Its been a little while since I've made a post talking about the brand new FreeOnes website! And the plans for this message board. I plan on picking up writing on the FreeOnes blog about improvements for those that want to follow what we're doing more closely but I'll keep these posts on the board short and sweet.
What's New with the New Site?
If you live in Europe, or someplace that isn't the USA, it's likely you found yourself on www.FreeOnes.xxx already. Of course right now we're offering a path back to the old site, but soon we're going to put the remaining traffic on the new site and switch the old one off. I highly suggest going and taking a look at the new site if you haven't been over there for awhile and start using it! We have a lot of great features that you can't find on the old site such as:
- in depth filters
- saving search and filter results
- being able to save videos in playlists
- watching video previews without having to click through to the actual video page
- channel pages where you can find all the content from your favorite site in one place
- finding the exact camgirl that you want to see, live, right now
- see the global ranking of babes right on their Avatar Picture from the Babe Index Page
The new site also offers much bigger images through the sites, the links have thumbnails so you can see what its about, and the new site is much faster!
When are we switching 100% to the new site? Hopefully by the end of March or the beginning of April at the latest.
What About the Board?
One of the things we tried to do, but ended up not working out, is connecting the current board to the new site so we could keep the 1 login for both the site and board like we have now. Unfortunately, vBulletin has become so outdated that trying to get it to work was starting to cost a lot of time. So we looked around at other software and we're currently taking a very close look at Xenforo.
Over the Christmas period we had our system admin install a sandbox version of the board software and successfully import everyone's board accounts and posts. So on that front, XenForo is looking very promising. Now we have the developer that tried hooking the new site and the board together looking into integrating the new software into the new site. If that's successful then we'll start working on getting things fully set up and moved over.
Overall, XenForo seems to be pretty user friendly, it looks fresh, and it has all the functionality that vBulletin has (and actually works). The only downside, which really isn't a bad thing because it's like a fresh start, is reputation isn't going to be exported from this board to XenForo. You're going to have to start from scratch but I think it'll be fun to have something new to do!
Things We Know We're Missing
Finally, I'd like to mention that the new site is nowhere near "complete". We have a lot of nifty new features the old site didn't have, but we still have a lot of things to do before we can be 100% completely satisfied with the new site. Things that are in the works and are coming (in no particular order):
- switching to the new ranking system (it's currently in "shadow rank" mode which is admin only)
- credit system (you can already see how many credits are in your account on your profile)
- suggesting cast to videos, photos, and links
- suggesting categories and tags to photos, videos and links
- adding twitter to the babe's dashboard feed
- allowing babes to "claim" their babe section
- allowing you to tip your credits to a babe
- allowing babes to sell their content
- adding filmographies to babe profiles
- adding streaming dashboards to channels
- adding premium content to channels
- night mode
- VR player for VR content
- personalized content and suggestions
- GIF section
Is there anything missing from the above list? Do you have any great ideas or suggestions? Did you find a bug that we need to fix? Make a comment down below and let us know how much you love or hate the new site!
What's New with the New Site?
If you live in Europe, or someplace that isn't the USA, it's likely you found yourself on www.FreeOnes.xxx already. Of course right now we're offering a path back to the old site, but soon we're going to put the remaining traffic on the new site and switch the old one off. I highly suggest going and taking a look at the new site if you haven't been over there for awhile and start using it! We have a lot of great features that you can't find on the old site such as:
- in depth filters
- saving search and filter results
- being able to save videos in playlists
- watching video previews without having to click through to the actual video page
- channel pages where you can find all the content from your favorite site in one place
- finding the exact camgirl that you want to see, live, right now
- see the global ranking of babes right on their Avatar Picture from the Babe Index Page
The new site also offers much bigger images through the sites, the links have thumbnails so you can see what its about, and the new site is much faster!
When are we switching 100% to the new site? Hopefully by the end of March or the beginning of April at the latest.
What About the Board?
One of the things we tried to do, but ended up not working out, is connecting the current board to the new site so we could keep the 1 login for both the site and board like we have now. Unfortunately, vBulletin has become so outdated that trying to get it to work was starting to cost a lot of time. So we looked around at other software and we're currently taking a very close look at Xenforo.
Over the Christmas period we had our system admin install a sandbox version of the board software and successfully import everyone's board accounts and posts. So on that front, XenForo is looking very promising. Now we have the developer that tried hooking the new site and the board together looking into integrating the new software into the new site. If that's successful then we'll start working on getting things fully set up and moved over.
Overall, XenForo seems to be pretty user friendly, it looks fresh, and it has all the functionality that vBulletin has (and actually works). The only downside, which really isn't a bad thing because it's like a fresh start, is reputation isn't going to be exported from this board to XenForo. You're going to have to start from scratch but I think it'll be fun to have something new to do!
Things We Know We're Missing
Finally, I'd like to mention that the new site is nowhere near "complete". We have a lot of nifty new features the old site didn't have, but we still have a lot of things to do before we can be 100% completely satisfied with the new site. Things that are in the works and are coming (in no particular order):
- switching to the new ranking system (it's currently in "shadow rank" mode which is admin only)
- credit system (you can already see how many credits are in your account on your profile)
- suggesting cast to videos, photos, and links
- suggesting categories and tags to photos, videos and links
- adding twitter to the babe's dashboard feed
- allowing babes to "claim" their babe section
- allowing you to tip your credits to a babe
- allowing babes to sell their content
- adding filmographies to babe profiles
- adding streaming dashboards to channels
- adding premium content to channels
- night mode
- VR player for VR content
- personalized content and suggestions
- GIF section
Is there anything missing from the above list? Do you have any great ideas or suggestions? Did you find a bug that we need to fix? Make a comment down below and let us know how much you love or hate the new site!
