Huge thanks to Sarin for adding almost all of the v6 items and manufactures. I know she spent at least a few days entering all the information in the site. Not to mention she has been doing a great moderating the forums. She has been working hard to make sure everyone here has the latest information.

Make sure to say hi if you see her around in chat or on the forums and don't forget to thank her!

I want to say thanks to everyone else who has been contributing to the site so far. These past couple days the site has had doubled the amount of traffic it has ever had in a single day in the past.

Also, I posted another news article earlier today about updating the manufactures view. Check it out if you haven't see it yet!

I added the required items in the main manufacture view so you no longer have to click on the item to get the information. I also upped the cap that was set so items that take longer than 60 minutes to make or require more than 50 of one material will show up properly.

Check it out:

http://wlodb.com/manufactures?direction=DESC&am...

Finally added a catchable field to the monsters. Sarin is going to help update the fields as I set them all the unknown by default. Feel free to open a thread if you want to start a list to help the admins update this data.

Also, I made some CSS fixes so the borders on the rest of the tables should show up properly when using browsers like Chrome. Let me know if any of them look a little weird now.

I know everyone has been asking for some smilies for a while. I updated the bbcode tags to handle a few. I'm still working on making icons on the page so you can just click them.

I posted bbcode info with smilies at http://wlodb.com/help

Here are some examples:

I'll look through the smiley thread we have going and update them with some nicer ones soon.

Thanks to everyone on the site for their continued support. I know it's been a while since I have been around and want to give a huge thanks to SeaWolf for stepping up to help administer the site.

With everyone's help I think the majority of version 5 items have been added to the database. Huge thanks again goes to SeaWolf for adding the new manufactures and most of the images you guys uploaded to the site.

I swear I'm going to see if I can get around to making some site updates soon enough!

Huge thanks to keyoshikira for adding all those new items to the site. I went through and updated the images. I also added all the new manufactures that I noticed. Let me know if you see anything I missed!

As always, if you have any missing images from http://wlodb.com/items/missing_images please post them here or in the missing images thread here http://wlodb.com/topics/74 and I will update them.

Sorry it's been so long since the last update. I've been working on improving the site's performance lately since I noticed it's been getting bogged down when there are more than 30 users online at a time...and I have a better idea of how to code some of the stuff now that I've had some more experience.

I ended up rewriting the items, compounds, and recycles section which improved performance a lot! The items and recycles page loads a couple seconds faster and the compounds page should pull up at least two or three times as fast now (about 2-3 seconds instead of 5-6 seconds).

I also added a fake items search filter for compounds/items and an alchemy type for compounds as well.

Another change I made which will help the server load is that the filters for the compound now only apply to the compound result and not the compound components EXCEPT for the name search (unless you check only apply name filter to compound result). I ended up doing the same thing with recycles. I think most of them probably didn't really make sense to apply these filters to all the items in the compounds or recycles anyway.

The filter changes should definitely save lots more memory on the server since they were using up lots of database resources.

Let me know if you can see the difference!

I know a few people have been asking for this so I put something together pretty quick. You can access your private messages under the home menu or http://wlodb.com/pms. I also added a couple other options under the home menu.

There is a little mail icon that will popup when you get new messages. If you mouseover the icon it will tell you how many new messages you have.

At the moment there is no way to delete the items in your outbox since at the moment this would also remove the item from the recipient's inbox. I still have to think a bit to see how I want to handle deleting messages.

The layout is pretty basic for now. Let me know if you have any ideas.

I added a paypal donation button JUST in case someone was trying to donate but didn't know how!

No worries if you don't want to donate...but they might help the site get better a little quicker ;)

I wanted to say thanks again to the others who donated a while ago when I had a button up when the site used to look like crap (I'm sure you hardcore players still remember).

Finally got the item popups working in Internet Explorer. Took me a while as I was trying to use all CSS but I ended up figuring out another way to get it working with the current javascript.

The formatting is a little different from before right now. I wanted to get something working up and I'll tweak it a little bit to match up the font and text size a little better.

EDIT: I fixed up the popups so they are back to normal looking now. Let me know if you have any suggestion about the formatting or any ideas to make them look better.

Also, I added new Item Filters for the base materials under the dropdown menu. Check them out!

Oh...and I finally think I fixed the silly ads on the top not always lining up in a row. Hopefully, that will be less annoying.