And hey you bums, when I registered (when trux launched the site), I got through the test with the 3rd time!
Yeah, I agree, it is not that difficult as some try to claim
. The statistics at
APNEA.cz - Site Statistics (based on +2000 test attempts) show that the average is 3.5 attempts per user, so anyone needing more than four attempts should consider taking some theory lessons
The majority of users came through on the first attempt or within the first registration session (it means 2-3 attempts).
As for new features - there is much more than just the User Map with freedivers' locations and the hosting list, but I do not want to permanently spam DB with the announcements of my own website here each time I add one (Papa Smurf as well as members could be rightly upset), so I just post the new features in my
changelog and some of them in the
forum on APNEA.cz. Some of the newer features are listed in this thread
APNEA.cz - User Forum
The forum and the Private Messaging, unlike the commonly used vBulletin or phpBB, and just like all the rest of the APNEA.cz system are my own and quite fresh software development, so there are still many bugs (not really having enough time and sufficient feedback to clean them up rapidly). However, the most important parts work, so if you are interested you are welcome to check out the threads in the forum, or add your own comments, suggestions, or bug reports - both regarding the software, and the training exercises in ATM, or even regarding media and other links in the Media Base.
One of the most important features is the possibility to create
teams. I did it with the specific purpose for our local club Cyrnéa, but is now available to other APNEA.cz members too. The team functionality of APNEA.cz allows better and easier club and training management, and you can create a club website with it rather easily - see the one of
Cyrnéa as a working example. Since we are 50 in the club with many new members changing each year, the "
trombinoscope" helps us to remember each others names, there are subscription forms, team blog (will be release in the next days), private club forum, training and event calendar (still in works), and of course the Media Base, and Apnea Training Manager (ATM). The ATM is connected with the training planner and calender, so instructors can simply pick up training session from the database, adjust the levels for individual groups, print them out and bring to the pool.
APNEA.cz allows setting privacy levels for your personal data in the Profile. By default most of them are hidden to public, but are (or may be) shared with your team (or buddies only) - so if you log into the team website, you then see much more details than regular visitors about the other members - the user list then includes full names, phone numbers and emails of other members, and additionally all those details can be downloaded as so called "vCards" (virtual business cards) or an entire address book directly into Outlook, Eudora, or other email programs, or even directly into your cell phone - and that including the fancy thumbnails (see below), so you see the faces of your team mates when they call you.
Currently Cyrnéa is the only functional team on APNEA.cz, but there are two others - Jorg created one, but I think rather by mistake then intentionally (putting the name of his buddy into the wrong field in his profile), and Jhonalex created a team intentionally, but it was in the very first days after releasing the beta version of this functionality, so I believe he abandoned it thinking it did not work (which was partly true at the beginning).
Now it is though much better working, though not yet fully completed. So if you have a local club or a group of people and are in a need of an independent forum (the team forums have both private and public parts), training planning, user member map, club website, club blog, club address book, etc - you can use APNEA.cz for that. Any APNEA.cz members can join an existing team, but you need a regular (paid bu cheap) account for founding the team.
