Today I added a new tool to demonreps.com You can query for 5 recent replays and have them html formatted by passing a format string in the url. The recent replays on this blog now uses this. The query url is this long stuff

That’s url encoded, and I’m not going to post decoded version cause wordpress doesn’t like stuff like that :P

So now users have a choice in adding a recent replays module to their site. They can use this new tool, or the XML that is still available and currently gives more details. I hope people start using it >_>. Haven’t been advertising it too much yet because everything’s not really “finished”.

Top of the to do list:

- Add user deactivation
- Add an emailing/newsletter system. This should be a pretty big task, depending on how complicated I get. I will probably just keep it a simple with only email blasting (mass send) to certain usergroups so it doesn’t take me too long. User deactivation has to come first so people can “opt out” of receiving emails.

Eventually I’m fantasizing (as in, probably won’t work out :p) about adding a DemonReps.com store, with hoodies and what not. User and clan pages.. like a sort of social networking thing for warcraft? Expandable to SCII… XD IDK we’ll see where it goes.. dream big much?

Of course nothing is ever going to happen without users.. haven’t made 10 dollars off advertising.. Since launch, visitor stats have pretty much been the same.. addition of the public replays has made it go up a little bit.. hopefully it’ll explode and we’ll get some non-linear growth.

I got around to working on DemonReps. Yesterday I released a beta version of public replays. It allows anyone to create an account and replay database, with upload/delete passwords for public use. Replays from all the databases are shown on the front page. Each database also has its own page. Here’s mine.

So I will start posting my replays there instead of at forelmashi. The ‘recent replays’ on this site won’t be changed for a couple days cause I have a boatload of stuff to do.

Some Features of DemonReps Public Replays

- Has most of the popular iZiReps functionality
- XML feed of recent replays
- Standalone version for easy embedding into sites. Customizable colors.

Stuff That Needs To Be Done Soon

- Make link colors customizable for the standalone.
- Search

Stuff That I Want To Eventually Do

- Maybe get Spenser to make some nice custom images. Spenser made all the DemonReps banners like this one. I just added the text.
- User profiles/pages
- User saveable Bookmarks/Quicklinks, for easy navigation to favorite databases for example
- Find/hire someone to AJAX this stuff, make it more 2.0ish. Or just use it as a ‘learning experience’ myself when I have time

In other news, I am very bad at Warcraft.

In other news, word on the street is PopaSmurf may be relapsing.