New features: Game history, buddy-list sharing

The last few days saw the addition of two new features, both requested independently by several people.

Event history: When Planbeast events slide into the past, they stay in our database, but unless you happened to have their URL bookmarked they become basically nonexistent to their participants. This is an especial bummer if there was conversation attached to those events' comments sections.

Now, every user who was a host or guest of an event at the time of its passing can easily continue to find those events. Your history page shows a neat little list of all the events in your past, as well as the most recent comment posted to each one. You can click through to re-access the original event page and all discussion attached to it.

You can find your history page linked from the front page, as well as your account page.

Buddy-list sharing: One of the known weaknesses of Planbeast is the difficulty in seeing who-all is here, so when three people in one day asked for a basic friends-of-friends feature, I jumped on it.

If you check the "Allow other users to see your buddy list" checkbox found on your buddy-list-management page, then a link appears on your profile page that will allow other users to see your list. Likewise, you can view the buddy list of anyone else who has turned on this feature for themselves.

So that nobody is unpleasantly surprised, I've set that feature to off for all existing users; you'll have to go turn it on for yourself, if you want to share your list with other users.