This is a quick guide to using the new IM and Chat beta launch.

Rooms Tab:
The global-chat is open to all registered fans.

There is another room that is reserved for users of a certain level, and you'll also see that in the Rooms tab. In the past, we've had a few ngẫu nhiên people come in and hit on the people in the chat rooms, so the reserved room should be relatively free of such riff-raff.

Contact Tab:
Setting custom status messages: click on the pencil, and type away!

Turning off chat: Click on the bubble tiếp theo to "I am online" and click on the red "Log out" option on the menu.

Contacts are your mutual...

An important challenge here is finding ways for những người hâm mộ to get feedback on what contributions they made are hot, and which were uninteresting to other fans.

Medals are nice, but they are too coarse-grained to give feedback on contributions (you only know after bạn earn a medal, and bạn don't even know which contributions in that club caused bạn to earn a medal and which contributions were a waste of your time).

This is where vàng comes in. Your hottest contributions will earn vàng each ngày (think of them as micro-medals), and bạn will have a private console that shows which are your hottest contributions....

Fellow Fans! Here's what's in our latest fanpop 2.0 builds:

At bat (these features are nearly complete and slated to be built out in the near future):
The return of Featured những người hâm mộ to the fanpop homepage! This new version will showcase những người hâm mộ who have earned a certain number of huy chương and who have logged in most recently. It now lists their highest medalled các câu lạc bộ with đường dẫn to those các câu lạc bộ so that others may explore and contribute. Future versions will have tabs to hiển thị current highest ranked fans, active những người hâm mộ who joined longest ago, and hand-picked featured fans. Got ideas? That's what các bình luận are...

fanpop is all about những người hâm mộ and quality content. It's not just about medals, but we wanted to do something that shows appreciation for những người hâm mộ who create great content, and that's why huy chương exist.

The Medal câu hỏi comes up once in a while and here's one example:

"When I contribute a lot to a spot on almost on a weekly basis for months, I don't get a medal. However, when I barely contribute to a spot, I get a medal for only adding like 20 images."

First of all, we pay a lot of attention to huy chương and fairness. We can't tell everyone exactly how to game the system hoặc else it would result in the so-called...