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Updates/Fixes/Improvements

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

We wanted to give you an update regarding progress on the site. Thanks to many of you who have emailed or messaged us with improvement suggestions and bugs you’ve found – every piece of feedback from our growing membership has been invaluable! You will soon start to see many of your suggestions implemented as fast as we can get them out the door.

As some of you know there have unfortunately been some teething issues with the site – some of which we have only discovered as the traffic has increased significantly. The issues of note that we thought you might be interested in:

- The “Oops something broke screen” – In actual fact nothing is broken in most cases and a quick press of F5 loads the page perfectly. We’re working on a bug fix ASAP as we know it is very annoying please bare with us.

- Most, if not all of the registration issues should be resolved and those who needed their subscriptions sorted out should now be happily logged in. If you are not, please do email us and we’ll get your account sorted out ASAP.

- Filmography and credits can be entered now – sorry about this error! There are plenty of improvements in train for entry of your filmography, but if you do have something you’d love to see in this area, here’s your chance to let us know!

- Even though our browsers of choice are Firefox, Chrome and Safari, (Craig says that Internet Explorer is the work of the devil) there is a bug in Chrome that’s causing problems with date validation when you’re entering a job. We’re getting this fixed ASAP.

- Talent searching has lots of improvements on the way, very, very soon! Have a suggestion? Let us know.

There are a few other minor issues scattered around the site and we are working very hard to get them fixed as quickly as we find them - please do bare with us we’re only a small team. Certain pieces of functionality aren’t quite finished yet (in particular, deleting of video and projects) so please give us a little time to get them rolled out.

Once these issues are dealt with we will begin to work on the major functionality improvements we have in the pipeline – there are a lot of exciting things we want to do!

If you find any issues, or have any general comments, improvement suggestions or just feel like a chat do email/message/facebook/twitter us! This is your site and we want it to be great for you.

With very best wishes

Craig and Ross, Co-Founders, One Fat Cigar.com


One Fat Cigar Website Launch – Site now live!

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Just a quick  blog to say that after 6 months of hard work the OneFatCigar.com website is now live. The first 500 people to sign up will have the opportunity to win 1 year’s worth of free premium membership, subject to our published terms and conditions.

A Thank You for your support over the last few months!

Once you’ve signed up, as a ‘thank you’ from us, you’ll have the opportunity to exclusively invite up to 10 of your film making/acting/writing/composer friends to also have premium membership at a 40% discounted rate for the first 3 months (or £6/ approximately $9). This discounted rate is only available for 7 days after which the opportunity will expire. Your friends then have a further 7 days to sign up and take advantage of the offer. We won’t be sending them any reminders or follow ups so please do send them to people who you think will value the service.
There are invites for a further 10 of your friends to have basic membership. Please use them even if they are not film makers but simply love film.

To make our site work we need lots of people using it so this offer is designed to give your close friends and colleagues the chance to have access on the site quickly and begin networking/promoting their work and up-and-coming projects. This is your site, and the more film makers using it the better – so please help us to spread the word!
Updates and modifications
Do also remember that there will be many new features and functionality developed over the next few months particularly to the jobs and projects sections where we have lots of exciting ideas as to how to improve. We’re always open to suggestions and feedback, so please do let us know using the feedback form.

Access
Here’s the link (http://www.onefatcigar.com ) and good luck with winning premium membership. Oh, do add us a friends.

With best wishes and Happy New Year!

The One Fat Cigar Team


Merry Christmas

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Hi Guys,

We just wanted to say a big thank you for your support this year, we’ve really appreciate all the positive feedback that you’ve given us about our ideas for the site.

The good news is that the site (apart from a few tweaks) is working – although we figured we would have a few days off over Christmas! (Slackers!).

So we won’t be releasing the site over the weekend but it will happen very soon. It does look good!

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing you on One Fat Cigar very soon.

With best wishes

Ross and Craig

One Fat Cigar.com