Recent Changes at Bonanzle

This page is intended to (more or less) chronicle the new features and bugfixes that are added to Bonanzle on a day-by-day basis. It will be haphazard and sometimes hard to interpret, because... well... I'm busy, and you're a little weird if you check this regularly. I think I'm mostly doing this for the benefit of Mark and our competitors.

• 11/20.
  Added shipping price (for fixed rate items) and shipping weight (for calculated items) to Google Base feed
  Fixed a couple reasons that Inventory File Importer wouldn't work
  Fixed button not highlighting when topics tagged in forums
  "See reviews on Amazon" link made optional for plus and premieres
  
• 11/19.
  Added 25,000 categories to choose from and interface that makes assigning extended categories as simple as possible from new item form or batch editor.
  Updated search to allow smarter category filtering with new categories and numerous visual improvements.
  Updated search defaults to show more items per page and show items in gallery view.
  Updated new item form to allow scrolling for those with lower resolution monitors and/or when form gets long for whatever reason.
  Fixed price range filter not working in item search.
  Fixed site slowness when deleting a booth.
  Improved speed of login.
  Updated booth RSS feed to be compatible with new categories.
  
• 11/16.
  Added ability to perform a batch operation on all items that match batch filter, instead of a max of 250 items at a time
  Fixed eBay importer not importing items that have images added to page via Javascript in original eBay listing
  Booths of more than 1000 items have items changed to "for sale" asynchronously (i.e., not immediately when the "Update Booth" button is clicked) to avoid long waits when thousands of items are being activated.
  When viewing most favorited booth over last two weeks, the "favorite count" is now the favorite count over the last two weeks, not all time
  Bug reports submitted via site now emailed to support address
  Removed first free month of selling for members registering after November 17th
  Subscribing members who don't renew membership are now marked as unsubscribed
  
• 11/12.
  Created and sent November newsletter
  Updated fees/payments infrastructure for better consistency, and so we can keep track of who paid what when.
  Added ability to remind users about fees.
  Fixed errors given when viewing certain message topics
  
• 11/11.
  Fixed Google Base feed not including items created onsite after the international shipping additions
  Fixed Google Checkout offers not getting marked as "sold"
  Updated list of "sort by" criteria when viewing offers
  Fixed wish list and saved lists sometimes showing up as "page missing"
  Fixed booth preview items sometimes showing 11 items, and showing duplicates
  Fixed email sent to seller that they "received a new offer" when they accept an offer
  Updates for a more perfect eBay importer and Amazon image exporter after server move
  
• 11/10.
  Complete reinstallation of the lord-knows-how-many puzzle pieces that make Bonanzle go. Launched new server.
  
• 11/05.
  Fixed 10-20+ second delay per image when an item has images deleted.
  Fixed 1-2 minute delays when booths with 100+ items activated.
  Add RSS feeds and ability to specify time duration for exceptional items page.
  "Sneak peek at this sellers other items" now shows relevant (rather than random) items.
  Fixed bad error given when wish list for a non-existent user viewed.
  
• 11/04.
  Fixed booths with huge numbers of items (3k-5k+) taking up to a minute to load when checking booth stats.
  Fixed new item form choking when huge description (more than 60k characters) entered. Limit on description size of 60k imposed.
  Fixed error given during counteroffer under rare circumstances (when weird browser used)
  Added still more tracking information to figure out why item saving slow sometimes.
  Progress toward getting new server up and running
  
• 11/03.
  Added wish list and saved list for buyers to better track items.
  Booth RSS feeds can now filter category. For example, http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/rss/bharding?category_id=1249.
  Sped up asset downloads for checkout process.
  Fixed login needing to be done twice when entering via "sell" link or from cart.
  Booth favorites now removed when a booth is destroyed.
  Items now untagged when sold.
  Added logging calls to try to get to the bottom of what makes site slow during high traffic.
  
