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Change log

Version 0.5.8
- Bugfix: Fixed Freezes on some pages
- Bugfix: Fixed some profile cards not being scraped
- Bugfix: Fixed nothing being scraped to server at all
- Feature: Added scraping of user avatars
- Cleanup: Replaced Paypal url for neater one
Version 0.5.7
- TODO: Use Colvis to hide less usefull columns by default
- Cleanup: Removed column selection from search setup
- Bugfix: Fixed Nicknames not showing in search results
- Feature: Added option to search for City and/or State/province and/or Country. Instead of only one of those.
- Bugfix: Fixes some clients not auto-updating
Version 0.5.6
- Cleanup: Removed progressbar filler
- Feature: Added: PDF and Excel export
- Bugfix: Fixed Print button
- Documentation: Added AGPL licence
- Documentation: Added Contribution guidelines
- Documentation: Added PR template
- Documentation: Added Issue template
- Documentation: Added Code of Conduct
- Documentation: Added Wiki
- Documentation: Moved FAQ to WIKI
- Documentation: Moved Changelog to WIKI
- Documentation: Moved Documentation to /Docs
- Cleanup: Added more code comments
- Cleanup: Changed Made folders start with uppercase character
- Update: Replaced (Depricated) ColVis with (replacement) Buttons
Version 0.5.5
- Bugfix: Fixed progressbar looking like representing progress. Replaces with a "please wait" bar.
- Cleanup: Removed: most code from legacy search
- Cleanup: Removed: Donation request on bottom of every tab. Moved to first tab only
- Feature Hidden: Hidden: Bitcoin button hidden till I have bitcoin
Version 0.5.4
- Feature Hidden: Legacy search is hidden due to fetlife banhammer and numerous bugs
- Bugfix: Fixed processing of Avatar url's for extended search. Still cant display them in results
- [Misc] (https://github.com/Ornias1993/fetlife-aslsearch-reborn/issues/17): Replaced FAADE report with "Report User to Caretakes" in search results
- Bugfix: Fixed Country and Region mixup during scraping and database corrupt. Database will recover in time.
- Documentation: Pointed towards tampermonkey instead of greasemonkey due to compatibility issues
- update: Updated and consolidated server Scripts and (external) CSS
Version 0.5.3
- Bugfix: Fixes Extended search not showing inside plugin/script
Version 0.5.2
- Bugfix: Fixes GUI glitches
Version 0.5.1
- Note: Actual launch version of 0.5
Reborn EDITION (version 0.5)
The "Reborn Edition" aims to fix the plugin that has, as of 2019, been broken for 2-3 years.
- Fixed: Extended search
  - Extended search is fully working again
  - Extended search database had to be wiped sadly enough
  - Extended search is not inside fetlife anymore, do changed fetlife security policies
- Removed: defamation and slander.
  - The FAADE integration has been fully removed
  - FAADE may be seen as defamation and slander under some jurisdictions
  - Statement stating that "Paying fetlife customers may be more preditory" is removed, being unfounded, slander and non-inclusive.
- Changed: After many years Meitar has stoped support. Ornias1993 has forked and taken over development
  - Non-merged fixes are merged
  - Ignored server update has been executed
  - Many thanks to Meitar for the years of support Versions of this script prior to 0.5 are considered deprecated, broken and/or unsafe to use.
Version 0.4.6
- Bugfix: Fix disappearing "A/S/L?" checkbox for Google Chrome browser users.
Version 0.4.5
- Bugfix: Proactively check for removal of the search form and re-attach it if needed.
- Bugfix: Fix "Classic mode" searches to correctly parse FetLife's newer HTML blocks. This fixes issues many users experienced with the script not returning correct results in "Classic" mode.
- Bugfix: Switch to new Google Spreadsheet back-end for Predator Alert Tool for FetLife integration, because apparently Google is a pro-rape company? See the commit log message here for more details:
  - Google flagged the PAT-FetLife spreadsheet database as "inappropriate" and revoked its "sharing" permission, effectively censoring survivors of sadomasochistic rapes from communicating with one another. Such survivor-to-survivor communication is the explicit purpose of the Predator Alert Tool suite of browser plugins, which depend on Google's Spreadsheets service to share data between one another in a way that the social networks in question cannot censor (which they have done).
  - It is unfortunate that a company like Google considers rape survivors to be doing something "inappropriate" when they try to warn their peers that they have been sexually abused in an effort to prevent others from falling victim to predators.
  - Please consider voicing your displeasure at Google's explicit pro-rape stance on this issue in whatever way you can. Google can be reached here: https://www.google.com/contact/
Version 0.4.4.4
- Bugfix: Fix an issue for Google Chrome users where event listeners on window object would occasionally fail to run. This should fix the missing "A/S/L?" checkbox for Chrome users.
Version 0.4.4.3
- Bugfix: Load this script on all fetlife.com/* URLs, to catch any new additions. (This should resolve the issue where the "A/S/L?" checkbox "doesn't show up" for those users who only ever bothered to check if the script works on one of FetLife's new pages, as opposed to, say, the home page of the site. Because FetLife users are fucking geniuses.)
Version 0.4.4.2
- Merge latest Predator Alert Tool for FetLife integration. This may also fix some errors happening for Chrome users.
Version 0.4.4.1
- Bugfix: Fix the link to "Extended Edition" search options for browsers running in Windows.
Version 0.4.4
- Feature: Support all new sexual role options in both Extended and Classic search modes.
Version 0.4.3
- Bugfix: Correct an issue that sometimes resulted in an infinite "Loading" progress bar.
- Bugfix: Correct an issue where search results intermittently failed to return correct user information.
- Additional improvements to load capacity and network utilization now offers better performance, especially on slow Internet connections.
Version 0.4.2.1
- Bugfix: Stop automatic searching when end of results are reached in Classic mode.
Version 0.4.2
- Bugfix: Fix nickname detection on Google Chrome.
Version 0.4.1
- Google Chrome fixes.
  - "Extended A/S/L Search" in Google Chrome now loads when you click "Open Extended A/S/L Search" link to workaround Chrome's strict settings.
  - Bugfix: Fix search results display table in Google Chrome.
EXTENDED EDITION (version 0.4)
- The "Extended Edition" adds a huge number of features and improves the speed, safety, and ease-of-use of A/S/L-based searches.
- Feature: Massively extended search criteria.
  - Sexual orientation searches are now supported.
  - Arbitrary location-based searches are now supported.
  - Nickname-based searches can be performed by substring, prefix, suffix, regular expression, or SQL-like wildcard matching.
  - Searching for profiles based on the text in their "About Me" section is now supported. You can match by substring, prefix, suffix, regular expression, or SQL-like wildcards.
  - Searching for profiles based on a URL in their "Websites" list is now supported.
  - Searching for profiles based on a fetish they are "into" or "curious about" is now supported. Again, you can do substring, prefix, suffix, regular expression, or SQL-like wildcard matches on these fields.
  - The "Looking For" can now be used as a search criterion.
  - The answer to "How active are you?" can now be used as a search criterion.
  - You can narrow your search based on how many friends a profile has.
  - You can narrow your search based on how many pictures a profile has.
  - You can narrow your search based on how many videos a profile has.
  - You can now filter searches based on whether the profile is a "Free Account" or a "Paid Account" (premium FetLife subscriber).
- Feature: Customized search results view.
  - You can customize the search results view to show only the profile fields you care about. You can always view additional profile information by clicking on the green plus button (+) to the left of a search result listing.
- Feature: Integration with third-party services.
  - Integration with UserSherlock.com, and TinEye.com let you easily find FetLife users on other social networks like Twitter or Instagram based on their FetLife profile information.
  - Integration with Predator Alert Tool for FetLife (PAT-FetLife) lets you report users for sexually predatory behavior to the rest of the FetLife user community. This means you can now name names of rapists in a way that FetLife's carebears will not be able to censor.
- Feature: Immunity from FetLife's anti-crawling technology.
  - Using "Extended A/S/L search" is completely invisible to FetLife, so there is no need of a "stealth" option. Stealth is built-in!
  - If you insist on using the old search mode, now called "Classic (slow) search," the "stealth" option is still available to you and is recommended to avoid an account ban.
- Usability: "Help" buttons thoroughly describe each control in detail and give examples of how to use them.
  - Clicking on the help buttons that are new in various parts of the user interface will explain the feature that the button is next to. Click anywhere outside of the help pop-up to close the pop-up.
- Usability: Full-window search view.
  - Click the "Enlarge" button to make the Extended A/S/L search interface expand to fill the browser window.
  - Once expanded, click the "Close FetLife A/S/L Search" button to return to the original view size.

