|
Feature/Change |
Date
added/changed |
FOG
Feature? |
Suggested |
Why?
|
First bill entered
|
12/5/98
|
|
|
|
Where's George?
launched
|
12/23/98
|
|
|
For fun and because it had not
been done yet. |
Click here to view Where's George? as it was in January,
1999
|
Ability to delete recently-entered
bills
|
5/16/99
|
|
|
|
| "George
Points" renamed "George Score" |
5/16/99 |
|
? |
|
Ability to edit bill
notes
|
6/4/99
|
|
|
|
Bill Breakdown by FRB added to
Your Bills
|
6/5/99
|
|
|
|
| George Score
replaced with a new formula |
6/19/99 |
|
? |
|
| Small
modification made in the George Score |
6/24/99 |
|
? |
Make the
score more closely match the original suggestion
|
New Public Forum format
|
6/26/99
|
|
|
|
Hide the
George-O-Meter
|
6/29/99 |
|
? |
|
Forum is now divided into pages
(20 posts per page)
|
7/1/99
|
|
|
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Forum search added
|
7/1/99
|
|
|
|
| Stamp prices
increased |
7/2/99 |
|
Yeah,
right... |
necessity
|
| Miles
traveled now listed under Hits Today |
7/3/99 |
|
? |
|
| Bill Note
Search and new options on the registration page (float the
George-O-Meter, Public Forums open in new window) |
7/11/99 |
|
? |
|
| Sitewide
"Hits Today" changed to look like your own hits report |
7/29/99 |
|
? |
|
| Top 10 FRBs
added |
8/5/99 |
|
6/27/99
|
|
| Passwords and
Login page added |
8/13/99 |
|
? |
needed
security
|
| New field for
User Profile - Age and Gender |
8/15/99 |
|
? |
|
Hits By State added to Your
Bills
|
8/15/99
|
|
|
|
| Email address
can now be changed in MyGeorge (without re-registering) |
8/22/99 |
|
? |
|
| New field in
User Profile - "Became a Where's Georger on..." |
8/23/99 |
|
? |
|
| Domain name
transferred to new server |
8/28/99 |
|
? |
|
| New email
address - info@wheresgeorge.com |
8/28/99 |
|
? |
|
| Credit card
ordering for stamps now available |
9/21/99 |
|
? |
|
Additional forums added (Lost,
regional, Canadian)
|
10/21/99
|
|
|
|
Name and profile automatically
added for new forum posts
|
10/23/99
|
|
|
|
Breakdown by Denomination added to
Your Bills
|
12/5/99
|
|
|
|
| User
Preference page (in MyGeorge) and "I have read the User Guidelines"
check box |
12/11/99 |
|
? |
|
| Gender/Sex
option added to profile |
12/12/99 |
|
? |
too many
arguments over whether "gender" or "sex" is the right
term
|
Bill Favorites added to Your
Bills
|
2/13/00
|
|
|
|
Click here to view Where's George? as it was in March,
2000
|
| Bill Series
drop-down menu now defaults to nothing |
4/1/00 |
|
? |
|
WG? stamps no longer
sold
|
4/27/00
|
|
|
complaints from banks and retail
stores |
| Old bug with
zip code cookie now fixed |
4/29/00 |
|
? |
|
State Profile Rankings only
updated once a day
|
5/18/00
|
|
|
|
| Forum search
now working, minor changes to Nav panel, and "User Links" page
added |
7/15/00 |
|
? |
|
| Top 10 Users
and User Profiles By State now updated only twice a day |
8/30/00 |
|
? |
|
| "New"
denomination selection removed from Series list |
8/30/00 |
|
? |
"new" can be
determined from the series
|
| Bill Entry
Grid by Series/Denomination added |
9/1/00 |
|
? |
|
| Minor changes
to User Notes |
9/9/00 |
|
? |
|
| Dollar Bill
Soap now available in George Store |
9/24/00 |
|
? |
|
| FAQ has been
changed, and "Contribute to WG?" page added |
10/7/00 |
|
? |
|
| Zip Code Hit
Report added |
10/15/00 |
|
? |
|
| New look for
menu bar - images instead of text |
11/7/00 |
|
? |
|
| Little blue
"X" now on bill reports to designate users who have blocked anon
email |
11/19/00 |
|
? |
|
Zip Code Editor added to Your
Bills
|
1/29/01
|
|
|
|
| HTML now
stripped from City and Name sections of profile in the Profile
Directory |
2/6/01 |
|
? |
some users'
HTML was screwing up Profile Directory display
|
| User Profile
Directory now has sort options (# of users to display, sort by GS,
bills entered, etc.) |
2/7/01 |
|
? |
|
Where's Willy?
