Notifications for new Beta releases

[Yapab 10]

Hi,

When the first beta's came out I made a small script which emails me when a new beta patch is released. A few of my friends use it and I decided to make a frontend for it and let anyone sign up for this email notification.

It's worked great on the last two betas so anyone is welcome to check it out:

http://www.qbasix.com/ARMA2

You can also easily remove yourself incase you lose interest in the betas!

I posted it on other forums and got a good response so hopefully it helps some people get the latest beta fixes early as not everyone browses the forums daily.

Thanks,

Yapa

[cole 0]

Over 60 views and no other comment? Shame on you people :p

Thanks Yapa, that's a useful thing.

[jw custom 56]

Nice thanks :)

[rothy 0]

Thanks! :)

[thr0tt 12]

Nice idea but the information you are gathering is it now secure once you have it stored ?

[KrUEgER 10]

nice job, thx

[Yapab 10]

Nice idea but the information you are gathering is it now secure once you have it stored ?

Yes the information gets stored in a secure database at a business grade host so unless I'm malicious it will be safe! I guess if someone is really paranoid then they would not sign up.

Its only storing your email address and name/game alias so not really personal information!

Thanks guys! hope it lets you get that beta patch sooner :)

[thr0tt 12]

Yes the information gets stored in a secure database at a business grade host so unless I'm malicious it will be safe! I guess if someone is really paranoid then they would not sign up.

Its only storing your email address and name/game alias so not really personal information!

Thanks guys! hope it lets you get that beta patch sooner :)

Cool. Was just checking, no harm in asking, now where do I put my credit card detail again ? ;) j/k

[Yapab 10]

heheheh thats ok I understand your concerns :) and will be upgrading it to include inputs for your credit card number ;)

Just got notified about another beta, seems BIS are busy!

Yapa

[Shadow NX 1]

Good work mate, thanks for this :)

[Mudkip 0]

Do you post on Whirlpool?

[Placebo 29]

Superb idea Yapab, thanks for doing this, signed up :)

[kremator 1065]

Great idea. Signed up too !

In fact all releases from BIs should be covered in this :)

[Yapab 10]

Do you post on Whirlpool?

Hello Mudkip, yes I post on Whirlpool too :) and a few people from there signed up too although the thread has become a bit quiet recently.

Thanks for the feedback, and to anyone who has signed up please make sure to mark the first "sign-up" email as safe because web services such as hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc might make the email as spam so you will not get the update email.

Yapa

[markushaze 10]

absolutely great... you should let the German speaking crowd also see this.

here`s a link to a German ArmA2 forum:

http://www.armamdb.de/forum/index.php

Again: Thanx :-)

[Yapab 10]

Hello markushaze,

I've had a look and not sure which sub-forum to post it in.

Please feel free to post the link and details since you probably know German and the forum better :)

Yapa

[markushaze 10]

Yea great. ill do that.

Thanx again for this:-)

*edit*

Done:

http://www.armamdb.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=564

Edited August 29, 2009 by markushaze
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[otrebla_snake_ita 2]

Thank you =)

[DTM2801 10]

Great idea, signed up.. now dont go and abuse our mailboxes ya hear :P

[connos 10]

Thanks Yapab great idea indeed. Are you posting to PC Games Hardware?

Edited August 31, 2009 by connos

[pauliesss 2]

Thanks man. :)

[Yapab 10]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I'll see if I can update it when time permits to show patch version and possibly change log in the email.

connos, yes I'm the same Yapa from PCGH :) I get around ;)

[Snake Man 407]

Any chance of RSS feed for the betas? (RSS feed is much easier for end user than email).

[Yapab 10]

Any chance of RSS feed for the betas? (RSS feed is much easier for end user than email).

Not really because I think another user has already made an RSS feed for the betas!

Now that we have both systems everyone will be informed! I for example get emails on my phone, I can also get RSS feeds on the phone but emails are easier for me than looking at RSS feeds as they give a signal when a new email comes in.

Yapa

[HitmanFF 6]

Thanks Yapa, very handy service! Especially yesterday when there were two beta releases, I got warned again after downloading the first one :)