• 11/02.
  Added ability to specify flat international shipping rates via batch item editor
  Split up batch item editor to not be so unwiedly, and to give more useful/specific information on shipping page.
  Updated "invited user" leaderboard to give results on a monthly basis. Added some documentation about the new referral contest.
  Fixed half of the reason why user has to log in twice when logging in from checkout. Other half to be fixed tomorrow.
  Fixed cart items not showing up on page right side after checkout has been visited.
  Fixed shipping info not being saved when moving between pages on new item form.
  U.S. flat rate no longer used when buyer lives in different country.
  Added more descriptive information about what's going on when shipping rate for an item can't be calculated.
  
• 10/31.
  Booths now have Google Base feeds generated minutes after being created, instead of waiting a day.
  "My Bonanzle" now shows last time that Google grabbed item feed.
  Fixed only completed items being shown when category filter combined with item search.
  
• 10/28.
  Added the current most-requested feature: searching for completed items. Also added ability to see what offer a sold item was a part of, when we know which one (info from Bonanzle's earlier days is sparse)
  Setup tracking of which GB feeds are being used to ensure that high-quantity sellers know about/use GB
  Subscribing members with Google Analytics setup can now track how often their profile is viewed.
  Update so only parties involved in an offer can see its Paypal or GC transaction number.
  Fixed some bugs in yesterday's home page improvements
  
• 10/27.
  Most exceptional items now default to most tagged in last two weeks (rather than all time, which gets stale)
  Most favorited booths now default to most tagged in last month (rather than all time, same logic)
  Made link to switch between text and HTML when viewing an item more prominent for non-logged-in users.
  Fixed items on home page now being regenerated with new possibilities.
  
• 10/26.
  Feedback now ordered by most recent.
  Offers now load faster.
  Fixed subscribing memberships not being setup to automatically recur.
  Added ability to upgrade or cancel recurring subscriptions.
  
• 10/24.
  Improvements to Google Base FAQ.
  Fixed Google Base feed not including items that had calculated shipping / "see shipping in description"
  
• 10/22.
  Realized that even if we got Google Products feed back up, it would probably just go down in a few more weeks, since it's virtually impossible to police hundreds of thousands of items. Added one-time Google Base uploads and recurring Google Base uploads for individual users.
  Fixed a variety of reasons that offers could disappear.
  Created sitemap with all Bonanzle items to improve organic search rankings.
  Fixed calendar errors given during checkout.
  Fixed pickup scheduling form being misformatted.
  
• 10/21.
  Tried to get Google Products feed back up some more.
  
• 10/20.
  Tried to get Google Products feed back up.
  
• 10/19.
  Limited emails for all users 15/day or less to reduce possible spamming.
  Added option of marking items as "new" or "used" to batch editor.
  Fixed user returning to "Page not found" after completing membership signup.
  Fixed contact button on offers page not working.
  Added help FAQ all about eBay importing.
  Added help page about shipping calculator, and under what cases it might be inaccurate.
  Added help page about what being a subscribing member is all about.
  Added help page about subscribing to site via money order.
  Fixed Oodle putting Collectible -> Animal items into "Pets for Sale" category
  Added better admin tracking for memberships and offers closed.
  Standard search gives slight advantage to newer items, in addition to relevant items (Jordan)
  Sped up loading of buy page/browse category page by about 5 seconds when it isn't cached (Jordan)
  Prevent items from being removed from a completed (sold) offer (Jordan)
  
• 10/17.
  Added help page for spotting a fraud.
  Added help page for setting up Google Analytics.
  Doubter dousing.
  
• 10/16.
  Image processing time reduced from approx ~20 seconds per image to ~2 seconds per image
  
• 10/15.
  Added Bonanzle Plus and Premier memberships, and ability to pay for them.
  Added Google Analytics to track booth and item views for members.
  Added "Premier Items" to right pane of search for users that sign up with Premier membership.
  Added better homepage/buypage exposure for members.
  When a user is suspended or cancels their booth, their items are now marked as inactive until booth gets officially deleted (they already couldn't be found in search or elsewhere, but if user had old links to items, they could still appear to be active)
  Updated buyers to only have Money Order as a checkout option if seller has at least five feedback to reduce dangerous transactions volume.
  Added other anti-fraud measures.
  
