John, you are right about the demo we have on display for MAS. It definately does not justify the product itself as it is very very old. We have been too busy working and supporting clients to have had the time to launch the new demo out soon. The product itself, however, is quite different now.
In the course of MAS development our focus has always been pointed towards flexibility, reliability and speed (both for MAS admin and the members areas) in a traffic-intense environment, and not towards having a basketful of features with doubtful performance.
The coming week we will be officially announcing MAS version 1.8 (we are not big fans of quick jumps into major version numbers like many software companies do). Along with numerous performance, security and interface improvements, some of the major features in this version, which are not in the demo includes:
Fully integrated support for Cavecreek/Level-3 CDN network
100% compatible and preloaded leased feeds powered by SexEntertain (SexEntertain Content & Plugins, Vivid, Hustler Content, FullonVideo, Cherry Boxxx, Erotic Men, Total Hentai)
Advanced options for automatic content rotation
Batch actions for quick altering of multiple content set properties (categories, templates, find&replace in titles/descriptions and more); Undo of last changes
News & Events for multiple sites
Secured feedback mailing form (with captcha verification)
Alert & prevention system against injection of malicios commands in templates
Periodically flushing/dumping history tables to optimize DB performance
Limited admin privileges
IP restrictions for admin accounts
Passthru of userdefined variables (useful for tours - webmaster tracking codes etc.)
Obscured (hashed) content paths
Manual selection of content to be displayed on certain sections
Creating zip files with gallery contents
Inheriting template classes into multiple sites/sections, or directly including the parsed result of one section into another
Star rating
Subtemplates for finest control over video and content groups pages layout; different subtemplates per category or content type
Visual resize & crop of face images
Improved scanners for new content
Medium-sized/full-sized image support with visual effects
Events & calendar
Different sizes for thumbnails and faceimages, per template
And on top of this we are also near the end of the development of MAS version 2.0, which is a major rewrite of all the underlying code to improve performance even more and speed up the development of new features to come.
Some of the features which will be found in 2.0 are:
- Template repository, for easier reusing (as-is or with modifications) of common templates for various sections in different sites
- Ability to assign a different gallery template per site to each content set which is shared in more sites
- The faceimage size goes with the template, so this also means different faceimage size per site
- Multiple categories per content set
- Members Favorites
- Members comments (with editor's approval)
- Menu builder
- Captions for individual videos/pictures
- Advanced video set editor, allowing easier grouping of encodes per scene, naming and uploading of scene thumb
- Video frames extraction with options to choose the best among many frames and either build a photo gallery out of them, or use them as preview thumbs for the video set
- Cached search results for optimal performance
- User interface for program settings, backup and maintenance
- Improved support for streaming flash video, integrated services for video transcoding and multi-scene flash video player.
Have a nice day!
