Hey everyone,

after further upgrading our server infrastructure this morning, we have just uploaded a small update. This time it's mostly bug fixes, etc. The Battlefield 3 identities should work again, we added clan tags and Russian profile support for StarCraft 2 and are now providing the option to resize your profile picture, which was requested a lot lately.

We also decided to move away from those big monthly updates, which introduced a lot of changes at once in the past, and rather continuously put out smaller updates on a weekly basis. So you should see more blog posts coming up soon.

As always thanks to everyone who sent in feedback, bug reports and suggestions. You guys help improving Anook so much - thanks! If you want to help out grow Anook, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and tell your friends to join!

See you on Anook,

Chocy

Hey everyone,

tomorrow, Tuesday May 14th, we will need to take Anook down between 8-10 am GMT to further upgrade our server infrastructure. The scheduled server maintenance should not take more than two hours.

Please excuse any inconvenience.

Chocy

Hello everyone,

oh boy, this took us so much longer than expected..., so I'm very happy to announce, that our new update is finally here! You can now add your PlanetSide 2 characters to your Anook profile! We are working with the official API from Sony, which is still in beta, so there may be more features (and the character's gender) added later on.

We also want to introduce a new tagging system for games, which is allowing game moderators, streamers and nook admins to help you find the content you are interested in. In the next days all major games will be extended by an array of tags, which can then be added to nooks and live streams. We also have plans to use those tags for blog posts, pictures and more upcoming features in the future.

Furthermore we have spent a lot of time improving our fame system. If you check your fame tab on the home screen, you'll notice that we don't give out fame points for single contributions anymore, but rather accumulate your daily fame gain depending on your contributions, live streams and the communities' feedback. Your previous fame rating may have changed a bit, don't worry, we removed some small calculation bugs so everyone is on the same page now.

Also we added a ton of bugfixes and other small improvements. A big Thank You to everyone who submitted reports and posted suggestions on the development forum. We didn't get everything in, but the next update is on the horizon already!

I also want to take the time to thank everyone who helped spreading the word in the last weeks! Thank you so much for your support. Without you this website would not exist!

If you too want to help Anook grow, check out our Get Involved page!

See you on Anook,

Chocy

We are currently experiencing some issues with our Twitch.tv integration. While we seem to have successfully hotfixed existing streams not showing up, it's currently not possible to add new Twitch.tv channels. Trying to do so results in a "Sorry, we cannot find an active Twitch.tv channel" error message. We are working on a solution as fast as we can.

Sorry for the inconvenience,

Chocy

Hey everyone,

we have just released a major update for Anook which introduces a ton of new features and improvements. We also recently upgraded our server infrastructure which should further improve page loading times. Here are the most important changes:

League of Legends

After waiting for an official League of Legends API for months and a recent conversation with Riot (in which they basically told us to not wait for it), we have decided to use an API provided by Elophant.com to finally allow you to add your League of Legends gaming identity to your Anook profile. We are quite happy with the result, but unfortunately the API had some minor issues in the last couple of days (right now US accounts are not available for example...), so we hope those problems will be fixed soon.

Please add your League of Legends summoner or check out existing identities.

Twitter

You are now able to link your Twitter account with your Anook profile! Once you added your Twitter account on your linked accounts page you can choose to automatically post your contributions to Twitter. This works with status messages, pictures and blog posts. If your message exceeds the 140 characters, Anook will add a link to your contribution. If you delete content on Anook, that was shared on Twitter, the related tweet will be automatically deleted as well. This makes it easy to post gaming related stuff to Anook without losing your Twitter reach.

Real-time feed/notifications

From now on you won't have to refresh Anook to see if someone interacted with your content, sent you a private message or posted something new. Anook will automatically add new content to your feed and notify you about new messages and notifications. If you are not actively browsing Anook, new notifications will be announced with an unobtrusive sound. This can be deactivated in the notification settings.

Other changes

• You can now add a related game to a contribution after you posted it
• You can now link your Skype username, which will only be visible to friends
• World of Warcraft progress now includes patch 5.2
• StarCraft II profile pictures now include HotS pictures
• Small improvements to events, blog posts and private messages
• Plus: Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes

We still have a long road ahead and many features we want to include before we are ready to drop the "Beta". But Anook grows faster every day now and 2013 has been amazing so far! We have so much more lined up for the next months... Thank you for sticking around and thank you very much for your support and feedback!

