New Release: Oi!
We're happy to bring you the latest features, fresh out of development. Onto the highlights:
Share This Made Better
We've expanded the "Share This" feature to allow you to share all asset types, including photos, video, audio and books. You'll see the option to "Share This" on the confirmation page after you upload the item as well as on the asset itself.
You can also now share non-public assets with your friends and family who aren't on Vox yet. We'll send them a notification email which will prompt them to first register for Vox and once they're signed up they'll be able to see your non-public content.
A Fresh Coat of Paint
We've been working on the all-important first impression Vox makes to the world, so today we launched a new logged-out home page. The goal is still to bring in brand new users to Vox, and we're hoping to do that by giving a glimpse of some of the great things that are going on inside the community.
The new logged out home page shows Team Vox news, some featured Vox users, and a search box to discover content. This [this is good] box also shows up on the redesigned page, so the Voxers' posts and photos that are featured will be seen by a lot more people!
Re-Blog
This
The "Re-blog" feature is now just called "Blog This". The "Blog This" link adds the asset to your library and creates a new post with the asset already inserted.
If you just want to add the item to your library without creating a post, you can use the new "Add to your Vox library" link.When you're looking at assets in your blog or someone else's, you'll also notice we moved a few links around, including the link to favorite it and comment.
New Themes!
Introducing new themes
from Lauren Musni, Tiffany Chow, Akiko Kurono, Michael Sylvian, Lynn T., Metro UK and Yasmina Haryono.
And there are more themes available for groups!
New Control Strip Beta Testing
We're beta testing a new
control strip that we think will make Vox even easier to use and navigate
around. This will be rolled out in a future release, but if you'd like to opt-in
to participate and test now, read the full
instructions here.
Coming soon
Team Vox is hard at work on a ton of new features.
In the coming weeks, look for group custom themes, improvements in the About Me
section, more Neighbors page enhancements (which we mentioned are on their way),
full-text search and more.
Hope you like what you see!
-Mena
Comments
I can deal with it.
also, something i've noticed since downloading Firefox 2.0 . . . the key commands for "bold" and "italic" aren't working anymore. i LOVED the key commands in Firefox 1.5. can we bring back vox's override for program key commands?
I've also noticed (not on the control strip) a 'share this' option beside comments. I really like that. I've often wanted someone to see a post from out of their neighborhood and been frustrated trying to make it happen. Good feature!
still hoping + praying you'll add email notifications for comments replied to in neighbor's blogs. if i leave a comment in someone's vox, i never know if or when they've responded. i can't believe this feature hasn't been given top priority or viewed as important for communication.
I like the new control strip well enough. I think it's kind of ugly, but the quick links to important pages is a definitely improvement--for me, at least. I haven't noticed anything I dislike about it yet (aside from aesthetics), but I honestly haven't spent much time with it. I guess I'll get back to you.
good job with the updates, anyway, and thanks for actually considering our input.
i like the new logged out page. very eye-catching. i also like the naviagion strip. i dont mind it on LJ and it works well here. it seems like other sites are going this route too. ESPN just redesigned their page last week and it implements this too, although i think its a bit harder to use since there are so many links in each drop-down menu.
also, i couldnt leave this comment on firefox 2.0 for whatever reason. i dont know what's wrong. it works fine on IE, but not FF. i could leave comments yesterday but not on this latest post. hmm.
hi guys:
i just updated firefox, and now i cannot write in boxes anywhere on vox, albeit to compose or to leave a comment.
what is up with that?
thanks,
a girl unhappily in IE for noe
Check/disable your adblock.
I've submitted a bug report, they know there's an issue somewhere.
Hope this helps.
Hope this is fixed soon...
Thanks, Vox. *cough*
Yay, or something.
Hopefully there'll be a concrete fix soon.
Thanks for the information you provided. We did want to let you know that
Filterset.G has been updated. You mentioned that you had the bug even without
that filterset installed, but the maintainer of Filterset.G has let us know that
he can use this updated version without the problems on Vox. To update, go to
Tools > Adblock > Filterset.G Updater > Settings > Force Update Now. Can you let us know if that makes any difference for you?
Thanks!
The Vox team needs to get busy with an embedded calendar function. The easiest way would be to permit at least a crippled embed of Google Calendar or an equivalent. At least, allow a URL linking to it from inside Vox.
Too much ink written about twiddling content and not enough reach for useful functionality.
is it possible to have a blog roll? I wanna show my favorite links, on the side but I can't cause its not feature I can use. But can you please make it better then the way it is on livejournal????????
I much prefer to give a link some text (which is usually the post title of the link) to make it easier to read in reference to the content. I suppose I should learn HTML better, but it would be nice to have a bit more functionality with an external client. Seems to be possible with Rely, but not Compose.
If this changes, please do leave a comment here: Anyone know if there is...