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 随意 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 下一个 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 粉丝 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 你 earn a medal, and 你 don't even know which contributions in that club caused 你 to earn a medal and which contributions were a waste of your time).

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

Fellow Fans! Here's what's in our latest 潮流粉丝俱乐部 2.0 builds:

At bat (these features are nearly complete and slated to be built out in the near future):
The return of Featured 粉丝 to the 潮流粉丝俱乐部 homepage! This new version will showcase 粉丝 who have earned a certain number of 奖章 and who have logged in most recently. It now lists their highest medalled 俱乐部 with 链接 to those 俱乐部 so that others may explore and contribute. Future versions will have tabs to 显示 current highest ranked fans, active 粉丝 who joined longest ago, and hand-picked featured fans. Got ideas? That's what 评论 are...

潮流粉丝俱乐部 is all about 粉丝 and quality content. It's not just about medals, but we wanted to do something that shows appreciation for 粉丝 who create great content, and that's why 奖章 exist.

The Medal 问题 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 奖章 and fairness. We can't tell everyone exactly how to game the system 或者 else it would result in the so-called...