Updates updates updates

New Server, no more mongo db and new badges

We finally managed to run a proper server upgrade and upgraded to a brand new server running the newest lingo and security patches.

Skip this next paragraph if you don't talk nerd 

Not that the old server was at risk, but we had to do this at some stage since PHP 5.5 wasn't supported anymore. Main update was therefore the PHP version bump to 7.1. With this came the removal of Mongo Db, which we used for our user activity feed. But since the upgrade from 5.5 to 7.1 caused a little "cluserlove" in regards to backward compatibility we decided to ditch mongo db, since it's all event driven anyways and we only display 10 user activities at a time on your profile page after login. What does that mean for you ? No changes whatsoever.

Changing location

Most of our users reside in the US, Mexico and Australia so instead of hosting our site in Europe we moved our bits and bobs over to the US. Which means quicker page loads for most of you guys.

New badges are in town

Last but not least we chiselled in some new badges, which the deep diver might enjoy quite enormously. "Captain Nemo", "Submarine Cleaner" and "Crazy Monkey Fish" are just a few of the new badge of badges.

Happy dive logging and badge collecting !

What does Diveary do for you as Scuba Diving Business ?

We have put a lot of time and effort into our dive shop directory and wanted to let you know all about the goodies that it brings to your business.


Diveary gives you a completely free directory listing. Just sign up as a regular user and manage all your shop details. Regardless of whether you are a scuba gear provider, under water photography merchant or a full on  -hardly ever available on shore - scuba dive business.
                   

Free scuba dive shop directory listing

Your shop will be listed on Diveary's directory with information which you can manage yourself.

Better ranking on Google

We combine your shop data and your link to your home page with user provided dive log data. Not only will scuba divers find you in our network, but so will Mr Google and Mr Bing ! Which means more traffic being driven to your business.

Claim your existing scuba diving business

Is your shop already registered with us ? No problem you can simply claim your business and keep all the information we already have about you including the dives logged with your business.

Manage your staff 

Got a keen Divemaster logging dives away? Make sure he or she becomes an official staff member on Diveary.

New Dive Shop Directory & Dive Shop Data Management as BETA

We have been rather busy over the last weekends and managed to push out new features.

The biggest changes are:

A new dive shop directory

We have a dive shop directory now. Check it out under https://diveary.com/dive-shops. Scuba divers can now

• see all dive shops per country
• view the dive activity of each dive shop 
• directly contact a dive shop
• get detailed information on each dive shop
• simplified dive shop selection on your dive log form

Dive Shop's Data Management

Dive shops can now claim a business and manage their own content on Diveary. This is great for SEO, supports a dive shop's business and helps new dive shops to attract scuba divers. This is currently in beta testing and only selected shops have access to this feature to make sure things work properly before we inform "the whole world".

This upgrade will allow shops to maintain their staff lists, upload pictures, learn about their visitors on Diveary and how many people have logged dives with them. Furthermore, these dive shops can update contact details and their latitude and longitude to display them nicely on their Diveary profile page.

Find some examples here:

Crest Diving Jervis Bay
Stuart Cove's Dive Bahamas

Thanks for tuning in.

Happy dive-logging,

Your Team Diveary

Full Screen Maps and a yellow wet suit

OK, we decided to use all features google maps has to offer. You can go fullscreen now and drop the little "yellow scuba diver" next to your dive site... if you're lucky you get a nice impression of the surroundings .. Amie's profile is a good example:

https://diveary.com/profile/amie

Yes we just sold google's street view as a new feature 😉

Shiny new features

Team Diveary has been busy,


they pushed out some good new features.

Ticked Off

• SSL - we now finally have the site up and running under a secure connection
• Login directly from Home screen
• a new pretty background picture on the homepage
• daily secure backups to the almighty cloud
• you can add your dive gear and camera equipment to your profile

Coming Soon

• Shops will be able to add their dive staff to their Shop on Diveary 
• Explore dive sites around the world on one big map
• "Dive Gear management tool"
  We want you to be able to see when a service is necessary and even remind you, that your reg needs some mechanical love
• get a little more social
  We want you to be able to go for an afternoon dive at your favourite spot and hit up some potential buddies that go diving around that spot regularly

Dive logging becomes more fun

While Mario is doing a bad job in Koh Tao (Apparently he is to shy to walk into shops with a little flyer about Diveary), Victor and Jiangti came up with some pretty cool features.

Let's put this in a quick list, so you can see what's new:

• Notifications
  Whenever someone follows you or logs you as a buddy in a dive, you will be notified. So you don't really have to look for the activities you are involved in on your Diveary homepage.
  
  
  
• Copy Dive
  Now this is one of our favourites. Whenever someone published a dive you were part of, you now have the opportunity to copy that dive over to your logbook. Meaning less logging work for you, since you might have seen the same critters at the same spot anyway. You only have to adjust your personal notes, your air consumption, weights and so on.
  
  
  
• Little things
  The devil is in the details. So we also had to fix a bunch of little issues. Facebook just recently changed their API calls, but we had no one to call. Mr Zuckerberg was apparently busy or demanded USD 100 for even reading his emails. Mario was complaining about slow internet, so we gave him a little loading icon whenever his log page is busy loading species or dive sites. Mr Google didn't like our page titles for dives, but we also could satisfy him. And this list goes on and on.... but yeah we are on it and love doing it ;-)

Happy Logging

Features in progress

Hi there,

we were able to fix most of the issues that came up during our first week. We are now working on some more features.

• Profile Link 
  Now you get your unique Nickname on your profile page url (just make sure you set your nickname under settings (Example: http://diveary.com/profile/mario)
• Emails
  We had some issues, sending out Emails, they went all straight to the spam folder. We integrated an email gateway to make sure we reach our buddies when we tag them in a dive. This is still work in progress, but we are close to drown the spam filters.
• Notifications 
  This is a feature soon to be released, we want to know if someone tags us in a dive or follows our deep water activities.
• Dive Log Imports
  Some of us have dive computers and hell yeah we don't want to type in every single dive we did, since it's given in a nice digital format already. This will hopefully be finished early next week and looks good so far. It comes with a fancy little graph which then shows your exact dive profile.

Happy logging....

The imported dive profile data in early stages,...

Notifications in development