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[sLAUGHTER]

TVU TURNS FOUR!

For four years now we have been here doing our best to provide everyone with a reliable service, and for four years you wonderful people have helped us pay the bills, and keep us full of new links.

This year has been a crazy one. Here are some highlights: Che went missing for 3 months, we Had a bit of drama with a release team, we lost servers, we got new servers, we hired some new staff, we lost some old staff, we had money embezzled from us, TVU went ad-Free... and probably some other random events that nobody can remember just now.

For the last year, we've also added new features/fixes: VIP user-class, Site Languages, ripper name cleanup (started), Season Comments listed on mainpage, Denial system stage one (denied due to lack of sources), last edit time available to public (Green e's), Browse By Date, and many other minor fixes/Adjustments.

Now, to celebrate TVU's fourth birthday, some brand new features are being released:
1. Torrent indexing (Currently for existing seasons only)
2. Whisperbox Scroll (Yes, we finally gave it to you)
3. Genre Search (Using this, you will be able to locate shows tagged with your favorite Genres. Found in the Navigation menu)
4. An Icon Key (So you will understand what all the little icons mean)
5. Social Bookmarking (This allows users to tag shows and seasons more easily in their preferred Social Bookmarking service)
6. Mainpage PM Notification (When you are logged in, you will see "New Message" in red if you have a new PM in the menu bar)
7. Tabs added to the mainpage
8. Top news and latest posts area is now gone
9. Brand new forum look and functionality

The biggest one of these is definitively the first one - Torrent indexing. Here at TV Underground we are on a mission to spread TV episodes from around the world to around the world. We love ed2k, but we also want to embrace other distribution methods. This is the beginning, so the functionality is a bit limited at the moment, but it will expand as time goes. Feel free to make suggestions in the forum section, mentioned in the last paragraph. If you really hate torrents for one reason or the other, you need not worry. We Strongly Encourage As Much Participation In Getting Quality Torrents Posted. All the torrent features may be disabled via a new profile option. Click HERE to find out more about the Torrent feature.

We tried hard to get you some birthday gifts and we hope you enjoy what we picked out. If you find any bugs please report them HERE. That section is now open for those who don't have a forum account as well. Any comments can be posted within this thread.

Thanks for another year of your loyalty to this project,
sL, Che, DP, ALEX and Staff

[Ter77]

Already 4 years and more including TRW
This time it's cool to say : "four more years"

Edited by Ter77, 23 October 2009 - 02:29 PM.

[Che Guevara]

And hopefully 4 years and more to come

Happy bday TVU!

[AL3X]

Happy Birthday, TVU!!!

[eMuLeecher]

Happy Birthday!

[d0nus]

Wow!
Congratulations from me aswell!

TVU was always lots of fun and I'm sure it'll be as much fun the next 4 years (at least!).