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Semptember, 08th 2012
Internationalization update:

Coaster-Count is now available in Portuguese. Thanks to Lucas Ferraz.
We recently updated and completed Italian. Thanks to Riccardo Righi.
We recently updated and completed Dutch. Thanks to William Dwars.
The language-specific subdomains got dropped, your language is now always driven from your profile, regardless where you come from or what device you are using.
Translation of the mobile version in all languages.
Translation of the banner, this will be shown always in the browser-requested language now.
Translation of the datepicker, what was only available in English so far.

August, 30th 2012
Mobile devices, Web-App and Browser-compatibility:

Improvements of the whole page to work with netbooks, iPads, iPhones, tables and other mobile devices.
Adaption of the mobile version. You will now be asked whitch version to use on entering the page with a mobile device.
iPhone users can now install a Web-App running as native app from homescreen with some improvements.
Logging in is valid for both versions now.

August, 24th 2012
We got some more features and a boost for you.

You can now enter the coaster-ridden date directly while counting. If the extra dialogue annoys you, no worries, it is hideable directly from the dialogue or in the options. The mobile version got also enhanced by an ridden-date request.
A count-history-chart has been added to the user information page.
Email notification on every coaster-update targeting one of your counted coasters. No more wondering why count raised or dropped.
In the coaster-lists, compare-charts and in the user profiles: A new box showing the strict number of coasters.
Performance of the complete site, especially the ranking, significantly increased.
A lot of bugfixes, mostly reported by you, thanks for the support.

August, 16th 2012
We recently begun to add more features to Coaster-Count. Thank you for all the feedback. Today we have two great additions for you:

We are proud to introduce the Coaster-Count banner. The banner is activated for all visible users on Coaster-Count. You can change the banner-visibility in the options. The banner shows your personal coaster-definition and your strict, total and personal number of coasters. The strict number of coasters is shown in green, while the total number of coasters is shown in red. Please have in mind, the banner is an image that will be cached by browsers, so it may not always show the latest version. More information and how to use and embed see options.
Your coaster-list is now visible for non registered users by using a deep link. You can activate this feature in the options, further you can choose if non registered users can also see your dates when you rode the coasters.

August, 8th 2012
Today we broke the 7000th coaster line. We began with 3000 coasters in 2005, so this is really awesome. Happy 7000th coaster!

October, 15th 2009
A bunch of new features got added to maps and trips.

Maps

The number of unridden credits now follow the personal coaster definition. Even if you have ridden a coaster on another location, this is now show in the maps with a different color.
The maps of the continents also now follow your personal coaster definition.
The continent maps are available in two different versions: All coasters and only credits (much clearer).
Clicking on a park now brings a new tab with all coasters in the park.

Trips

You can now duplicate trips.
All public trips of a user are now shown in his or her profile.
There you can also duplicate trips for personal use.
The street map now can be shown in three different versions: Only parks that arte on on a trip, additionally all parks with open credits (default), all parks. So you can easyly see if you are missing a park on your trip.
A summary with all days has been added. You will see the calculated driving duration and distance for every day.
Export the complete trip or a single day with it's etaps to Google where you can continue editing your trip or print a map with routing information.

May, 15th 2009
Add a date to every ridden coaster. In your list you can now enter a date for every coaster. For you may not remeber the exact dates you can also enter only a month or only a year.

October, 1st 2008
Completely unnoticed coaster-count celebrated it's third birthday. A few weeks ago we added the 5000th coaster. This means coaster-count hostes more coasters than any other page. Thanks to everyone.

Maps are complete for all countries, thanks to Thomas.
Maps now follow the personal coaster definition (filters).
Street maps of every continent are available now.
A friendlist got added to the rankings. Just put your friends on the list by selecting them in the ranking. Then activate the personal filter and the ranking only shows people you want so see.

December, 18th 2007
Plan your coaster-trips easy and comfortable at coaster-count.com. View directly your personal credits on a trip. When switching your trip to public, you can share the deep-link width your friends. Every user watching your trip encounteres his personal credits.

Plan trips and directly view the number of credits
Optional sharing trips with friends by sending deep-link
Add and remove parks and other locations (e.g. overnight stations)
Classify each station in new day, same day or night
Multiple stations at one day
Calculates date on entering trip start date
Cross-national
Coaster-count map of each country with detailed route
Calculates driving distances and durations for each etap
Street map with every station

An example:
ECC American Adventure 2008

July, 21th 2007
After some more hard work the north american maps are complete. Thank you Thomas!
Here we go with some changes:

Every coaster that has been relocated or rethemed or changed the owner is now marked with a small paper. Folowing the link you will get a list of all the coasters different themings, locations or owners. You are able to show witch versions you have ridden, identical coasters only count one as used to traveling coasters before. You can help us reporting linkings between transportable and stationarily coasters.
Up to now Moebius coasters have only count one. Reguarding technical details of the track itself that seems fine, there is only one track though. But there is an important fact: You have to queue twice and you have to ride twice to have ridden the whole coaster, similar to racing coasters. Reguarding the fun on the coaster the track itself is insignificant. Beside that, you would have to count a half coaster on riding only once - you know that is not possible. So we decided to treat Moebius coasters the same as racing coasters and list both sides. Of cause there is no force to count both if your attitude differs from ours.
We canceled the filter for traveling coasters. Therefore we introduced the new display option "Show location" that displays "in parks", "non parks" and "traveling".

