Round of applause for our development and technology teams for making all this happen!! I'm officially tooting our own Viewpoints horns right now. Toot, toot.

My first impression is to like it, but, it's late and I'm tired.  I'll know more tomorrow. :)
Kudos to all for the hard work and all your tireless efforts to make this a great community. I, for one, really appreciate it!

I am still trying to find my way around the new layout.  Thanks to everyone who worked so hard...

Figures the big change comes when my head is full of cobwebs....;) Kudos to the staff for a great job!  ;)

Yea, we understand that BIG changes can be difficult to adjust to so please hang in there and take your time.. get to know the newness. Significant change can be overwhelming until you have a chance to take it all in :) Thanks to all for your support! We def want to hear what you like and don't like once you have the opportunity to explore. Now, let's all go get our beauty rest!

So far so good, I like the new way of listing the reviews and the comments sections.  Looking forward to exploring more.  Thanks for some of the new functions too. 

Oh Wow, this looks great!  It took me a minute to find some things but there they were.  I really like the new layouts and will be back to check it out better later.  Thanks!

Not to be a complainer but did you have to leave out the number of hits per review on the profile page? Or is that coming again?

I love the new layout.  It's convenient and easy on the eyes.

Not that the old layout was bad....I just like the new one.

Great job over there!!!

I don't mean to be the negative but my first thought was, on the public profile it seems there are a lot of things before our reviews.  I don't really care for people to see my interests up top, I'd rather they could see my reviews.  Kind of disappointed in having to either scroll down 2 screens OR click a link in order to see what I've written.

I'm hoping in the future we have the ability to move these boxes around to be the way we like to see them, both on our public and private profiles.

Also, the Quick reviews is a nifty idea, but I was annoyed that when I tried to submit I was told my soundbite was too long.  Why did the form allow me to type more than 64 characters if that is the limit?

GeorgeChabot said…
Not to be a complainer but did you have to leave out the number of hits per review on the profile page? Or is that coming again?

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Just under your most popular reviews in the last 30 days (on the right side) is a small icon for access to all your Stats.

 I like the changes. It'll take some time to find everything but so far I'm impressed.

I'm off to spend a few hours here lol - I just got a glimpse when I left a comment on MM's profile page and saw the private things. Thanks everyone for all your work. Really it is so nice to see things work even if we don't love everything at least it works and if it doesn't it is fixed quickly. Just wanted to say that publicly.

Looks great guys, good job!

My first item: I was so excited because I saw a reply under a comment I received from Mike. I replied that it was really neat that we had this because I imagined he would get an e-mail that someone had replied. In any case I had already left him a comment on his profile page which I don't see but after I replied I got

Your comment has successfully posted to my profile page - why not his??

Did we lose the feed (RSS) ability? I can't find it.

vivasuzi said…

I don't mean to be the negative but my first thought was, on the public profile it seems there are a lot of things before our reviews.  I don't really care for people to see my interests up top, I'd rather they could see my reviews.  Kind of disappointed in having to either scroll down 2 screens OR click a link in order to see what I've written.

I'm hoping in the future we have the ability to move these boxes around to be the way we like to see them, both on our public and private profiles.

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I like it.... I like it!! But I agree with Suzi that the interests section takes away from the reviews. Maybe it would be a better fit right under the comments section on the right.

The biggest thing I would change is to have the tiny little print that says "view more of Meri's reviews" a larger font so that people actually notice it.

It is going to take me a while to figure this all out but another thing I noticed is that once you finally scroll down to the reviews they are really big.  Maybe they could be a little smaller and fit a few more reviews on the page?! 

Thanks again for all of the hard work that went into updating the site.  Good job guys!

I just logged on today after a couple days and my first reaction was What The....?  I like the new style so far.  It takes some getting used to.  Thanks for all the hard work.

vivasuzi said…
Also, the Quick reviews is a nifty idea, but I was annoyed that when I tried to submit I was told my soundbite was too long.  Why did the form allow me to type more than 64 characters if that is the limit?

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We are working on correcting this!