• 10/14.
  Upgraded from Apache to Nginx web server. Overall performance, and especially performance of secure pages, picks up dramatically.
  Optimized chat updates to no longer ping server if user doesn't have chat window open.
  Updated automatic server restarts (when site is hanging) to work with new configuration
  
• 10/13.
  Fixed error when items get deleted from a booth while seller has them in their cart
  Fixed crash when looking for items ready for pickup. TODO: fix ready for pickup.
  
• 10/12.
  Added a number of security measures to make registration, emailing, and offering more difficult for bad guys
  Doubled speed of copying pictures (= approximately double speed of cropper, image gallery, and item duplication)
  Batch edits that would take a long time are now run in the background so they don't tie up the main site
  Updated login page to download its data in a way that should be faster than previous
  Improvements to speed of image loading in general
  
• 10/9.
  Will trade icons for money (implemented donations)
  Means by which Bonanzle accepts payments now 184% less hacked together than previously.
  Fixed error when viewing item page where seller didn't setup combined shipping discounts correctly
  Fixed error when viewing an offer where buyer or seller offered no money ... or did some other weird thing
  Fixed duplicate forum posts showing up when searching forums (this fix dedicated to Mark)
  
• 10/7.
  Re-added 50% more web servers to handle browser requests, hopefully this time without breaking whole site
  Fixed Google Base feed trouble sending more than 100k items
  Made link 3 font sizes bigger (from 11px to 14px) to edit new offer payment type, increased contrast on edit icon
  Updated offers so that buyer can return to cart and change payment type and other offer parameters up until the point at which the offer is accepted or paid for
  Fees owed to Bonanzle can now be paid via Paypal or Google Checkout -- beta version
  Fixed display of freebie status in "More booth details"
  Offers no longer show up in seller's "pre-accepted offers" list if buyer clicks "Buy now" but doesn't go past payment screen
  Limited Bonanzas to once monthly, rather than twice monthly, for higher quality Bonanzas with lots of sellers signed up
  Fixed new user being sent back to their cart if they didn't enter correctly formatted registration info on their first try
  Fixed "Top Categories" on the item show page being a bunch of nonsense garbage when a user first sets up their booth
  Added means by which Bobbi can determine highest dollar seller per day for PSU contest
  "Quick image upload" link no longer appears on top of image popup on new item form
  Reduced download size of home page, booth/buy pages, and item view pages by about 50% (Jordan)
  Fixed lootbin disappearing if an item is dragged to it twice (Jordan)
  Fixed item dragging to cart getting behind in Firefox 2 (Jordan)
  Updated all calendars on site to use the same pop-out format (Jordan)
  eBay importer can now import eBay motors listings (Bob)
  eBay importer now strips out script, style, and object tags so seller has less manual cleanup to do (Bob)
  eBay importer converts upper-cased tag names to be lower-cased, so they'll work on site (Bob)
  
• 10/6.
  It's my birthday, what do you think I did??? (created financial models to determine how long until Bonanzle goes from "poor" to "dirt poor")
  
• 10/3.
  Setup automated monitoring system to call my phone if site isn't loading
  
• 10/2.
  Added custom booth categories that can be set explicity, through batch item editor
  Added ability to email BAC members
  Fixed full text searching not always getting updated every hour
  Fixed occasional error when submitting feedback
  
• 10/1.
  Added BAC icons to profile
  CSV importer imports up to 5k items, allows whitespace before and after image URLs without skipping item
  Updates to the help docs for more details about what HTML allowed and what isn't
  
• 10/1.
  Upgraded server to a version with twice as much processor speed, memory, and bandwidth
  Added the Bonanza Action Club, reorganized some of the "My Bonanzle" page
  Site now gives the "real" charges that a user has incurred (fees for non-grandfathered users who sell items start today)
  Fixed the "Edit Bonanza" page loading miserably slow for users with big booths by adding pagination to it (200 items per page)
  List of most recent messages now lists posts in distinct topics, instead of repeating a topic every time it has been posted in
  Fixed site locking up for a minute or two occasionally when a Bonanza ends
  Added link to most recent blog from people page
  
