We're working on a new update to our end-user policies. The current texts are three years old, and since then we've set a number of administrative precedents regarding several vaguely defined matters, such as:

- Etiquette regarding usernames and profile page commentary
- Name changes vs. sockpuppet accounts
- Trolling, harassment and personal attacks

The current draft is available here:

>> http://forums.fanart-central.net/viewtopic.php?p=941650#941650

The development team have been working hard over the past months, and it's finally time for a new version to be released.

Here are the major changes/new features.

- Faves & watch list related:
- - Faves can now be customized for what kind of things you are notified for on a per-fave basis.
- - New CP for managing faves, new form appears when adding a user to faves. Only pictures/stories notifications currently implemented. Others for future use.

- Pictures related:
- - Added comments mode (on/off) to pictures submissions.
- - Picture cropping feature now works again.
- - Fixed bug were re-uploading a picture in a different file format didn't work.

- Comments related:
- - Profile comments can be set to normal (like now), friends only, or disabled completely.
- - Added a simple flood-control to help block duplicate comments.
- - Major core resdesign of picture comments to be (hopefully) more efficent and less of a load on the servers.
- - Replying to a comment now bumps the comment thread to the top.

- Notifications related:
- - Pictures notices now mention content advisories for new submissions.
- - Most of the notification code has been rewritten, hopefully the new pic notifications bug was removed in the process.

- Censor related
- - Word & URL filters have been added. Can be enabled/disabled in profile.
- - Picture/story content viewing filters always apply in censor-mode rather than hide-mode to your own pictures.

- BB Code
- - Several bugs fixed. Should help with story processing.

- Story related
- - Improved processing of smartquotes.
- - Improved Unicode support so less problems with weird characters.
- - New version of the Java editor. Should work better.

- Profile related
- - Fixed a bug with non-jpeg profile pictures causing an error.
- - Fixed bug that prevented profile from being edited when profile pic/avatar uploading was disabled.
- - You can now choose your top 5 submissions to be based off number of faves, number of votes, or newest.
- - Excessively long profile text now gets scrollbars in a box so the page isn't miles long.

Edit: April fools.