MyTVShows Blog

The last few days we had some problems with the Twitter integration and your seen episodes weren’t being tweeted to your accounts. We managed to find what was causing this and everything should be fine now.

The problem was on the service we were using for the URL shortening of the TV Shows (http://to.ly). So, for now, we disabled it and all the tweets should be working (but without the URL to the show).

For those who where having troubles with the password recovery, we have now fixed a bug that was causing the confirmation code malfunction. It should be working fine now.

After a few weeks of development, we are updating MyTVShows with a bunch of new features, starting with a new logo (courtesy of Quodis). The old logo was more related to movies than it was with TV or TV Shows, so our friends at Quodis designed our new logo based on the RGB of the TV Screen (if you look closely to your TV Screen you’ll see a bunch of Red, Green and Blue dots).

Other new features include:

• Friendly URLs: you can now navigate through all pages with simpler URLs like http://www.mytvshows.org/show/prisonbreak/ or http://www.mytvshows.org/user/ivogomes/ (the older URLs still work, so that you wont lose your bookmarks);
• Layout improvements: some pages were completelly changed and we made many tweaks and improvements here and there;
• Timelines: You can now check your timeline (your recently watched episodes); your friends timeline; and the global timeline. You can also subscribe the RSS Feed for a user’s timeline;
• Stats: You can now check who are the most addicted users;
• Twitter On/Off: If you configured your Twitter account on MyTVShows, you can now turn the notifications on and off with just one click;
• Internet Explorer: MyTVShows should work ok on IE7 and IE8 (we wont have support for IE6 and lower). Known issues: the language selection menu is still buggy in IE;
• New languages: We now have another language available: Slovenian! We will also have Spanish and Polish soon;
• Microformats: We added some microformats to the show pages. If you have a browser that supports microformats, you can automatically subscribe the calendar for your TV Shows;
• Many small changes:
  • Selecting all seasons when importing a new Show;
  • Asking for your current password when changing to a new one (for security reasons);
  • Better support for browsers with JavaScript turned off;
  • New “about” page with all the credits;
  • Added the option to mark all episodes as unseen;
  • Some speed improvements on loading images and JavaScript;

Hope you like it

When you add a new Show, if you misspeled it’s name or entered a diferent name than the original one, we now provide a few suggestions so that you can add the propper show to your database.

Hopefully, this will prevent users from adding duplicate shows with diferent names like “Reaper / The Reaper” or “Big Bang Theory / The Big Bang Theory”.

Today we changed the way that the “Unseen Episodes” count was made. From now on, we will only count the unseen episodes of your current shows and leave out the unseen episodes of your archived shows.

You can alway see the full list (if you have unseen episodes on your archived shows) by clicking the option to see the full list of unseen episodes.

If you have configured MyTVShows to post an update to your Twitter account whenever you mark an episode as seen, you might have noticed that if you marked 3, 4 or even 10 episodes on a row, you would get the same amount of tweets on your timeline, spamming your followers.

This is now fixed and if you mark more than one episode as seen, it will only update your Twitter account if the next episode is from a different show, or if it has passed more than 10 seconds between the last seen episode and the one you just marked as seen.