This is a quick guide to using the new IM and Chat beta launch.

Rooms Tab:
The global-chat is open to all registered fans.

There is another room that is reserved for users of a certain level, and you'll also see that in the Rooms tab. In the past, we've had a few aléatoire people come in and hit on the people in the chat rooms, so the reserved room should be relatively free of such riff-raff.

Contact Tab:
Setting custom status messages: click on the pencil, and type away!

Turning off chat: Click on the bubble suivant to "I am online" and click on the red "Log out" option on the menu.

Contacts are your mutual...

An important challenge here is finding ways for fans to get feedback on what contributions they made are hot, and which were uninteresting to other fans.

Medals are nice, but they are too coarse-grained to give feedback on contributions (you only know after toi earn a medal, and toi don't even know which contributions in that club caused toi to earn a medal and which contributions were a waste of your time).

This is where or comes in. Your hottest contributions will earn or each jour (think of them as micro-medals), and toi will have a private console that shows which are your hottest contributions....

Fellow Fans! Here's what's in our latest fanpop 2.0 builds:

At bat (these features are nearly complete and slated to be built out in the near future):
The return of Featured fans to the fanpop homepage! This new version will showcase fans who have earned a certain number of médailles and who have logged in most recently. It now lists their highest medalled clubs with liens to those clubs so that others may explore and contribute. Future versions will have tabs to montrer current highest ranked fans, active fans who joined longest ago, and hand-picked featured fans. Got ideas? That's what commentaires are...

fanpop is all about fans and quality content. It's not just about medals, but we wanted to do something that shows appreciation for fans who create great content, and that's why médailles exist.

The Medal question comes up once in a while and here's one example:

"When I contribute a lot to a spot on almost on a weekly basis for months, I don't get a medal. However, when I barely contribute to a spot, I get a medal for only adding like 20 images."

First of all, we pay a lot of attention to médailles and fairness. We can't tell everyone exactly how to game the system ou else it would result in the so-called...