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Please refer to the updated post and the website for YASS, Yet Another Sig


Well, it's been a while, but here it is. YASS 0.5.

What is YASS?
It stands for Yet Another Signature Status, and allows a user to upload WLM status details to a YASS server for use and display online, primarily as an image, such as what I currently have in my forum signature. It also currently allows for output as plain text, and will allow for XML and base64 encoded output. It will include support for a bot, to allow messages to be submitted from an online web form.

There have mostly been bug fixes in this version, and I have also added a few more features to the client side.

New Features:

• Ability to silence error toasts
  
• Ability to disable status updates while appearing offline

I have also added a Subversion repository for anyone who may be interested in viewing or helping out with the project. Send me a PM if you want write access.
The repository can be found at: http://svn.meetcweb.com/yassclient at least for now. I'm going to have to clean that up somehow to separate the client and server files.

Also in this version, although not implemented yet, is some code for the next major feature I will be adding to YASS. Call this an easter egg if you want. Don't spoil it if you find it!

Next major change, is that I moved servers. I will be setting up a full domain name shortly, but the biggest advantage to this is that my bandwidth has increased by 10x, which means i have theoretical support for 10x the current users that I have, making approximate resources for 50-60 people. That being said, I am open to accepting more testers. I will not be accepting just anyone who applies; I am looking for people have some technical know-how, and experience with Plus scrips and/or PHP would be helpful. I will probably be accepting 10-20 more people, depending on quantity and quality to the replies. To apply: send me a PM with your primary MSN Passport address, your timezone, and why you want to be a tester. For my current testers, please let me know if you are still interested in participating.

Not a whole lot of changes on the server side in this release. The only thing I can really remember changing is setting the default timezone to UTC, instead relying on wherever the server is located.

Current bugs:

• Passkey cannot be successfully regenerated unless logged in successfully. If you cannot login due to passkey mis-match, it will have to manually be updated by copying the current key from the database, and saving it in the config file; or simply resetting the passkey on both sides.
  
• Unicode characters show as question marks. I'm not sure if i can fix this or not, I think its a limitation of PHP.

To Do:

• Currently, if you have a media item in the PSM at the time of logging out, the media item is not displayed on the PSM of the status image. This is by design. What I want to happen eventually, is the personal message is displayed instead of the music while offline.
  
• Add an installer for the server side scripts.
  
• Add a webform to allow sending of messages to users. Biggest reason I haven't added this yet, is because i have no anti-spam measures to add to it yet. I'm open to suggestions.
  
• The easter egg, as stated above.
  
• I have no website, graphics or logo at all yet. I'm horrible at these things. No, I'm not adding a forum any time soon, if at all. I may add a blog.
  
• Any other suggestions?

I don't have the files ready quite yet for download, I will edit this post and upload when i do (won't be long)

Original post for YASS 0.4: http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=76261
Wow, I just noticed YASS 0.4 has been downloaded 111 times!

Quick edit on the download. The zip file didn't have a SQL dump file.