Here's a running list of the new features and changes in DF7. It's not entirely comprehensive since this has been nearly a 3 year project, but it should be close.

Dead Format 7.0 Features / Changes - Updated 2/06/2012

* General
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Fancy new contests page!
Record store database is now complete
Fancy HTML emails sent when you receive a new message or a reply to a message (and emails include the message subject this time)...
Pressing information database is open again, with photo uploads and editing features

* Record Stores Page
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Shows a list of recently added stores
Ability to rate stores on a 5 star system
Ability to add comments with or without a rating
View stores nearby
Direct link to google maps directions
Ability to search by store name or location
Filter search results by location to within a certain radius of your search

* Tradelist Page
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New design / slightly modified layout, more search engine friendly
Added share/tweet buttons at top of page
Added category filter and search tradelist box
Now sortable ignoring "the" and "and" at beginning of item
Now sorts all items properly, all the time!
Added hover menu to easily edit/move/delete items and manage photos right from your tradelist page
New faster image thumbnail display and faster viewing
When highlighting/copying tradelist items, "View x Photos" no longer appears
Added "back to top" button on all category headers
Tradelists now strip out extra tabs/spaces in front of items that were causing sorting errors in previous version
Restored the link to browse all users with a tradelist

* Tradelist Central (Formerly Add To Tradelist page)
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New design/layout for easy tradelist managing
"Add To Tradelist" functions now strip out spaces before/after records, better sorting!
Easier options to tweet/post on facebook after you've updated your list
Better category management on new "Categories" tab with easier editing, deleting, and viewing item counts
"Edit Items" tab lets you filter records by category and mass move or delete items, as well as edit records and manage photos
New Settings tab with options for removing "A" and "The" when sorting your tradelist
"Edit Info" page now a tab on main tradelist central page

* Pressing Info Page
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New design and modified layout, information is easier to read and all photo thumbnails are on one main page
Links to purchase records at eBay, Insound, and Amazon now come up with more relevant results
New lightbox image viewer with larger pictures and more information about the images
"Add pressing info" button now works!
New "Edit Pressing Info" black gear icon appears when hovering over a certain pressing
New "Add To Tradelist" green " " button appears when hovering over a certain version of a record in the table
When adding pressing info, a preview button is available to make sure it will show up in the database correctly.

* Artist Page
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New and improved design/layout
Links to purchase artists records at eBay, Insound, and Amazon now come up with more relevant results
Now shows a list of links for the band instead of just one
Shows a list of record labels the artist has releases on
Improved album list with ability to filter by solo releases or releases they've appeared on with other artists
Edit artist / add release buttons are now functional

* Profile Pages
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New design/layout
Larger button for link to tradelist
New section for listing websites for the user
New links to view posts and topics created, as well as topics participated in
Profile page links are now http://deadformat.net/username instead of /user/username


* Message Board
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New URL re-writing for cleaner and shorter URLs on topic and category pages (http://deadformat.net/board/X, http://deadformat.net/topic/XXXX)

nickman said:

Now sortable ignoring "the" and "and" at beginning of item

Why am I so stoked about this?

Real awesome man, definitely good to be back now it's re designed. Any chance of the Record Store database being updated so we can add stores outside of the US? That would be cool.

looks good, man.

good job Nick, a lot of people give you shit but you put a bunch of work into this and it's appreciated...

BADASS!!!! NEW SITE LOOKS GREAT!!!!!

You have an example so I can check it out somewhere?

Not a huge deal, just fyi, a lot of the messages in my inbox now appear unread (after being read a long time ago). If I open them again they still look unread.

blackdream said:

Not a huge deal, just fyi, a lot of the messages in my inbox now appear unread (after being read a long time ago). If I open them again they still look unread.

Noticed this too I think it just means you aren't the last person to respond in the thread.

As for me, every time I try to update my sale thread the body gets deleted and the only thing that stays is my link.

I miss the old way of uploading photos to tradelists. Other than that, I'm 100% stoked!

New site looks really nice, but runs preeeetty slowly on my Iphone.

The user feedback button I had up was lagging things I believe. It should be better now.

Came in here to say it's running better on my iPhone!

i got nick to make the background blue, you're welcome!

That's what I'm saying above. There's no way to edit or delete misinformation or duplicate information. Once it's there it's there until an administrator can delete it. This issue needs to get fixed otherwise the site is going to be flooded with this kind of stuff and render the pressing info useless.

I second this notion. Make a sticky thread. and we should make up some rules how to post in there. no bullshit just constructive posts.

I think that way we can make a good database.

This is great!

Tried changing the pic on my profile and it will just not do it. Anyone else have this problem?

Nick if you can look into the message form. from a certain length it starts to go "out of the white".

biggiesized said:

Tried changing the pic on my profile and it will just not do it. Anyone else have this problem?

Nope, can't change mine either.

You guys are the only people to mention it since the site has launched. I'll get to it, but it's obviously not THAT big of a deal ;)

What did you do the past 5 minutes? I felt lost without DF being online.

nickman said:

...and now they're fixed.

Yep, working now - Thanks heaps Nick!

is there no way to search for a specific user anymore?