OpenVoter Blog

OpenVoter 2.0.3 has been released.  This release sees an improvement for the API.  While providing some better formatting and encoding support, it also now provides more info about the user who submitted.  Instead of just the username and profile link, it now also provides the avatar.  This could be useful for those who might want to make a feed application.

Not much more to say other than go ahead and check it out.  Upgrade packages are available as well.

Download OpenVoter 2.0.3

Thanks,

The OpenVoter Team

Sorry for the delay, been a busy couple months with the holidays and all. Here's a quick rundown of what is updated in the latest release.

• The homepage now has the upcoming/popular toggle links at the top
• The submitting process has been improved for stability.
• There was an issue if reCAPTCHA was used when being viewed with Safari. This issue has been corrected

So go ahead and pick it up from the Downloads Page

Don't forget to check out the Install Guide or the Upgrade Guide for instructions.

OpenVoter 2.0.1 is now available for download from the Downloads Page.  The 2.0.1 release is more of a bug fix release than it is anything else.  It fixes a few bugs found in the system and does add some more validation for submissions and reports.  Here's a quick list of what this release addresses.

• The subcategory count was always listed as 1 when there were not any subcategories. This has been fixed, it now shows 0.
• Banning a user from a report page now works as intended.
• Submission and report data are now more thoroughly validated before being posted.
• You can now delete a category, there was an issue with the SQL call which has been fixed.
• When the action to be taken upon deletion of an account is to delete all the user's content, then all the reports for the user's comments and submissions will now be deleted as well.

With the successful launch of OpenVoter 2.0, comes the exciting path forward.

OpenVoter 2.1 is already underway which will add to several pieces of OpenVoter 2.0 including messaging and sharing.  But more importantly than that, we plan to sort of restructure how we do some of the basic functionality for the future.  The plan in place will allow for easier theming and 3rd party development in future versions. This will make it easier for people to customize the appearance and make it easier for others to develop for.  While it's still too early to go into heavy detail, the work we hope to accomplish will make OpenVoter a much better product in our opinion.

As for 2.0, any bugs found can be reported and we will look into them and hopefully squash them.

We are proud to announce that after many months in the making, OpenVoter 2.0 has now been released.  OpenVoter is a new Content Management System (CMS) that will allow people to run their own social news or social media site. This means that they can run their own Digg, or their own Mixx having full control over the site, it's content, and its users.

The idea behind OpenVoter is to allow people to create a community where users can share their ideas, thoughts, and anything they find interesting with others in the community.  Whether the community is focused on a particular niche or whether its broad covering multitudes of topics, people can share in the sense of community.  But that niche focus we think is what can really help people form those bonds as they can really focus on their common interests.

But what good would this entry be without going over a little bit of the history of OpenVoter? OpenVoter has had 2 iterations so far, 1.0 and 1.1.  And while those were by no means bad releases, they both added a lot to the table, but now well over a year after the release of 1.0, 2.0 is born.  2.0 was a systematic redesign of the look, feel, and of course the inner mechanics of how OpenVoter works behind the scenes. And not only did we completely revamp it, but we also added many new features as well. Features like sharing, alerts, private messaging are all now part of OpenVoter 2.0.  And these 3 features are really only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what it can do.  Site administrators have the ability to customize much of the site's features through a completely redesigned admin panel, they can manage ads and placements, as well as how the site operates.

And the best part?  OpenVoter is FREE and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3).

So head over to the Download page and try it out.