2002-12-14 | Installed first primitive version of personals without database |
2003-03-01 | Rewrote existing primitive personals for SQL database |
2003-08-18 | Added activity table |
2004-02-29 | Added history table |
2004-04-03 | multi-picture ability |
2004-06-08 | demographic (by state-country) search |
2004-06-12 | invitations to personals sites in admin |
2004-06-14 | saved searches |
2004-06-23 | demographic search link under country-state name |
2004-06-23 | personal ad headline |
2004-06-24 | ad URL notice in email and on verification page |
2004-06-24 | most popular profile search added |
2004-07-01 | all systems newsletter poster |
2004-07-01 | min. character count for descriptions is 100 |
2004-07-19 | FLIRT feature added |
2004-08-01 | Add disabled field that contains reason and status date |
2004-08-09 | Add Automatch |
2004-08-11 | Add character count javascript in description, 100 character minimum |
2004-08-13 | Add notice about scanning of photos |
2004-08-24 | Add scam email detection |
2004-08-24 | Add sayings to all dynamic pages |
2004-08-26 | Added phpBB and Jpilot Java Chat to personals |
2004-08-26 | Added checking email address from banned table on signup |
2004-08-26 | Added profile deletion to scam detection |
2004-08-28 | Removed automatic notifications for all AOL emails and added AOL trouble notice |
2004-08-29 | Added daily birthday notices |
2004-09-08 | Added pic count in search results |
2004-09-10 | Change to strict email limiting because of AOL interference |
2004-09-11 | Escape quotes in descriptions |
2004-09-15 | Added online Newsletter retrieval |
2004-09-16 | Moved top-10 notification back to weekly, added pic checkbox to 3 more searches |
2004-10-08 | Made replies to emails free |
2004-10-15 | Added original message to replies |
2004-10-15 | Added no-email flag |
2004-10-18 | Begin adding menwhoplay.com |
2004-10-20 | Newsletter now opens in current window, remodeled |
2004-10-21 | Approval now required for profiles to appear in search results |
2004-10-21 | Added 'not interested' checkbox to replies |
2004-10-26 | Made URL field invisible to users not logged in |
2004-10-26 | Finished chat popup with thumbnails |
2004-11-01 | Add CGI home page with thumbnails |
2004-11-03 | Limit no. of profiles to 3 by checking email address |
2004-11-04 | Added jump to page buttons in gallery |
2004-11-05 | Added thumbnail message view |
2004-11-12 | Add profile statistics |
2004-11-17 | Added delete checkbox in message index view |
2004-11-18 | Added yearly hit count for home page |
2004-11-20 | Save attachments to messages and show them in message view |
2004-11-22 | Added enable defeat when user has enabled more than 6 times |
2004-12-04 | Make popup thumbnails for pay members only |
2004-12-05 | Added option to force user to get messages online |
2004-12-07 | Added subject field to messages |
2004-12-08 | Added forwarding to email address from message view |
2004-12-16 | Added search for viewers of user's profile |
2004-12-22 | Added link to eliminate all email on profile edit page |
2004-12-27 | Added anchor on message index page for latest unread message |
2004-12-31 | Delete unused redundant profiles |
2005-01-13 | Added private galleries |
2005-01-21 | Added email activation |
2005-01-25 | Added instant messaging |
2005-01-26 | Added online thumbnail to popup status window |
2005-01-31 | Added instant message polling from every page |
2005-02-19 | Added hottest new profiles search and weekly notification |
2005-02-20 | Added unified help page and help database |
2005-02-28 | Added watermarks to screen-size pics |
2005-03-07 | Made valid US city-state required |
2005-03-13 | Integrated phpbb username-password |
2005-03-30 | Rework group posting |
2005-03-31 | Signup is now a 3 o 4-step process to select country-state-city |
2005-04-01 | Show bounces only since last login rather than last 60 days |
2005-04-06 | Show unread and deleted messages on the message index page |
2005-04-14 | Added rotating featured thumbnail to GearPlay banner |
2005-04-15 | Modified reply logic to allow anyone to reply to a flirt from a premium member |
2005-04-18 | Added Premium Member benefits page |
2005-04-19 | Added display favorites search |
2005-04-21 | Added "you've got mail!" to Online Now page |
2005-04-21 | Added Yahoo Messenger link on profile |
