MeetFighters News

New Interests, Profile Options and Gallery Update

Quick summary: Please check your gallery and the new profile fields to make sure they fit your preferences.

There's a bunch of new features coming out this week!

New Profile Options

  • Tracker/2015-01-18: You can specify the gender of the person you are looking for (male, female or both).
  • Tracker/2015-03-16: You can also indicate your sexual orientation (straight, bisexual or gay). There used to be similar checkboxes under "Interests" ("I'm gay", "I'm straight", ..), but these were somewhat confusing. Some members checked all three of them, just to cover all the bases. Well now the bases are much more straightforward to cover. :)
  • "Pool wrestling" and "Oil wrestling" are no longer under wrestling styles. They have been moved to Interests instead. It makes more sense: these are neither olympic sports nor broad categories.
  • The Interests have been organized into some broad categories. There's also bunch of new interests, please check them if you fancy them:
    • "Practicing techniques" (replacing "Practicing holds")
    • "Competing (tournaments)"
    • "Only interested in stand-up fighting"
    • "Not interested in stand-up fighting"
    • "Karate"
    • "Taekwondo"
    • "Capoeira"
    • "Ninjutsu"
    • "Stakes"

Update on the Galleries

As discussed here, new galleries are coming. Starting a month from now it will be possible to put your erotic photos into your gallery. The system has automatically placed photos that were uploaded as visible but later moderated as erotic into your gallery. If that is not what you want, you can move them back into your private folder. You have until the end of April to do so, should be plenty of time. (Photos that were uploaded as private will remain private.)

This means that photo classification is a little different now: "Erotic content" and "Private only" categories are now separate. It should be easy enough to get used to for those who help with classification. Speaking of which, photo classification has been rewritten to be more smartphone friendly. Try it, see if you like it any better than before!

Android App

The alpha test of the MeetFighters mobile app has started! Read more about it here.

Other changes and new features

  • We have moved to a new Content Delivery network called KeyCDN. The previous one (CloudFlare) was cheaper and provided some very nice features. Unfortunately their implementation of HTTPS (secure HTTP) was incompatible with Google Chrome running on older Microsoft operating systems, leaving some members unable to connect. My attempts at working around the problem have been unsuccessful, so a switch to a new provider has become necessary. KeyCDN's HTTPS implementation does not cause similar problems.

    The unfortunate fact is that HTTPS is a necessity on the modern internet. We can no longer rely on HTTP when sending passwords or other potentially sensitive information. MeetFighters is dedicated to protecting our membership from snooping and other forms of attacks.

Admin out.

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Last edited on 4/06/2015 11:13 PM by Admin
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Comments

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The Kestrel (49 )

4/05/2015 8:09 PM

Thanks for the update! All good info and straightforward, i will check out some of yer new features for sure, and i am still interested in trialling your beta test app. Thanks for the improvements, keep on trucking!

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The Kestrel (49 )

4/05/2015 8:19 PM

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Just been nosy and checked out yer handywork with the profile interests/styles etc

Great stuff!

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Harrycarter (0)

4/05/2015 8:14 PM

thank you for telling me this and I will keep up with mine part

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Cymrofight (62)

4/05/2015 8:17 PM

Really appreciate all your continued efforts in this regard; particularly the security issue - sadly more necessary these days. This continues to be my wrestling/fighting site of choice - as with so many other people - , for a whole panoply of reasons which are all due to your attitude and approach. Thank you again.

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SpeedoFun (13)

4/05/2015 8:49 PM

Thanks for all your efforts to keep to site up-to-date. The team is doing a terrific job.

I would however disagree regarding moving "oil wrestling" away from the wrestling styles. It is a traditional sport having its own style and particular rules, practiced in many countries around the world.

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bristolwrestler (8)

4/05/2015 9:11 PM

The work you do on this website is amazing. Thank you so much for the magnificent dedication!

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Wrestle4Fun (106)

4/05/2015 9:48 PM

Thanks for your permanent work 😊

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hafeezu wrestler (47)

4/06/2015 1:46 AM

great job 👍

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boxtpntx (0)

4/06/2015 3:05 AM

Great news. Thanks for the update!

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chrissieboy (0)

4/06/2015 3:52 PM

Hello Admin

As always a great job.

Regards

Chrissieboy

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Tigerrific (97)

4/07/2015 1:09 PM

The creation of the new erotic content gallery seems like a good solution to the issues regarding nudity as were debated earlier

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Mutz (0)

4/10/2015 5:26 PM

Thanks for expanding the interests, as I'm sure there are plenty of members who have come or been exposed to the traditional Japanese martial arts of jui jutsu, karate and aikido.

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