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.

• 11/28/9
  Fixed offer page sometimes switching to use wrong coupon discount rate some time after an offer has sold.
  Added link to past newsletters from My Bonanzle page.
  Updated formatting of coupon list to include pictures of items in booths.
  Added another set of links to previous and next HPLs from HPL show page.
  
• 11/26/9
  Added category filter to booth coupon list.
  Added ability for plus sellers to specify a secondardy sorting criteria when using custom sort.
  Update site to remember if visitor prefers list view or grid view.
  Updated information presented when "list" view is used for site search.
  Items imported from other marketplaces with a higher price are indicated as marked down on item page.
  Added explanation on item page of where an items' markdown stems from (seller or automatic deduction)
  Fixed Facebook link disappearing.
  Added item clickthrough count to info presented with HPL.
  
• 11/23/9
  Fixed incompatibility between Google Products and calculated shipping items.
  Fix item alerts not firing.
  Setup image backups.
  Fix smattering of other rare errors (commenting on HPL, viewing Bonapitit clients, custom sorting booth items, adding new traits with Google attribute conversions)
  
• 11/22/9
  Added Holiday deals to home page.
  Added ability to publish booth coupons.
  If buyers fails while logging in during making offer, they're redirected to same page, rather than std login page.
  Fixed automatic failover system not working if the remote search server itself is down.
  
• 11/18/9
  Added Gift Guide mislabled category tagging.
  Added Gift Guide explanatory help page.
  Fixed ebay importer getting stuck when importing unavailable images.
  Added automatic conversion of "condition" trait to Google Product attribute for about 400 traits where it wasn't happening yet.
  
• 11/16/9
  Added gift guides for holidays.
  Added markdown manager for premiere members.
  Behind-the-scenes cruft removal.
  
• 11/9/9
  Added FedEx shipping calculator.
  Updated formatting of "ask seller a question" form.
  
• 11/8/9
  Updated service used to get calculated shipping estimates to newer/more popular provider (will also allow for grabbing shipping status in future).
  Added ability to use calculated shipping on international transactions (setup exclusively via batch editor, for now).
  Added intermediate page to help buyer find checkout page (or similar item discounts) after adding item to cart.
  Added emails to buyers that haven't been heard from in months.
  Added "See all users" button to People page.
  Added ability for buyers to leave note to seller about their transaction (via "checkout complete" screen).
  Upped size and boldness of "make offer" button on checkout page.
  Fix Bonapitit user feedback being incorrectly returned and a couple other Bonapitit bugs.
  
• 11/3/9
  Setup live failover mechanism so site doesn't crash if secondary database or search should happen to crash.
  
• 11/2/9
  Fixed cart not updating shipping price when quantity of item changes.
  Fixed search using "Afghanistan" as default country when it doesn't understand the country the user had registered with.
  Fixed booths not updating item addresses in Google Product search when the booth URL changes (i.e., because user has to change user name)
  Further measures to reduce errors in kropper under high load.
  Fixed exceptions given by new item form and Bonapitit when returning JSON results with Unicode
  Added means to put booths on/take them off vacation
  Fixed booth stats for "yesterday" actually being for last two days.
  Fixed items not being able to be added to cart in Firefox if item was missing a picture.
  Disabled importing contacts via user importer until it can be fixed.
  
• 10/29/9
  Emails sent to no-reply address now automatically responded to, minimizing confusion.
  Setup mechanism for automatically handling and notifying sellers of feeds deactivated by Google.
  Fixed errors given by Amazon when high volumes of files being uploaded simultaneously.
  Fixed user search not finding users when a substring of full user name is given.
  
• 10/27/9
  Fixed possibility of booth being posted without a valid payment option.
  Fixed cart not knowing how to handle offers where multiple items have multiple quantities available.
  Fixed memory leak, slowness, and occasional crash when sellers with 1000+ items editing booth.
  Fixed various user submitted typos in help text, categories, and item traits.
  Added more detailed error tracking for problems in verifying credit cards.
  
• 10/25/9
  Added Bonapitit calls to add item, edit item, get categories, get traits, get unlisted item, get multiple items at once, associate account with a user, and more.
  Fixed occasional errors when users try to activate account.
  Fixed users not being reminded if they owe fees.
  Fixed a reason that traits suggested to be copied couldn't be approved.
  
• 10/21/9
  Sped up rendering of header by half, other optimizations to item show page to reduce time about 20%.
  Moved item search to dedicated server.
  Updated feedback count on item page to be consistent with other marketplace sites (=positive fb - negative fb)
  
• 10/19/9
  Released early beta version of API and Api Docs
  Switched over item show and item search to use new secondary database.
  Users who enter as trial users now named "bonzuser_" rather than "unknown_user_"
  
• 10/14/9
  Site updates to be compatible with a secondary database (secondary database launch still in progress).
  Implemented API for booth lookup, feedback lookup, user details, sending buyers to cart, and partially done with adding items.
  Started documentation of API.
  Fixed booth panels picture links not working with underscores and numbers.
  Suppressing a GB feed proactively removes items from Google Products, in addition to not sending items in the future.
  Better tracking for when credit cards go missing for memberships.
  
• 10/11/9
  API now working for search and item fetching.
  Fixed prices being potentially inaccurate during and after Bonanzas for future cases (for past cases, if you update the item you should be golden).
  Fixed a few cases where item trait suggestor wasn't working.
  All items now show quantity.
  
• 10/5/9
  Updated user search to use indexing, should take it from averaging 1+ seconds to less than half second.
  Added link to home page for finding a user.
  Added ability to link a booth panel image to another Bonanzle page.
  Premiere items in search sidebar now pop out when moused over.
  Visiting an affiliates.bonanzle.com item or booth redirects to standard www.bonanzle.com page.
  Duplicating item no longer duplicates creation time and quantity.
  Changed various typos and grammar issues pointed out by users.
  
• 10/4/9
  Fixed last 10% of booths not being submitted to Google Product search -- all booths now being submitted.
  Added ability for seller to see the Google Products feed we're generating on their behalf (My Bonanzle -> Make more sales -> Optimize for Google).
  Removed all references to Google Base (no longer used for products), changed them to "Google Products" or "Google Merchant Center," depending on context.
  Cache item details when showing items, speeds up item page render time by around 25%.
  Added fancier checkout buttons on item page.
  Added to help section Mark's new videos for setting up/suggesting traits.
  Created A/B test to evaluate whether showing item quantity leads to more conversions.
  Removed user Facebook profile picture from header to cut down on slower load times and picture popping in Chrome.
  Reworked sitemap generation to give Google crawler higher indexing priority for items published by sellers who have logged in recently and who have setup traits for their items, amongst other things.
  Setup more tracking to get better information for those who have had trouble setting up autobilling or updating their credit card.
  Setup better tracking of sellers that don't pay bills.
  Upon picking a selection in the item search auto-suggest box, that search will take place automatically (as opposed to requiring user to click "submit" button afterwards).
  
