Website engine update incoming [done]

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In the wake of our recent activation of news commenting, we're rolling out extensive updates to all our key systems related to security, bugs and layout fixes. There might some downtime and/or oddities during 23:00-24:00 GMT +2, so please bear with us. *edit: Updates nearly done! Notice the new indicator on news posts displaying the number of comments. We're still tweaking things here and there, but no further downtime or critical view bugs should occur. Thank you for your patience.

P.S. If you run in to any bugs, please either leave a comment in this post or hit us via mail (webmaster at igda.fi)! We also accept feature requests.

Commenting opened up to the public!

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The vote has been cast we have opened up commenting for everyone to use! We decided to promote activity in igda.fi and want you to participate by telling us your impressions on the topic at hand. Please note that you do not need to register to comment (you can if you want to reserve your very own nick name!), but we will moderate all unregistered commenters to avoid spam. Also, we will not post any invitations, reminders or AARs to the forums. Keep an eye out for the Facebook invites, tho!

Remember, commenting not only increases your sex appeal, but makes you look smart, too!

Subscribe to our event calendar!

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Feed buttonToday I'm here to talk about our event calendar. Did you know you can subscripe to it via iCal, Google Calendar or any other good calendar software? That way you can easily track upcoming events automagically! Here's a small how-to: Step 1: Click the elusive feed-button under the calendar to summon your already configured calendar app (such as iCal for all you lovely Mac fanatics).

Step 2: Agree/Ok the source.

Step 3: Enjoy!

You could also just take the feed url (webcal://igda.fi/?ec3_ical) and subscribe to it manually in Google Calendar etc.

The calendar is updated to reflect our upcoming season's meetings, so check your holidays to match in advance. Additional events other than our monthly meets can be added to the calendar, so if you know of something that should be advertised here, just us an email @ webmaster@igda.fi as usual!

Webteam update

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Greetings from the freshly updated IGDA Finland webteam! Miikka Luotio has now become the editor-in-chief, and simultaneously our former webmaster Teemu Haila is promoted to Miikka's place as a web coordinator. We are therefore pleased to announce that we have gained a new webmaster in our posse: Juho Hartikainen!

Juho is a Finnish dude living in Tampere and finishing up his second year of interaction design studies, which consist of designing varying fields of interactive media such as the web, games and interfaces. He has provided some background support for IGDA Finland in the past (logo design, website graphics, meeting doorshifts), and is now carrying out his school traineeship. Alongside his webmaster supervisor Teemu Haila, Juho is one of the co-founders of Score, the Finnish student game development club. Aside from his studies and projects, Juho either consumes movies, games, music, books and other forms of art, or goes creative by photographing, writing, playing piano, making music, drawing, coding or dancing. And yes, you guessed it - he would love to be a game designer some day.