Mixxcellany
Posted by Kerry on April 17th, 2008mis•cel•la•ny
pronounced mis-uh-ley-nee
a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.Or, in Mixx terms, our mixxcellany release. First, and most importantly, a number of user requests (and props to their suggestors):
- Thanks to JNBammer, a “Career” category in Business
- Thanks to m4tt, a “Google” category in Tech (and in return, m4tt wrote a nice thank you note to us!)
- Thanks to NaturalWoman, a submit button on the Search Results page so you can submit directly from there after searching for duplicates.
- Thanks Pleeker, RobDiana, Calinazaret, Tunisian Guy and Yoda among others, improvements to the way Breaking News is presented. You can now see “Almost Breaking” news that one SuperMixxer has flagged as breaking. Making it easier for news to break, and giving credit to the SuperMixxers who are flagging breaking news.T
- Thanks Camille, a much better link to “Edit Your Mixx.”
- For CMcGill, we moved the “add everything” option on the “Add To YourMixx” widget to the bottom of the list.
- For MarkCarras, we moved the “Email This” link back to where it used to be on the story/photo/video pages.
And a couple of things we found:
- On your profile, under your “Voted for” tab, you now only see things you voted for that you didn’t submit.
- We cleaned up some problems with our story clustering feature related to groups.
- We also fixed a bug causing votes within groups to be counted incorrectly.
Finally, we introduce The Cook’s Corner. This can be found in the Kitchen section in the Mixx footer. In The Cook’s Corner, you’ll see some links (more coming) to some experimental stuff our engineers have cooked up in their spare time. Yes, even with all the above stuff going on, they still find time to play around. We are especially interested in what you think of some of the stuff there!
Think that covers it, but if you find other stuff we did, be sure to let us know!
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