Tom O'Neil
Tom O'Neil is Gold Derby's Editor, President and Founder. He's the author of "Movie Awards," "The Emmys" and "The Grammys" (Penguin Books) and has written for the Los Angeles Times (on staff from 2005 to 2011), Variety, New York Times, TV Guide and other top media. In 2000, he launched Gold Derby after recruiting a team of other Experts to predict the matchup between "Gladiator" and "Traffic" at the Oscars and Golden Globes, then added predictions for Grammys, Tony Awards and more. In 2011, Gold Derby was relaunched so Users could make their own predictions – for both awards and reality TV shows, too -- and it was acquired by Penske Media Corp. in 2015.
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Hopefully, our new racetrack odds will be in place by next week.
Profile pictures should be visible now. If not, please try uploading it again, OK? If it still doesn’t show up, let me know. You can find a link to “Change Profile Picture” on your profile page. If you do need to upload your profile pic again, please accept our apology. This massive website migration we just made to new, upgraded, faster servers was very complex and work-intensive. It’s possible that we didn’t catch everything.
Newsletter pop-up promo has been disabled.
Your screen name should appear now instead of your real name.
Moderators: All of our core editorial contributors now have moderator powers here in the forums. Let me know if you think we need more moderators.
GD internal messaging system works now.
Riley has a good suggestion that will be implemented in about 2 days: the quote functionality. Right now there are often quotes of previous posts within quotes within quotes, etc. Hopefully, when the tech fix is made, you will only be able to quote the last bit of original text.
What other issues still need to be addressed? Please give us updates on what needs to be done.
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This reply was modified 3 weeks, 6 days ago by
Tom O'Neil.
So sorry about the recent tech issues here in the forums. Yesterday we moved our website to a new server base that loads pages much, much faster. Gold Derby will now load more efficiently moving foward. Our site was only supposed to be offline for a brief time during the server transer on Thursday and a notice about the temporary interruption should’ve popped up during that time.
Please speak up here and tell us what new problems need to be addressed and we’ll jump on them pronto. As for that newsletter pop-up, you should only see that once, then it should vanish. We’ll fix that.
TX.
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This reply was modified 1 month ago by Tom O'Neil.
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This reply was modified 1 month ago by Tom O'Neil.
Today we re-introduced a functionality in our Prediction Center that USED to exist back in the old days and now it’s made a triumphant return. When you make predictions, everything shows up on one page and there’s an “Edit” button in the top-right corner of category boxes so you can make your changes instantly, then return to your main page for that prediction event.
Here’s a peak at what you see on my own page with Emmy picks:
If you haven’t predicted a few categories yet in an event, the new categories appear on top, your existing picks down below. Your main page looks like this:
We’re aware of the missing photos — those will re-appear soon. The important thing for now is that we have the new functionality in place.
RILEY: So glad to see that you share my enthusiasm for this approach. I’ve missed it through the years, but, alas, it’s finally back. Hurrah.
EDEN: We’re working on fixing that link to “View Predictions” — Over the next week we’ll be re-organizing the users’ areas that feature current predictions/ old predictions and scores. Including profile pages. Also leagues — we’re going to retool those so they’re more accessible, easy to find and use (and to see scores). Stay tuned. This overhaul we’re doing now is mammoth, but necessary and, of course, crazy delays and bugs occur. Keep pointing them out, please, so we can correct those soonest. Meantime, many thanks for your patience. Well, except for AnneBoleyn — sorry that you’re disappointed. Come back in a week or two and I think you’ll agree that all of the changes make the site more accessible and user-friendly. Feedback from all of you is key to us getting this right, so keep piping in, pls!
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