• 9/30.
  Full text searching now happens on the secondary database, no stifling slowdowns on the :42s of each hour anymore (and indexing now happens every hour instead of every other hour)
  Blogs paginated
  
• 9/29.
  Fixed inventory importer not importing HTML
  Sold items no longer shown in item stats list
  Added more pictures and assets to the Bonanzle asset page
  Ebay user name/password have whitespace stripped from front and end of them, if there was any
  Fixed local user search linking to incorrect users
  
• 9/28.
  Taught eBay importer how to import two users' items at once
  Sped up load time for big booths from around 10-15 seconds to about 3-5 tops
  Speedup to searching for local items: now uses same mechanism (full text indexing) that makes normal search fast
  Removed slow searching for live booths until time allows us to find a way to make it faster
  A couple speedups to home page load times, should cut worst case times by around 25%
  Fixed error given when item added to cart that couldn't have shipping calculated (e.g., if buyer and seller in different country)
  Updated "About Us" page
  
• 9/26.
  Fixed possibility of offers getting marked as "pending" after they had been completed.
  
• 9/25.
  Added eBay-style combined shipping discounts
  Added WYSIWYG description editor
  Fixed item show page loading slowly for sellers with lots of items in their booth
  Fixed category browse page sometimes taking 30 seconds to complete
  Home page no longer shows more than two items from any given seller
  Cleaned up a variety of UI in checkout process: for items with multiple quantity, buyer now sees maximum quantity available in cart; for combined item/shipping discount, the total price after discount listed on each line; link to explain a seller's discounts from the cart; And a bunch of other cart-related stuff I'm too lazy to list
  Moved "advanced details" to bottom of item show page, removed the tertiatary item title to clean up appearance
  
• 9/24.
  Setup secondary database to fix one of two reasons the site gets slow for a couple minutes every few hours (when backing up the main database)
  Fixed local searches taking up to 30 seconds to complete (and other users getting stuck waiting for response from site while local search taking place)
  
• 9/23.
  Fixed booth stats taking 30+ seconds to render (and crashing site when used repeatedly)
  Fixed home page's fondness for knives and swimsuits
  Fixed a couple forum formatting issues
  Progress toward creating secondary database to eliminate the site lags that occur on the hour each hour
  Fixed combined shipping discounts only taking effect when the items exceeds item threshold (rather than when it meets it)
• 9/22.
  Updated home page and help docs to reflect site's branding as a place to find everything but the ordinary
  
• 9/21.
  Added computation of raffle entries and a screen to view raffle computations on
  Added ability for users to comment on what specifically they'd like to see in the Next Up Improvements they vote for
  Added beta version of a "Referred Users Leaderboard" -- http://www.bonanzle.com/home/leaderboard
  Added a bunch of system-y stuff to better track down slow spots when traffic gets high
  Updated eBay importer to handle a few different new types of listing formats (specifically, ones that have bogus attributes (e.g., img src="/path/to/image.jpg" www.mywebsite.com="">) in their image tags, which many of the Auctiva images seem to)
  WYSIWYG editor almost done
  
• 9/18.
  Moved all user profile images to Amazon image servers for fast loading, refactored mechanism that moves item pictures to Amazon servers to be ready to scale into our new 100k world.
  Fixed items marked as "Seller Pays Shipping" not having "Buy Now" link show up
  Fixed possibility of sellers creating counteroffer with no amount (which would subsequently cause an error when going to view the offer
  Various bug fixes and improvements to home page to get it to display consistently with good items
  
• 9/17.
  24 hours spent watching all 24 episodes of "24."
  
