Coming Up For Air

Hello, awesome Mixx Community!

You may have noticed that we’ve been a little quiet lately. Besides our release of Mixx Communities, we haven’t given you too many goodies in quite some time. We’re changing that.

Right now, our engineers are hard at work doing some re-factoring of Mixx’s code in our never-ending quest of making Mixx faster, more stable and more reliable. Although Joe (aka DonutEyeJoe), Jason, Bill, Raghu and Mike love Babies (& Lemons), they don’t like to see many of them around Mixx! We’ll hopefully be putting the finishing touches on this phase of work in the next couple of weeks.

After that, we’re moving on to other items, as usual, requested by our Mixxers!

Holy Spam, Batman!
Things like blogspam, blind voting and other sketchy behavior can be annoying. We’ve got some creative ideas to continue getting the cream of the crop to float to the top. In the meantime, if you see something dicey, hit that “Report This” button—KoriHill loves nuking bad guys. SuperMixxers can now send in unlimited reports, so start hunting.

Communities For All
Mixxers have taken to Communities like a pig to, well, you get the idea. With that have come some great suggestions for improvements that we’ll be taking to heart and pushing out. We’re also making it easier for you to find the best Communities out there.

But I Have a Name!
Annoyed when “CNNReader” or “YouTubeViewer” beats you to the punch submitting that awesome content from our partners? Well, soon we will let you claim that anonymous submission if you are the first Mixxer to find it. You’ll get a small slice o’ karma and the ability to edit the tags, categories and locations.

We’re Serious, Really
Long promised, but soon to be delivered, we’re really going to launch nested comments. We promise. We even have a cool layout from our designer, Alex! We’re just waiting for Doug to get back from Thailand to get started.

Not Like Everyone Else
Finally, we’ve got some killer ideas to further differentiate ourselves from the rest of the crowd. No, we’re not going to tell them to you just yet. Well, if you come up with a new pair of pants for Will, then maybe we’ll give you some hints.

As always, we welcome feedback and would love to hear from you. Together, we’re building a great Community and want to continue that partnership!

~The Mixx Team

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