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Lots of Updates - Parks, Rides and Site!
6th April 2010 by: Joel
Howdy folks,
It's been a while yet again since I've spent any time on poor old ridecount. In fact, I became a little suspicious earlier when it felt like I'd hadn't heard anything from the automated emailer scripts alerting me to a new park someones added, or a missed ride here and there.
So after digging around a little, I discovered that in fact the reason it's been so quiet was because the mailer queue on ridecount.com had become jammed and had stopped delivering emails for over a month. Turns out there were lots of emails for updates, news parks and missing rides! Eeek!
The good news is, I've sat and processed them all now, so we're up to date once again. Yay!
New Parks
A fair few (around 10, actually) new parks have been added to the database, so thanks once again for your additions submitted. We'll make sure we try and stay on top of these submissions, particulary as we've made some changes to the tool on the admin side of things
Site Changes #1 - Discontinued Rides
You'll now find that removed, rethemed, rehomed, dismantled, exploded, SBNO...etc rides, or as we simply call them, 'discontinued' rides, are actually available to track at the bottom of the ridecount trip logger. This is because sometimes we do actually get new members who want to track and log previous trips from years gone by, and previously these discontinued rides were just removed from the page. Good news, you can now log them again - and they even have their little discontinuation reason on display too...
Site Changes #2 - Missing Ride Reporter
It's mighty difficult to keep track of every change to every ride in every park out there, and that's why we rely on you guys to keep us informed too. The 'missing ride' reporting tool has ben greatly improved - previously it just used to email us with your comments, but now it actually adds the data into the database itself, and awaits approval from the ridecount team, making it much easier to deal with, and much quicker too!
You now need to complete the proper ride name, its type, its current status (as you can also suggest rides that have been removed so you can log past trips!) and also a little comment to explain about the ride further should you need it. There are only 5 boxes for missing rides, however you can submit those first 5, then click again to add another 5 (forbid there actually being that many rides missing of course!), and so on until all of them are reported to us.
You'll also now see these rides awaiting approval at the bottom of the logging page for a park - right underneath the discontinued rides. This is to help prevent people reporting rides twice, three or even four times, as so frequently happens now. If you see the ride thats missing in that list - hold off reporting it, and we'll add it very shortly.
So thats about it for today - hopefully you'll find these new changes a little more helpful and we'll certainly find them a help to keep things up to date for you guys quicker.
That's all for now!
-- Joel & the ridecount team
It's been a while yet again since I've spent any time on poor old ridecount. In fact, I became a little suspicious earlier when it felt like I'd hadn't heard anything from the automated emailer scripts alerting me to a new park someones added, or a missed ride here and there.
So after digging around a little, I discovered that in fact the reason it's been so quiet was because the mailer queue on ridecount.com had become jammed and had stopped delivering emails for over a month. Turns out there were lots of emails for updates, news parks and missing rides! Eeek!
The good news is, I've sat and processed them all now, so we're up to date once again. Yay!
New Parks
A fair few (around 10, actually) new parks have been added to the database, so thanks once again for your additions submitted. We'll make sure we try and stay on top of these submissions, particulary as we've made some changes to the tool on the admin side of things
Site Changes #1 - Discontinued Rides
You'll now find that removed, rethemed, rehomed, dismantled, exploded, SBNO...etc rides, or as we simply call them, 'discontinued' rides, are actually available to track at the bottom of the ridecount trip logger. This is because sometimes we do actually get new members who want to track and log previous trips from years gone by, and previously these discontinued rides were just removed from the page. Good news, you can now log them again - and they even have their little discontinuation reason on display too...
Site Changes #2 - Missing Ride Reporter
It's mighty difficult to keep track of every change to every ride in every park out there, and that's why we rely on you guys to keep us informed too. The 'missing ride' reporting tool has ben greatly improved - previously it just used to email us with your comments, but now it actually adds the data into the database itself, and awaits approval from the ridecount team, making it much easier to deal with, and much quicker too!
You now need to complete the proper ride name, its type, its current status (as you can also suggest rides that have been removed so you can log past trips!) and also a little comment to explain about the ride further should you need it. There are only 5 boxes for missing rides, however you can submit those first 5, then click again to add another 5 (forbid there actually being that many rides missing of course!), and so on until all of them are reported to us.
You'll also now see these rides awaiting approval at the bottom of the logging page for a park - right underneath the discontinued rides. This is to help prevent people reporting rides twice, three or even four times, as so frequently happens now. If you see the ride thats missing in that list - hold off reporting it, and we'll add it very shortly.
So thats about it for today - hopefully you'll find these new changes a little more helpful and we'll certainly find them a help to keep things up to date for you guys quicker.
That's all for now!
-- Joel & the ridecount team
Park & Ride Updates
29th July 2009 by: Joel
Hello!
You might think sometimes that we've abandoned ridecount and left it to rot away in the great internet graveyard.
But you'd be wrong. We still receive many new parks to add to the database, and also many ride updates, all from our very kind and supportive users like yourselves.
And we regulary run through all of these submissions and update the site where we can.
Things have been quiet on the new features front because, well, honestly real life stepped in and new things came along. But we still have great plans for ridecount, and we hope that they'll get underway once again soon.
