Updates: User Badges and Faster Friends Page

Just pushed a set of updates, two of which should be rather obvious.  

User Badges
There has been some confusion on JamLegend (in the comments and Showdown chat rooms) and off of JamLegend (IRC, etc) as to who works for JamLegend and who doesn't.  After receiving a few complaints and questions about users purporting to be site admins or developers, we decided to make it clear to everybody who holds special roles on JamLegend.  So, you'll now notice some users have a badge (or more) following their username.  They may include "F", "P", "M", "T", or some combination.  With the exception of Showdowns, which we haven't updated yet, the badge(s) should be displayed everywhere on JamLegend where the user's username is shown.  Here is a handy reference chart, though you can find out what a badge means by hovering over it.

"F" = Founder, there are three of us: Andrew, Arjun and Ryan. We develop and run JamLegend.
"M" = Moderator, possessing special powers over comments and (soon) showdown chat rooms.
"T" = Tracker, these users are to thank for being able to play songs
"P" = Producer, sort of a "super-tracker" that has additional moderating privileges in the tracker community

So, if a user purports to be special and they do not have a badge, you can safely call them a liar and we will back you up.

Faster Friends Page
It has been a problem for some time that the friends page was pitifully slow for users with large numbers of friends.  As of tonight, it's a whole lot faster.  Still not the fastest page on the site, but may no longer be the slowest either...

Game on!
11 responses
Hi! The badges are great, it's good to know who is who ^^
I wanted to ask if you did some modifications to the hammer-ons? Just because I noticed that I had to strum at few places in Sit Up where I didn't had to yesterday.
And thank you for making me a mod :o)
Rock on!
Hi Qzole, yes, there was another small hammer-on change that we made. We're trying to find the right set of heuristic rules to produce the most consistent, reliable, and predictable hammer-ons, and it's an ongoing process. What do you think so far?
still can't upload my avatar :/ at least for me it doesn't show
Does someone know why can't I do showdowns?

I always get stuck at 'Connecting To Host' =S .

Does someone know how to fix this?

Hi exileDII,

That's usually because either a personal, corporate, or ISP firewall is overreacting. We're working on finding ways around that...

Hi exileDII, please give it a shot again. We've made a change that may have solved your problem...
could you pls tell me how to become a moderator,and can you approve my song "she is"
@aakash, send us an e-mail at info@jamlegend.com if you're interested and tell us why you would be a good moderator.
i want to become a moderator cause in my song many people say bad stuff in a language called tagalog,and i can speak tagalog my self,so pls make me a moderator!
ill try hard to do my job (if i get it).
Hey u guys, i tried to sent u a mail but for some reason it keeps failing!!! i'd like to join the team like moderator, so i'd love u to tell me how can i contact u and tell my reasons... thanks!!!
hi to all rockers...can you teach me how to track? is there a software or a program to track songs? cause i want to have the tracker badge or the producer badge...please