2005-04-23 | Added RSS feed for new profiles |
2005-04-27 | Added "Pending Approval" image for profiles |
2005-05-12 | Added Zodiac signs to profiles |
2005-05-13 | Added favorites count to profile display |
2005-05-16 | Changed contact links to contact buttons on profile page |
2005-05-25 | Placed all profile options on one page for user editing |
2005-06-24 | Added meter |
2005-07-08 | Added sound to login "you have mail" |
2005-07-11 | Added promo codes to pay sites |
2005-07-19 | Added promo code entry for existing profiles |
2005-07-20 | AOL and other domains with a USELESS service rating are now rejected for signups. |
2005-07-25 | Added auto-renew setting for profiles |
2005-07-26 | Changed gallery ordering to last login time |
2005-07-28 | Added Abuse Reporting |
2005-08-06 | Added IP to locale lookup |
2005-08-25 | Added pagination in online now popup |
2005-08-27 | Added bad domain warning on all trouble reports |
2005-08-30 | Added blocking |
2005-08-30 | Changed ad insertion in profile viewing to use the banner table |
2005-09-08 | Changed scam parsing to scoring method |
2005-09-13 | Added multi-region search and search-save |
2005-09-28 | Move common scripts to -home-common-proj-bin-personals |
2005-11-07 | Added send-receive message count to profile page |
2005-11-08 | Added scam country notice |
2005-11-13 | Added city and country to gallery, added sortby field to gallery |
2005-11-25 | Move delete main photo function to Update Profile page |
2005-12-06 | Added 'safesex' and 'kink' to users table, KINK_FIELDS to match.conf |
2005-12-09 | Added Restricted Galleries |
2005-12-12 | Added watchwords scan of messages |
2005-12-16 | Added Introduction Messages |
2005-12-19 | Add alerts to activity log |
2005-12-30 | Trap for multiple pulls of profile, no update to viewcount |
2006-01-04 | Added alerts for over 10 messages per day sent |
2006-01-09 | Added abuse policy |
2006-01-16 | Added duplicate message checking |
2006-01-23 | Added ip block check for signup forms |
2006-01-31 | Added block button to message view page |
2006-02-07 | Added primary interest search |
2006-02-09 | Added user-ordered message history summary |
2006-02-16 | Added admin triggered watches to profiles |
2006-02-20 | Added desktop monitor |
2006-03-05 | Added "other profiles" display on profile edit page |
2006-03-21 | Photos now stored under unique names, different data structure passed to search results |
2006-03-24 | Add thumbnails to instant messages |
2006-03-27 | Added Restricted Gallery upload on message send page |
2006-03-29 | Added URL catcher to newsletter displaying page |
2006-03-30 | Added java text chat |
2006-03-31 | Changed online now window to show only thumbs |
2006-04-03 | Added chat search for profiles |
2006-04-03 | Put valid from email address in email with reply-to bounce |
2006-05-10 | Changed weight to integer |
2006-05-18 | Add built-in language description lanaguage translator |
2006-05-20 | Check updated fields before un-approving a profile |
2006-07-24 | Add "seeking" and "physique" fields in users table |
2006-07-27 | Add auxiliary filter word file in addition to global filter word file |
2006-08-22 | Add free message capability, implement value = 2 for findgaydad |
2006-08-29 | Added approvals table to store unapproved profiles and added photodate to mark unapproved photos |
2006-08-31 | Added notes to profiles |
2006-09-06 | Use CSS for fonts |
2006-09-07 | Save user's edits to profile before edit checking so that they loose no edits |
2006-09-13 | Added finished flag to profiles to indicate all required fields are validated |
2006-10-03 | Disallow email usernames in personals usernames |
2006-10-15 | Added moderators and bans |
2006-10-30 | Added voting |
2006-11-16 | Added the voting search |
2006-12-05 | Add spellcheck to description |
2006-12-07 | Added URL referring to profile page as REFER event |
2007-01-04 | Enforce the 20 photo limit. Add "grant bonus" to personals admin. |
2007-01-11 | Added "back to message" button in profile view |
2007-01-17 | Added verified field to users and approvals tables |
2007-01-22 | Added interest statistic on profiles |
2007-01-22 | Added MINI and MAXI modes to monitor window |
2007-01-31 | Change free message capability for findgaydad from 2 to 1 |
2007-01-31 | Fixed javascript blank parent window by putting window.open inside void(window.open) |
