Hey everyone, just wanted to give you an outline of the changes that will be happening in the next few weeks.

Ok first off...

Mingleville Music

This will be the first step towards something a little bit more special, initially this is just going to be here for music profiles but that will develop (can’t go into too much detail yet)

So, the first step is music. This will be lot like the way Myspace have done it, but with a few improvements, One of the major issues with Myspace is the fact that bands overly self promote on user’s profiles. It's for this reason we've made the decision that bands won’t be able to add friends, comment etc. Instead users can become a fan of a band and or put the bands music on their profile, so if they want to promote themselves they’re going to have to do it the hard way - by being good lol

The other issue with Myspace music is the auto play function, for some crazy reason the person whose profile it is decides if it should auto play - we've decided that it will be the user who is viewing who makes that choice, there will be a setting for the viewer to decide on the auto play function.

We're also going to work on getting the actual music player itself to be customisable, so it doesn’t look out of place on profiles - this bit might take a bit longer to get sorted.

We are working towards getting a few big name bands joined up initially to give this a bit of a boost and hopefully get us in the press a little

Ok that’s Mingleville Music. Next!

Layout changes

To accommodate some of the changes were making now and in the future we thought a small layout change was needed – the site will basically remain looking almost exactly the same, the big difference will be the site will be made wider. This allows us to be able to fit a few more tabs across the top and better organise the content on each page.

The tabs for pictures and videos will be removed, and replaced with a single page called Media, This will basically be like a portal page with all the same stuff the 2 pages have, there effectively similar pages so this shouldn’t change things much.

Editing and adding profiles

At the moment this is way too complicated. With the wider site it's going to be possible for us to get all of the key editing stuff into one simple page. Hopefully we can do something with salute pictures too to improve the awareness of what they are and what they do.

Offers for members.

As you all know were heavily involved in the discount codes industry, and as one of the biggest players there we've been able to get some deals for Mingleville members. A new tab will be added to the site for registered members, and on there they will find discount codes that will give them money off on things like dvds, gadgets, games, make up, clothes, all the sort of stuff they will be buying on a regular basis.

Ok, the next one’s a biggie and some of you wont like it - but hear me out.

Adult Verification

Oh no! I hear you saying. Well obviously at first glance I can see your concerns, But I’m sure once I’ve outlined how this will actually work you'll be fine with it.

Basically at the moment the site is getting very sleazy, all the half naked pictures on the site, and a lot of people just don’t want to see that. So it’s time people got that choice.

Members will be given the option when they register (current members will all get a login message where they opt in or opt out) asking them if they want to see "adult" content on the site, It goes without saying that anyone under the age of 18 will not be given this option (until they are 18)

We'll put in place a rule set for pictures, with a sensible cut of between appropriate for anyone and adult.

Members who select not to see any adult content will simply not see any adult content at all on the site, and no where asking them to verify themselves as an adult.

However, members who do want to see adult content will be given the option to verify there age, and then they will be able to see the adult content that other members have added. The cost for this will be £10.00 charged quarterly (every 3 months).

Basically what being verified as an adult will give the user is access to an adult tab on the site, which will be much the same as the browse etc feature, only it will be looking at the adult side.

They will also get a secondary profile (this will be done with tabs on their profile) so they will have a standard profile and an adult profile.

This keeps everything nice and separate.

So basically this comes down to user choice and making the site more what people want, if they don’t wand sleazy pictures they wont see them, if they do, then they can.

Obviously adult doesn’t mean they can upload anything they want, there will be a cut off point, which hasn’t been set yet.

It's also worth mentioning that adult verified members will not be able to contact anyone under the age of 18.

It's very hard to get everything down to make sure it’s come across well so I hope that all made sense.

Thanks for reading

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