Hey everyone,

I've made it home from our long road trip. I want to thank all of you for reading my blog about the trip and I hope to finish my last post about Vegas in the next couple of days.

Over the next two months we'll be rolling out new features on Xomba and a whole new look now that the upgrade has been completed and successful.

First, we should have related articles up and running this week. I've seen it in action and I think it is better than how it used to work. We are finishing up bug testing with it.

Highest rated articles on your user profiles should return shortly as well.

We've added a new way to get userpoints (which will play a great part in the near future).

User Points are earned when certain actions are completed on Xomba. Here is the breakdown of points you can earn on Xomba:
5 points - Post Xombyte
4 points - Refer A New User - NEW
3 points - Post A Xomblurb
2 points - Upload an Image
1 point - Leave A Comment
Consequently, you will lose points for deleting any posts you made.

Do you guys like the word userpoints? We were thinking of possibly changing it? Any suggestions?

Some of new changes that will happen in October are hopefully going to cut down on some spam issues.

1. All Titles Must Be Unique
- If you post a title "Nick Is Awesome" no one else will be able to post that exact title.

2. Xomblurbs cannot have the same links.
- You will no longer be able to link to the exact same url in Xomblurbs. This only goes into effect for new content after the change takes place. www.cnn.com and www.cnn.com/business will be treated as DIFFERENT. However, no one else can enter cnn.com as the link. If you do you will be taken to that Xomblurb and asked to comment or vote
on it. This is only for the Xomblurb Link Field.

3. Limit 5 tags per article.

Most of these changes are leading up to an awesome feature that I think you all will love. However, this will also cut down on spam and people blatantly piggy-backing on each other.

It is good to be back and I must thank Jeremy for working hard while I was away. He did an awesome job.

Have a good day,
Nick

Xomba Admin