Gadgets & Tech – We've fixed a lot of bugs, ordered member activity in chronological order on the profile page, and added more options for the Friends' page, including as list of your friends' recent submissions (as in the last generation of the profile pages) and a Recent Friends' Activity page, which is a web-based version of our recently released Firefox extension. We've also added a new stats page and upped the font size of any Notes you want to add to the stories on your Activity pages. Also, there is now a note at the bottom of each story indicating what type of interaction you had with the story.
Now THAT'S more like it! Avatars I can see again, a cool stats page, friends activity & submitted stories (is there a way to tell which friends are online?)
My heart palpitations are going away now....THANKS :)
Your friends that are online are listed first and have a bold orange border around their box on your friends page.
Aha! That works for me. Thanks:)
I've been playing around on the friends activity page and it's not keeping pace with the Firefox stalker, er..activity bar. It's not showing any activity even while I'm getting notices on the FF sidebar.
Once you view the activity in the Firefox sidebar, it won't show up on that page. If you view the activity on that page, those stories won't show in the sidebar. In other words, once you view some activity in either place, you shouldn't see it again.
It's something we're working on tweaking so that you can reload the page and still see recent activity, but for now, that is how it works.
I'm ranked 8th on the commnets, cool.
Luvmyprez is ranked a distant 98502nd !!! LMAO! There are definitely some haters out there.
And guess who is the highest ranked commenter... http://www.netscape.com/member/STONERS/stats
There are two options for this:
1. You can find all of the anchors, navigators, and developers on the About page: http://www.netscape.com/about/ (linked at the bottom of every Netscape page). Any staff member that is currently online will have a "Send Message" link next to their avatar.
2. On the home page, in the bottom of the right column, there is an "On Shift" section that lists all of the Anchors and Navigators that are online at Netscape in an official capacity, as opposed to just casually browsing around.
Hope this helps!
We thought having just the on shift anchors and navs on the homepage was more effective. You can always add anchors and navigators as friends. :)
What did you use the anchor links for?
Also, What other odds and ends do you think are hanging loose?
Thanks for the feedback.
Everyone has my permission to befriend the entire Netscape team. :-)
Hot dawg! You'll all just love to receive my story submissions, lol! Think I'll wait to be on the receiving end of the friend thing ;)
Seriously C.K., you have all done a fantastic job today. What started out as a freak-out by all of us was handled beautifully and I'm so appreciative that our concerns & complaints were listened to. Hats off!
The send message button bug has been fixed. It will show up on the live site next time we push out code.
The 40 friends are just for display. When others view your public page they will see an "add" link. I guess I dont have a good explanation for why they are there, other than to let members see who your friends are.
The post note feature is new. You can add notes to any story on your participation/activity pages. When other member go to your profile (participation/activity) pages they will see your notes. For example, If you vote for a story you can add a note saying why. It is a way to mini-blog about items in your participation.
A side note: I will be adding a "remove note" feature soon. Right now you cant really delete or blank out a note.
I will agree again. Perhaps set a maximum limit to the tiered reply system. Most of the comments that are replies, to replies, to replies, etc... are often 2 or sometimes 3 users having a conversation. The drift to the right on certain comment threads makes it difficult to read (i.e. we have to scroll down comments that are really scrunched far to the right and take up a lot of vertical space) and they can be difficult to understand in terms of the structure (especially when people reply to older comments in a long comment thread).
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Wow, this is great stuff.
The stats page is incredible. A future addition for the API that would be nice is Netscape stats badges that we can put on our blogs/websites/myspace pages (eg. http://www.diggsig.com/ )
I'm also loving the friends recent activity page as a non-firefox alternative to the extension as well as the "Made it to Homepage!" notices on stories.
Thanks guys!
The stats badge is a great idea, im writing that one down.
He's referring to a Netscape equivalent of what they offer at http://diggsig.com/