Feed Providers, Premium Subscriptions, and Forum Badges

[blantonl]

Folks,

I've rolled out some changes to better support Feed Providers and their account access.

Before I run through the changes, I want to emphasize that all feed providers will always get access to all premium services on the site, and that is not changing.

The changes are as follows

1) Instead of immediately revoking premium access when a provider's feed goes down, we now give a grace period of 6 hours
2) Feed providers will no longer be marked as "Premium Subscribers" in the forums, but instead as "Feed Providers", and will retain the same access rights as premium subscribers
3) Anonymous feed providers will have the same access rights as premium subscribers, but will not have any identifying badges associated with their forums account.

There are bound to be some bugs, so if you run into any please let me know.

Thanks,

 

[shajoe44]

I am no longer seeing my favorite systems on my main page. I use to be able to set certain systems and they would show when I logged in, Just noticed they are gone. No commercials on forum page is working.

 

[swstow]

could that be why it says that my membership is expired ( feed provider )

 

[blantonl]

Ok, there was a bug and I think it's fixed now...

 

[shajoe44]

My favorites are back on the home page. Thanks

 

[swstow]

yes you did thanks

 

[JoshuaHufford]

Nice job, I think those are some great improvements.