The WeGame Blog

Update: Video uploading has been restored.

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Hi WeGamers,

We’re experiencing some issues with video uploading at this time. We will look into it and update this post when it has been resolved.

Thanks,
Jared

Hi WeGamers!

WeGame developer Coedman has been hard at work at the WeGame anvil forging out a new WeGame client! This version of the client has a new sound recording system that should allow Vista and Windows 7 users to more reliably capture sound, even on computers that don’t have Stereo Mix devices.

In addition, the client now supports Borderlands.

To get the latest version of the client you can either launch your current version, or download it here. If you encounter any problems at all, please contact help@wegame.com.

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

Hey WeGamers,

A few quick updates that we just pushed out this today. Would love your feedback!

New Profile Navigation

Our original profile navigation design was getting cramped, so we went back to the drawing board and came up with a new vertical profile navigation. In addition, you’ll see the design of all the various profile elements have been refreshed as well.

Add to Playlist from User Profiles

When you’re browsing the Videos or Screenshots tab of someone’s profile, you can now easily add any item to an existing or new playlist.

Did you ever find a video/screenshot on WeGame that you felt was questionable in nature? WeGame has hundreds of thousands of videos and millions of screenshots, so it’s hard for us to find every piece of inappropriate content. However, we’ve just released a new & improved flagging system. Now you can help us identify content that shouldn’t be on WeGame!

Just visit any video/screenshot and in the description area you will now see a new ‘Flag Content’ button:

If you find anything inappropriate on WeGame, simply click that button and select the reason you think it is inappropriate. Right now, we allow you to select ‘Copyright content’ and ‘Contains mature content’:

Once you flag an item, a WeGame staff member will be take a look at it and take the right course of action. If we deem something potentially inappropriate, we may either remove it or mark it ‘mature’. Mature content items will now alert the user that the piece of content they are trying to view may be unsuitable for minors.

Hope you find this feature useful!

We here at WeGame are always looking for ways to improve the service and help it grow. About a month ago, we began experimenting with various different signup processes in order to promote growth. We did some research to see how popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace implemented their signup/invite process and began modeling our own process after theirs.

As a result of our experimentation, our signups began to grow. However, after we began to grow, we started to receive feedback from people who felt that our signup process & invitations were not clear. This resulted in our users sometimes unintentionally inviting their friends & acquaintances to WeGame. When we received this feedback, we immediately began work to make our signup process more clear. As a result of this work, we have completely removed the “Invite Friends” step of the signup process.

WeGame is a thriving video gaming community, with over a million people visiting it every month. We want to build a lasting company that continually provides value and entertainment to our community. We would never intentionally do something to compromise our users, as they are what make WeGame. We are sincerely sorry for any frustrations or embarrassments people may have experienced while visiting WeGame. We want to thank everyone who contacted us via e-mail or Twitter. Your feedback has helped us improve WeGame once again!

Image of new 2-step signup process:

Hi WeGamers!

We’ve added three new games this week. The WeGame client now records videos and screenshots from the following games:

• Aion
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Killing Floor

As always, if you encounter any problems don’t hesitate to contact help@wegame.com. Look forward to more great features and support for more games in the near future!

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

Hey WeGamers,

If you’ve kept up with the blog, you probably know WeGame has the ability to auto-tweet whenever you start playing a game while running the WeGame client. This feature was disabled a week or two ago, but we have now re-enabled it after making some improvements. This version utilizes Twitter’s oAuth system so you don’t need to deal with entering your Twitter username or password anywhere.

Go edit your profile and click the ‘My Twitter’ tab if you want to give it a try! Note: all previous users of this feature will need to setup their Twitter integration again by going to the ‘My Twitter’ tab and authorizing WeGame with Twitter.

Hi WeGamers,

I just wanted to send up a quick post to let you know that four popularly-requested games can now be recorded with the WeGame Client. You will now be able to capture video and screenshots from:

• Champions Online
• Race Driver: GRID
• A Perfect World International
• Microsoft Flight Simulator X

As always, if you encounter any problems don’t hesitate to contact help@wegame.com. Look forward to more great features and support for more games in the near future!

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com

We’re always looking for new ways to improve the speed & performance of WeGame.com. One thing we noticed was sometimes WeGame would load very slowly if you tried to view a popular video (e.g. World of Workcraft). After some investigating, we figured out it was due to the large number of comments popular items would usually have. If a video/screenshot had 500 comments, your browser would need to load & display all of these comments. This process would usually take quite a bit of time.

We just rolled out our Paginated Comment system to solve this problem. This should speed up the average page load time on pages with lots of comments. You can see it in action in this demo video, or better yet, just load up one of our popular videos.

Have a great week!

Hi WeGamers,

I’m here to announce a very exciting new feature. This week our web team is proud to present playlists! Playlists, as you might expect, are a way for a user to group content together by any category. Let’s say, for example, I wanted to make a list of the coolest-looking Champions Online characters on WeGame…

First I would find a cool-looking character:

Then I would go down to the bottom of the image, above the decription, and click the “Add to playlist” button

Which gives me the option to either add to an old playlist, or create a new one. I’ll create a new one:

Now if I want to view the playlist I’ve created, I simply go to my profile and click the playlist button

And there you have it! I hope you all like it! if you encounter any problems don’t hesitate to contact help@wegame.com.

-Jeff Gorndt, Community Evangelist, www.wegame.com