UPDATE: PM's, Trailers, Avatars, News
I'm excited to announce that MovieChat has just added private messages, movie trailers, and avatars.
1. PRIVATE MESSAGES: You can click "message" on another user's profile to private message them. Click on the envelope/mail icon in the top right to view your private messages.
2. TRAILERS: You'll now see a "trailer" button on movies that have trailers available to view. This button is in addition to the "Watch Now", "Get DVD", and "Get Tickets" buttons that appear on some selected movies.
3. AVATARS: You can add an avatar to your profile page. Go to your profile (click your username / person icon in the top right), click edit profile, and paste in the URL to an image (if you need to upload an image, you can use something like http://tinypic.com, which will generate a link you can paste here). To keep the site clean and streamlined, and reduce loading times, we've decided to only show avatars on your profile page - not on your individual posts.
4. NEWS: You'll now see a "News, Rumors & Gossip" tab on the general discussion board, as well as on people/actor boards. This pulls in recent news from a variety of sources for the particular person, or general entertainment news in the case of the general discussion board. Replying to these news stories will create a new thread with that story (under the "Threads" tab). Hopefully this can generate some discussion ideas, or just keep you up to date on the latest news.
5. ADS: We've also added some basic ads to help support the site and pay for server/hosting fees (which have been piling up with a database our size). We're going to experiment with these in terms of format, positioning, etc. Hopefully they're not too intrusive and we're open to any and all feedback from the community.
Lastly, we're currently working on creating a set of written rules and guidelines which will be shared with the community and open to feedback. Look out for that in a future UPDATE post.
Hope you enjoy.
Jim