Just wanted to let you know that we are reading through all of your comments-- so keep the ideas coming. If you see a bug or a problem, definitely report it. And, if something really annoys you (or if you love something), please let us know that too.....

p.s. We made the decision to put your personal data (photos, blog & fun facts) above reviews bc we really believe that the more people know about YOU, the more they will trust what you have to say.

Hi! The new profile page really looks nice and has a lot going for it. I notice that the place which used to say "Welcome" and instant access to reviews or comments is now blank for some reason and it is a little awkward getting in. Progress is always like this -- a lot of good things happen but there are alway some things which weren't really broken to begin with which end up getting "fixed". For instance, I really liked the idea of having the Helpful Votes listed with each review (I think this is what George meant about "hits") but I guess someone thought this was old fashioned. Now thanks to progress, we are all back to the old way of having to go into each review independently and then scrolling down to the bottom to see the latest Helpful Votes. (Unless there's something I'm missing?) But for the most part, the new profile page looks good and you guys deserve a lot of credit for the effort that went into this!

Thanks for looking into that!  I am very bad at guessing how many characters I've typed!

As for things I do like, to be kind :) 

I like the photo page and that we can see the random sampling of our review photos!  I like the blog idea, that's cool.  I like the quick reviews-  although I plan to turn all of my quick reviews into real reviews :)  But I like them anyway b/c of they give you a good start on a review idea!  I like that drafts show the product name now, that makes life easier.  I like the Reviews page and Friends/Fans page as these make it easier to see more things at one time.  And finally, i like that there are no more of those scrollable boxes within our profile pages, those were a little bit confusing.

Jo said…
Did we lose the feed (RSS) ability? I can't find it.

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RSS feeds are still available, we just don't have an icon in the page anymore.  Your browser should automatically detect that a feed is available and display the RSS icon.  In Internet Explorer 7 this icon shows up on the right side of the tabs (near the Page and Tools icons/menus).  In Firefox it shows up in the URL box.

Love the redesign! I'm still getting used to the changes, but I can see that there is a lot of potential just waiting to be tapped into. The only issue I came across concerns the number of reviews. On the "My Home" tab, it indicates that I have 403 reviews. However, when I click on the "Reviews" link, it says "404 Reviews Total" (on the top, right hand side of the page). Why the discrepancy? I guess that's just a bug. Overall, the quality of the design is fabulous, IMO. :)

The jury is still out, not sure if it was because I was (and still am tired) of if my head was just swimming because of the pres. debate!  I do like the ability to do private messages, as well as the blogging ability.  I have to go with the crowd on one item, that I would like to move the boxes around myself, and that I wish it was easier to visit my "home" page and find my reviews right off. I dont' really think that stuff about me makes people trust me any more or less.

So, after I get some rest I will spend a good long time playing with it, but for now lets just sent VP and the techno gods there a big round of applause for such a great job on a huge task  . . .  virtually bug free--so far!  (standing ovation)  

I'll complain later if I find bugs in my soup. :->  

 

 

I like the way it looks, although it will take awhile to get used to it. The only question I have is, do we have to go into our review now to see the helpful votes? That information used to right on the profile page, but now I don't see it.

Wow, I go out for a day, come home, log on and find a whole new page! It looks pretty cool, but Ihaven't really gotten into it yet. I will check it out now.

LoveisJoy said…
On the "My Home" tab, it indicates that I have 403 reviews. However, when I click on the "Reviews" link, it says "404 Reviews Total" (on the top, right hand side of the page). Why the discrepancy?

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I'll add this to the list of things to investigate.  My hunch is that you have one of those pesky "ratings" hanging around. On the old profile page we used to show your "ratings" count separate from your "reviews" count.  I'll check into what we are displaying now.

Thanks for reporting!

The look is great. The extra features are really nice. It is a little complex with so many places to go and things to do. My thoughts are that someone just driving by will click around and find interesting things. Those interested in being a part of the community will play around and ask questions. So, while I think it's a lot to take in, I'd say it works on different levels and for different surfing styles. Wow. Side note. I sure post a lot of photos. I didn't think much about that until seeing the gallery. To Jasyjen - If you click to stats, you can see the helpful votes. Not sure about other places. But, you can click that and see them all listed.