Mixx Messaging ReMixx

We’ll be doing an update to Mixx this morning! We’ve been tinkering with Mixx Mail. Why? Because we’re not fans of the old adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” (and not only because we once had our knuckles rapped for saying “ain’t”). So we’ve made a few upgrades and we think you’ll like what we’ve done.

No more trying to remember a MixxID or squinting at all your Mixx friends’ tiny little avatars. Now you can just start typing the name and Mixx Mail will automatically narrow the list until it finds the right Mixxer. Select the name and continue on to the next person on your list, or just click send. Pretty easy, no? NOTE: Please be sure that you’ve selected the correct MixxIDs, as we cannot be responsible if what you should have left in Vegas actually ends up being sent to everyone in the Group you set up for work. Just sayin’.

Several of you gave us some great ideas about interface changes, and a couple that we’ve incorporated (so far!) include:

• How we display who is in on the conversation, say for example, you, Richard Simmons, Jerry and Ricky. Any more Mixxers than that and it will say “Get back to work and stop watching talk show reruns.” Well, that or “between you and X+ people.”
• At the bottom of each message you’ll now find a “Return to Top of Message” link, a “Return to Inbox” link and a “Remove Me From This Conversation” link. There’s also a “Remove Me From This Conversation” link at the top of every message, in case, you know, you’re pretty sure you know how it’s going to turn out and don’t want to stay ‘til the end.
• You can now choose to only receive Mixx Mail from your friends—no more unwanted fan mail clogging up your box!

Now you can send a message to a friend while you’re on their profile page! Just click the Mixx Mail link and we’ll pop up a message box, pre-populated with that Mixxer’s name. Just think up a snazzy subject line, add a clever message and click “Send.”

New for Group Administrators

Are you the Group administrator? We’ve made a few upgrades that we think you’ll find very handy.

• Send broadcast messages to Group members directly from your Group page. This feature will act like the new Mixx messaging from a profile page (see above), with the addresses pre-populated. The big difference is that this is a one-way only communication.
• Get an RSS feed for your Group, as long as that Group is set to “public.”
• You’ll now get Abuse Reports on items that appear within your group and you’ll also have the ability to banish recidivists—that’s right: Repeat O-ffenders. (Raising Arizona? Anyone?)

So check it out and happier Mixx Mailing! We hope the changes make it easier to communicate with your fellow Mixxers and, as always, we expect to hear from you! Comments, questions, suggestions, expressions of your undying devotion (because you know you have ours), whatever you have, we want to hear it.

Your Mixx Team

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