New Release: Sharing the Love
We're back with a new release with some features you're sure to enjoy.
Email Posts to Your Friends!
It’s a little-known fact, but not everyone reads their Vox neighborhood all the time. (In fact, we understand that some people have friends or family who aren’t on Vox yet!) But don’t fret – even if some folks haven’t accepted your Vox invites, you can share your life on Vox with them using good old-fashioned email.
We just added a feature where you can email an excerpt of a public post on Vox to anyone, whether or not they have a Vox account. Right after saving your post, you'll get the option to share it by entering in one or several email addresses. Right now the only way to access this option is after you save a post, so if you want to send something that you posted previously, just open it up to edit it, then save it to access the share option. (Don’t worry, we'll tweaking that part of the feature in future releases.)
So now there’s more ways to share your posts than ever! After you save your post, you can: choose your privacy level, send it to a Vox group using the still-in-beta Groups feature, and email it to those few remaining souls who haven’t yet discovered Vox for themselves. Around our office, we like to say [Vox is Love] and now we can say [Vox Loves Email]!
Group Design
If you’ve created a Vox group or are an administrator on a group, you can now pick from a bunch of Vox themes to customize the look of your group. Right now the available themes include Cityscapes and Clean/Minimalist. Personalized themes don’t work for Groups yet, but remember this is just the first phase – we’ll be adding new options for group designs in the future, in classic Vox style. (Tip: To pass the time while you wait for this feature, try inviting more members into your group, or discovering which groups you’ve missed out on, in the Explore tab.)
To pick your group’s theme, just go to any group you're an administrator of and click on the Settings tab.
Adding Friends and Neighbors
Humans! Humans in my Vox! Need another easy way to add friends and neighbors? Just do a search for people on the Explore page, and next to each person’s name, you’ll see a little link to let you add them to your neighborhood. If they’re already a friend, you’ll see a little icon reminding you about it. And these quick-add links show up in the About page of your friends’ blogs, too.
Full Cross-Posting
You can now choose a setting to allow for either cross-posting of full posts, or just cross posting of excerpts. Under the Account menu, click on Outside Services and find the check box under "Your other blog". The preference you set will apply every time you use the cross-posting option.
New Themes
Just because we've released personalized banners doesn't mean we're going to stop adding new themes to Vox. We've added some more themes from our banner contest winners (thanks Michael, Steven, Lynn & Katy!)
Comments
Thanks for the great work to date!
--joey
Also with this feature, if you post a picture, it won't show up in your Live Journal.
This is the one reason why i went back to my LJ, and I really miss vox, but don't feel like I should have to post public posts.
It was be fabulous to be able to email posts without having to make them public.
It would be fabulous to be able to email posts without having to make them public.
Again, thanks Vox for a great product to date.
--joey
@All:
Right now the only way to access this option is after you save a post, so if you want to send something that you posted previously, just open it up to edit it, then save it to access the share option.
You can e-mail the entries in your Neighborhood if you subscribe to your 'hood's feed through Newsgator Online.
There should be an indicator as to what groups a post, picture, or movie has been added to. This would allow people to find groups easier. That way if you like a certain show and someone posts about that show and they are in a group and they cross posted you can easily find that group.
There needs to be a way to see activity in the group without going to the group. Maybe on the My Vox page there should be a newest group activity area.
Thanks :)
S
(Just a small gripe)