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Post: 40316617_1 created on Tue May 13, 2008 10:46 pmPosted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:46 pm


New Homepages!

    You'll be seeing some brand new Gaia homepages popping up sometime in the next few days. Recently, we asked Gaia members to rate some new designs for the logged-out homepage, and with your help we've selected a couple of snazzy new looks to try out on the site. This is an ongoing project, so we may keep tweaking these over the coming months until we feel like it's just right. Once these changes appear on the site, we'll set up a feedback thread so you can tell us what you think.



Holy Crap! Gaia's Going to Illinois!

    We're gonna be hitting up Anime Central at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois this weekend.

    You can catch the Gaia panel on Satuday from 2 to 4PM in the Live Programming 2 room. As always, we'll be bringing plenty of free Gold cards, plus some other great prizes for a few lucky winners. All panel attendees will get a sneak peak at Gaia's new Flash game, as well as new screens from the long-awaited "Battle" project. There will be tons of free Gold and prizes during the gathering, so don't miss out. For more info on Anime Central and all the latest news on Kiki's Road Trip, visit our convention home page.

    See you there, Illinoisanians!



Stuff is Working Again

    Over the last few days, we had some technical problems with the Marketplace, gift-giving, trades, Cash Card redemption and various Gaia shops. We've fixed this stuff, and it should all be hunky-dory now. We apologize for any inconvenience.


Update to Image Security

    We've added some new options in your Account Preferences page to help you deal with potentially unwanted images being posted in the forums. We've seen a lot of suggestions for this sort of thing recently, so what the heck. We did it.

    You can now customize your level of image security in the forums. There are currently three options:

    • Show All Images - This shows every image posted on the forums, without any filtering.

    • Show No Images - This blocks images on the forums, so you can browse image-free. Instead of seeing the image, you'll just see a clickable URL that leads to the image.

    • Show Whitelisted Images - This only displays images hosted on sites that are generally trusted and reputable. For example, Photobucket actively screens for inappropriate content, so you're much less likely to see gross stuff hosted there. All blocked images will show up as clickable URLs.

    If you have one of the image-blocking options turned on, you'll be able to click the "show all images" link at the top of each forum thread to display all the blocked images, or click the "show all blocked images for this post" link to show all the images in a specific post.




Further Mischief

    We've put up a few more winners in our ongoing Mischief Makers contest/program-thingie! Visit our Mischief gallery to marvel at the ingenuity of the world's most devoted Gaians:



    Got a good idea for some Gaia-related tomfoolery? You can win awesome prizes by submitting some mischief of your own.
  
     
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