• 9/16.
  Added topic tagging
  Fixed offers not being able to be marked by seller as paid if some of the items in offer had been marked as sold previously
  Trim down unneeded eBay import jobs to try to get imports processed in more timely fashion
  
• 9/15.
  Featured items for buy page and home page randomly weighted based on the number of times they've been tagged
  Home page now updates items shown at least once per hour, instead of once every couple days
  Offers can no longer be marked as "completed" until they have been verified as paid for, or until seller has accepted offer
  Ebay importer now tells people how many jobs are in line before theirs
  Ebay importer now tells the user if items weren't imported because their eBay store was empty
  Added button for seller to mark offers as paid for buyers when GC/Paypal don't verify paidness automatically
  Fixed users not being saved if they enter via "One click selling," then proceed to register via the standard new item form.
  Packing list now shows quantity of items sold
  Added a couple more graphics for users to use for their email footers and etc. via the assets page
  Changed text on My Bonanzle page slightly
  
• 9/14.
  Fixed site hanging for minutes or hours when Oodle feed downloaded every day around noon
  Updated Google Base feed to build and submit listings in a way that's compatible with our ever-huger amount of inventory
  User can now enter shipping ounces on new item form, USPS considers these ounces. UPS doesn't give us the ability to consider ounces.
  Added in automatic restarting of the site if it should ever get hung up for more than a couple minutes in the future
  Can't click "Buy now" in offer until all fields being edited have been accepted or closed
  Fixed seller not being emailed when offers are completed with "Buy Now"
  When returning to cart, site reminds users if they have items that are pending checkout
  Deleting large groups of items with batch editor no longer freezes site for up to a few minutes
  If user submits request to import items more than once, importer deletes old request to prevent unnecessary backups
  Fixed error in cart if seller has selected "Google Checkout" as a form of payment, but not entered their Google Checkout merchant info
  Fixed a couple rare issues with image cropper not cropping
  When indexed search is down, site no longer gives error message when sorting items by newness
  Updated text for eBay import so users don't expect items to show up within 10 minutes
  
• 9/12.
  Ebay importer no longer randomly skips batches of items when more than 1000 items being imported
  Ebay importer no longer stops importing after attempting 3k items
  EBay importer no longer befuddled if importing items into a booth when those items had previously been imported into a different booth
  Ebay importer much faster for importing when it's just adding new items
  Ebay item scraper now gives somewhat more informative error messages
  
• 9/11.
  Rebuilt the server that updates the other server (on the server that built the server that updates the other server (anything for server service)).
  
• 9/10.
  Added voting on list of possible improvements (Help -> Talk To Us -> Vote for Improvements)
  Added option to include a message with booth referral when using the "Tell a Friend" feature within a booth
  Links to other sites from Bonanzle open in new window
  "All recent posts" in forums only shows posts from last 3 days, rather than all posts ever
  Booth search can looks for all words in search query individually, instead of only searching for the exact phrase entered
  Referral link can now use user name or user id
  Removed inaccessible, incomplete items (created during last week's duplication issues) from all booths
  Final round of scheduled fixes for offers with multiple items. All checking out is declared to work until further notice.
  Changes to make recently listed items more likely to show up on home page
  Fixed display of Bonanzle mail in IE6
  Updated eBay importer to recommend users try batch editor after eBay import compltes
  
• 9/9.
  Finished Bonanzle newsletter and got it ready for sending tomorrow morning
  Added page with a few Bonanzle assets to be used when publishing Bonanzle out and about (accessible from the "Promote My Booth" page)
  Fixed a couple bugs when selling and then duplicating/relisting items, the search engine would still show the original/sold item
  Fixed carts with multiple items that have multiple quantity
  Added pagination buttons to the bottom of forum topics, when a forum topic spans more than one page
  
