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Warning – implementing these changes has been a huge undertaking

On Tuesday Microsoft announced that they were making some big changes to the Xbox gamertags system We’ve been working hard to implement these changes here on TrueAchievements from the moment we heard the announcement, and we’re pleased to say that we have just put that new code live.There are two main changes to gamertags that Microsoft announced:If you’ve updated your gamertag (or registered a new one) to include International characters, we now support those gamertags here on TrueAchievements.Once we’ve picked up the change — it should be almost instant — you’ll get a friend feed notification of your new tag, and the new tag will be displayed everywhere on the site. Your gamer page URLs will change to the new tag too, so please be aware of that if you have your TA gamer page bookmarked anywhere.This change has been more controversial, as you can see from the comments on our announcement article For gamers on the new system that do have the hash and digits on the end of their gamertag, we’ve tried our best to implement this new system in a way which is as unobtrusive as possible.and only in the following parts of the site:We are choosing to show the full gamertags in these places initially as we want to prevent impersonation of other TrueAchievements users, without spoiling the aesthetics of the rest of the site.It is no exaggeration to say that the update we have just put live is. It contains over 600 database changes, and over 1,500 code routines have changed. Three of us have been working on this solidly since the announcement was made at E3, and we've clocked up over 100 hours of gamertag-related development between us in the last 3 and a half days.Every single place a linked gamertag was shown on the site has had to be changed to include the unique link to the gamer page from the non-unique gamertag. There will definitely be places where we have missed things, or left the old gamer link in place.If you find any problems (bad links are going to be the most common issue), please post details in this thread and we'll do our best to get them fixed as soon as possible. Thanks for your support!