• 9/28/9
  Finished version 1.0 of Facebook Connect functionality.
  Added recent Facebook & Twitter comments to People page.
  Updated site not to time out (rather than crash) when calculated shipping prices aren't available.
  Changed "anon_buyer" to "bonzbuyer".
  
• 9/23/9
  Fixed uploads in IE8.
  Bonanza link from home page now goes to item search of Bonanzas.
  More work on Google Base subaccounts.
  Added option to enable experimental features from My Account -> Other Options. Enabling this shows reveals version of Facebook Connect commenting.
  
• 9/22/9
  Enlarged Bonanzle logo.
  Darkened some text on item page.
  Fixed affiliate commisions showing up to non-affiliate users in search under certain circumstances.
  Added ability to give explanation when traits aren't approved.
  More work on Google Base subaccounts & Facebook integration.
  
• 9/20/9
  Got rid of brown background on item page for better contrast and less color discord.
  Pictures on item show page now automatically enlarge if there's room for them to do so.
  Booth titles now have some SEO juice to them.
  Numerous internal improvements to Google Base item auto-exporter.
  Added Mark's video on how to mark items as "new" for Google Products.
  Removed references to setting up Google Base.
  Booth url is updated when user updates after changing user name.
  Fixed error when user wants to relist "payment declined" offer.
  Added super chicken to scams page.
  
• 9/17/9
  Fixed booth panels in Internet Explorer.
  Google Base feeds not automatically upload to Google.
  Added option to disable automatic feed uploading to Google (Sell -> Advanced Options)
  Setup boothname.xml to show booth RSS feed since Google Feed files no longer needed.
  
• 9/14/9
  Caching booth and item search items, should speed up both by 20% ish.
  Google Base feed generator more permissive about what words it allows in.
  Finished implementing API for Google Base, now working with Google to finalize transition.
  Fixed credit cards not notifying credit card holder when automated transactions fail.
  Link to traits now provided after every booth update, traits now ordered by newness by default.
  Improved database backup system.
  Improved fallback system if caching system fails.
  
• 9/9
  Added booth panels.
  Set all stylesheets and javascripts to be compressed, reduces download size of pages by 50%+.
  All stylesheets and javascripts (SSL and non) now served from Amazon for better stability.
  Fixed new buyers being taken to shipping information page unnecessarily.
  
• 9/8
  Moved all image uploads to use Amazon for infinite scalability.
  Fixed shipping cost discount not taking into account invoice discounts.
  Fixed booth not being creatable when two users sign up with a name that varies only by type of symbol.
  Progress toward getting Google API working.
  
• 9/1
  Slight search optimizations.
  Fixed bug wherein ridiculously large item quantities could cause cart and/or site to crash.
  User not nagged for fees if they have autobilling setup.
  
• 8/30
  Added options to search to 1) exclude a seller from results 2) see more of similar items or 3) add an item directly to cart.
  Added ability to respond to negative feedback.
  Fixed inventory file importer not setting items as "ready for sale" when they were in fact ready for sale.
  Overhauled code to save and update credit cards to work more reliably and consistently. Also now send users warnings when their credit card fails to get charged, so card can be updated before it is removed (which would take down syndicated items).
  
• 8/26
  Users can now update credit cards via Account Info -> Seller Settings page.
  Visual overhaul of user edit area.
  Fixed shipping profiles not saving international information.
  Fixed a bunch of characters that couldn't be put into Google Search Attributes (-, +, <, >, etc.)
  "product_type" can now be given as a search attribute.
  Updated help explanation on inventory attributes.
  Probable fix for Californians not having Google Checkout assess tax correctly.
  Renamed "combined item discounts" to "combined pricing discounts" or just "item discounts", since they don't necessary require multiple items.
  Fixed Australians (and others with 4 digit zip codes) not being able to buy without registering.
  Affiliate reports now reveal how many click-throughs an affiliate's widgets have generated.
  
• 8/25
  Fixed email change not working.
  Buyers now given more details after their transaction is complete.
  Added Mark's growing collection of videos to help section.
  Fixed sort order and items per page being discarded when changed on edit booth page.
  Added fall assets to Asset page.
  Improvements to eBay importer.
  
• 8/12
  Fixed batch editor double-applying operations.
  Double database server memory, doubled memory of backup application server, doubled bandwidth available.
  Fixed user pictures and home page images not being moved to Amazon image servers like item images.
  Fixed image cropper not working after server update.
  Fixed forums sometimes loading really slowly (and fixed topics getting deleted for a few hours).
  Fixed remote chat (i.e., chat via IM) sometimes getting stuck in non-working state for long periods of time.
  Got newsletter ready for launch.
  
• 8/9
  Buyer can now specify whether shipping is included in the offer amount they propose or not. If it isn't, then seller can add shipping while accepting offer.
  Various performance optimizations to booth show and search.
  Various performance optimizations to forums.
  Bonanzle messages show their subject in the email sent to receiver.
  Correct coupon discount given when a seller has created multiple coupons with the same coupon code.
  Item condition traits involving the word "mint" now register as "new".
  Fixed a reason that sales wouldn't be marked as complete in rare circumstances.
  
• 8/4
  More updates to eBay importer to better handle items with free shipping and items with markdown prices.
  User feedback page now paginated at 50 feedbacks/page.
  Added help page: Bonanzle scams: How often do they happen? Can we blame the outer space aliens for them?
  Sellers are only notified about inclusion in a hand picked list if their item is visible in the list.
  Prevented some possible ways that items could be double-sold.
  
• 8/3
  Searches by an affiliate on main site now show referral commissions as part of search results when filtering commission.
  Searches by an affiliate on main site ordered by amount of referral commission when filtering commission.
  Searches on affiliates site show amount of referral commission.
  Wrote script to start removing unused images to save disk space.
  
• 8/2
  Updated Bonanza items on Buy page to pop bigger version of item a la widgets.
  Updated Bonanza search items to reveal when their Bonanza is and what their discount is in Bonanza.
  Added ability for affiliates to link to a Bonanzle search.
  Setup tracking of clickthroughs for affiliates, in addition to tracking sales made (haven't created interface for viewing clickthroughs yet though).
  Fixed affiliates link to products pointing at Bonanzle affiliate site.
  Fixed user being taken to home page under some circumstances when credit card couldn't be successfully processed.
  Fixed user invites attaching Google Base help doc (d'oh!)
  Fixed items not being marked as sold when a seller with a full 10k item booth sells item.
  Upgraded operating system & server software used on site.
  
• 7/28
  Renamed all instances of "affiliate commission" and "referral fee" to "referral commission." Added ability to set a booth-wide default for referral commission (see Edit Booth -> Advanced Booth Settings).
  New sellers without an existing eBay reputation required to verify identity.
  Booth setup process now guides sellers toward setting up item traits, google product search, and syndictaion.
  After new user imports eBay items, they've given a direct link to register account (instead of being forced to wait around while their items import).
  Submitting small tasks to batch editor sped up (especially for big booths)
  Added visual indication of steps required to setup booth for new sellers.
  Affiliate widgets now contain affiliate tracking code.
  Added referral commissions to main site search and to item show pages for registered Bonanzle affiliates.
  Updated formatting of Google Base feeds for shipping service and price.
  Fixed commission of ".75" being interpreted as "$75.00".
  