• 9/8.
  Added USPS shipping calculator
  Added checkout without pre-registering: user only needs to give the requisite information for checking out as they checkout
  Updated "buy now" checkout so that items not marked as sold until Paypal/Google Checkout tells us that the charge has processed
  Added option to choose quantity of item during offer
  Fixed combined shipping discounts not working
  Offers now automatically update price and shipping price when an item is deleted or added
  Numerous small updates to display of offers, both on offer pages and from My Bonanzle page
  Booth RSS feeds cached for faster loading
  Users can now delete their eBay imported feedback without our intervention
  UPS ready to turn switch to calculate intl shipping rates (still need to create interface to let sellers decide whether they want to do so)
  Seller viewing their own items no longer counted in booth/item view counts
  Fixed errors given when Google Maps goes offline
  Made "Edit" link more prominent in checkout cart
  Fixed error when looking to compare prices to eBay for a booth without items for sale
  Fixed counteroffer being 0 dollars if a "$" used in the counteroffer amount
  Added help pages to offers section explaining various subtlties of the offer checkout process
  Updated "Show All Offers" to "Show Other Offers" -- now shows relevant offers that aren't in other categories
  
• 9/7.
  Flossed waaaay back around my wisdom teeth.
  
• 9/5.
  Fixed user needing to re-confirm they accept fees every time they update booth
  Fixed duplicating item not working
  Implemented an early version of the eBay vs. iOffer vs. Bonanzle price comparer (accessible via "Fees Owed" link). Still need to factor in the difference of Paypal vs. Google Checkout, and describe how the numbers were arrived at
  In the brief description of items (the descriptions you see in search results), updated it so that newlines became spaces, to avoidwords appearing stucktogether
  Added help pages to describe to users how much of a discount and what days are recommended for their Bonanza
  Added one-click to unsubscribe from the forthcoming newsletter (plus updates to newsletter)
  Finally got Google to reveal why feed had been suspended, updated Google feed to exclude a few items they didn't like
  
• 9/4.
  Fixed "relist items" button after selling items
  Fixed remote chat not allowing user to select their IM type
  Fixed a couple bugs when attempting to cancel booth
  Updated location map of user only to consider zip code, not city nor address
  Created means to manually activate users that don't get their activation mail
  
• 9/3.
  Sped up home page about 5x
  Sped up buy page by about 5x
  Added and updated more help docs about beta stuff
  
• 9/2.
  Added "Browse by Booth" functionality with multiple sort options, and links from the "Browse by Categories" page
  Added ability to search for an item from within edit booth view when more than 50 items present in booth
  Updated item images to be served from Amazon in most cases to speed up image load times and reduce bandwidth on main server
  Added ability to hide offers from view
  eBay imports of more than 1000 items now processed in bite sized 1000 item chunks to decrease constant bandwidth to eBay
  Fixed discrepancies between new mail icon being present and new mail actually being in inbox
  Updated text on site to remove "beta" references, and tell new users that they will be paying soon
  Added and linked help topics for item HTML descriptions, what to do if you don't receive registration, adding categories, and more
  Added link to quick text users from the users main page (when user is online). Removed link to quick text users that are only online via remote chat.
  Updated booth dependencies to get deleted asynchronously so site doesn't lock up for minutes when big booths full of porn are deleted
  Added "sold on" date to completed offers
  Added option to import only new eBay items, rather than always importing new items AND updating old ones
  Fixed the "See cart" link going off top of screen for users with long usersnames
  Fixed eBay importer to do a better job of finding and grabbing item images
  Updated price of sold items under $10 for new users to be $0.50 to promote diversity of items above AND below $10 (per our locked price guarantee, already-registered users will continue to pay nothing for selling items under $10 through 2010)
  Prevented users from making offers to themselves (it breaks the checkout process)
  Fixed clicking on "My Messages" going directly to "Sent" or "Saved" messages sometimes
  Renamed "Plus" booth features "Pro" booth features
  
• 9/1.
  Polished John McCain and Barack Obama impressions.
• 8/31.
  Fed my goldfish one flake 84 times.
  