July, 6th 2007

Finally you can edit your profile to change your name or birthday.
We canceled the traveling filter and added a new coaster listing option " List location " to list "parks", "non parks" and "traveling".
After some hard work the european maps are complete. Thank you Boris and Thomas!

June, 25th 2007
Low page size mobile version coaster-count.mobi optimized for pda and cell phones to access coaster-count on the way. Please email us on missing features or any occuring problems.

June, 10th 2007
After a long break we are back working on coaster-count for a few month presenting the following new features:

The favorites got revised again. You will now be mentioned to rank your selected favorites on a red favorite button.
Your private options and your personal coaster definitions have been moved to the new options section.
You will be noted new coasters and new maps on a red coaster or red maps button
Coaster lists and user informations has been improved with a comparing count section depending on your the different coaster definitions.
Completly new maps.
For better accessibility links do not open new windows any more.
Alpine coasters got added a link to soroda.de.

February, 27th 2006
We proudly present the coaster-count map feature. Actually we got maps of Germany, Austria and Switzerland with parks and coasters. You can now see where you have to go and plan trips easily. More maps are comming hopefully soon, therefore we need your help. Are you familair with maps, coordinates, google Earth, Mapquest and theme park locations? Contact us, your help will be honored.
Added extensions:

Maps of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The favorites got revised. You can now select up to 10 wooden and steel coasters. The Selection in your list and the ordering of your favorites got highly improved.
If you want to count only for yourself, you can now switch yourself from public to privat in your list.
News are now show on the new coaster-count news section. New news are marked until read.
Users not been here for over two month will be reminded via email before dropping out of the ranking.
All tables got optimized for best wiev with 1024 pixels screen resolution to avoid wrapping.
Selecting an other language will now result on directly change the current site to the selected language, so you can alway switch if needed.

December, 15th 2005

Coaster-count and onride.de forum got completely separated. We established our own session, cookie and user management and a coaster-count registration form. At this time we are just sharing the usernames with onride.de. Your coaster-count account is not influenced by your onrie.de activities and vice versa; thouhg you can still use your same username and password.
The misc page got abolished, the functions "top coaster" and "monthly top counter" got integrated to the coasterlist and to the rankings.
There is now an extendet search funktion where you can search for coaster, parks and users. The red Select links in the search results lead directly to the coasterlist / ranking with your selected entry marked blue.

October, 3rd 2005
Today we added two more categories to the special coasters: Water and undefined. Feedback is welcome for any coasters that should go there.

August, 28th 2005
Now there is a dutch version of coaster-count available at du.coaster-count.com. Thanks to Toon Kockx for the translation. For more languages we need your, help. Please contact us at any time.

August, 26th 2005
In cooperation with parksmania.it we proundly present an italian version of coaster-count available at it.coaster-count.com. Thanks to Silvia Forghieri and Bruno Lancetti for the translation.

August, 23th 2005
Today we made some improvements to the rankings table and added a search engine:

You can now filter the rankings for coasters at a specific continent or country.
You can now filter the rankings for members at a specific continent or country.
Also you can sort the rankings by a specific special coaster attribute.
We added a coaster search: Enter a coaster name or a part of a coaster name and let us search for you. On clicken on Select in the sear results you will directly linked to the coaster an park list at the spceific position.

August, 18th 2005
Now there is a German version of coaster-count available at de.coaster-count.com or coaster-count.de.

August, 6th 2005

You now can select up to six wooden and six steel fovorite coasters.
Users who counted coaster since your last visit or changed their favorites are marked with red background.
Changed favorites are marked with a red Fav link in the rankings.
Counted coasters are marked with a red +x and a red List link in the rankings.
Since your last visit new added coasters are marked with red background in the worldmap and in the coasterlist., so you wont miss new coasters anymore
At the misc section there is a list showing users with the most additions in the actual month; users new to coaster-count are not shown there though.

July, 20th 2005
Hi counting coaster friends!

This is the new coaster-count. Your next generation in counting coaster with some new features, never seen filters and transportable coasters!
For some people may not want to count traveling, alpine, butterfly or powered coasters, you can filter them out in the rankings.

If you miss a coaster, feel free to email us at cc@coaster-count.com, please include park or owner, type, design and status.

Thanks to Duane Marden, Daniel Warwas and Thorsten Janke.
Have fun,
Volker

July, 1st 2005
Beta version of coaster-count launched.

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