• 7/21
  Added ability for sellers to syndicate items.
  Added beta version of http://affiliates.bonanzle.com.
  Batch editor shows "real" value of condition search attribute, rather than approximation, so that condition attributes can be more consistently deleted.
  Users that registered as buyers given option to change their user name, password, and other fields upon their first login.
  Added topic for sellers who wish they made more sales, complete with information about the topic poster's booth.
  When changing item traits, if a Google Attribute can be found that's associated with the trait being changed, the attribute is removed (so for example, if you have a Google attribute "[[condition:used]]" and you change your condition trait to "new," the Google Attribute will now be "[[condition:new]]". Prior to this change, your Google Attributes after changing a trait would be "[[condition:used]] [[condition:new]]").
  Updated monitoring software to not periodically crash site, or so they promise.
  Updated eBay importer to be compatible with new eBay product pages.
  User must now re-confirm email address if they try to change it.
  When receiving transaction from an unregistered buyer, will now transfer the order to a previously registered buyer if we can find an account that matches the email address provided by GC or PP.
  
• 7/8.
  Added search widget.
  Fixed some items giving errors when going to pay at checkout.
  
• 7/7.
  User comments can now be attached to widget items.
  Widget items now pop up more details when moused over.
  Added quick interface for adding/removing items from widgets.
  Widgets can now have more than one page of items, user can specify how many items they want per page aka how tall widget will be.
  Work on SEO of item and forum pages.
  Added ability to paste widgets without Javascript (for Facebook, Livejournal, etc).
  Added backup link location if a visitor without Javascript goes to a page with a Bonanzle widget.
  Widgets now automatically calculate their exact height rather than guesstimating.
  General spiffing up of widget building interface.
  Refactored widget to be generic enough to allow for multiple different types of widgets to be created (stay tuned!)
  
• 7/1.
  Setup memberships to be payable without Paypal.
  
• 6/28.
  Fixed guest users not being able to use the unregistered user email sending mechanism.
  Added table of domestic/intl shipping rates to item page for Scrapbookingandy and other registered out of country buyers.
  Fixed traits getting modified when edited by admins.
  Setup automatic translation for Google Base attributes like condition and year that need to have a certain value format (i.e., "1999" rather than "January 1999").
  Modifications to sitemap generation for better organic Google results.
  
• 6/25.
  Fixed potential multi-minute waits when filtering a booth by subcategory.
  Fixed batch editor category filter not working in IE.
  Fixed "copy trait" giving errors.
  Fixed shipping prices not updating after items are removed or quantities changed in cart.
  Updated items for better Yahoo presentation.
  Freebies no longer included in Google Base feeds.
  Fixed payments not being selectable in booth.
  
• 6/22.
  Rebuilt cart from scratch to remove "change" links, improve clarity and generally foster awesomeness.
  Sellers can now create and send invoices to buyers when buyer attempts to make a full price purchase that isn't completed via "Buy now."
  Removed "cash" and "pickup" as cart options, since only about 1% of transactions were using them (far less than 1% for cash, actually) and they were making cart a lot more complicated.
  Updated formatting of packing slip to incorporate same information as invoices.
  More informative error messages when unregistered users are unable to send emails.
  Google Base exporter no longer gets stuck for hours when a user has incorrectly setup their account and they try to use API export.
  
• 6/16.
  Added ability for an "official response" from Bonanzle to be demarcated within a given forum topic.
  Added ability for moderator to specify reason that a venomous topic is taken down.
  User now has to hover (rather than just passing mouse over) Bonanza item for it to pop up date/discount info.
  Smartened up checkout a bit more about what to do if it can't figure out a buyer's location.
  
• 6/15.
  Bonanza items on Buy page can now be customized per a buyer's favorite categories.
  Buyer no longer has to pre-register to ask question to seller.
  When filtering out Bonanza items in main search, "relevance" considers how soon the Bonanza will be starting.
  System makes better effort to get buyers country before they enter checkout / make offer.
  Inventory page displays quantity of item available.
  Browsing through categories in search now shows all subcategories, rather than top 25.
  All Google Base items now give "Used" or "New" status.
  Fixed one reason that users would sometimes be notified they had received an email when they hadn't.
  "Offer summary" renamed "Cart summary"
  
• 6/8.
  Added customizability to widgets.
  Generally tightened up instructions around and process of creating new widgets.
  
• 6/7.
  Created popout window for chat, linked it from item show page and main chat window.
  Give seller option to proceed directly to traits page after setting up booth.
  Fixed some CSV files giving error that title column was missing when it wasn't.
  Fixed coupons giving incorrect amount during checkout when same coupon code used repeatedly.
  Fixed offers expiring when they had been marked as paid.
  Progress toward making chat transports stay online more reliably, particularly AIM (Jordan).
  
• 6/4.
  Batch edit doesn't reset page after performing an operation.
  Purchases made via echecks email seller to give them a rundown of their options.
  Fixed information not being saved for newly-registered buyers.
  Traits edit list gives a pagination bar at top of page.
  Traits edit list lets seller sort items from on the page.
  Seller account info gives more details about setting up remote chatting.
  
• 6/2.
  Booths now show subcategories when main cat checked (Next Up request frontrunner complete).
  Added help page to explain how batch editor shipping options work to clear up rampant misconceptions that only one international shipping rate can be set.
  Added ability to specify that an item ships internationally, with the price specified in item description.
  Added ability to set multiple of the same Google attributes (i.e., two colors).
  Fixed checkout button not turning green when item added via item show page.
  Fixed sent messages not showing up in Bmail.
  
• 6/1.
  Setup search to let buyers choose whether they want to weight results toward online sellers or not.
  Setup booth browse to use indexed search. Should fix the sometimes 30+ second load times for the page.
  System changes to double amount of memory available to database and caching systems.
  Updated style of booth presented on booth browse and People page.
  
• 5/31.
  Removed superfluous "for sale" dots from gallery view in booth and search. Replaced the green dots with icons to indicate whether seller is available for chat, and whether item offers free shipping.
  Reformatted item show page to specifically indicate whether seller is available to chat.
  Fixed users with "." in their name not being able to view wish list.
  Setup ability for a user to hide their profile, and setup auto-registered buyers to be hidden by default.
  Setup site to be resistant to possible crashes of server cache.
  Setup CSV item importer to work with images that have spaces in them.
  Setup CSV item importer to know that shipping price of "0" means free shipping.
  Added database indexes to speed up viewing of email, wish list, bill, and some other stuff.
  Google base feeds made smarter WRT to "new" or "used" status of item.
  
• 5/25.
  Added item description suggestions to help imported items become more Bonanzle-specific.
  Added ability to set a deadline for offers being checked out (after which items are returned to booth).
  Fixed larger booths not being updated sometimes.
  Fixed "You sold items" message being sent to buyers when a counteroffer was accepted.
  Updated offer notification emails to provide links to see the offer list, not just vague email about visiting "My Bonanzle" page.
  Submitted application for TrustE.
  
