A lot of work went into a rewrite of the skin search page this weekend, and that has resulted in a major increase in accuracy and functionality. It should now be considered the best way to find the exact skin you're looking for. Check it out.

There have also been a number of under the hood changes, mostly focused on performance. You may have also noticed that some of the urls have been changing to make them cleaner and more search engine friendly. Don't worry though, the old urls will still work.

Also, the front page of the site has undergone a small redesign, to better highlight the Skins Of The Day and the Featured Contributors.

Finally, for a couple months now, I have been testing the caching of images used in skin previews. This should help keep previews from being overrrun with "bandwith exceeded" errors from the free image hosting services. I will continue to cache images from the most active previews as long as my bandwith limits can handle it.

Oh, and finally finally, I now have assistance with skin moderation, so if you notice copied skins, skins that are not skins, or skins which are using images without permission, please continue to use the skin complaint functionality, and those skins will be dealt with much more quickly than before.

More to come...