering team here at CBSi plans to launch the 100% rebuild and redesign of Giant Bomb on February 12, 2013. That's Tuesday, one week from today. Despite an intimidating bug queue still in front of the team, Danny Chi (pictured), our lead engineer, gave me the nod to prep you guys that we're near the end. In my usual "bullet points are awesome" way, here are some things you should know.

• On the night of Sunday, February 10, we will take a final snapshot from the live database. Any additions made from that point till the launch will likely not make it to the new site.
• Also on February 10, I'll be pushing code to the live website that disables billing management and various login/password areas of the site so that users can't make changes that would cause them problems.
• Subscription renewal during this dead period will not be processed. When the new site goes up, we will turn our nightly processing back on once we're stable on the new platform. There will be no interruption to your features during this time.
• Because all of our RSS feeds were rebuilt, your readers / podcast managers will likely freak out initially, and then quickly return to a normal, regularly updating state.
• Along with everything else, we are changing our video hosting provider. This should fix a lot of the slowness people have witnessed with our videos in the past six months. We'll be testing this on the beta site in a couple days.
• Comic Vine's launch will follow a few weeks later. To keep members of both sites in sync, we'll be shutting down signup and password changes on that site till they're out.

If you haven't done so already, I highly suggest jumping over to the beta site at some point this week and trying the site out. We recently opened it up to all registered users (as long as you signed up before Thanksgiving of 2012). This also means that if you changed your password since Thanksgiving, you'll want to use your old password to check in on the beta. Everything will get updated once we do the final migration next week. However, if you are having trouble logging into the beta, please send @mrpibb and @snide a Private Message (on this site) with the following information.

1. Your Giant Bomb user name.
2. Your email address.
3. If you're a user from the old days do you have a central username that is different than your giant bomb username?
4. Is there anything odd about your password (foreign characters, abnormally long...etc) that you think might be causing a problem?
5. Are you using Facebook to login?

Thanks for your patience during the past year, as we've taken the time to set up the new site. There were a lot of ways this whole experience could have gone bad, both within the community and within our own team here. I'd like to think we did a pretty decent job of keeping you guys informed and a part of the process along the way, and we won't run into the "why did they change it" feedback that normally comes with site changes of this size. It's been a fun ride. Hopefully, it'll also be a smooth one, and I'll be drunk and celebrating with all the engineers next week! More likely we'll all be in a panic making fixes, but I'm gonna stick to that fantasy, as always.