• 5/20.
  "Checkout complete" screen reformatted to be less cluttered, added item suggestions to page.
  More subcategories returned in item search page results.
  Item search page suggests users broaden search if few results returned when "only title" filter is on.
  Subcategories in item search results are now alphabetized.
  Simplified presentation of item search page.
  Removed exclamation points from most Otto email titles to decrease spam score!
  
• 5/17.
  Fixed occasional errors creating seller accounts.
  Fixed one reason that newly registered buyers wouldn't have shipping address correctly shown on packing slip.
  Fixed Google attributes not working if they contain a period.
  Fixed exceptional items page taking minutes to load every once in awhile.
  Fixed CSV uploads randomly failing about 1/3rd of the time.
  Added ability to specify country to Account Info page.
  Progress toward suggesting similar items after checkout.
  
• 5/14.
  Sped up viewing of booth stats by a lot (though Thursday's stats won't be available until Saturday, stats will compute as usual starting Saturday)
  Added custom booth categories to new item form.
  When editing item on new item form, category browse now shows the correct hierarchy of categories that had been selected.
  Fixed error given when changing to blank category on item edit form.
  Another secret update... who can guess what it is first?
  
• 5/13.
  Fixed occasional errors when updating hand picked lists, checking out from a seller who incorrectly setup combined shipping discounts, saving credit card for auto billing.
  User has to have active account to send quick text.
  Added more hooks to let sellers know about trait suggestions.
  CSV importer no longer imports items with duplicate titles.
  
• 5/12.
  Added ability to specify shipping country on item search page. For logged in international users, search defaults to show only items that ship to their country.
  Item show page now shows international shipping price if user is logged in, or if we can determine their country from their IP address.
  Updated profile page to allow users to specify which kind of items they like to buy/collect, and hide outside contact info by default to make the page a bit less cluttered-feeling.
  Updated outside links on profile page to be plain text so Google hates on us for our count of outgoing links a bit less.
  When a trait suggestion is approved, the submitting user is notified via email.
  Users submitting item trait suggestions now given a cheeseburger.
  When searching for "recently listed" items, search now considers the time the item was put online, not the time the item was created.
  Google feeds cause less slowdown on background tasks server.
  Search only searches titles by default for improved relevance.
  
• 5/11.
  Optimized load times for My Bonanzle page.
  Optimized load times for fee comparison tool.
  Optimized load times for updating large booths.
  Optimized load times for forum topic pages.
  Fixed some problems with trait suggestions.
  
• 5/10.
  Optimized load time for browsing through categories by a factor of 10x-ish (Jordan).
  Optimized load time for item show page by about 10-20% (Jordan).
  Optimized load times for booth show page, particularly for big booths.
  Added item traits to item show page.
  Added ability to remove pictures from booth gallery (#2 requested feature on Next Up List, woot)
  Fixed FVFs not considering shipping discounts.
  Fixed some errors given when trying to suggest traits.
  
• 5/6.
  Added item trait suggestions and the whole mess of supporting functionality (admin console, help pages, etc.).
  
• 5/4.
  Users can now configure which forums they want to see updates for.
  Fixed recent messages list being misformatted in Safari and Chrome.
  Setup all background tasks to automatically restart if they go down for whatever reason.
  Added a couple new features to Next Up list, some progress toward being able to remove booth gallery images.
  
• 5/3.
  Item traits now give counts of how many items match each trait.
  Yahoo Messenger back online, improvements made so all instant messaging clients can better detect if users are online (Jordan).
  Fixed bug where credit card bill payments round down.
  More than one item trait filter can now be applied at concurrently.
  Item trait filters can now carry from parent categories to child categories (i.e., applying a "New" filter on a base category will be remembered when child categories are chosen.)
  Item trait checkboxes now output correctly in batch editor.
  Item traits only shown in search if there are items matching those traits.
  Fixed bugs if buyer goes to GC or PP then returns to Bonanzle, then goes back to GC or PP.
  
• 4/30.
  Rewrote entire underlying data storage/structure for traits to be compatible with search and user-given trait suggestions (coming soon). Wrote translator from old trait structure to new trait structure.
  Setup search mechanism to understand traits.
  Fixed most trait checkboxes not showing up.
  Re-skinned search to be work with trait searching, be smarter when no search results are found, give better titles, and to generally make it a little less light brown.
  Updated cart so that new buyers don't have to provide any information on Bonanzle before heading off to Paypal or GC to complete their order (only setup currently for offers with fixed/free shipping, since calculated shipping requires us to know about their exact location in advance).
  Google checkout now gives line-by-line summary of items, discounts, shipping, etc. rather than lumping it all into one line. (Jordan)
  Updated new item form so user can scroll up and down page when new item form is up, even if they aren't in IE.
  Setup rudimentary calculation of suggested items (for seller newsletter). Todo: add to site somewhere.
  Added patriotic Bonanzle assets from Kaycee Studios.
  Removed misleading "new" or "used" condition from item show page until full traits are shown on item page (prob next week).
  Added pagination to wishlist (can see more than 20 items).
  Fixed feedback reminders not being sent for the last couple weeks.
  
• 4/23.
  Fixed search engine not working with price ranges.
  Item importer now imports some item traits.
  Exported some experimental AdWords to Google based on popular site searches.
  
• 4/21.
  Access to Drama forum now optional and controlled on an opt-in basis for new users (via user settings page). Existing users are opted in.
  Minor fixes to traits.
  
• 4/20.
  Added detailed item traits to batch editor, new item form.
  Added item trait profiles.
  Added first-pass mapping from item traits to Google attributes.
  Added help pages for trait/trait profiles.
  Removed non-item/non-booth pages from future indexing by search engines.
  Batch editor can now filter items by category.
  Google attributes no longer shown in item description on new item form (though they can still be added through description, was causing confusion to show existing attributes)
  Fixed error given after an item is reported as a violation.
  Batch editor no longer forgets page being viewed when filter is removed.
  Fixed some typos.
  Updated plugin for remote chatting in search of generally less anomalous behaviors (Jordan).
  Updated remote chatting not to go offline for 10 minutes/hour (Jordan).
  
• 4/13.
  Fixed custom item display in booth order being broken sometimes (for all future attempts, if you're having the problem currently email support and we'll fix it for ya).
  Added link to "Tell a Friend" about a Bonanzle item.
  Added display of shipping discounts to packing slip (was this what you meant, Phaedra?)
  Fixed site being down for a couple minutes around 2:30 AM PST
  Hopeful fix for users search index not being updated.
  Fixed offers chargable amount being able to go lower than 0 (which had a charge of 0.50. ha)
  Fixed cash offers being charged.
  Bonanzle widget no longer has white around the corners.
  Upper right corner of orange booth graphic outline no longer blackish.
  Taught search engine the difference between "crochet" and "crocheted"
  
• 4/12.
  Created and added links to the Booth Optimization Project page.
  Added option to view feedback left by a user.
  Reworked presentation of item show page to be simpler and more buyer appealing.
  Reworked presentation of My Bonanzle page to be more organized for sellers.
  Setup sitemaps used by Google to be smarter about which pages to index when
  Added Welcome Message to item show page (and option for subscribers to disable it if they please)
  Added option for premium subscribers to view where buyers who purchase items are coming from.
  Fixed possibility of gaming the Promo limits by deleting Promo topics after they get old.
  Added ability for Tom to reserve multiple items at once and see user flagged items.
  Clarified prohibited items page.
  Fixed assorted typos and outdated text.
  
