Site News

I'm going to embark on a period of fixing existing problems before moving forward, so if you don't see obvious progress in the coming days/weeks, don't worry that the momentum has stalled. I've just been adding a lot of features and it's time to take a step back and do some cleanup to make a good foundation for next steps. Thanks to everyone who has joined and added profile pictures of themselves! It's good to put faces to so many names, and it adds a welcome human touch to the solitary hours of coding.

Sincerely,
Jeff

My partner and I are at the Prime Timers gathering in Oklahoma City this week, so there won’t be a lot happening here. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Jeff

I’ve added a forum so we can get to know each other, catch up on what’s new in the “older gay” world, etc. It’s linked from “Discussion” on the drop-down menu and at the bottom of each page and you can reach it directly at http://talk.oldergay.men/

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Jeff

It's my birthday! As a gift to myself, I made a better presentation of favorite pictures. When you look at a profile now (including your own), you'll see up to ten favorites and a link that will take you to a paginated pop-up gallery. As before, you can see my profile for an example.

It's a delight to have my favorite hot men always ready to enjoy. Hope you like it, too.

Jeff

You can now sort the pictures page by popularity of the picture. Keep rating to bring your favorites to the top for everyone’s enjoyment!

On events’ pages, you'll now find a link you can click to let everyone know if you'll be there. You'll then appear on the list of attendees on the event's page and the event will be listed on your profile. Please click and let us know if you'll be part of the group; it'll be great when we can meet each other face-to-face and not just online. 🙂

Speaking for myself and my partner, we'll be at the Prime Timers Labor Day Weekend in Oklahoma City and the convention in San Antonio. Looking forward to meeting anyone who can come out and join the fun.

Jeff

Image ratings are now being imported. If you rated a picture on the old site, your rating should appear here, and if you rated it three stars or higher, it should appear in your favorites on your profile.

Each picture’s page now has a list of who liked it. Please keep rating pictures so we can see more of this in action.

Thanks,
Jeff

Images rated with more than two stars now appear on your profile. (See mine for an example.)

I've just added ratings for pictures on the site. A few caveats:

1. Ratings are currently showing only on the picture's dedicated page (found, for example, by clicking "More information..." in a photo gallery).
2. Due to bug, ratings only show up when the page is reloaded. A note on the page alerts you to this.
3. I'm not yet doing anything with the ratings. You'll soon be able to sort images by popularity and see the images you and others have rated on your profile pages, but for now the average rating just shows on the picture's page.
4. I haven't started porting existing ratings from the old site yet.

This is another feature I quickly half-completed to have it out in time for tomorrow's newsletter. 😀 Even though you don't get much for the effort right now, I'd appreciate it if you take the time to rate some pictures so we have more data to work with this weekend.

Thanks to all for the help and encouragement,
Jeff