SAM PACKER Sam is the founding father of Proton Radio, running the station since day one. He manages A&R and all of Proton Radio's operations, including the daily playlist and show development.
JASON WOHLSTADTER Jason originally joined the Proton crew to help Sam develop the website and schedule, but now manages the Proton Music label, design, A&R, promotions, and various other projects.
CONTRIBUTING DEVELOPERS & CODERS The Proton website would not be possible without the help of the following technological gurus who have devoted countless hours to the development of our site.
Matt Schaller
Justin Humber
Alex Ambroziak
Jonathan Hart
Nick Miller
Mark Carey
2007 December 6
Cleaned up the front page of the Proton site a bit for active On Demand subscribers. The yellow side bar will no longer prompt you to subscribe, the small ad badge will not display, and fixed a spacing issue under the flash slideshow. Minor stuff. Going to try and tackle some genre browsing now...
2007 October 17
After months of endless email from users unable to enter both the verification and confirmation codes, I've updated the registration page to instead ask for the normal confirmation code in addition to a simply yes or no question-- are you human?
Many emails have come in over the years from users not receiving activation emails on our site. In an effort to get more emails through Hotmail & Yahoo!'s overly robust spam filters I've gone ahead and modified the e-mail templated used by phpbb2. Hopefully this will help?! The phpbb2 mods seem to think so.
Upon registering on Proton Radio you will now be taken to a welcome splash page after activating your account. The welcome page should hopefully streamline a new users integration into the site by offering them 4 free On Demand mixes as well as explaining how to tune into the free stream-- in case the big play button at the top of the page wasn't obvious enough! :)
Front page now displays Proton Radio's Top 10 most listened to mixes On Demand instead of displaying the handpicked featured mixes. On Demand subscribers who are logged in will see the featured hand picked mixes.
The embedded Quicktime player for the Proton stream was updated and now works.
The download page was updated to include Proton's Flash Player
An exploit in our old admin interface was fixed.
2007 October 8
Fixed an odd bug in the show date browser that hid the Player / DJ / Part # header for individual show sets when a show set of a lesser part number had it's tracklist expanded. A big thanks to Mike Murphy for discovering this bug and notifying us!
A block of text on the front page describing On Demand above the show date browser will dissapear for any active On Demand subscribers if they are logged in.
2007 June 24
Advertisements on the site will now not appear for On Demand subscribers. Ads will appear if your subscription is inactive, expired, or non-existant.
2007 June 23
Some big changes today... after some feedback from various users, I've simplified the main menu to the left of all pages on the Proton site. The drop shadow isn't as strong, some of the pages have been combined, and various items are removed entirely. The goal is to simplify the site, make it easier to read, and take us closer towards a full redesign. The menu and upper section of the site will gradually evolve to hopefully create a better browsing experience for our new and existing users. Please give us your feedback, good or bad!
Various pages have been combined into one Info page. affected pages are: About Us, Contact Us, Submissions, and Version History. Also introduced is an Advertising page providing a brief welcome to any potential advertisers.
The Proton logo at the top of all pages now takes you back to the front page. Not sure why we didn't do this before, sort of rediculous :)
2007 June 18
We had a lot of requests this past week (and over the past few months) to enable auto logging in for our members. Well, I think I got it working... thanks to "Jan500" from the phpBB IRC support channel. A check box at the top of the page with the login form is now available letting you specify whether or not you want this feature. Please give it a try, and let me know if it works!
I don't necessarily think it looks all that great, so if you have a suggestion as to how we can re-design the login box up there I'd be open to suggestions. The other option is to just set auto-login to be true all the time and not give users the option. But options are good, right?
Re-created our links section. Sponsors, top affiliates, and networked pages will appear here. A sponsor is a website/company that helps keep Proton Radio on the air, a top affiliate is a website that sends us a lot of traffic, and a networked page is one that displays our Proton Playe or Proton Schedule RSS feed. If you're interested in getting on this page, please contact us.
The Proton Player now has a playlist for available relays of the free stream. If for whatever reason the relay cuts out, the Proton Player will now shuffle you to the next server in the list. The order of the playlist at the moment is: icy.ranma.desync.com, protonradio.com, and then finally aol.com. If you're interested in hosting some listeners for Proton Radio please contact us.
The version history section now scrolls as to not take up too much space on the pages.
An unknown issue with our forum software, phpBB2, was causing the user sessions table to overflow and crash the site if it reached around 2700 sessions. Since many of these were guest sessions, I wrote a cron job that deletes any guest sessions over an hour old. This seems to have resolved the issue for now.
2007 June 8
Fixed an On Demand streaming bug that prevented sets with URL encoded strings from playing. For example, all the old Particle sets from 2003 were not playing because they had the "%20" code for a space. These sets will now play back as intended. Thanks to "Vincent" for finding this bug.
2007 June 7
Fixed a bug on the DJ bio pages that failed to display mix sets on the first day they were broadcasted.
2007 June 6
The show set browser, which appears on all show pages and the On Demand page, will now properly target the _top window when clicking play next to any set. Previously, if a user was not logged in, it would load the Proton site recursively into the small browser frame. Doh! :(
2007 June 5
An updated DJ Panel for Proton hosts is now live featuring many bug fixes, a few layout adjustments, and some minor new features.
After a failed login, the registration page now offers a link to the password reset and request form. Hopefully should stop some of the "forgot my password" emails we get each week!
2007 May 29
Some minor updates today. Wes fixed a bunch of bugs in the DJ Panel. I fixed the show date browser to sort show sets properly by Part #. Before it was sorting by ID, so we if we re-ordered anything in the DJ Panel it would list it out of order. Woo.
2007 May 28
(Beta DJ Panel) On close event function for the mini pop up windows created, allowing functions to be called upon the closing of any mini pop up window. Example currently in place: On closing the bio editing pop up for a DJ it now resets the menu and closes the Edit/Cancel option. (Wes)
2007 May 27
Version history section created and displayed on the "On Demand" and "About Us/Contact Us" pages.
Tune In buttons for premium On Demand sets now appear grey for basic subscribers.
A CSS height attribute was removed from the Proton logo/header that appears atop all pages, resolving a display glitch that slowed down loading on the site. A big thanks to 'Rob'.
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