launched
|
2/20/01
|
|
|
|
Privacy Policy page
added
|
2/23/01
|
|
|
|
"MyGeorge"
renamed to "Toolbox"
|
2/23/01
|
|
2/2/01
|
|
"Floating George Head"
removed
|
2/23/01
|
|
|
|
Zip code list within each state
added to Hits By State
|
2/28/01
|
|
|
|
| Friends of
WG? now available |
3/19/01 |
|
? |
|
| "Boss Key"
added |
4/27/01 |
|
? |
|
Image hosting
|
?
|
|
5/6/01
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Hits By State
Maps now available |
7/19/01 |
|
? |
|
| Hit Maps for
Top 10 States report added |
7/20/01 |
|
? |
|
"Dude, Where's My George?" forum
temporarily renamed "Land of the Lost Technosphere"
|
8/1/01
|
|
|
|
| Favicon
added |
11/27/01 |
|
? |
|
Your Bills now says how long it
took to run
|
12/6/01
|
|
|
|
| Bill Note
Search feature back |
12/8/01 |
|
? |
|
No more spell-checker in the
forums
|
12/13/01
|
|
|
Spell-checker that had been used
was no longer free
|
| User-Entered
zip codes now have 0 miles (instead of being computed from Linwood,
KS) |
12/31/01 |
|
? |
|
Forum order switched - Q & A
forum moved all the way to the left, Main and Hits forums shifted
to the right
|
1/26/02
|
|
|
|
"New User Q & A" forum renamed
"New User AND Q & A" forum
|
1/27/02
|
|
|
|
Forum search is back, now powered
by Google
|
2/26/02
|
|
|
|
| Minor
spelling change in George-O-Meter - "totaling" instead of
"totalling" |
4/3/02 |
|
? |
|
| "Edit" button
to edit notes added to bill reports |
4/27/02 |
|
? |
|
| New procedure
for emailing Hank - Contact Form |
4/28/02 |
|
? |
|
All Your Bills reports now display
up-to-date data (including today) for anyone with less than 5000
bills
|
5/6/02
|
|
|
Made possible thanks to server
upgrade
|
| Change to
User Guidelines - "EMS" now part of Guideline #2 |
7/20/02 |
|
? |
|
| County (as
well as the zip) is now displayed on each entry in bill
reports |
7/21/02 |
|
? |
|
| Average speed
on bill reports now listed as "Miles per day" (instead of "Miles
per hour") |
7/21/02 |
|
? |
|
| "Geocaching"
bills are now marked and have been removed from the Top 10 Bills
report |
7/22/02 |
|
? |
too many
geocache bills had large numbers of hits
|
"Geocaching Bills" now have a
separate category in Top 10 bills
|
7/22/02 |
|
|
|
| Default bill
note and @CNT@ variable added |
8/15/02 |
|
? |
|
| Team Aqua
created |
8/20/02 |
|
? |
|
Last Hit Counter added to Your
Bills
|
10/8/02
|
|
|
|
Hits by County added to Hits By
State
|
11/8/02
|
|
|
|
Recently Entered Bills button is
now always visible
|
11/12/02
|
|
11/12/02
|
|
Forum subject lines now limited to
50 characters
|
11/13/02
|
|
|
|
Subject lines expanded to 100
characters
|
11/13/02
|
|
|
|
| Changes to
Hit Notifications - now sent as HTML email and include Denom,
Series, and "george eyes" image |
11/14/02 |
|
? |
|
| Color and
more info added to International hits |
11/18/02 |
|
? |
|
|
"International Users click here" added to bill entry form |
11/18/02 |
|
? |
|
Folders and
"Subscribe" option added to Favorites
|
12/25/02
|
|
|
|
Automatic
notification for series/denom changes
|
12/25/02
|
|
|
|
Mugs now for
sale at the George Store
|
1/9/03 |
|
Numerous
times in the past
|
|
| Change in the
way FOG contributions are applied |
1/19/03 |
|
? |
|
| Bill reports
now display local time |
1/23/03 |
|
? |
|
| Time zone
info (offset from GMT) displayed by the time on bill entries |
