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I'll fill this out in the coming days as the update goes live

- Embedded Media Field for adding links to video tutorials / examples. There are many instances where showing usage via a youtube clip would really help out. There is now a field when submitting scripts, plugins & tutorials that lets you paste in the link to a video (any type) and it'll create a player window for that video.

For the past couple weeks I've been steadily preparing a new server for ScriptSpot. The current one has been crumbling under the load recently and its been clear that there just isn't enough room to grow. So, we're on a new server now thats significantly more powerful.

Some slights CSS changes tonight, refresh your browsers to see the latest...

With drupal you can weight the default search engine with 4 different qualities - keywords, views, comments and date. I've reworked the weights and made keyword results significantly more important than the rest which in my tests is generating much more accurate search results. Give it a shot...

Today I spent the afternoon going over the CSS files and refining some of the site details - like font size / weight / color sitewide. I think everything looks much better. The old site had such large text I would typically use the Firefox hotkeys to resize the text down a notch. This should suit everyone much better.

Thought this would make things a bit more interesting so we can all easily see any new comments posted on relevent content. Note that this is a separate list for 3ds max / sketchup users of course...

In performing some regular database maintenance last night, your fearless leader, your "webmaster" managed to break permissions leading to the site going blank for everyone. Wow. Smooth move on my part.

Its fixed now (obviously) since you're reading this message. Back to your regularly scheduled programming... :-)

Just implemented sorting when browsing by tag name... I am now trying to get sort into the search results...

FYI, I think I've sped up the site a bit with a couple optimizations. That said, I've got another server I'm testing to see if it is faster too...

I'm sure many of you have noticed a bit of a slowdown in site dev lately. Sorry about that. In the mean time I've been working on resolving many of the big issues I've been hearing in the forums / emails.

Hey everyone, I'll be out of town for about a week to celebrate my wedding anniversary and likely won't be able to check the site during that time. So, I have lined up some temporary moderators who will make sure the server stays up and who can address any serious issues...