Release Notes
Comment Reply Notifications Are Here!
All of us on Team Vox are really excited about this, so we know you will be too. Now when someone replies directly to one of your comments, we'll send you an email notification. No more worries that you'll miss what someone wrote to you (or your chance to respond directly). We look forward to how this change will help keep your conversations flowing and help you connect with like-minded Voxers.
Changes in Blog Navigation
Inconsistencies in navigating around Vox can be confusing, and up until now viewing things like photos or audio worked differently in groups than it does on your blog. So we've just made them more consistent by consolidating all the blog navigation links into one strip. As a plus, the new blog navigation takes up less space and is located underneath your blog header, making your own design more prominent on the page.
This additional space in your design might inspire you to create a new custom theme. If you'd like to upload a new custom theme or need to tweak your existing one, read the Help article Personalizing your blog's design. And if you want to tweak your blog title or tag line, just click over to the Design area.
As always, we're open to feedback and constructive criticism and love hearing how we can keep iterating and making improvements -- hit the Feedback link at the bottom of the page to share your thoughts.
Speaking of Your Feedback…
- Set your privacy level on the Recent Updates!: You can choose who to share your activity with (anyone, no one, neighborhood, friends & family, friends or family) by going to Account > Privacy & Defaults.
- Updates to the neighbors module: We've removed the tagline from the Neighbors module on your blog's sidebar. You'll be able to see everyone's taglines when you click through to view the neighbors page.
- Tags are back!: We've returned tags to be viewable on your blog posts. They'll display below each post or asset near the link to comments.
Have you ever searched on a tag like "food" and wanted to see posts, photos and videos about it all at the same time? We just improved the Explore experience so that it shows you relevant photos, posts, audio, video and books for anything you search on. Of course, if you want to see search results on just one type of asset (videos tagged "food" for instance) just click on "video" above the search box to filter the results.
New Release, New Themes!
Big news for Groups: we've just made all blog themes available as group themes as well! Pick a new theme in the Design area.
We've also added some brand new themes.
(L to R): Hanafuda July, Hanafuda August, Hanafuda September, Hanafuda October, Draft Blue, Draft Brown, Ragged Torch, Subway Black, Subway White.
-- Krissy
Comments
Keep up the good work!
YAY! YAY! YAY!
Thank you for paying attention to all the whining complaining, bitching and moaning. boo ***king hoo! :)
Seriously I love it when things get streamlined. I have some suggestions I will submit about "organize" and collections --basically that I get confused how to add a book to a collection or something. I end up clicking on the wrong thing first. I will figure out what my actual suggestion/complaint is and make a Formal Submission to Feedback.
thanks for listening to us about those icky updates last time
double thanks for doing the comment notification thing that I've been wanting forever
I will sleep a little more soundly tonight ;-)
Sorry, but this is still backwards. You've enabled a publisher to choose what they want to share, but not allowed the reader to choose what they want to see. PLEASE allow people to turn off the VIEWING of recent updates, or selective choose which recent updates they want to view (i.e. "favorited" updates only, and not template changes, etc). Just because someone wants to share every time they change their template doesn't mean I want to see it.
This is a step in the right direction, but what happens when people don't respond directly to you, or respond to someone else but comment on your response? It would be nice to have a per-post option to opt-in to email notifications when comments are sent out. That way, when someone responds to a different comment and a whole discussion grows out of it, I know that something's going on, even if nobody explicitly replied to my comment in the post.
Alternately (although probably more difficult to implement) would be an RSS feed per post that included comments in the updates. That way I could subscribe to a post I'm interested in and see comments as they're posted in my feed reader. That's optimal, in my opinion.
- It takes 1-2 minutes to load that massive page
- I still have scroll down through a plethora of comments to find out IF there is a new comment on a post
- I have to scroll down through multiple lengthy posts and keep a close eye on when one post ends and another begins until I find the post I AM interested in and see if there's been an update. Since this isn't always the one most recently commented on, I can be scrolling quite a ways down until I get there.
If this is the only solution, I might as well just bookmark the posts I'm interested in following, and go back periodically to see if there are new comments. It'll save me a lot of time and hassle, although my bookmarks are going to fill up quickly.
It just seems weird that when you have easy, automated ways of notifying you when a comment is made on your post, and now when someone replies to your comments, that there isn't a similar easy, automated way to (optionally) see when a comment is made on someone else's post. To me, that seems like a logical extension that would come in handy when you're taking part in many post conversations at one time. But maybe that's just me.
if fact...
totally awesome - i was going to mention something about this, but i figured you guys would get around to it - fantastic! - now i won't have to frantically remember who i replied to and keep heading back to look for replies to my replies
I'm glad the tags are back, though. :) Yay! Thanks, Vox!
Overall, I think it's a good idea, but it needs some work in implementation. That's all. :)
Steve
Thanks for making the changes! Is there share link necessary though?
And Vox has yet to address the relative time stamp thing that some of us are not quite happy about. I hope that Vox will work on giving us an option between the relative time stamp thing and the normal date/time thing.
And while I'm glad that Vox has removed the taglines from the Neighbours module on our sidebar, they are now on the Neighbours page! Come on, Vox. We can see the taglines when we go to their blogs, okay?
And speaking of the Neighbours page, how about changing the order of the Neighbours in which they were updated? It would make life a little bit simpler.
Thanks for bringing back the tags though!
Why we can not control the order of items in the sidebar...recent comments on the top or bottom, etc.
This is very frustrating because I generally don't have access to Vox during the work day and am left wondering what the rest of the comment says.