2007-02-08 | Added IP blocks to login |
2007-02-12 | Make case significant in passwords, and rewrite username.pl to check password for proper complexity |
2007-02-20 | Changed DSP rates: 6.95->4.95, 14.95->11.95, 39.95->35.95 |
2007-02-20 | Add media uploads |
2007-02-23 | Add event calendar |
2007-03-12 | Add Age Spread search |
2007-03-23 | Added saved search display to profiles |
2007-03-23 | Eliminated activity display on home page |
2007-03-24 | Changed method for displaying "latest" on home page to random picks of last 24 hours |
2007-03-25 | Changed online now count calculation to 1-10 of last 2 hours |
2007-03-29 | Added city, country, age flyouts to thumbnails |
2007-04-08 | Added favorites login notification |
2007-04-18 | Added post message to all moderators from admin |
2007-04-23 | Added top-bottom pulldown to most personals |
2007-05-01 | Send a message with login warnings |
2007-05-28 | Added event proximity notification |
2007-07-06 | Deleted photos now moved to DELETED gallery |
2007-07-22 | No-profile users can now only view 10 profiles |
2007-07-30 | Defeat popup warnings added welcome page |
2007-09-06 | Massive revision in production, button rollovers, frames |
2007-10-23 | Added age matching to user table, search.cgi, quicksearch.cgi |
2007-11-01 | Changes max. photos from 20 to 60 |
2007-11-21 | Premium no longer come up first in search results |
2007-11-28 | Added "Your News" |
2007-12-19 | Invite to Chat no longer restricted to Supporting Members |
2008-01-26 | Added "Whose profile have you looked at?" search |
2008-01-30 | Added 30-day update nag email |
2008-02-11 | Added private flag to profile |
2008-02-14 | Added help keyword search |
2008-02-21 | Nopopup flag now disables instant notifications |
2008-02-29 | Added sort in message history |
2008-03-06 | Added global canned messages |
2008-03-17 | Added quicksearch to online now and chatting now windows |
2008-03-25 | Added dialog display of messages |
2008-04-15 | Added latest photo search |
2008-04-25 | Added holiday notification and audio announcements |
2008-04-30 | Added display of favorites online upon login |
2008-05-05 | Add reciprocal blocks and 1-day requirement for photos |
2008-05-13 | Added email dialog viewing |
2008-05-21 | Add assocate accessid to profile |
2008-05-27 | Add online favorites search |
2008-05-27 | Add cam chat |
2008-06-21 | Switch permanently to AVchat, turn Realchat off |
2008-06-25 | Added chat settings table to personals |
2008-07-01 | Added frames detector for several pages normally linked from the outside world |
2008-07-09 | Added automatic skip set for 3 approvals in 5 days. Add verifier to profile options display. |
2008-07-21 | Added defeat Age Matching searches for Premium Members |
2008-08-14 | Added multiple verifications |
2008-08-29 | Let users make their profiles invisible |
2008-09-09 | Move admin scripts to a protected directory |
2008-09-22 | Encrypt username cookie |
2008-10-07 | Add time to instant messages |
2009-03-17 | Put combined personals architecture into production. |
2009-03-30 | Added time limit for non-supporting members in chat |
2009-04-04 | Added trap for multiple logins |
2009-04-22 | Added Hotlist |
2009-11-13 | Added Emeets |
2010-01-25 | Added message filtering |
2010-02-02 | Gary ordered cease of message filtering |
2010-02-17 | Limt flirts-icebreakers to 2 |
2010-02-18 | Add calendar to emeets and events |
2010-02-26 | Separate messages into unread, saved, sent |
2010-03-27 | Eliminate popup login warning and add clickable link for receiving instant messages |
2010-04-07 | Emeets cannot be scored after 7 days old |
2010-05-20 | Added upload progress bar |
2010-10-01 | Added member comments to polls |
2010-10-06 | Add MegaSearch |
2010-10-11 | Added suggestion box for new search terms |
2010-10-12 | Added profile photo slideshow buttons |
2010-10-20 | Add languages spoken to profiles |
2010-10-26 | Added surveys to be attached to profiles |
2010-10-30 | Added recall to MegaSearch |
2011-01-10 | Disabled malware checking, added warning about MSIE 9.0 beta |
2011-03-01 | Display daily automatches on welcome page |
2011-03-19 | Match city-state-country with sanitized strings from u2a. |
2011-03-19 | Store realcity and realcountry in UTF-8. |
2011-03-19 | Email WINDOWS-1252 |
2011-03-19 | New fields in distance and locale tables |