See you on Anook,

Chocy

Hey everyone,

we have just uploaded a new update for Anook and I'm very happy to announce the release of a new gaming identity. You can now add your Heroes of Newerth identity to Anook and show off your awesome smack downs and kill streaks on your profile!

Check out the HoN profiles here:
anook.com/hon/profiles

And we obviously added a ton of small improvements, such as...

• Sharing limitations
• Improved love/hate system
• Feed usability improvements
• Delete comments on own contributions
• More fame for very popular content
• Fixed missing supporter badges
• Diablo III Paragon level
• Notifications on mention
• and a lot of bug fixes...

The last weeks have been amazing, thanks to everyone who is helping Anook grow! We have a lot of awesome stuff lined up for the next updates.

Thank you for all your feedback and suggestions!

See you on Anook,

Chocy

EDIT: Big thanks to Alex from HONDMG.COM for helping us out with that quirky HoN API :)

EDIT 2: We are back on Twitter!
Follow @AnookDotCom for the latest updates!!!

Hey guys,

we have just uploaded the latest update for Anook. It has been quite some time since our last major release so there is a ton of new stuff to talk about. We originally had planed to release this update in January, but as some of you know, one of our servers crashed which cost us quite some time...

One of the problems with Anook growing quite fast now is, that sometimes really good contributions weren't discovered by a lot of users and really interesting users joined without getting a lot of attention. To change this, we are introducing Game Moderators.

Moderators will be able to highlight a game related contribution and spread it to all followers of that game. This way your daily feed should be updated with more interesting stuff and contributors will have the chance to reach a broader audience.

Moderators will also be able to feature interesting users on Anook and this way provide exposure for people who deserve more followers. You will see these featured users on game pages and in the user overview soon. (To learn more about Moderators, check the new Moderator Nook)

We have also spent a lot of time working on improved lists for things like games, nooks or live streams, removed Own3d.tv (sad), updated the look of menus and further improved the site performance. We also fixed a lot of bugs reported by the community, like...

• Multiple notification emails for people who can't decide whether to follow or not
• Continuing nook invitations after declining
• Correct username tagging of usernames with special characters
• Team Fortress 2 profile error on empty stats
• Jump to last reply on forum

And finally we have added a gallery of Anook logos and buttons for you awesome guys who want to support us and spread the word. Check our new and improved Get Involved page. There is a lot more to come, we are already started working on the next update.

Thank you for all your support.

See you on Anook,

Chocy

Hello everyone,

if you read this blog post, you have made it to our backup web server. Yayy!!! So what happened? Shortly after a minor, successful Anook update on Sunday night, 23h59 GMT, apparently one of the web server's hard drives crashed - probably for good. So after one hour of downtime we are now up on our backup system.

We may have lost the last 10 minutes of data before the server went down. I guess this is one of the reasons why we are still in beta...

We are very sorry about the downtime.
Thank you very much for your patience and support!

See you on Anook,

Chocy and the awesome server crew! (Thx guys!!!!!)

Hey everyone,

we have just released a small fix for a bug, which was introduced with the release of YouTube's new API on Dec 15, 2012. Logging in with Google should now again attach your YouTube channel to your profile. If your account was affected, please try to login with Google (or click on the Google logo in your "Linked Accounts" settings) and check if your YouTube channel is attached to your Anook profile.

Thank you for your feedback.

See you on Anook,

Chocy

P.S. Yes, we already have plans to integrate your YouTube channel content to your Anook profile. ;)

Anook is growing, a lot of super interesting people joined in the last months and are sharing their content on the site. This is a great thing and we love how Anook evolves. But not all content is super informative and not always everyone could relate to what someone else posted to a game.

We have received quite a lot feedback on this, so we have changed the way content is shared and distributed on Anook.

Posting to Profile

When you don't tag a game in a contribution, nothing will change, all your followers will get your content pushed into their home feed immediately. It can still be shared by other users or to nooks. (We are also working on a way to add games later on...)

Posting to a Game

From now on, when you contribute to a game, only your followers who also follow the related game will receive your contribution right away. But every user, who "loves" your posting will automatically spread it to his followers (who are again also following the related game). Your contribution can still be shared and posted to nooks, it also can become a game highlight which will be shared automatically to all users following the related game.

So for post good quality content not much will change, but spammy messages will only be shared to those following the author. If you receive a message in your feed you don't like,you can simply unfollow the poster/the one who shared the message.

We have also vastly increased the fame gain for messages, so we make love count even more. :)

I hope you will like the changes, thank you very much for all your suggestions. We will continue to improve the feed and sharing content on Anook.

See you on Anook,

Chocy