• 8/29.
  Item descriptions can now use HTML, buyers can now disable viewing HTML more easily.
  Added search functionality to help pages (pending Google indexing... some help pages might not show up in the search yet)
  Fixed Paypal checkout not working for items with quotations marks
  Improvements to the new user spam filtering so legit users won't necessarily be tied to 3 messages/day limit
  Improvements to administrative console to make it easier to respond to bug reporting/page feedback/booth feedback
  
• 8/28.
  Added option to view 50 or 100 items at a time on search page. Also made pictures a bit bigger on search page, and added linebreaks between categories
  Added quantity, category, and shipping weight to batch item editor
  Added different colors to Bonanza calendar to communicate how many Bonanzas are happening on a given day. Also fixed days being highlighted that didn't have Bonanzas
  Fixed bug where item quantity wasn't set to 1 when the "multiple items" checkbox is unchecked on new item form
  Fixed IM id in profile being made into a web link (with http:// prepended)
  Progress on but not completion of edit booth search filter / USPS shpping calculator / HTML in iitem descriptions
  
• 8/27.
  Per user feedback, created more help pages for Google Checkout, steps for setting up a booth, and how one pays their Bonanzle fees
  Added quick popup help for using HTML in an item description, specifying maximum length of title, and how to use decimal pricing. Tried to make category help text less confusing.
  More functionality in admin console
  
• 8/26.
  Added database indexes to speed up things all around
  Overhauled message system, adding a saved box, the ability to operate on message in batches, and the ability to get rid of sent messages, amongst other things
  Added a "See description" option for shipping prices
  
• 8/25.
  Fixed stylesheets and javascripts not being bundled into a few files = faster page loads, especially for sell page, especially when first opening browser
  Updated new item form to be usable by 800x600 resolution browsers
  Fixed prices less than a dollar not being considered valid
  Fixed link to our YouTube video via help section
  All links from buy page jump to search results ordered by most recent
  
• 8/24.
  Setup caching on People page, My Bonanzle page, Buy page, and Category Browse page to speed up the lot of them significantly, regardless of traffic volume
  Limited item RSS feed in booth to 300 items so site doesn't lag indefinitely when getting RSS feed for big booths
  Updates to eBay item importer to handle fancy auction formats like iBusinessLogic's
  Limited Bonanzas to two monthly
  Removing chat messages more than three weeks old for better performance
  Fixed problems with item checkout after receiving counteroffer
  Removed option to import full HTML from CSV importer until such time that we can do so without exposing users to XSS security vulnerabilities
  Fixed item question email not telling seller what item buyer had a question about
  Fixed most popular booth of day actually being least pouplar booth of day (and sometimes not giving user permission to view it)
  Fixed buy page tending to always show the same old featured items
  Fixed lists in forums not having bullet points
  Improvements to Mark's life and productivity
  Bonanzle newsletter done and online, though not linked to yet
  
• 8/21.
  Added full text, relevance-based searching to site's main search engine, and to booths (when searching within booths)
  Moved database to its own webserver for future scalability and better performance.
  Fixed items being marked as "sold" when they have quantity greater than 1 and only one is purchased (now they stay in booth with sold quantity deducted)
  Paypal transactions now tracked more accurately with status updates directly from Paypal
  Added ability to see a packing list for accepted offers awaiting shipment
  Added ability to relist items in an offer by clicking "Relist Items" from the "Sold Items" screen
  Clarified Craigslist import instructions
  Fixed category filtering on item search obliterating previously entered search options
  Give receipients of user invites the option to opt-out of receiving invites
  Fixed item duplicating not duplicating shipping costs
  Fixed "Freebie" tooltip on new item form getting stuck in place if moused over immediately after another tooltip
  Added text to reassure buyers about saftey measures on Bonanzle when they're at their cart
  Reformatted booth items RSS feed to include price and be generally prettier
  
• 8/20.
  Fit six small ice cubes in mouth at once.
  
• 8/19.
  Practiced hackey sack, focus on the left foot stall.
  