• 4/7.
  Cut down time to rebuild search indexes from a couple hours to about half an hour, in preparation for factoring in item owner's online status at a nearby future date.
  Updated item search so it knows the difference between "cloth" and "clothing," "paint" and "painting," and other words where either the word or root of the word may be searchable.
  Updated formatting of recent messages page to be a little less ugly. Also added option to "search again" after first message search finishes.
  Another pass at clarifying and beautifying new user registration emails.
  Unregistered users can't leave comments.
  Moderators can delete comments from blogs and HPLs.
  Setup booth to potentially be able to use same search mechanism as main site, but waiting until there is a good reason to do so before activating it (i.e., booth search gets too slow).
  
• 4/6.
  Added link to external promotion for sellers that have exhausted Promo forum messages.
  Removed Category Showcases for categories that had few items/no HPLs/few-no forum messages
  Added item created at time to inventory printout.
  Fixed a copule loose ends from yesterday's changes.
  
• 4/5.
  Added email notifications when seller's items are added to an HPL.
  Added notifications when an unseen comment has been left on an HPL.
  Optimized database queries for all offer pages, My Bonanzle page, and to a lesser extent, booth/item pages.
  Added inventory printout page for plus subscribers.
  Added more detailed survey questions to gauge new buyer satisfaction with Bonanzle.
  Setup Tom with ability to moderate forums and write blogs.
  Updated Google attribute setting so it isn't actually saved in description (just appears to be). This will ultimately lead to faster load times on item show page. Immediate benefits are that setting Google attributes on an item 1) doesn't clobber old Google attributes and 2) doesn't clobber old text that might have been appended to item via batch editor.
  Other means to speed up item show page so more pages get into search indexes.
  HPLs now expire a week after they're published (i.e., after 15 items are put into them), rather than a week after they're created.
  Added help page to better explain how HPLs work.
  
• 4/2.
  Added pledge to user to home page.
  Updated promo rules so user can post 5 messages every 3 days instead of 2 every 1 -- better for auction/Bonanza promotion.
  Fixed price not being settable in batch editor.
  Made edit box bigger in profile description edit.
  Fixed formatting of category showcase page in IE.
  
• 4/1.
  Wished Bizzy farewell.
  Added quick jump to categories from home page.
  Added more paths through which new buyers can activate their account.
  Throttled quick text welcomes for new users.
  Progress toward further search improvements.
  
• 3/31.
  Added Bizzy.
  Fixed promo posts not being editable after two have been posted.
  
• 3/30.
  Trappings of Bonanzle Optimization Project, incl. separated blogs.
  
• 3/29.
  If seller doesn't have chat window focused, title of window will now change when chat message is received (like quick texts).
  Optimized item searches for Google, submitted most popular Bonanzle searches to all search engines.
  Added ability for buyers to submit a mini-poll about their initial opinions of Bonanzle in welcome emails.
  Setup daily maximum of two messages per user per day on promotion forum.
  Fixed a variety of uncommon errors: cropping images, viewing registration page,
• 3/25.
  Split up "Account Settings" (was "Account Info") page into different sections. Added a bunch more choices for emailing preferences.
  Added means to get emailed when buyers are chatting in one's booth.
  Revamped database indexes for all around better speediness.
  Set variable weights for user ability to find and mark prohibited items.
  Reclassified topics now moved to the correct (promo or non-promo) list of recent topics.
  Added option to unsubscribe to more types of emails in the body of the email.
  Packing slip line item totals now factor in quantity * price rather than just price of individual item.
  
• 3/23.
  Added new "medium" size for item widget pictures.
  Added option for buyers to indicate they want to receive promotional emails during checkout when buying from premiere subscribers.
  Added a bunch more tools for Tom to assist sellers in optimizing their booths.
  Setup maximum daily number of failed logins to curtail hacker activity.
  Added a bunch more help links on the membership page for subscribers.
  More refinement of "Welcome to Bonanzle" emails to clarify our mission and what makes us different.
  
• 3/22.
  Fixed related search suggestions mentioning a bunch of identical terms.
  Title now weighted more heavily than description and category in search.
  Revised "welcome" and feedback reminder emails to talk about what makes Bonanzle different and give item suggestions.
  "Item saved search" emails are now actually being sent.
  Integrated option to import eBay feedback with eBay item importer.
  Progress toward MSN IM client not going offline every couple days.
  Fixed old hand picked lists not expiring. Those older than a month are now automatically removed. Embrace the decay!
  Removed categories for item types that aren't allowed (stun guns, etc.)
  
• 3/19.
  Relevant suggestions now given while typing in search term.
  Related searches now suggested after search is completed.
  Other polish and revisions of search page to fix bugs and increase simplicity.
  
• 3/18.
  Fixed problems with chat and image uploads in Internet Explorer 8.
  Progress toward a better search.
  
• 3/16.
  Added saved searches, ability to receive email notification when matching items are added to Bonanzle.
  Added saving of search terms to suggest similar alternate searches, or recommend other items user might like (at some future point).
  Added better determination of when new items are added to site for searching through recently added items or for item email notifications.
  Consolidated a couple search boxes and added a nearby button for refining searches.
  Fixed site maps being submitted to organic Google search.
  
• 3/15.
  Added more admin tools for removing bad & nasty items.
  Added more information when automatic billing is not setup correctly.
  More specific instructions provided for those that register while buying.
  Better instructions provided for those who setup their new booth.
  Fixed "$" getting separated from item amount when offer made in cart.
  
• 3/12.
  All non-uploaded images, javascript and stylesheets now served from Amazon servers to reduce possible points of error & increase download speeds.
  Fixed error given when tweeting an item and Twitter is down.
  
• 3/10.
  Added more details about no checkout process for first time buying visitors.
  Renamed "User Trust Report" page "More Seller Info," and lowered forum messages from 50 to 20.
  Added BBB logo to cart during checkout.
  Item main photo can now be dragged into cart, and changed graphic in empty cart.
  Placing CC on file now tests card validity with temp authorization of 12 cents rather than $10, and notifies user in advance about it.
  Fixed some buyer registration issues resulting from yesterday's changes.
  
• 3/9.
  Streamlined no-registration checkout process to eliminate need for shipping address screen.
  Updated login screen en route to cart to make it easier to checkout when not registered.
  Slight simplifications to item show page.
  Fixed choosing an existing shipping location being broken on shipping address checkout screen.
  Hand picked lists expire after a month.
  