2011-03-21 | Messages between members now show their common site instead of SITE_ID |
2011-04-20 | Hall of Shamers now come up in searches but are treated as deleted profiles |
2011-05-03 | External profile links no longer use popups |
2011-05-23 | Promo codes now good for all partner sites |
2011-06-02 | Added Google map link to profiles |
2011-06-06 | Added most photos search |
2011-07-17 | Add daily view profile report |
2011-07-26 | Take password change off profile edit and give it its own page |
2011-08-02 | Added stories |
2011-08-23 | Added printer-friendly for message display |
2011-10-05 | Added notifications queue displayed in top frame and removed notifications from instant messaging |
2011-10-31 | Eliminate resource, was abused |
2011-11-17 | Stop reporting individual bounces to personals inbox |
2011-12-13 | Add city selection to quicksearch |
2012-03-19 | Add member links |
2012-04-23 | Add search for proximity to arbitrary city |
2012-08-14 | Changed language translater from Babel Fish to Wordlingo |
2012-10-01 | Added password suggestion |
2012-10-04 | Limit locales to 3 |
2012-10-08 | Allow more than 3 locales for premium members |
2012-10-08 | Removed capability to disable popups, added capability to disable alerts |
2012-11-01 | Added country flags |
2012-12-03 | Add QR scan image to contact cards |
2012-12-06 | Found and fixed bug allowing unlimited replies by basic member to flirts |
2013-01-08 | Unify email return addresses |
2013-01-23 | Add skull icon to search results for Hall of Shame members |
2013-01-25 | Make blocking available to basic members |
2013-02-11 | Changed order flat file format to delimit items |
2013-02-24 | Eliminated minimum description in Globalfight Personals per Gary's command |
2013-06-04 | Added p3p policy to all sites |
2013-06-19 | Notification to members of unread mail batched 6 times a day |
2013-07-30 | Add revision history to Help and Information |
2013-08-08 | Made last login date/time equal to last online |
2013-08-19 | Eliminate all Webring links for their alarming warning popup |
2013-09-14 | Started work on the Mobile Interface |
2013-09-19 | Changed 'Favorites' to 'Buddies' |
2013-09-20 | Added blogging (voice) |
2013-10-14 | Changed received message notice from every 4 hours to once per day |
2013-10-24 | Automatically grant Premium Membership on member's birthday |
2013-10-31 | Added most recent unread admin message to Welcome Page for members with unreliable email providers |
2013-11-26 | Scammers no longer appear in any gallery or search except the Hall of Shame |
2014-03-21 | Weak encryption of the login cookie was changed to a much stronger keyed encryption |
2014-04-04 | Massive purge of dead and spam links |
2014-04-07 | Added third line of defense against hackers probing the site |
2014-08-01 | Add anniversary notices |
2015-01-07 | Add progress bar upload to photos |
2015-01-19 | Add Gary's multimedia promotional thumbnails to profiles, gallery, and message windows |
2015-01-21 | Add low resolution warnings to photo upload |
2015-01-26 | Added email search results from MegaSearch results pages |
2015-02-04 | Add profile quality rating, maximum 100 |
2015-02-06 | Everyone granted 2 day supporting membership on their signup anniversary |
2015-03-25 | Added adult disclaimer to index page |
2015-08-18 | Updated AVchat 2.2 to AVchat 3.0 |
2015-09-15 | Supporting members subscribing for at least 12 months are automatically featured |
2015-11-21 | Eliminated posting to Usenet News and Yahoo, MSN groups |
2015-11-27 | Eliminate warnings about unreliable email providers |
2015-12-07 | Poster of an event can now delete any attendee |
2016-04-05 | Add Tip-O-Day to members Welcome Page |
2016-04-25 | Add review/delete saved searches |
2016-04-25 | Released new order form |
2016-05-26 | Message retention was 6 months, is now 30 days |
2016-06-05 | Keep supporting members' messages for 90 days |
2016-06-13 | Give 5 days grace on message expiration to lapsing supporting members |
2016-08-01 | Added mini video clip to home age |
2016-08-17 | Encoded all videos to play with HTML5 and added video player interface |
2016-08-29 | Added HTML formatted notifications and user ability to choose between text and html |
2016-08-31 | Added member media files review |
2016-09-12 | Set message expiration for supporting members to 1 year |
