Just launched some new nifty PM features this afternoon. Nothing big, but should helpful to those of you have a lot of PMs you need to sort through. The changes can be seen below (or in your own inbox):
The UI Changes:
The PM Toolbar: Allows you to quickly select messages in your Inbox/Outbox. You can select messages by 'Unread', 'Read' or 'All' and you can de-select messages by clicking the 'None' link.
Instant Delete: The red 'X' next to each pm thread will allow you to quickly delete a PM from your inbox. Note - this does not give you a warning message, it simply deletes the thread from your Inbox.
We should hopefully be adding more tools soon -- these were just some quick additions to you help you guys out :)
We just deployed new notification code this morning that allows you to configure your account to receive instant email notifications if you so choose. This was an old feature on ComicVine and its something we're happy to have brought back.
Instant email notifications follow the same rules as the instant pm notifications that are already on the site - you essentially define which actions kick emails off to you. The current actions are:
Friend requests
When another user comments on your content (blogs, images, reviews, guides, etc.)
Wiki submission approvals (not instant approvals, but those that go through moderation)
Guide edits by another user (on public guides)
Wall posts by another user on your wall
Review recommendations
@Replies and @Quotes in the forums
By default, we carried over everyone's old PM notification settings - so those should be the exact same. Instant Email notifications are turned off by default, so if you want to receive notifications via email - you are going to have to go to your settings to turn them on. Note that emails are pure text, not html, so they should be easily readable and should provide a link back to the activity that generated the message.
Follow the instructions below to configure your notification settings:
1. Go to your notification settings in your profile:
2. Configure your settings and click 'Save':
3. Sit back and wait for notifications to come through. Note - you may need to check Spam settings on your email and add ComicVine/GiantBomb/AnimeVice to your 'Safe' list.
Ok dudes - quick update to the @reply and @quote functionality in the boards and the comment system.
We just deployed the following functionality:
@replies: These work the same way they currently do. You click the 'Reply' link in the boards/comments to reply to a user. This action also sends a PM to that user letting them know that you replied to them.
@quotes: The quote system now works the same way as @replies. When you click the 'Quote' link the boards/comments, you will quote that user in your post and this will also send out a PM to that user letting them know that you replied to them.
Quotes are now truncated when they're displayed. We wanted to clean up all of the crazy nesting that happens in the boards when you quote somebody. If you want to see the entire html of the quoted post, there is a 'more' link that you can click which will pull up that text.
These features are now available to every single user on the site. The 200+ post limit has been lifted.
Quotes and Replies are now available in comments.
Hope you guys dig the new features and of course, feel free to contact me w/ any bugs or feedback you may have. Thanks.
Small new feature for you guys and gals. We just launched @replies in the boards and on comments. An @reply is a way for you to directly reply to a somebody else's comment as well as notify them about your reply. We've been noticing users doing this for some time now on the boards - this is just a more formal way to reply to somebody (with the added bonus of kicking off a PM to them to let them know).
FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
To send an @reply to another user on the boards or from within the comment system, click the 'Reply' link next to that user's comment.
This will scroll you down to the reply box, and will append an @username (the author of the post) to the textarea. Go ahead and write your comment and click 'Submit'.
This will post your comment just like it normal, it will also send a PM to the author of the post letting them know that you are responding to them. Note, that you can only reply to one user in your post. Also, typing @username yourself may indicate in the thread that you are replying to a user, but it will not send a PM to that user.
WHO GETS THIS NEW FEATURE:
We are currently testing this new feature with the following users:
- Staff
- Our Moderators
- Users who have 200+ posts
COMING SOON:
This is just the beginning, we're going to be working on the following functionality:
- @username: will link to the original post.
- PM Threading: So 2 @replies from the same person will create a single PM
- @respond back to the user via PM, and have it post in the board
- Working on a way to allow users to simply type @username in the post and have the system figure it out as if the user had hit the 'reply' button
FEEDBACK:
As you know, your feedback is always welcome - so if there are any tweaks or extended functionality you would like to see - please let us know. Thanks - happy posting.
