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Aquarium Cleaning Completed
We've finished running the main scripts, but are taking a look at some potential glitches and edge cases. There is a small chance (1%) that you may get a follow up PM later tonight correcting some errors, but for the most part the tank cleaning is complete.

Total tanks scanned = 4 million
Total tanks updated = 75k
Fish updated = 100k
Fish expired = 50k

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Page Titles fixed + some more
Page titles are restored. You should no longer see the "x | GaiaOnline" as the titles of your browser tabs or windows. We've updated a lot of old "page titles" code.

"Gold Mountain" and "Trade" are now available in the "Search" bar (if you start typing "Gold Mo..." or "Tra..." the search feature will suggest the link for you).

Guild forum list pages are now a little bit more efficient.

We've made a change that will hopefully fix the Dev Alerts bubble link. It should take you directly to the correct page and post now.

The "next"/"prev" buttons on the Manga page should work for more browsers.

If you had a sqhished animated avatar in the header on the Dumpster Dive, that should now be fixed.

As always, if you have issues with features on the site, please post/reply to a topic in the Bug Reports forum and we will look into it.

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Macy's MStyle Lab

Hey everyone, some of you may have noticed that the Macy's MStyle lab was temporarily re-opened. Not everyone was able to see it, currently it's undergoing testing and while in this stage some people may be able to enter the store and get the grants.

We ask that you do not purchase the items from the marketplace at this time. When we complete the testing and it goes live, everyone will have access to the space and the grants. For now the items have been soulbound and will be un-soulbound once the sponsorship is ready early next week.

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Two New Labs
Checked out Labs lately? There are two new labs, both of which we are seriously considering promoting to the default for the entire site, so now is a good time to check them out and provide feedback.

Booty Grab Glowing Indicator
Did you know that 90% of tank owners would prefer you to play their tank rather than tip them if they've said something sparkling and witty in the forums? It's true! (The other 10% prefer gum).

We've added a lab to provide an experimental, lightweight indicator if a tank is glowing -- it'll show up as an orange button right next to the tip button. This should make it easier for users with slower computers / connections to catch the occasional tank, as well as hopefully getting more plays for the low- and mid-level tanks.

Manga Alerts
Since we've been doing more consistent manga updates, it seemed to make sense to add an alert whenever a new page is added. The manga alert will show an icon in your bubble whenever a new page is added, meaning that you will be completely up to date and can sneer on those pour souls who are a whole page behind in the storyline!

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Macy's Soulbound Items
The campaign has gone live. The items have been unbound and should be tradeable/sellable shortly.

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Popular Tags in Aquariums
As an experiment, the "popular" tags have been turned off in the aquarium forum to see if it makes a difference in the spectrum of tanks played.

Also: the inline booty grab indicator in Labs has been tweaked to hopefully get around some caching issues with some browsers (mostly IE).

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Results of BG Experiments
Thanks for your help. The results of two recent experiments:

  • removing the "popular" tags in aquariums did not appear to open up the variety of tanks played, at least not to a 95% confidence level. We'll let it run for a day or two to be sure, but it looks like this didn't make a big change.
  • the BG inline indicator was driving about 700 - 1000 plays/day from the (typical) 3% lab usage rate among the Gaia community. Making this the default for all users would probably mean about 4k - 10k more total plays per day at a 30% usage rate. We've disabled this feature per community feedback.

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Ongoing Aquarium Changes
If you're interested in a detailed view of ongoing Aquarium / BG changes, please keep an eye on this thread in the Gaia Aquarium Discussion forum. We've been adjusting glow rates and fixing issues as we prepare for the Phin Phan reopen, and everything is documented in that thread. Major changes will still be communicated via dev notices.

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Site instability

Angry...cats...everywhere....eating....server...wires.....

We're recovering from some database errors, please bear with us while we chase these angry Meowbook cats away....

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New Mini-comic
New mini-comic is up!

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Easter 2011
Launch in progress. The event will be rolling out slowly, look for the announcement to know when roll-out is complete.

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Overseers back in tank
The overseers have been placed back in the tanks where they belong, along with the backgrounds they had "borrowed."
Salon Durem Update

For a while now, some users with slower connections have not been able to access Salon Durem due to the number of items in the store.

We just released an update that should fix this problem. For everyone else, the stores should load a little faster, but otherwise, there is no change.

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Phin Phang Delayed
To avoid potential load issues with the Easter event and also to do some final play balance tweaking, we're delaying the Phin Phang reopen until next week. We'll make another announcement on Monday with the exact day that the store will be reopened.

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