• 8/18.
  Added splash page for clicking on "Sell" when not logged in.
  Added some assurances of the safety of buying on Bonanzle during checkout.
  Began setting up full text indexing
  
• 8/17.
  Added list of items tagged as "Exceptional" to the Booth Details page. Created a help page describing the booth details page
  Batch edit can now set items as fixed price/OBO, batch edit can now append or prepend text to the item description
  Batch edit page now paginated with 500 items max per page, to fix slow load times on huge booths
  Fixed eBay importer not importing line breaks
  View Stats page now has items ordered by number of views
  Fixed forum update and Bonanza reminder messages not being sent
  Updated the "Update in Progress" message not to redirect user to a different website.
  Updated images to get displayed more quickly.
  
• 8/15.
  Added Bonanza disco ball effect
  Fixed the "more" Bonanzas button in IE
  Some optimizations to the speed of chat updates
  
• 8/14.
  Added option to notify user when someone responds to their forum post
  Added custom booth categories (see booth advanced options)
  Added fun checkboxes next to booth promo action-items
  Added ability to page through Bonanzas from the Buy page, so you can see more than three Bonanzas if more than three fall on the same day
  Reworked the "Who's Here" window in booth chat to be smarter in many ways, including allowing a user to be two booth chats simultaneously (if they have two tabs open, for instance)
  Booth owner now receives quick text message if they're logged into the site and somebody says something in their booth when they're not in their booth.
  Added count of invited users to profile page, fixed the user invites not being correctly credited to the user that invited (for future invites)
  Fixed a couple minor issues with the CSV importer such that it works for a user's tab-delimited file
  Updated booth completed email to implore users to promote their booth
  
• 8/13.
  Work on the concept of suspending spammers. Set low email limits for new users, medium limits for not-old users.
  Added beginnings of the page for browsing exceptional items.
  Some security enhancements.
  Added screen for when site is updating.
  
• 8/12.
  Created searching within booth, and rearranged booth header not to get too cluttered in the process.
  Updated user login to assume that users accept TOS and ask them if they want to subscribe to newsletter
  Fixed digits greater than $1000 being removed when importing eBay listings
  Added item tagging (strange/funny/cool/etc). Hell yah! This is gonna rule.
  Reformatted profile page.
  Added this page
  
• 8/11.
  De-uglified forums HTML, especially in IE
  Added collection of pages on how to promote one's booth
  Updated booth RSS feed to include pictures
  Added percentage total of feedback to feedback screen
  Fixed blog RSS button not working
  Added option to turn off forced rounding of item/shipping prices
  Fixed Bonanza reminders not being sent out
  
• 8/10.
  Added booth TOS page
  Snazzed up the "What is Bonanzle?" page
  Added "Money Order" as a possible payment type
  Extensive revisions to Inventory Importing help page (was CSV importing help page)
  Updated CSV importer to also be able to import tab or tilde delimited files
  Added booth favoriting to booth and profile page
  Added booth RSS feed
  Added option to email a friend about a booth
  Added option to be reminded about a Bonanza to booth page
  
• 8/8.
  Fixed importers not importing shipping price
  
• 8/7.
  Setup booth owners to receive a reminder email the day of their Bonanza
  Fixed cache errors on booth page and item page when user is in process of setting up their booth
  Fixed users not being prompted for feedback after transactions
  Updated Bonanza text to be more specific on Buy page (e.g., "A bonanza is happening for the next X minutes")
  Fixed "Sort by Nearest" option not working in item search results
  Made sure that when user clicks on an item from home page, that that is the first item they see in the booth they visit
  Fixed conflicts between filtering booth categories and switching pages
  Optimized user page not to be so slow
  
• 8/6.
  Updated default search sorting criteria to be "most recently listed" (was cheapest)
  Fixed some bugs with image cropper
  Fixed missing colors when looking at completed offers
  Fixed users being able to submit feedback that wasn't marked as pos/neg/neu
  
• 8/5.
  Added UPS calculated shipping costs
  Added user endorsements
  Added "Buy it Now" button to item show page
  Updated home page to show some text of the most recent blog entry
  Added safeguards against giving bogus Google Checkout numbers
  Fixed the "notify me when user enters my booth" feature being broken
  Removed much of the code complexity from the process of creating an offer