Blellow Bug Fixes and New Features
Another day, another round of bug squashing and adding new features for our wonderful beta members!
Changes as of 3/10/2009:
- Find People and Member Directory - Long delayed and highly requested, we’ve finally added a method of finding your friends and colleagues on Blellow. On the left sidebar you can now search for members by Name, Email address, or Member name.
- Invite your friends! We are trying to spread the word about Blellow and all it’s great features, and now you can help! Click on the link in the left sidebar and enter your friends email addresses, separated by commas, to invite them into the Blellow beta.
- Jobs - Company Link now properly links to the website
- Projects - Now shows the project creator with a link to their profile on Blellow
- Links - All links in status updates and replies now open in a new window, and appear in a slightly smaller sized font so it doesn’t detract from the rest of the message
There are some other bugs and additions on the production server that should be pushed up by tomorrow. We’re getting closer and closer to the open beta and SxSW so we’re trying to take care of as many problems and add as many features as possible. Please let us know if you find any bugs by submitting them using the orange feedback button on the left side!
Blellow SxSW Winner, The Launch Party, and More Bug Fixes!
Blellow hosted a successful launch party on Friday, March 6, 2009 at our offices in downtown San Antonio. We had quite a crowd, and everyone was in good spirits and enjoying discussing Blellow in the midst of celebrating First Friday. You can view photos from our party above or on our page on Flickr.
During the party we chose live via uStream our winner for our SxSWi Ticket Giveaway, and we are happy to announce the winner is Philip Medina (@avatar696314 on Blellow)! Congratulations Philip, we look forward to meeting you in Austin later this week!
We’ve also cleaned up quite a few bugs over the weekend with the new builds. Here’s a list of some of the major fixes/improvements:
- User profile links now work properly. You can now link to your Blellow account via http://beta.blellow.com/username instead of the longer profile links from before.
- The “I’m looking for help” radio button has been changed into a checkbox. All status updates without the checkbox will be just normal status updates. We’re waiting on another push that will highlight the box when kudos are enabled on the post allowing you to easier located people looking for help.
- Meetups RSVP: Selecting your “Attending” status should now place you in the right category.
- Followers list in sidebar: I have almost 300 people I’m following, and the avatar list was getting long on the page! It’s now been truncated at the first 36 with a “See Them All” link at the bottom
- On Projects board detail, the link back to the projects board pointed towards the Jobs board instead. This has been resolved!
- We’ve increased the number of status updates on the home dashboard to 20
- Timestamps on original posts now keep the time they were posted on, and new replies appear at the top of the thread. We may reverse this as it looks a little confusing.
We’re still working hard to get as many bugs and features ready for SxSWi on Friday!