• 3/8.
  Added comprehensive seller checklist of ways to promote items, promote booth, and verify credibility (accessed via My Bonanzle page).
  Fixed quick texts not being sent to sellers when a message is written in their booth.
  Adding credit card for automatic billing counts as having submitted a verified credit card on user trust report.
  Fixed error given in cart when seller had item where description started with a URL.
  Fixed error given when tinyurl can't be accessed during Tweet.
  Fixed error given some browsers make weird requests to categories page.
  
• 3/5.
  Added detailed trustability reports.
  Revised item view page to make it more clear who the seller is and how trustable they are.
  Setup backup plan for when Tinyurl can't be accessed in making Tweets.
  Fixed Oodle feed.
  
• 3/4.
  Added ability to write a customized twitter message when tweeting an item.
  Added rotating home page quotes.
  Fixed the little ugly corner in the Bonanzle header.
  Revise help links off of home page for greater clarity and visual impact for newbs.
  Simplify item page a bit.
  
• 3/2.
  Added ability to set buyer restrictions.
  
• 3/1.
  Help search now broken up into "Bonanzle Help Topics" and "Message Forum" help.
  Added ability for users to submit their bestest Bonanzle stories to Bill & Mark (via My Bonanzle -> Want to Participate).
  When receiving offer from buyer out of country, seller can now see full address of where buyer wants items shipped.
  Updated feel of category page.
  Added ability for admins to lock toxic booth chats.
  Updated "What is Bonanzle" page with more quotes and additional proof that Bonanzle is totally tubular.
  Fixed a bunch of uglynesses referring to unknown_user_XXXX when creating a booth via the "one click to start setting up your booth.
  
• 2/26.
  Redesign People page to emphasize usefulness over filler.
  Items in Bonanzas now have original price crossed out when seen in cart.
  Slightly enlarged size of Bonanza images on Buy page so buyers stands a chance of making the pix out.
  
• 2/25.
  Added ability to specify additional Google Base product attributes via batch editor or item description box.
  Overhaul batch edit box to handle ever increasing number of options without increase in clutter.
  Hovering over anchors doesn't make them get lighter, such that they disappear over many backgrounds.
  
• 2/24.
  Overhaul Craigslist exporter to work with Flash 10.
  Fixes to locked topics not really being locked.
  
• 2/23.
  Added help topics for how to SEO optimize listings, specify shipping turnaround time, view booth stats, improve Bonanzle sales, and many others.
  Forum updates to automatically mail support when posts/forums are tagged.
  Forum updates to make it significantly more difficult to get topics & posts moved without moderator intervention.
  Added ability to suggest a topic is reclassified.
  Improved detection of duplicate users.
  Added ability to close blogs/forums from addition posts.
  
• 2/18.
  Can now customize time interval of booth stats shown, and removed some irrelevant stats from page.
  Hand picked lists can now be sorted by user chosen criteria.
  Hyphenated words (e.g., "t-shirt") don't confuse search engine anymore.
  Added option to for users to disemvowel caustic forum posts.
  Added more options when reporting an item as naughty, and removed limits on reporting for trustable users.
  Clicking on a link that leaves Bonanzle now opens in a new window for convenience.
  User now reminded to upload to GB after activating their booth.
  Fixed clicking on booth items sometimes being interpreted as a small drag rather than a click (fix only works in Firefox so far).
  
• 2/17.
  Added beta version of Craigslist exporter.
  Added more variety to home page HPL rotation.
  More prevention measures to keep users from being double-invited to Bonanzle.
  
• 2/15.
  Seller can now mark offers as shipped, provide tracking code for offer, and have Bonanzle mail the buyer with this info.
  Items can now be published to Twitter.
  Seller can now specify number of days it will take for an item to ship via Booth -> Advanced Options, shipping profiles, or batch edit (Jordan)
  Fixed duplicated items missing pictures.
  Non-US buyers/users now prompted for their country during registration so we don't mess it up when inferring from postal code.
  Booth/item view stats now limited to last 60 days to keep speed of stat viewing page zippy.
  Higher precedence given to newer hand picked lists in the master list of HPLs (soon to come: user-specified sorting criteria for HPLs)
  Fixed Category Showcase pages sometimes taking 20-40 seconds to load. Should now stay consistently under 5 seconds.
  Sellers now automatically reminded if their items are soon to expire on Google Base.
  Sellers now automatically reminded when payments are due.
  Clarified "Tell me more!" sections on booth advanced options page.
  Users with special characters in their eBay ID can now be verified.
  Item posting time records (used to tell user how long their average item post took) limited to only consider last month. Was slowing down database.
  
• 2/12.
  Doubled number of servers yet again (booyah).
  
• 2/8.
  Search now returns up to 10k results.
  eBay IDs now verified prior to actual imports happening to avoid day long waits before discovering login/pw is incorrect.
  Fixed eBay IDs not being verifiable if special characters had been used in PW.
  Wrote code to make recurring FVF billing occur.
  Added page to see details of recurring billing payments.
  Added more administrative features to help manage and track potential scammers.
  Updated help sections on eBay item importing, feedback importing, batch editing, and a few others.
  (from 2/5)
  Hand picked lists now show on home page.
  Feedback now submitted without refreshing page so feedback can be left for many users quickly (and so one doesn't lose feedback they may have filled out that goes away when page is submitted).
  
• 2/5.
  Conquered longtime performance nemesis: geocoded IP locations.
  And a bunch of other stuff that doesn't really matter at 3 AM when you've finally conquered your arch nemesis.
  
• 2/4.
  Added option of searching for new/used items to item search page.
  Fixed possibility of site hanging if UPS shipping calculator is unavailable.
  Reduced liklihood of duplicate messages being sent out with user inviter.
  Added option to clear eBay import messages from edit booth page.
  Seller only notified when a buyer enters their booth if buyer is registered/able to chat.
  Fixed all spelling errors mentioned in the spelling bee thread.
  
• 2/2.
  Overhaul Google Base instructions for greater clarity and more screenshots.
  Update Membership Benefits page to reflect newer benefits of being a member.
  Re-add "find seller" to buy page.
  Added link to "Browse all of a category" to Category Showcase page.
  Changed "Quarrelsome" tag and forum to "Dramatic" tag and forum to better capture essence of what we're trying to avoid.
  When browsing through a category without a search term, the title bar now specifies the category being browsed.
  
• 2/1.
  Updated formatting of Buy page to be less cluttered/arbitrary, more in tune with buyer intentions.
  Added link to promo forums to buy page.
  Updated item import messages not to rely on browser session, so they won't disappear when browser is closed.
  Updated "Email on reply" option in forum to be saved in browser session, so after user indicates whether they want forum reply emails, that will become their default.
  Updated hand picked lists to encourage users to add 20 items to list, so lists can be featured on home page.
  Users can now specify a shipping cost for an offer when creating a counteroffer.
  Users now emailed when fees are owed.
  Users now emailed when membership expires.
  Category showcase pages no longer show hand picked lists that aren't available to be seen.
  Fixed "Advanced Options" booth page loading in 10+ seconds for booths with lots of items. Should now be relatively instaneous for all.
  Fixed a couple users' profiles loading in 10+ seconds due to overload of booth favorites.
  
