imvucodes

MassBadger

MassBadger – “A shopping page for Badges of IMVU Developers”. After about three days of work the project started and is now in some kind of Beta stage. There might follow some additions, as there already did (e.g. Ajax-based search).

First, I added all badges from any developers that I found on badge directory lists on the net (of course – only those who had the autogrant-feature enabled). Unfortunately, but understandable, some felt this was a step too far. Since then badges will only appear if confirmed by their owner. To do this you have to go to the MassBadger Panel and click the confirm button there. If you do not see your badge in the appearing list you can still contact me (as described on that page then). For verification to access the MassBadger Panel I use IMVU as OpenID Provider. This means you neither have to share your password with me nor having to create a new login. The easiest way is to make sure you are already logged in into IMVU when trying to verify.

Badges will be added on request. A payment (credits) is not necessary but welcome. You can see the statistics of successful grants inside the panel for each badge. If you own badges on multiple accounts and want to have them located in one Panel, contact me as well.

The ones that remain on the unconfirmed state at the end of June will be removed permanently from the project. So there is no need to inform me of taking a badge down that has not been confirmed yet and therefor is not visible at the moment. Neither profitable ads nor other annoying popups etc. will be placed on the page as it should remain as a choice for easy and relaxing shopping for badges.

Features planned for future:

• Integration of a detail view for each badge – if possible – including all badge details and owner links
• Integration of a twitter account for latest adds
• Figuring out the idea of tiny contests like: Top Given-out badge in month/week
• more to come…

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Although its already available since a few days I am going to post some more details about the shorturl Service here.

The service ( http://imvu.at) only contains redirection links to imvu related sites. This could be a deeplink inside imvu itself, a group link for example. Moreover, if you think your private page is imvu related you can apply for whitelisting your domain. This makes sure that the redirection service is only used for sites that are from imvu or related to. Please note that freehost forums probably will not be added to the whitelist as their domainname is given to other forums as well and therfor they are not unique anymore and hardly to identify.

When adding your domain name you have to enter your avatarname (and validate it through imvu’s openid provider) to give me a way to get in contact with you.

For those who still dont know what I am writing about, check this example out: Lets say you want to make a banner code and decide to add a link to your group which for example is the IMVU CODES Group ( http://imvu.com/groups/group/IMVU%2BCODES). Actually, this is already a short example, there are even longer links because of longer group names.

For sometimes strange reason your code might get broken because of a space inside the link and/or the incorrect usage of the banner code. Since the groups are related to imvu you could go on http://imvu.at and paste the url inside the textbox there. By clicking the triangle at the right you create a shorturl, which is in this case: http://imvu.at/imVrk

When you follow the new url you will be redirected to the targeted group page.

This link doesnt include any problematic characters and is kept kind of short. In this version it also has a prefix which shows that this link is a deep link into the website of imvu.com (the first two letters of imVrk means IMvu). Prefixes will only be given to one page and cannot be used multiple times. Avatar pages for example have the prefix av (when using avatars.imvu.com as domain).

This page is still in a kind of beta stage but should work fine as long as your page is approved. If you enter an unapproved link a application form will appear that allows you to submit the request to have the certain domain applied.

Especially this is usefull for long group names or deeplinks inside the forum. At the moment there is no limitation in timelife of such shorturls and this is not planned anyways at the moment. Suggestions, ideas? Comment!

Due to high-rising traffic by the imagehost service the service has been temporarly disabled. It *might* return but will use some more strictly limitations or maybe a post-processing image analyzer that shrinks down the images size and/or quality.

Until further notices the services is cancled. Please use a different services as there are plenty enough outside (e.g. imageshack.us).

The saved images will still be accessable but deleted after an one month inactivity.

imvucodes moved to a new server, this caused some problems in accessing images from the imagehost-service as well as the main page itself. Sorry for that. It should be fixed now.

One strange thing I found out is that the DNS Record pointed to the server when itself didnt recognize the domain on his behalf still. Caused weird results, but fixed.

Yay. Ever wondered if its possible to block those annoying alert popups on imvu? I mean not in general and not when turning off Javascript on your browsers settings. I mean just for imvu homepages!

The following does only work on Firefox!

Some steps are required in order to make it work.

1st: Grab this extension for firefox: ChromEdit Plus and restart your browser to activate the addon.
2nd: Decide on what things you want to block. Just alerts or even confirm requests and propmpting boxes?
Expecting you want to block it all you need to do the following steps:

Click on Tools > ChromEdit Plus > ChromEdit and go to the user.js tab. Now be careful on what you are doing here. When adding the following lines of code there it will block all popping up boxes on websites that start with avatars.imvu.com:

// block alert popups on imvu
user_pref(”capability.policy.policynames”, “imvurestriction”);
user_pref(”capability.policy.imvurestriction.sites”, “http://avatars.imvu.com”);
user_pref(”capability.policy.imvurestriction.Window.alert”, “noAccess”);
user_pref(”capability.policy.imvurestriction.Window.confirm”, “noAccess”);
user_pref(”capability.policy.imvurestriction.Window.prompt”, “noAccess”);

To tell you more about the code: First we define a policyname (imvurestriction) to be used on sites like http://avatars.imvu.com. The three lines after that are used to define an noAccess-Rule to the alert/confirm/prompt functions of Javascript. If you decide to not disable all three of them, just leave out the ones you want to keep. When finished: Save and Restart and it will immediately take action. Technically this means the browser prevents access to this built-in features on imvu homepages because of these settings.

Like this Javascript is still fully working and the pages will still loading fine as usual, but without any annoying popups.

Against annoyance. Ben

It has been quite a while since imvucodes had a blog-liked content. It was handy but barely updated.

Anyways I decided to make up a simple blog until its news will be included into the new imvucodes version that is being prepared (already for a while).

Imvucodes gets its 16.000 visitors each month, rising. The work I put in imvucodes will have a totally redesigned and improved version upcomming in the next version. It should be ready somewhen next year…

Thanks for trusting imvucodes and stay tuned.. for the next version on a new space. Any I go even a step further. No idea how many of you heared about Twitter, but I made up a new account there that will post updates and any kind of useful stuff belonging to imvu and its codes on time! Feel free to follow!

Merry (early) Xmas,

Ben

Sorry for any inconvencies this may cause but imvucodes.net is temporarly down.

The problem is reported and is being investigated and should be back shortly.

This includes the image hosting part of the page. Pictures will be available once the server is accessable again.

Will be available very shortly… Please be patient. online again

Ben