Versions of this script prior to 0.4 are considered deprecated and unsafe to use.

Version 0.3.11
- Improved stealthiness. This script is now "invisible" to FetLife because it no longer creates any extra HTTP traffic that can be used to detect its use from the network. Take care to use a reasonable "stealthy" search speed, for classic searches, though. All users are strongly encouraged to update to this version.
Version 0.3.10
- Improved user interface.
  - Detailed help for search options is now available as in-page pop-ups.
  - The "Online search speed" option is now presented as a slider.
Version 0.3.9
- New option to control online search speed. FetLife has begun banning accounts that use this script if the search speed is too fast. Setting the "Online search speed" value higher will cause your searches to be slower, but is less likely to trigger FetLife's auto-ban.
- Enable all F-like search options.
Version 0.3.8
- Disable MtF searches. Trans women are women.
Version 0.3.7
- Offer a "return at least X matches per search" option for finding more matches more quickly.
Version 0.3.6
- Added support for searching on Kinkster Search result pages. Useful for combining FetLife's search-by-username with the more advanced search filtering options provided by this script.
Version 0.3.5.1
- Fix bug in Google Chrome where "send ''user'' a message" returned null.
Version 0.3.5:
- Added support for searching profiles while browsing fetish lists.
Version 0.3.4:
- Added support for Google Chrome with the Tampermonkey extension installed.
Version 0.3.3:
- Added support for arbitrary location filtering by substring.
Version 0.3.2:
- Added support for searching user's friend list.
Version 0.3.1:
- Added support for event attendee searches.
Version 0.3:
- Added support for group membership searches.
Version 0.2:
- Added support for State/Province and Country searches.
Version 0.1:
- Initial release.