• 1/29.
  Improvement to formatting of Bonanzas on category showcase pages.
  Added new holiday assets courtesy of Christy.
  Fixed ghost's transactions not processing.
  Added some new administrative tools.
  
• 1/28.
  Added beta version of new category page.
• 1/25.
  Added option to delete all chat messages from booth.
  Activating a big booth no longer makes site hang for a 60+ seconds.
  Added links from chatters in booth to chatters' profiles.
  Sped up site about 30% by removing some performance monitoring systems.
  Posts in "Booth promotions" forum separated into its own recent post list, separate from other discussions.
  eBay importer no longer replaces old items from booth when "add new items only" is chosen and an existing item has the same title as an imported item.
  Forum search results now weight toward newer posts rather than older ones.
  Responding to a message thread that has been marked as a quarrel no longer gives an error message, probably. Or if it does, it gives a different error message than it used to.
  Fixed possibility of bad HTML messing up formatting of recent posts list.
  Formatting of booth promotion page now 38% less assy.
  Fixed pagination not working on forum search results page.
  
• 1/22.
  Fixed "seller's picks" not showing seller's picks when the picks were custom ordered.
  Fixed at least some of the reasons that the booth chat list wouldn't accurately show users in booth.
  
• 1/21.
  Updated formatting of "Upcoming Bonanzas" area.
  Added option of sending quick text to profile page.
  Updated formatting of new user list.
  Sped up Exceptional Items page.
  "Who's Around" list on left side of People page now only includes users logged into site (not those connected via remote chat).
  Hand picked lists shown in profile limited to 3.
  Set booths to have upper limit of 10k items.
  Set booth favorites to have upper limit of 15 per month, 75 total.
  Set location string to have limit of 70 characters for city, 30 for state.
  
• 1/18.
  Home page fades sped up and spiffed up.
  Unregistered users can no longer chat.
  Added ability to turn off Bonanza effects.
  Added help page for what various user profile settings mean.
  Fixed special discounts to be applied to most recent bill.
  Searching completed items without search term now explicitly instructs user to enter search term.
  
• 1/17.
  Billing doesn't suck.
  
• 1/15.
  Added ability to pay Bonanzle fees via automated credit card payments.
  Updated eBay importer to ignore items with identical titles.
  Updated "Recently added items" to booth favorites not to change sort order when viewing booth.
  Hand picked lists older than expiration date no longer appear in list of Hand Picked Items Lists (though they'll still show elsewhere)
  Fixed possibility of user being spammed with quick texts sent from booth chat (5 max are queued)
  
• 1/13.
  Added shipping insurance.
  Added shipping profiles.
  Added customized booth sort order for subscribers.
  Added help pages for shipping profiles, customized sort order, and widgets.
  Sort order for a booth no longer memorized unless the user purposely changed it (previously, most-to-least expensive order was automatically remembered as a default after visiting first booth).
  Automatic payments for Bonanzle fees with credit cards mostly-but-not-entirely setup.
  Removed option to use auto-decimal. Too many confused users couldn't figure out where it was. All users can now use decimal pricing.
  Re-arranged presentation on "Advanced Options" page of booth edit.
  Added ability to negate (via "-", think if you wanted to buy fruit, "apple -computer") words from item search. Also added ability to use wild cards in search (i.e., "comp*" would match results with "computer" and "computes")
  Rewrote HTML for the offer show area to use more semantic elements (e.g., tables instead of CSS)
  
• 1/7.
  Sped up "People" page by about 2x, "Recent Posts" by about 4x, "Users" page by about 50%.
  Fixed subscriptions not being automatically created after payment.
  Changed completed items to be for last year.
  
• 1/6.
  Fixed a bunch of widget problems.
  Fixed some reasons for bills calculating incorrectly.
  
• 1/5.
  Added ability to create/manage booth widgets.
  Added ability for users to add to help sections.
  "Actions" and "Advanced Options" now remember if they were open or closed on the item show page.
  Updated "Contact Us" page to encourage use of help search.
  Moved "cancel booth" to user edit page to be harder to mis-click.
  Capitalization on "My Bonanzle" page more consistent.
  
• 1/4.
  Stuff, but not the sort of stuff you'd find very interesting.
  
• 1/1.
  Added ability to search through categories (via the "Complete Category List" help page) to make it easier to setup RSS feeds and/or inventory file imports.
  Setup reminders to buyers and sellers to leave feedback on completed offers.
  Title of email when buyer has a question now different than title of a standard message being sent on site.
  Fixed user setting being ignored for users not wanting to receive email when a Bonanzle message is sent.
  Searching for completed items now limits results to past 30 days.
  Fixed possibility of certain characters in item titles breaking formatting of site.
  Restored old logo.
  
• 12/31.
  Made packing slip not suck.
  Added press section.
  Fixed possibility of offers marked as paid when paying less than total amount.
  Architectural changes toward giving reminders about leaving feedback.
  
• 12/30.
  Fixed errors given when trying to grab Google feed for a big booth.
  Fixed random errors given when browsing site around 1 AM.
  Fixed booth RSS feeds not being updated when booth is updated.
  Fixed a bunch of fees that were being incorrectly calculated.
  Fixed error given if a non-logged in user tries to submit a buyer account update.
  Fixed users being able to register with same user name except for diFfEreNt CaSe.
  Sped up load times for item view page by about 10%.
  Worked on setting up automatic performance monitoring.
  
• 12/29.
  Fixed sort of frequent errors given when items duplicated.
  Fixed occasional errors given when searching for message posts.
  
• 12/27.
  Fixed forums having double line break.
  Improved search on forum to search topic titles and posting user names in addition to post body.
  Fixed disappearing/not showing up fees.
  Fixed Bonanza formatting on Buy page.
  Fixed more possible ways a user could get a duplicate user name.
  
• 12/23.
  Fixed possibility of duplicate user names created by non-registering buyers.
  Fixed some cases in which payments may not be applied to users' FVF bills.
  Fixed errorw hen a non-registered but logged in user (i.e., from clicking "sell in one click") enters checkout.
  Setup automated testing for bill payments and subscriber payments to make them increasingly bullet proof in the future.
  Unregistered users now referred to as "Guest" rather than "unknown_user_234na"
  
• 12/22.
  Tried to update server to a newer, experimental version that uses half as much memory. It ain't happenin.
  
• 12/21.
  Fixed a reason bill payments and subscription payments wouldn't be marked as paid in system.
  Fixed picture order being screwy when setting up item via new item form (previously, newest cropped/uploaded/selected picture was always last).
  Fixed item not being able to be re-imported for a day after being deleted.
  Added ability to use http://www.bonanzle.com/yourboothname as address to booth.
  Exceptional item list now defaults to showing most tagged item in last week (rather than last two).
  Made hand picked lists more likely to show up when doing item search.
  Added link to move to "next Bonanza" and "previous Bonanza" when browsing through booths with Bonanzas.
  Set home page to update more frequently.
  
