Release Notes 2008-10-30

Quite a few new bits for you in today's release:

Rooms Page and Whirled Tour


 * Rooms Page: this shows all of the active rooms in Whirled as well as recently updated and highly rated rooms
 * When you update your room, you will now be presented with an option to Publish it. When you publish it, the room's snapshot is updated and your room is considered update for the New and Hot section of the Rooms page (note that only public rooms are shown on the Rooms page).
 * Whirled Tour: if you feel like checking out some of the awesome rooms in Whirled and talking to other people about them, try the Whirled Tour. It takes you on a tour of highly rated rooms and tries to group people together as they move from room to room on the tour so that they can share and enjoy whatever experiences the rooms have to offer. Be sure to rate and comment on the rooms you see in the tour.
 * Explorer Badge: as you move from room to room on the Whirled Tour, you'll level up the new Explorer Badge.
 * Only when you Publish your room will it show up in your friends' feeds as having been updated.

My Whirled Places


 * When you first arrive in Whirled and whenever you click the little Whirled icon in the control bar, we'll show you your Whirled Places which displays three rows of things to do and places to go. This includes rooms you frequently visit, games you frequently play, as well as other things we think you might find interesting.
 * We'll be working on being smarter about what we show you in your Whirled Places display so that we can get you to the things you like quickly and easily as well as things we think you might like.

A Bevy of Other Bits


 * We reorganized the Me page a bit, removing the Passport information (you can get to the Passport page by clicking the Star in the header or the Passport link at the top of the Me page).
 * We improved the UI of the Share dialog for rooms and games.
 * The Help page can now be accessed with the Help link to the right of the Logoff button in the header.
 * We added a Buy Again button when you buy something in the shop, in case you want multiple copies.
 * We fixed a bunch of bugs (and probably introduced a few new ones, just to keep things interesting).

Hope you like all the fun new stuff. Happy Whirling,