What We've Been Cooking Up...
Today we updated Vox. So, let's go straight to the highlight reel...
We’ve made a lot of visual changes to the Compose page. The functions are all the same, but you'll notice that we've simplified the the page -- from the post entry box to the buttons to the dialog boxes. Everything is streamlined and clean. Hopefully, a cleaner canvas will allow members to create more masterpieces. We've gotten a lot of comments about how the Compose page makes Vox a pleasurable blogging experience. We hope that today's revisions make it even better. Let us know!
Next, we added three great new themes: Hills, Travel, and Robots. More themes are on the way. More themes, more fun.
We added Photobucket to our growing list of services with connections built right into Vox. We've also changed our Flickr "conduit" (the connection between Vox and Flickr). Now, we use your Flickr login information to retrieve your photos. This allows you to search within your own photos. You can find anything you've ever put up on Flickr, not just the most recent shots. That's a big change. You can even retrieve photos on Flickr that you'd marked as "private." (Remember to set the retreived photos' privacy levels in Vox. We don't automatically map Flickr's settings. Not yet, at least.)
You can set up your Flickr and Photobucket connections on the Account page, or you'll be prompted when you first try to retrieve a photo from one of those services.
Finally, as many of you know, Question of the Day is going great. We're really excited to see how many people use the prompts, whether just to chime in or as the basis for some really great, detailed posts. We're also excited to see that other subjects and memes are cropping up in Vox and spreading. Don't forget to explore posts, photos, and other media from time to time. You friends and family dashboard is crucial, but exploration can lead to interesting discoveries. Make exploring a part of your Vox addiction routine.
Enjoy the updates!
-- Harold
Comments
To put it simple, love the new designs, not loving the new compose, media selector, and loading graphics...
I posted more about it here
Mena, the new themes are great. These robots make em so happy.
Robots, yay!
Either you guys can read my mind or you're REALLY fast - i just requested those exact Flickr changes two days ago! either way, great job!
Heh.
Yes, we also released mind reading as part of this code push.
:)
I'd like to see Last.FM integration as well. That's just about the only thing missing from Vox, as far as I can tell.
Yeah, I'd like to see it too!
I'm not sure where one would comment regarding 'bugs' ... but whenever you do a search for names, etc. ... the little pop-up window with results, still refers to this place as Comet.
Last.fm would be a great addition... also I have a question... are the ads intended not to display on the Compose page? I find myself accidently clicking on them when I try to scroll. :3
Hi, I'm new to Vox, but I have so many Typepad galleries - why not add Typepad to the supported photo sites (in addition to Flickr and Photobucket)?
Keep up the good work! :)
A thought on Photo Viewing. My brother has been traveling around the country and doing two things when he lands in a city. First, he uploads a bunch of photos to Ofoto and then he updates his VOX with a few choice photos from that day. One of the reasons he needs to use Ofoto is that there is no good slideshow mode in VOX to deal with a bunch of photos. It would be great to incorporate slide show mode into viewing when looking at a post with more than one photo, or when looking at a collection of photos. (I know that there are "next" and "previous" when viewing photos but I think it is hard to see and isn't contained to the images from a single post or collection).
I love VOX and look forward to it containing all my media from now on : )
Vox seems to be showing a max number of 20 flickr photos at a time. My only runaround this problem is to search using tags.
Your posting window should at least allow for HTML coding since the interface is not yet Safari friendly... I really like what I see here and look forward to migrating over to VOX, but my browser of choice is Safari. If I have to use a separate browser just to post to VOX, I may wait a little while...
Anxiously waiting...
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steelie