This is a summary of recent additions and changes to the site. The list isn't comprehensive - we report only the more visible and significant changes, so you might notice some minor changes from time to time that aren't reported here.
RSS Feeds: The "New on IFDB" list of recent updates is now
available as an RSS feed. Just click the "RSS" link in the New
section of the IFDB home page.
There's also a separate feed available for each game's reviews -
this is linked on the game's home page. Authors might be interested
in subscribing to these feeds for their own games, so that they'll
be notified whenever a new review appears. External reviews: You can now add links to off-site reviews
for games listed in IFDB. The link can include a star-rating and
a summary, for display on the game's IFDB page. Author profile links: Games can now be linked to their
authors' IFDB profiles. Linking a game to an author profile
automatically includes the game in a new list of authorship credits
in the author's profile. Full new-item history: If you want to see more than just
latest few additions to IFDB, you can now go back as far as you want.
Just follow the "see the full list" link in the "New on IFDB" section
of the home page. (Also, Recommended Lists are now included in the
news feed.) Image copyright labeling: You can now enter copyright
information when uploading an image. This is optional, and we've
tried to make it as effortless as possible by providing pre-set
options for the typical cases. The reason you might want to include
the information is that some viewers might want to know how they can
re-use an image. Delete a game listing: You can now delete a game page,
provided that you created it, that no one else has edited it, and that
it doesn't have any reviews or Recommended List references. This
makes it easy to remove a page that you added in error - the most
common such situation is that you discover shortly after adding a game
that there was already another listing for the same game. Original beta launch: I announced the site on the IF newsgroups (rec.arts.int-fiction
and rec.games.int-fiction).27 November 2007
25 October 2007
16 October 2007
