Release Notes 2009-03-24

A new slew of fixes and featurettes for your Whirling pleasure on this fine Spring day (in the Northern hemisphere of course):

Blocking and Bleeping

• Muting shall henceforth be known as blocking
• Blocked players no longer appear in the batch friend request popup
• When a player is blocked, any pets that they own are also blocked (and bleeped)
• Bleeping is now persisted beyond the current session
• Blocked players are now persisted

Playlists

• The player who added a song to a room playlist is now displayed in the tooltip
• Long song names no longer create a funky scroll bar in the playlist
• Missing album or artist tags in songs will now show up as "unknown" instead of "null"
• Room playlist sizes are limited to 99
• Room music can now be bleeped
• Room playlist now shows song thumbnails
• There is now a link to the info for a song's menu in a room playlist

Batch Friend Request

• People in the batch friend request popup are now sorted alphabetically by name
• There is now a "Select All" tick box in the batch friend request popup

Other

• Thready summary layout is now cleaner and doesn't behave weirdly with long thread names
• Live place views now work again
• Reconnect button now works in embeds
• Improved compliance with Flash domain security model
• Some help text is now displayed when you do /bleepall
• Members who have deleted their accounts no longer show up in a couple of nooks and crannies in our gargantuan web site
• It should again be possible to publish earned game trophies to Facebook
• The trophy feed popup after a game should not show up at the same time as a batch friend request popup