ctw news CTW Release Notes

[James]

Ver 3.7.0 - June 2024 

• Added new themes / colour schemes (click the 'Theme' drop-down on the bottom left of the page)
• Started adding tags to almost everything (forum posts, events, photos)
• Cleaned up DJ profiles, added missing profiles (from CTW 2002 website)
• Added missing interviews (from CTW 2002 website)
• Added missing reviews (from CTW 2002 website)
• Added new achievement badges & rewards
• Cleaned up & added new profile fields
• Added new links menu
• Started to remove duplicate posts

Ver 3.6.1 - July 2023

• Created new Venues section for bars & clubs

Ver 3.6.0 - June 20 2023

• Upgraded PHP to v8
• Upgraded forum software (v4.7.11) to address security vulnerabilities & open up new features
• Re-created all theme templates & customizations (blue, pink, black)

Ver 3.5.1 - June 17 2023

• Create new 'CTW Pink Theme'
• Uploaded all clubbing event flyers from all past articles, reviews, posts, calendar entries
  • https://clubtheworld.uk/gallery/category/5-clubbing-flyers-graphics/

Ver 3.5.0 - June 13 2023

• Fixed Emojis - each was showing 2 icons (1 broken, 1 ok)
  • fix: switched from 'Twitter Style' emojis to native
• Fixed Google maps integration - all calendar events now show a map of the venue's location
  • fix: renewed billing account
• Fixed Email notifications - were not working, which was affecting new registrations as users couldn't receive the registration email & approve their email address
  • fix: switched to using 3rd party SendGrid service instead of local (PHP, SMTP)
• Blocked Singapore robots which were constantly scraping the website & ballooning online user count
  • Added new Plesk Firewall rule: Deny 114.119.0.0/16 on 80 & 443

Ver 3.4.1 - January 27 2020

• New Updated Feature: Chatbox + - Security Updates, Donation Updates - for DJ's during sets etc (disabled for now) - UPDATED
• Merging on content into fewer posts / spam removed 

Ver 3.4.0 - January 19 2020

• New Feature: Chatbox improvements - rich text and P2P interactions
• Removed 'Forums' & 'Gallery' header from index page - Mobile devices only
• Remove ‘Past Events & Members Reviews Forum’ - topics will stay in their original regional forum.
• Created new ‘United Kingdom - Wales’ Forum

Ver 3.3.3 - January 18 2020

• Photo Galleries are now only viewable by logged in Members.  Guests can only see categories, not photos.
• Added Google Maps integration - Calendar Events now show map for venues, also addresses should now autofill.    If there is location information in Photos they should also now show a map.
• Uploaded original member profile pics (Avatars) for any members without a pic (shows a default - 1st letter of board name)

Ver 3.3.2 - January 16 2020

• Optimised forum layout and killed some bugs
• New testing for live section  

Ver 3.3.1 - January 14 2020

• Optimised forum colours and layouts 
• New feature - serious forum 
• Optimiser calendar and galleries

Ver 3.2.2 - January 12 2020

• Optimised forums and layouts 
• Blog updates 

Ver 3.2.1 - January 10 2020

• Optimised viewing experience, loading speed reduced, tiles moved to reduce page height
• Section added, events reduced to show 1 month in advance

Ver 3.2.0 - January 10, 2020

• New feature blog version two enabled tested and working perfectly
• removed spam and other irrelevant content

Ver 3.1.2 - January 8th 2020

• Background picker enabled - currently just solid colours, we will be creating CTW-Style backgrounds.
• New Blog section still a work in progress - several issues to fix, ongoing but becoming much more functional. Rev1 - blogs are now working ! 
• Spam purge - as always please notify if anything missed.

Ver 3.1.1 - January 7th 2020

• Calendar Events can now have RSVP enabled.This means members can now confirm whether they are attending or not + other members can see who is going

Ver 3.1.0 - January 6th 2020

• Post / User signatures. These are back on. Please edit via your profile.  If an older user some links will need updating .
• NEW FEATURE - Chat box,see foot of main page and right hand menu at the top - this WILL be integrated soon into a pop up overlay box with richer features very soon. 

Ver 3.0.2 January 5th 2020.  

• Spam - deleted a tonne of spam, fixed some links and images.    If anyone sees any spam etc please let me know.

Ver 3.0.1 - January 4th 2020 

• Photos - due to larger pics and better quality phones, the max upload size has been increased from 0.98mb.  

Ver 2.0.0 - January 1st 2004

Ver 1.1.0 - January 1st 2003

Ver 1.0.0 - January 1st 2002

Ver 0.0.1 - January 1st 2001