2016-09-13 | Disabled chat time limit for non-supporting members per Gary's order |
2016-10-04 | On pay sites, paying member message retention is now 1 year, others are 30 days |
2016-10-12 | Completed gallery manager |
2016-11-12 | Members must now post a photo before they can send messages, flirts, or icebreakers |
2016-12-20 | The who's chatting and who's online displays were remodeled to eliminate pagination |
2016-12-20 | Added per member timezone |
2017-01-17 | Added smileys to messages |
2017-02-04 | Latest and Newest Members display now show most recently updated profiles |
2017-02-27 | Personals version 4 placed into production |
2017-03-21 | Provide secure login |
2017-04-27 | Implemented forwarding to URL after login |
2017-05-02 | Implement forwarding from previous revision personals pages to current revision pages |
2017-05-12 | Added support for multiple profiles per email address. Left the option subject to the discretion of the site owner. |
2017-05-30 | Approval no longer required to use the site |
2017-08-10 | Use new password suggesting algorithm that generates more memorable passwords |
2017-08-15 | Member notes are shown automatically on the Contact section of a profile |
2017-09-25 | Emojiis cannot now be in a username |
2017-11-11 | Add Member Media Gallery of all media files |
2017-11-20 | Reply to message now shows message being replied to |
2017-12-16 | Contest winners cannot be voted on again until their win is over 1 month old |
2017-12-26 | Eliminated age matching feature |
2018-03-07 | Add button to request that a member post a video |
2018-05-01 | Flirt has been retired in lieu of Icebreakers |
2018-05-14 | Put Zodiac signs back in by member request |
2018-07-08 | Date of birth and at least one locale now required in addition to a main photo. |
2018-07-16 | "deleted" photos are now kept for 1 year instead of 30 days |
2018-07-27 | Long-standing problem with browsers sending more than one value for a single cookie now fixed |
2018-08-05 | Add new og: fields in page headers |
2018-09-08 | Implemented session timeout set to 30 minutes |
2018-09-08 | Added sitemap to main page |
2018-09-21 | Gary ordered that Globalfight no longer get any free messages |
2018-11-01 | Usernames must now be unique across all personals sites |
2018-11-20 | Added additional per-site descriptions |
2019-01-29 | Supporting members sent as well as received messages are preserved. |
2019-02-13 | Add user download of all messages individually |
2019-02-26 | Anonymous browsing of site no longer supported |
2019-02-28 | Password lookup replaced with password reset to obey best security practices |
2019-03-27 | Unfinished profiles are now unqualified for approval. Unfinised is based on main photo, activation, adequate description, minimum locale |
2019-05-26 | Add testimonials |
2019-06-21 | Eliminate distance search restrictions for non-supporting members |
2019-07-16 | Converted all pages to SSL |
2019-10-25 | Add sort by age to MegaSearch |
2020-01-16 | Window width changed from 800 to 960 pixels |
2020-03-14 | Removed restriction on self-voting |
2020-03-17 | Login page moved from Etotalhost to personals site |
2020-03-22 | Globalfight renamed MenWrestle |
2020-04-03 | On supporting sites, 2 free messages changed to 5 free messages |
2020-04-12 | Notes are now free for all |
2020-04-26 | All new chat |
2020-04-28 | Eliminated session timeout |
2020-05-14 | Eliminate supporting membership restrictions in Media Gallery |
2020-08-18 | Multi-site personals now share all events on the event calendar |
2020-09-16 | Quicksearch on the home page is now a keyword search |
2021-10-12 | Chat count is now updated every 60 seconds on every page |
2021-10-28 | Show next free day on welcome page |
2021-12-07 | MegaSearch now includes top/bottom |
2021-12-20 | Members can be notified multiple times for the same unread message. Prevents sending only one notification. |
2022-03-12 | All messages are now retained for one year but for non-supporting members, are only shown for 30 days |
2023-01-30 | Warnings for suspicious profiles |
2023-03-03 | Add suggestion interface for members |
2023-03-26 | Add capability to "unview" a profile |
2023-05-07 | Add publish date to all member photos and videos |
2023-06-05 | Add auto-entry into blog for long time away logins |
2023-09-13 | Add PREP to profiles and searches |