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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Lots of Little Bits

I've been busy. Oh boy, have I been busy. During the past two weeks, I have been designing a number of new features as well as working on fixing and maintained older features, including modifying a ton of smaller items, such as:
  • Revised relative dates -- Now dates read as "2 weeks, 6 days ago" or "2 days, 4 hours ago". This is a finer granularity without being a useless exact date.
  • User stats -- This listing of # of projects, friends, followers, followings, visitors, visits, posts, and comments--all depending on what type of page you are at--is starting to show how users and projects will be able to keep track of their vitals.
  • Activity Feeds -- There have been a number of changes:
    • the aesthetic has been cleaned up; colors & sizes are now standardized.
    • deletion of activity feeds can be undone
    • if an activity is by a friend, a following, or a project you are in or are following, the type is displayed in the activity feed.
  • A number of other image refinements have taken place, as you may see in the Getting Started module, the What is SunRayLab module, as well as in a few other places.
  • Profile images have been upgraded to allow all users (including new) to select one of 18 pre-made profile images. New users even have the choice of uploading their profile image during registration.
  • A number of bugs have been squashed, such as blog archives, previewing and adding comments, cropping images, and activity feed types.
  • The 'People' tab has been updated to show more details.
  • Your personal profile is starting to show some person effects, such as your profile photos (all of them), personal bio, stats/vitals, and your friends, followers, and followings. Privacy controls will be introduced later on as I start to figure out what else will be in the profile.
As soon as I finish up my to-do list (about a dozen items), I will begin to implement the forums and photo galleries. Expect me to get that far in the next month.
 
3 comments
Thu Feb 7, 2008
1 | Robert Samuel Clay / conesus
To add to this, notice that the Dashboard now shows all of the recently updated activities, only showing the ones you haven't read since your last login.
Fri Feb 8, 2008
2 | Robert Samuel Clay / conesus
I am also adding in a new notion of Responses.

Responses are notifications of replies to either your content or your activity. For example, if somebody replies to the same blog post that you commented on, the reply will show up in your Responses.

This is different from Activities in that it is oriented towards what the content is doing, as opposed to Activities focus on what people are doing.
Wed Feb 13, 2008
3 | Brittany Janis / brittanyjanis
Just testing to see if I can post on your blog bc. for some reason when I try to post something on NY Law it's not working-- I imagine it's got something to do with my lack of computer savy.
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