So we have decided to take the Whiskey Developer Podcast (The Speakeasy) in a new direction. In the upcoming podcasts (and related blog posts) we'll be talking more about code and the tools and tricks we're using to help us build our sites. Along with each podcast, we'll be publishing code snippets and examples to help listeners follow along and hopefully use/discuss the code we're releasing. The goal being, to give the community a deeper understanding of the technology we use to build our sites and to help budding developers grow
In this podcast, we discuss how we go about setting up the data structures for our sites - as well as how we use Python and Django to abstract a number of repetitive tasks in the process. We also talk about the current projects each of us are currently working on, as well as what you can expect from the team in the near future.
The associated code samples (and all future code samples) are hosted atGitHub.
We just finished up (well last friday), our first Whiskey Media Developer Podcast: The Speakeasy.
It's really just a chance for developers on the sites to discuss what we've been working on, certain challenges we're facing, what's coming up from a feature standpoint on our sites, etc. We also wanted to briefly talk about the most important topics happening on each of the three Whiskey sites (AnimeVice, ComicVine and GiantBomb).
So, if you're interested in how the sites are built, what new features we're going to be launching or are just curious to hear the devs shoot the shit for a bit, then check out the podcast and give us your feedback.
Note: This is our first one, so we're probably going to be tweaking the format of the podcast a bit each week until we find something that we're all stoked on -- so, if you have any suggestions, please drop them in the comments.
Also, if you're a developer and you have any questions about anything really - go ahead and PM them to me and we'll try to work them into next week's podcast. Thanks guys - hope you dig it :)
Hey guys, so by now, you should all be pretty aware of the new Karma System we launched last week. This is a just a heads up to let everyone know that we will be pushing this system to Reviews and Comments sometime today or tomorrow.
We are about to launch a new User Moderation System (dubbed the Karma System). We are getting rid of the old [ + - ] system because it was too anonymous and not very effective in reporting questionable/objectionable content to the moderators.
This new system is simply a more efficient way of flagging objectionable content so that the moderators can deal with it.
How The System Works:
Every user starts with 0 karma points.
If you flag an item, you lose a karma point and the author of the content you flagged loses a karma point.
Once you get below -5 karma points, you can no longer flag any content.
Once you get below -10 karma points, you can no longer post to the site.
Everybody gains 1 point back at the end of every day.
Workflow:
Once an item is flagged, it goes to a moderation queue.
Forum moderators will monitor this queue to determine if flagged content is OK or if it needs to be removed from the site.
If a moderator deems content as OK, he will mark it thusly and the author of that content will receive his/her karma points back. (The reporting user will still have lost their point for flagging the content.)
If a moderator deems content as inappropriate, he/she will remove it and the karma points stay (for both users).
Just a heads up that we're going to be launching a new User Moderation System (we're calling it the Karma System) sometime this week. Basically we needed a better, more efficient way for offensive content to be flagged and sent to the moderators.
This system will be outlined in more detail when we launch, but it will essentially allow each user to flag offensive content found on the site (starting with the Forums and moving on to Comments, Reviews and possibly PMs).
More details to come, but here are some screenshots so you guys can see what we're working towards:
Gallery
More info to come as we get closer to launch - thank you.
Fresh off the heels of the new PM Forwarding feature, comes a way to permanently remove yourself from a thread. So, say you have a thread in your inbox that has a bunch of people in it and it doesn't really pertain to anything that you care about.
You can delete this thread using the regular delete button - this removes the PM from your inbox, however, if somebody replies to the thread then it shows up as a new PM in your inbox again. Kinda whack.
So, we added a new feature to remove yourself completely from the thread. The button to do this is located in the header area of the PM detail page on the right hand side. This is un-doable so heads up. Enjoy.
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