2/16/03 |
|
? |
to help
people who kept detailed stats
|
| Bill lookup -
finding and viewing a bill report by answering "No" to "Do you have
this bill right now?" - now works for new-style bills |
2/17/03 |
|
? |
|
| Format
changed for zip code hit report (sort options added) |
2/17/03 |
|
? |
|
| Addition to
User Guidelines - Legal Stuff |
2/18/03 |
|
? |
|
| New store
software for Where's George? Store |
3/15/03 |
|
? |
|
Percentile ranking (out of current
users with a George Score) added to Your Bills
|
4/24/03
|
|
|
|
George Score now displayed to 2
decimal places in Your Bills
|
4/24/03
|
|
|
|
Forum archives are now listed at
the bottom, separate from current forums
|
5/4/03
|
|
5/3/03
|
|
Refresh button added to Hits By
State
|
5/9/03
|
|
|
|
| New items in
the George Store - Mens and Women's sizes White ring-spun
embroidered t-shirts, WG? Baseball caps |
5/23/03 |
|
? |
|
URLs for current forums changed
slightly
|
5/31/03
|
|
|
|
| Georgers with
0 George Scores removed from Top 10 lists |
6/6/03 |
|
1/23/03 |
|
| Series
automatically selected for new-style bills, and shortcut for
entering (all 3 letters can be put at the beginning of the
serial) |
6/19/03 |
|
? |
|
Globe and
computer icons added to bill reports
|
7/11/03
|
|
|
another tool
to help find suspicious bills
|
Bill dumping
warning message added to Hit Nofitication emails
|
7/25/03
|
|
|
complaint from a bank
|
Bill note
search is back
|
8/11/03
|
|
|
|
"payable to"
information added to Friends of WG? page
|
8/20/03
|
|
|
|
Bill note
search gone again
|
9/10/03
|
|
|
|
Default Anon
Email note
|
10/10/03
|
|
|
|
Default Anon
Email increased to 8000 characters
|
10/11/03
|
|
|
|
Removed
1963/A/B and 1966/A series from bill entry form
|
10/15/03
|
|
|
|
Re-enabled
entry for 1963/A/B $1s
|
10/16/03
|
|
|
|
Re-enabled
entry for all other 1963/A/B bills
|
10/21/03
|
|
|
|
New rules for
GeoGeorgers, and Geocache bills Top 10 has been removed
|
10/22/03
|
|
|
|
Slight modification to User
Guideline #4 (bulk depositing of bills)
|
10/27/03
|
|
|
|
George's eyes stopped
moving
|
11/6/03
|
|
|
too much bandwidth consumed by
people linking to the image
|
| WG? 2.0 |
12/23/03 |
|
? |
Complete site
overhaul
|
Your Bills no longer refreshes
automatically when you view it each day
|
With WG? 2.0
|
|
11/5/02
|
|
| All users now
have only 1 Your Bills refresh daily |
With WG?
2.0 |
|
? |
necessary due
to the number of users and bills now in the database
|
| No more
"peak/off-peak" distinctions in Hits By State refreshes |
With WG?
2.0 |
|
? |
|
WG? Parent
report
|
With WG?
2.0
|
|
|
|
| WG? Children
report |
With WG?
2.0 |
|
? |
|
Sort by Denomination slightly
changed
|
12/31/03
|
|
|
|
Hit By State maps no longer
working
|
1/2/04
|
|
|
|
Hits By State maps
fixed
|
1/2/04
|
|
|
|
Children report expanded to
1000
|
1/4/04
|
|
|
|
Small modifications to Hit
Notification emails, and option for receiving Text Only Hit
Notifications
|
1/4/04
|
|
|
|
Automatic Bill Counter
improved
|
1/15/04
|
|
|
|
Anon posting in forums
eliminated
|
1/26/04
|
|
|
|
New User Guideline - Website
Associations and/or Affiliations
|
1/30/04
|
|
|
|
Change in the way Hits By State is
processed - all "sub-reports" (Zip, County, City) automatically
updated when Hits By State is refreshed
|
2/27/04
|
|
|
|
Ability to edit or remove WG?