But for now, keep up the amazingly helpful work of adding new parks and keeping us up to date with missing/new rides on the database - we really appreciate it, and so does everyone else!
-- Joel
You might think sometimes that we've abandoned ridecount and left it to rot away in the great internet graveyard.
But you'd be wrong. We still receive many new parks to add to the database, and also many ride updates, all from our very kind and supportive users like yourselves.
And we regulary run through all of these submissions and update the site where we can.
Things have been quiet on the new features front because, well, honestly real life stepped in and new things came along. But we still have great plans for ridecount, and we hope that they'll get underway once again soon.
But for now, keep up the amazingly helpful work of adding new parks and keeping us up to date with missing/new rides on the database - we really appreciate it, and so does everyone else!
-- Joel
Signatures not updating
26th March 2009 by: Joel
Hello all,
It was brought to our attention that signature images have been failing to update with your latest ridecounts recently.
We have now investigated this issue, issued a fix for the problem and have succesfully performed a forced update on all users' signatures.
Apologies for any inconvenience that may have been caused.
It was brought to our attention that signature images have been failing to update with your latest ridecounts recently.
We have now investigated this issue, issued a fix for the problem and have succesfully performed a forced update on all users' signatures.
Apologies for any inconvenience that may have been caused.
Ride Updates
21st March 2009 by: Joel
Hello!
It seems like ages since we've carried out any major work to ridecount, as we've been busy on new projects that are demanding our attention right now :-(
But fear not, ridecount is going nowhere, and thanks to your hard effort we've just completed a little round of updates to the rides database ready for the 2009 season.
Many thanks to all those that have sent in updates, and if you spot an error or a missing ride don't forget to let us know so we can get it updated for everyone as soon as possible.
Simply use the "Missing Ride Report" tool when logging your park, or open a ticket over at the helpdesk and we'll get it added.
Many thanks guys, and heres to a great 2009 season!
It seems like ages since we've carried out any major work to ridecount, as we've been busy on new projects that are demanding our attention right now :-(
But fear not, ridecount is going nowhere, and thanks to your hard effort we've just completed a little round of updates to the rides database ready for the 2009 season.
Many thanks to all those that have sent in updates, and if you spot an error or a missing ride don't forget to let us know so we can get it updated for everyone as soon as possible.
Simply use the "Missing Ride Report" tool when logging your park, or open a ticket over at the helpdesk and we'll get it added.
Many thanks guys, and heres to a great 2009 season!
All up to date!
11th August 2008 by: Joel
Hi folks,
Things have been a bit slow recently for ridecount as we've been kicking off the shoes and pulling up our trousers to soak up the glorius weather.
So much so we completely forgot about the missing ride reports and new park suggestions that were sat waiting in the approval queue for us!
So, many many apologies, but you'll now find all of your recent ride & park updates now live on the site.
Hope you're all having a fantastic summer - and congratulations to us as we hit 100+ members once again!
Woo yay us! :-D
Things have been a bit slow recently for ridecount as we've been kicking off the shoes and pulling up our trousers to soak up the glorius weather.
So much so we completely forgot about the missing ride reports and new park suggestions that were sat waiting in the approval queue for us!
So, many many apologies, but you'll now find all of your recent ride & park updates now live on the site.
Hope you're all having a fantastic summer - and congratulations to us as we hit 100+ members once again!
Woo yay us! :-D
Missing Rides & Added Parks
23rd July 2008 by: Joel
It seems we've been having an issue with our e-mailer script that takes care of alerting the team to user feedback, including the missing rides reporting tool and the contribute a new park tool.
Due to the lack of email notification from our system we didn't notice that there was 7 new parks in the queue (3 of which were actually duplicated too, obviously in frustration - sorry!) and numerous updates for missing rides from a few parks.
Firstly we'd like to apologise for the oversight and delay in noticing the error - we thought it had been a little strangely quiet for our contact emails!
Secondly we'll hopefully have caught up on the backlog by Friday morning and have all your submissions completed.
Thanks for your patience.
Due to the lack of email notification from our system we didn't notice that there was 7 new parks in the queue (3 of which were actually duplicated too, obviously in frustration - sorry!) and numerous updates for missing rides from a few parks.
Firstly we'd like to apologise for the oversight and delay in noticing the error - we thought it had been a little strangely quiet for our contact emails!
Secondly we'll hopefully have caught up on the backlog by Friday morning and have all your submissions completed.
Thanks for your patience.
We're baaaack!
20th June 2008 by: Joel
Hellllooo!
Ooh we've missed you, but we're back at last!
Albeit we had to make a lot of sacrifices to make it back, but we shall explain it all when you hover your pointing device over this text and *click*.
But as they say we shall rebuild and move on, and that we're exactly doing. So sign up (again, yes, sorry!) and muck in!
It'll be fab to have you back.
Ooh we've missed you, but we're back at last!
Albeit we had to make a lot of sacrifices to make it back, but we shall explain it all when you hover your pointing device over this text and *click*.
But as they say we shall rebuild and move on, and that we're exactly doing. So sign up (again, yes, sorry!) and muck in!
It'll be fab to have you back.