Merry Christmas PoaH users :)

Yes it is that tragic time of the year again.
The time of year when you keep getting dragged away from the computer for RL commitments.
The time of year that possibly might require human interaction.
I feel your pain.

But rest easy loyal PoaH users because what sort of a site creator would I be if I did not provide you with a present or two during this festive season :D

Character Connections

The most highly voted up idea in the Path of a Hero UserVoice since it launched has been support for players with multiple characters. This has been satisfied by the addition of character connections.

From your journal page you will now see a new section on the right hand side entitled 'My Characters'. This section shows all of your different Path of a Hero characters or alts. You can add a character connection by clicking the 'Add existing character' link and filling in the details of your other character. Path of a Hero will also infer character connections from the set of connections that you enter.

The cool thing of course is that you can also see the other characters of your rivals and the authors of the journals that you find interesting.

This new feature satisfies 100 user votes. Woot!

View other character's rivals

Whenever you now look at a character's journal page you will see a new section on the right hand side entitled 'My Rivals'. This section contains a picture grid of all of that character's rivals. Not only does this look visually interesting but it is fun to navigate around and see who is a rival of who :)

This was suggested in a UserVoice page and satisfies 6 user votes.

How popular are you?

Everyone's journal pages now record how many views they have had and also allow viewers to vote up the journal. This allows readers to flag interesting and worthwhile journals so that other users can enjoy them.

Path of a Hero then combines the number of views and points a journal has to come up with a measure of popularity. The top 4 most popular journals are displayed on the front page of Path of a Hero when you are not logged in. Also everytime you view the search page you will be presented with a random 15 of the 150 most popular journals at that time. You can also sort your search results by ascending and descending popularity.


I hope you all enjoy the changes :)