Parent
|
5/20/04
|
|
|
|
| WG? Community
News now listed in Tools/Fun drop-down menu |
7/14/04 |
|
6/29/04
|
|
Bills added
to Favorites are now automatically subscribed
|
7/15/04
|
|
|
|
| All counties
listed in Hits By State |
7/17/04 |
|
? |
|
| Slugging % on
Your Bills |
7/19/04 |
|
7/8/04 |
|
| Unofficial
Gathering Forum added |
7/19/04 |
|
7/12/04 |
|
| State flags
in bill reports |
7/21/04 |
|
4/15/00 and 6/24/04 |
|
| State flags
now appear only on multi-entry bills |
7/23/04 |
|
7/23/04 |
|
| Bills added
to Favorites are now automatically Subscribed |
7/23/04 |
|
7/23/04 |
|
Profile Links in Anon
Emails
|
8/6/04
|
|
7/21/04
|
|
No more popup ads
|
8/19/04
|
|
|
|
Link to Yahoo! maps on bill
entries
|
9/16/04
|
|
8/11/04
|
|
Summary at the top of Hits By
State report ("You have x hits in y States")
|
9/16/04
|
|
9/9/04
|
|
Mailing address for Friends
payments added to "Friends Status" page
|
9/16/04
|
|
9/10/04
|
|
Full serial of last bill entered
shown above "Enter a bill"
|
9/17/04
|
|
9/11/04
|
|
| Forum Quick Jump Menu |
9/28/04
|
|
9/28/04
|
|
Bill deletion link added to "Last
Bill Entered"
|
9/30/04
|
|
9/30/04
|
|
| "Subscribe" option in Favorites no
longer a "Friends of WG?" feature - now available to everyone |
? |
|
|
|
New George Store (with ability to
use credit cards without PayPal) and new store items (small black
tote bag, FOG)
|
10/7/04
|
|
9/30/04
|
|
Sitewide county hit map
|
10/12/04
|
|
9/1/04
|
|
George Store relocated to its own
url (wheresgeorgestore.com) and is now secure
|
10/15/04
|
|
|
|
Bills previously entered are shown
in a different color in Your Bills
|
12/7/04 |
|
12/7/04
|
|
History of Contact Forms you have
sent
|
12/10/04 |
|
|
|
Page to lookup (or add to
Favorites) a bill without entering it
|
1/13/05 |
|
|
|
Slight change to FAQ #13
(reference to "password" added)
|
1/20/05
|
|
1/20/05
|
|
| New forums |
6/9/05 |
|
innumerable times... |
|
| New "Adult" forum |
6/11/05 |
|
|
|
| Forums now display time/date of
each post instead of how long it has been since it was posted |
6/16/05 |
|
6/16/05 |
|
| WG? 2.2 |
8/28/05 |
|
|
|
| Image identifying Friends
features |
With WG? 2.2 |
|
|
|
| "Printer-Friendly" bill and Your
Bills reports available |
With WG? 2.2 |
|
|
|
| "What's New" page (added to the
"About Us" menu) |
5/31/06 |
|
|
|
| Drop-down menu for adding directly
to a folder in Favorites added to Bill Lookup |
8/13/06 |
|
8/12/06 |
|
| Subject line in Hit Notification
emails says how many total hits the bill has |
8/15/06 |
|
8/13/06 |
|
| Additional options (Couple,
Family, None of the Above) added to "Gender" menu in profile
editor |
8/16/06 |
|
|
|
| Hit # added to bill reports |
9/6/06 |
|
|
|
| "Last Hit Timer" replaced by "Hit Finder", allowing users to type in any hit # and find that hit |
9/6/06 |
|
|
|
| Suggestions that have not yet been implemented |
Search for words in
profiles
|
|
|
5/2/02
|
|
| Site-wide
"Our Bills" page |
No idea |
|
10/30/02, also 7/23/04 (Scott in Philly) |
|
| Wireless bill
entry |
Sometime in
the future, maybe |
|
Many
times |
|
| Multiple-bill
entry |
Not a
chance |
|
Too many
times to count |
|
| Hits by
time-of-day histogram |
Not yet |
|
7/20/04 |
|
| Hits in other
countries shown on Hits-By-State map |
Soon,
perhaps... |
|
7/20/04 |
|