Release Notes 2008-04-16

• When importing addresses from your webmail accounts, we now let you know first which of your friends are already on Whirled (and let you add them as Whirled friends) and then allow you to choose who you want to invite after that.
• Various behind the scenes chat reworking to hopefully fix bugs and make our life easier when enhancing chat in the future. This means the room occupant list is temporarily disabled. It will be back soon (and will be new and improved).
• Added "About Me" section to the profile page where you can share your interests and favorite stuff with other players. Clicking on things in those lists will show you all other players who have the same things in their interests and searching for players will now search their interests as well as their name.
• Added a "Comment Wall" to the profile page so your friends can comment on your profile.
• Added a "Player News" section to the profile page that shows a mini-feed with things that player has been up to.
• Added a notification to your news feed when other players comment on your rooms (more comment-related notifications coming soon).
• Made the "View item info" menu in the world take you to the catalog page if an item is listed in the catalog so that you can buy the item yourself easily.
• Modified forums to allow fine-grained control over who can start threads and who can reply. Now you can configure those however you like for your Whirled.
• Improved friend searching, it should now find people even if you only type part of their name (not partial words, but you can just type one word of a multi-word name and they will show up).
• Added a link in "My Stuff" on the Item Detail Page to the room in which an item is used if the item is in use.
• We no longer close the "Shop" page or "My Stuff" when you wear an avatar or add an item to your room. This means you have to do it yourself, but it makes it a lot easier to add multiple things to your room at once.
• Various other bug fixes and small tweaks.