Who Loves You, Baby?
Posted by Melanie on November 19th, 2008Just about a month ago, we kicked off our birthday party by asking you to chime in and let us know where you’d like to see Mixx go in our second year. We asked for your Wish List o’ Features and then, as a community, you voted for the three you most wanted to see. In return, we promised that we’d get them up and running by the end of the year. Not surprisingly, you had opinions to express and now we have features to tout!
So without further ado, here’s where we stand:
- Moving Notifications from email to Site Mail: Our top vote earner, on-site notifications allow you to get notifications like “You have a new friend!” right on Mixx. Then we’ll give you a little nag—just once a day—so you can check in. We don’t want you to miss out on any notifications. If you are currently getting notifications in email, you’ll need to go to your settings page and tweak the settings just the way you want them.
- Improved Friend-ing: The second favorite suggested feature, the upgraded Friend feature makes it easy to see which of your friends are mutual and which only go one way. Check out your fans (go to www.mixx.com/users/<yourMixxID>/fans) and friend them back!
- Show All Mixxers: This is a really cool little feature that will let you see every Mixxer who voted on a story, photo or video. We expect to have it up and running very soon.
As we said, the top three vote getters would be part of our Year Two roadmap, and while we’ve already delivered two and a half, we thought, what the heck, we’ll go ahead and toss in a few more!
- Community Widget: Run a Community on Mixx? Now you can grab all of the headlines that reach Popular in your Community and send them directly to your website. Check it out on the Make Your Widget page.
- Simplified Submit Flow: So maybe it didn’t make it to the top of the list, but many of you have asked for it, so now it’s easier than ever to get your content into the Mixx and right where you need it to be.
- Submit Button: Tired of looking for the Submit button? Search no more—you’ll now find in the header area of every page.
Now, who else is going to ask you how you want a community to work, and then not only listen to your requests, but deliver? We’re pretty sure that your Mixx Team is the only one doing it and that’s because, yes, we do love you.
We’re sprinting to get one more release in before the Thanksgiving holiday, so stay tuned to find out about the Mixx goodness to come!
Your Mixx Team
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