Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Listings missing

Apologies about the missing listings; we're having technical trouble here at FoF Towers. With luck we'll be working again in the next couple of hours. Unfortunately, this gap in film listings has only just been brought to our attention after nearly a week of incomplete data, so next time things go wrong, please let us know sooner!

Thursday, 1 January 2009

Even more updates

Ok, so it appears I lied - I've added a couple of new view modes to the site, but I swear, no more effort from now on! I checked, this site made $0.70 last month in ad revenue, and I need to focus on other projects. Anyway, now you can preview the week's films purely by box art - like you were looking at the racks of DVDs in Blockbusters. I thought that would be a cool application for the site when I first got images working, and it turned out well; it's not terribly useful, but kinda fun, I think.

The second new type of view is a narrowing-down of the picks of the week - it got a bit tedious skipping the old films you'd never heard of, so now you can browse just the modern movies... or if you prefer, just the classics. No more updates though now, I promise!

New Year updates

The front page has had a minor makeover, and an RSS feed for daily movie listings has been added for your convenience - it's a bit dodgy as images seem to end up in the wrong places, but it does give you all the information you need. Unless we start getting more visitors though, I'm afraid it's just not worth adding new, fully-functioning features to the site when there are other projects to be worked on.

If you have a blog or are active in a forum and find Films on Freeview useful, now would be a good time to start telling people! The site will continue to be updated with listings, but plans for adding functionality will be put on hold for now.