January 17th, 2010 by naut
Yesterday’s mail included a rather big package and I couldn’t believe my eyes when discovering that it was adressed to whatthemovie. A fan sending compliments to his favourite website? Maybe players disappointed because of their many Feature Film rejections decided to bring development to an end through explosives?
It turned out quite the opposite: Jens (aka holynoise, the host of our latest Vault Quest) sent us 2 bottles of beer from one of the finest breweries in his region. We were delighted 
We spare you the photos of us drinking the precious liquid and instead look forward to future mails! We’d be especially happy to taste specialities from all over WTM land. Keep ‘em coming
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December 31st, 2009 by tliff
After some lengthy development we are happy to announce a rather large update today. Plenty of new features and improvements.
The best thing is, all of you have the one time opportunity to test if everything works! We are aware of thousands of Bugs and Errors, but we wanted to launch our puppy this year, so here we go! (boldly, where no man has gone before)
There’s a Special Forum Thread to channel all of your requests, thoughts and Error Reports.
We’re far from being finished and count on your help for the last meters (or miles)
Okay, whats new?
- New Look & improved Navigation
- New Movie Pages with lots of stuff to discover
- Personal DVD Shelf which wants to get filled
- New Homescreens (logged in and logged out)
- And many more things (obviously)
A detailled list of all the features will follow shortly..
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December 22nd, 2009 by tliff
Well, we promised you blog posts, here is one. It’s not about one of the shiny new features that you’ll get in December, mainly because I am the code-monkey and not the design-monkey who plans how all those new features will look like. If you ask him very nicely he might post some new screenshots.
So back to the topic of the day: Boring statistics…
Size of the database: 4.4GB
Size of the snapshots: 21GB
Traffic per month: 1.5TB
Pageviews per month: 12.6 Million
Top visiting countries: France (24,39 %), Germany (20,97 %), Netherlands (13,20 %), Poland (8,07 %), United States (6,05 %)
Users using Firefox: 64% (YAY!)
Users: 26,041
Shots in Database: 40,069
Shots in the Archive: 20,737
Shots in Feature Films: 2,551
Average Solves per Shot: 314.87
Average rating of all Shots: 7.11
Average Rating of Shots in Feature Films: 7.73
Lines of Ruby code: 4864
Lines of Templates: 9696
Lines of Javascript: 620
Lines of CSS: 4959
Amount of money spent per development weekend: 43.21 €
Nutritional value of food per development weekend: none
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December 18th, 2009 by tliff
We have not blogged for quite some time. And we are sorry for that. And if this post ends up being the only one for another five months, we are terribly sorry for that too. But we won’t let that happen. Seriously.
Topics will be mixed but will be related to whatthemovie. We’ll have the recent news from the site, interesting forum threads, general movie related stuff and boring technical details about whatthemovie.
But for the next time, we will be focusing on some updates we’re going to push out in december. We’ll be posting teasers on what to expect and how we’re getting along with it.
So subscribe to our feed, bookmark this page or scribble the url on the palm of your hand, there will be more.
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July 8th, 2009 by naut
I’d like to give you a brief status update:
Tliff still has some exams left (MO-FR next week) but speaking for myself, I’m done for this term
Finally some time to enrich the whatthemovie experience with even more flavour.
I’ve just finished a 1600 word strong thread in the forum concerning adjustments to our most urgent construction site: The New Submissions.
There’s a lot of work ahead, keep your fingers crossed.
- naut out.
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June 11th, 2009 by naut
We have moved to a new server once again. After starting out on Tliff’s own little baby we moved to the mighty Titan in October 2008. Good old Titan served us well with WTM1 but WTM2 seems to be such a hungry piece of code that we were forced to move again. We named our new one yet again after a moon of Saturn, Pandora.
Concerning further development of WTM, we have to put you off for a little longer. We’re on our last strokes this semester (finishing all those tedious little projects) but we’ll hit hard on the site soon.
We hope you have fun with the improved speed and you’ll hear from us soon.
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April 29th, 2009 by tliff
After our short downtime (which caught some of you by surprise) we are back. We will post about how the move went and all the technical details tomorrow, let’s get to the main feature right away:
A brand new what the movie! All the cool stuff from the old site, plus all the neat features we always wanted plus a dash of social networking and that’s about it.
To get to know the details of the new site you really should check out our Help-Page
Also: If you experience any bugs, make sure to report them via the Contact-Page. The site might also be slow over the next few days but we will work on that.
And for the future: We still have plenty of new ideas which we will realize in the future. If you have one too, tell us in the Suggestion-Forum.
We are sorry for all the inconvenience the site may still cause. Our baby is still a bit rough around the edges.
UPDATE
We are still experiencing major speed problems. Sorry for that. We’re working on it.
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April 13th, 2009 by naut
So far thanks for all your input! It is very appreciated Keep the bugs coming.. Our bugtracker is still very hungry.
I’m currently busy working on various projects for my studies, but I’ll hit hard on WTM next week. A release in late may or very early June is still realistic. Not only to please the crowd, but we intend to submit the site to various contests If you are aware of any contests, WTM might have a chance to compete in, please let us know.
PS: On a totally unrelated sidenote: Tliff and me have finally decided on a corporate letter case. Is it “What the Movie”, “What The Movie”, “what the Movie” or “Whatthemovie”. The answer is no
There is one simple rule, it’s either all uppercase or all lowercase. “WTM”, “wtm”, “WHAT THE MOVIE” or “what the movie”. You may push the words together in special occasions such as filenaming.
over and out – naut
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