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[WizzyThaMan]

The remember me should work. We've tried on all three browsers and they seem to work jus fine.
As for the mobile, it also works. I've got a Lumia 520 with IE and it works perfectly fine on there too....

This might require some deeper digging for the remember me part then.... As for the mobile version, we are not trying to have it mobile-friendly at this point as I said we will create an app in a later stage for Android/iOS/Windows Phone

[WizzyThaMan]

We have now implemented a ranking page with a top 100 of companies, engines and cars.
Later when Car Families are implemented into the game, we will also add them to AutomationHub and have them on the ranking page as well. Get voting!

www.automationhub.net/ranking

[WizzyThaMan]

We are making progress! You can now share your company to facebook! If you want to show your amazing company or just get more ratings, share it! Or maybe you appreciate someone else their work? Share it! Look for the share button on every profile!

[WizzyThaMan]

We decided to step on it! We now have a new homepage layout and newspage layout. A bit more in the style of the whole website and a better overview of all the news items.
Check them out!

http://automationhub.net/news

[WizzyThaMan]

We've encountered a slight issue in our databases. We have to put in a back up that is 2 days old (2nd of February) This means all cars added after the 2nd of February will be deleted.
We are sorry for any inconvenience, but it is either this, or every single car has to be reset and with it everyone having to re add everything. So logically, we choose for only a couple people having to redo their work.

Yet again, our dearest apologies.

Bart

[WizzyThaMan]

Heads up! Besides rating a company, car or engine, you can now also leave a comment! Also, users will get to see who rated what by pressing the 'Show Ratings' button.
Enjoy and tell others what you think about their companies or creations!

Check it our yourself: http://www.automationhub.net

[utopian201]

Nothing happens when I click add comment or show ratings...

[WizzyThaMan]

I don't see how you end up with this problem? It works perfectly fine here, and for several others that tried it for us before we announced it.
Could you please tell me every step you do when you say something is not working? It is near to impossible for us to find the issue when for some it does work and for (only one right now) it doesn't without any further information.

First of all: Did you Ctrl+F5 to hard refresh? This solves most cases

[utopian201]

ah yea it works now after a ctrl-f5

[WizzyThaMan]

The problem is we let people use the website while we still develop it. If a new user comes by, they don't face these problems as they probably visit the website for the first time.
Since the things we implement consist of javascript, they get stored in a javascript cache, and that only gets cleared when you clean your browser of cookies and history, or when for an individual website you CTRL + F5 the page so it gets a hard refresh, also clearing the javascript cache.

Besides all this, we have a server cache which we clear from time to time when implementing new things. Since we already did this, the problems occuring with these type of issues normally are client side (user side)

[WizzyThaMan]

Seems like a lot of change on the ranking page compared to last month!
For companies, we now have Holland Motor Company by Astraman in the lead, followed with just a tiny 0.05 difference by Baltazar Automoveis by Leonardo9613 and a slightly bigger gap to 3rd place by Pegasus Motors owned by Anthrax50552.

Don't forget to also vote cars and engines, and check out their ranks on the ranking page: http://automationhub.net/ranking

[NexxusDrako]

May I suggest an amendment to the star rating system?

I just did some experimentation with the UI and I was able to drop Holland Motor Company by over 0.3 stars by simply changing vote straight from 5 to 1. Then I moved it back to 4, and then back to 5.

I think there needs to be a limit of one change per say... 72 hours? Of course, we should allow the first vote to be unrestricted and one change in case you click the wrong star. But after one edit, you should need to wait some time to stop rating manipulation.

I mean, if I have the power to drop a company from 1st to 4th and back to 2nd then 1st again within 5 minutes, something is wrong.

[WizzyThaMan]

Have you considered this is all because there is so little votes? That company has only 9 votes, so yes, your vote counts for 1/9th of its value. Try it again when the company has 50+ votes, or in this case, try it with the 20+ votes Leonardo has with his Baltazar Automoveis. At this point, yes its very fragile, but with more votes comes more stability.

[Jakgoe]

The problem remains that it has been at least a month, and the voting system is still unstable due to not many users voting.

[WizzyThaMan]

The problem remains that it has been at least a month, and the voting system is still unstable due to not many users voting.

Says the person who didnt validate his account and thus doesn't vote himself
But I agree people should vote more, to be honest.

People wanted to not only vote, but also comment. Now there is a commenting system and still no one votes
If everyone could vote, that would be great though, but what do they gain for voting? At the moment nothing. We are looking to implement several things, like medals to both voting on others yourself as well as being top ranked, but that won't be enough we reckon.
There should be some motivation to be on the top of the list, but what exactly, we still have to work out.

As we are a community driven website, we are open for any community input. This doesn't mean everyting everyone says makes it into the website, but we will definetly consider it and see if it fits within the website.