• 12/18.
  Booth pages now update via AJAX (= no page load) so buyer doesn't lose position in chat window, and so page update is faster.
  When doing an item search, search now suggests users and hand picked lists that meet search criteria, if any are found.
  Can now calculate shipping cost from item show page.
  Blog comments, emails, next up comments, and hand picked list comments now have all the same formatting available in forums.
  Feedback page now tells whether feedback is from a buyer or seller, and gives feedback rating of the submitter.
  Fixed items being created with nonsense characters that break Google Base (typically when imported from eBay). If you have such an item, just change any character in its description and re-save it and bad characters will disappear.
  Added safeguards against site running out of memory.
  
• 12/16.
  Zoom forward more than a year in the version of Ruby on Rails used to run Bonanzle -- easier to program, will provide a better infrastructure for time zones and internationalization, amongst other things.
  Added ability to tag topics as "Dreary" to remove from recently updated list (and nothing else).
  Hand picked lists now show up in profile and "More details" of booth.
  Improved algorithm for hand picked lists to more prominently feature newer lists.
  
• 12/11.
  Hand picked lists.
  
• 12/10.
  Fixed search not showing subcategories more than two levels deep.
  Cart now specified "Paypal or Google Checkout" so buyers know they don't have to choose immediately.
  Users can now be referred to pages other than the main user create page.
  Created better ability to monitor suspicious activities.
  
• 12/9.
  Updated Bonanza previews on buy page to show an extra picture. Preview of Bonanza items is now sorted by items marked as favorites, then by most expensive
  Booth browsing now defaults to 48 items per page like search.
  Lengthened the maximum size of the categories list in booth for less annoying scrolling.
  Items no longer deleted from database if they are associated with any offer in any way.
  Added ability to search users for plus and premiere members (and removed new user search... too many of them to browse through anymore).
  Updated "Recent Actions by Favorites" to be more relevant -- only show Bonanzas in the near future and items that were listed very recently, also changed the formatting of the area to be a little less overbearing.
  When user browsing through items in search without search term, premiere items are now ordered randomly.
  Increased number of premiere items on search page to 20.
  Forums now show smiley faces with :) ;) :-) and :D.
  Search page now recommends user remove their category filter if they get a blank result with category filter on.
  More progress on the Project.
  
• 12/8.
  Checkout process 2.0:
  * "Payments" page changed to "Review and Submit," more useful information given in easier to read format.
  * Buyer can now skip "Shipping" page if they have purchased on Bonanzle before.
  * Buyer no longer has to choose between Paypal or Google Checkout before arriving at payment page (todo: update cart so that it's more obvious that difference between Paypal/GC is irrelevant in proposing offer).
  * Shipping rates now based on shipping address given while making offer, rather than user address, fixes errors in calculated shipping rates when offer shipping destination different from buyer's home address.
  * Fixed unregistered users not being able to use "Buy now" option.
  * Site no longer waits around for minutes when USPS doesn't respond to our calculated shipping request (just returns shipping error).
  * Numerous formatting cleanups/updates to counteroffers page and cart summary page.
  * Shipping page formatting updates, and buyers can now specify country to ship to.
  * Button to packing slip now labeled "View packing slip" rather than "View invoice."
  Fixed Bonanza items not being able to be dragged from "In Bonanza" to "Not in Bonanza"
  Updated billing page.
  
• 12/4.
  Highlight editable fields on cart page and change "EDIT" link to "CHANGE".
  Added "Browse by seller" to buy page.
  Work on new bill payments page.
  
• 12/3.
  Fixed pagination formatting in discussion topics being messed up in Firefox 3 and on iPhone.
  Offers now explicitly and obviously notify seller if the offer received is from a buyer in another country.
  Added "Cancel" button to full text editor to abort changes.
  Fixed welcome message not being sent to new users, added text about TMT to welcome message.
  Old booth chat messages tell the day they were sent on.
  Improved formatting of booth search page, particularly in FF 3 (guess which browser I upgraded to recently?).
  Stopped swimming upstream and made full HTML formatting new default for item viewing.
  When viewing items not in HTML, line breaks are preserved so description isn't one neverending line of gobbledeegoop.
  Members now emailed when their subscription has run out.
  
• 12/1.
  My Bonanzle page now shows with prominent link when buyer has received a counteroffer.
  When user returns from paying for negotiated item, they no longer receive message that item isn't ready for checkout.
  Users paying fees after visiting page to pay fees can now have fees correctly calculated.
  After returning from paying for offer, items from offer are properly removed from cart.
  
• 11/30.
  Added list of recent happenings with favorite booths.
  Freshened look of forums page.
  Fixed item tags not being deleted when item marked as "sold" through batch editor.
  Fixed offers not getting marked as sold when a seller marks items in said offer as "sold" before Paypal/Google get back to us about whether transaction was approved.
  Huge lists of favorite booths now partially hidden to preserve formatting of profile page.
  List of booth favorites on profile page now ordered by recentness of favorite marking.
  Marking booth as favorite now changes color of star on booth page.
  Offer notes now hidden to all but buyer/seller.
  Items removed from site by booth destroy are now immediately hidden from search.
  List of blogs now paginated on blog show page.
  Blog comments can now be edited.
  Date of user recommendation now given along with user recommendation.
  Fixed item categories search getting out of whack when scrolling beyond first page in item search.
  Fixed booth custom categories sometimes not working under mysterious circumstances.
  
• 11/28.
  Added booth coupons.
  Added reminder to My Bonanzle page if fees are owed.
  Updated left side list of users online on People page to pick more active users.
  Fixed message after new user registers being blank.
  
• 11/26.
  More work on secret project to inject thousands more buyers to site.
  Added about 20 more database indexes to prevent possible future slowdowns.
  Added about 50% more capacity to database server.
  
• 11/25.
  Better home page caching = faster home page loading
  Fixed anonymous checkout
  Fixed slowness in People page / viewing most recent forum posts / searching forums
  Fixed potential for multi-minute login times on first login after user has imported large number of items.
  Added extensive performance logging to site to prevent future slownesses
  CSV importer can accept bad image URLs without quitting
  CSV importer looks for new images to grab on items it had previously imported without an image (used to only grab images on first go-round)
  
• 11/23.
  Added assets to asset page as submitted by artistic Bonanzlers.
  Fixed site potentially locking up for minutes when users with big booths used list view to update their Bonanza items.
  Fixed categories showing up duplicated in booth view when deep categories used.
  Fixed new item form browse not working in Firefox 3.
  Slight speed improvements for displaying booths.
  Improvements to administrative view to make it easier to handle some common user requests.
  "Replace with" text in batch editor can be blank.
  
• 11/21.
  Updating a Bonanza with list view and a big booth no longer locks up site for minutes
  AIM and MSN chat back online (upgraded chat server, which makes Gmail chat go offline... d'oh! Will fix that later)
  
• 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