Multitap.net has been upgraded. New features include:

• More RSS feeds: latest comments, comments for a screenshot, latest posted per-user
• Users can no-longer vote up their own screenshots
• Improved tag cloud rendering
• Added a search form
• Added ‘remember me’ to the login form keep you logged in when you close your browser

Thanks to Gearbox for his astute observations!

A note for developers: the API has also been added in this release. It currently allows you to submit screenshots and fetch them. We’re going to add more functionality in the future, but we felt posting screenshots was the killer feature to get right.

We’re working on the documentation for the API, but if you can understand Ruby, this will clue you in:

require ‘xmlrpc/client’
require ‘base64’

server = XMLRPC::Client.new2(“http://multitap.net/backend/Screenshot”)
image_data = Base64.encode64(File.new(“C:/t…

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Multitap.net has had several bugfixes and improvements added today. Most are small enchancements to the interface based on recent feedback.

Some of the members of the growing Multitap.net found that comments were too short, so we’ve increased the size.

If you can think of any other changes, don’t hesitate to contact us, or post a comment to this post.

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First of all, happy holidays to everyone who uses our sites!

Secondly, Multitap.net has been upgraded. As well as a few consistency improvements to various features, we’ve added a ‘friends’ system which allows you to add users to a friends list. This will be extended in 2006 to provide more sophisticated features, but the bare minimum is there.

This allows me, for example, to keep track of what Kev is posting to the site. I like to keep an eye on what images he’s posted, so he’s been added to my friends list.

To support this feature, we will be improving the ‘user page’ to include a brief overview of their friends’ screenshots. All will come in due time… And, please share your ideas for the site with us!

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Multitap.net’s source has just reached a milestone: revision 100. This contains new features and improvements which we hope to launch before Christmas:

• Add people to a friends list to help keep track of friends
• Friendlier date formatting
• Consistency improvements to the design across the site

One of these features was suggested to us to a user of the site. If you wish to request features, you can use the contact form on the site, or post comments to this weblog.

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Multitap.net, our first project, was launched on December 6th, 2005.

Multitap.net was designed to allow gamers to post screenshots of action during play, something we have done ourselves using forums and various image hosting services. We never felt current image hosting services were inadequate for this task, so we decided to build Multitap.net.

People are already starting to find out about it, and of course, suggestions are flying in on what features we should add…

Of course, following our mantra of simplicity, the features are very basic at the moment. We hope to work with the community to bring direction to future developments, only adding features the community wishes to see.

During beta, the site will be free. So get posting screenshots!

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