Hey, great job on the re-style!!  I like it so far, but of course I am still exploring...

Will we ever have the option to add our own music to our homepage?

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 ----------------------------------------------- Yes, I have written 404 reviews, but for some reason one of them ended up as a rating and there was no way to figure out which review the system considered a rating.

Can someone help me locate the page that shows reviews written by folks on my friends list? It used to be on the profile page and I would scroll down to see the photo and the title of their most recent review. On the friends and fans page now all I see is the photo but not the review title.

CyndiA said…
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.

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Yes, it's true that we can see Helpful Votes in the "Stats" but in the "Stats", the Helpful Votes are updated only once a day. They used to be displayed on the Reviews list and were updated automatically throughout the day. Judging from the new design, this feature was left out because there wasn't room for it now and that's too bad. For every major overhaul like this, there are always unfortunate trade-offs, and this was one of them. BUT it still was a great job for the most part.

Glad you like it. Please let us know what additional changes you would suggest. Glad your first impressions are positive!

Oh - I see (-: I'm not really one to "track." I may look at numbers every couple of weeks. I'm more likely to keep an eye on comments and on photos. You should see my checkbook. Then again, maybe not (-: It is a sorry sight.

AnnaBanana said…

CyndiA said…
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.

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Yes, it's true that we can see Helpful Votes in the "Stats" but in the "Stats", the Helpful Votes are updated only once a day. They used to be displayed on the Reviews list and were updated automatically throughout the day. Judging from the new design, this feature was left out because there wasn't room for it now and that's too bad. For every major overhaul like this, there are always unfortunate trade-offs, and this was one of them. BUT it still was a great job for the most part.

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Now that I've had a chance to explore I like it for the most part but I must admit I MISS being able to see the updated Helpful Votes in real time.  Could you please put them back?  or at least just on my page.  LOL   ;-)

I love, love, the new design! Great job to everyone! I like that we can add more photos. I like that you can find people that live in your own state. I couldn't find my scribble and then I clicked the blog. Now that is cool. I love it. I am still exploring the new features. Thank you!!

LoveisJoy said…
Can someone help me locate the page that shows reviews written by folks on my friends list? It used to be on the profile page and I would scroll down to see the photo and the title of their most recent review. On the friends and fans page now all I see is the photo but not the review title.

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There is a new section called Latest Friends' Activity.  It is the 2nd box on your My Home page (just below the Inbox).  The "more friends activity" link will take you to a page that shows all the activity (new reviews, blog entries, discussion posts, etc) that your friends have left in the past few weeks.

Hopefully this will provide more information for you to stay on top of all the things that are going on.  Let us know what you think...

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 just added a real-time character counter to the form. Check it out when you get a chance!

HUGE changes! I like most of them. My only issue is where are all the comments? I used to reply via my page rather than go to every review and answer comments. now I only see two. And I can't find my comments made to my own page. I see everyone else's but don't know where mine are. I like it though. I just need to wrap my head around so much new stuff. It looks a lot like a social networking site which I know draws people in.

I plan to spend some time exploring everything tonight. I love the blog, the extra pics, the pics from reviews, private comments (<3), and several other features.

OK yeah. I am going crazy trying to find out how many HV's my reviews got. I don't see that anywhere. Not on my public profile or my logged in home. I have to know if I have votes. I MUST KNOW! I live for them. So please consider adding how many HV's we have on each review (not total) if only in little print on our pages next to the reviews for us to see. Or is it just me who is missing the numbers? I don't care if the public sees the number of votes. I just want to see my own.

Hi Matt - Good to see you again. 

PattyTherre said…
OK yeah. I am going crazy trying to find out how many HV's my reviews got. I don't see that anywhere. Not on my public profile or my logged in home. I have to know if I have votes. I MUST KNOW! I live for them. So please consider adding how many HV's we have on each review (not total) if only in little print on our pages next to the reviews for us to see. Or is it just me who is missing the numbers? I don't care of the public sees the number of votes. I just want to see my own.

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Hi, Patty! As you can see from my own desperate comments, I miss the Helpful Votes too. I think somebody figured we could just look them u p in the Stats but of course the reviews aren't listed in the Stats in the same order as they were done, ARE THEY! And when you've done more than 300 reviews, that can make a difference. I think it would have been better to jostle the design a little and make a space for helpful votes in SMALL characters.  It does seem that Helpful Votes are an important issue here.

Patty, underneath the first few comments is a link "go to my inbox" that takes you to all of them.

Go to My Home - then scroll down to Latest Friends' Activity. There you can see every new action your friends make. But wait, there's more! You can hit the link in that section that says "more friends' activity"... you'll be taken to a page that allows you to sort display by reviews, discussions, photos, comments, etc.

We hear you on the HV. As you can see, we are making changes on the fly given your feedback here. We have a bunch of questions for you...

With HV-
Do you want them on your public or private REVIEW page?
Do  you want them on the MyHome review listings or no?

Give us details so that we know exactly when/where you want to see them!Then, we will get to work!

We debated making INBOX a tab too... but thought that was potentially taking the "social" aspect too far. What do you guys think?

Jolie, my opinion on the HV is to display it as text instaed of as an image that takes a lot of space.  That way it could just be a small text blurb somewhere on the review page.

I wouldn't mind seeing them everywhere, but would be satisfied seeing them on my own private review listing.  It probably would be messy putting them on the summary review listing, but I'm sure if that's what people want, it wouldn't be a huge deal.

Jolie said:
With HV-
Do you want them on your public or private REVIEW page?
Do  you want them on the MyHome review listings or no?
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Every place you can put them, please. The hits are what a lot of us writers live by. Its our feedback loop.

A few more thoughts: I'm not a fan of the links that open in new windows, like when I click "public profile" and get a new tab.  Just playing around today I ended up with 4 VP tabs open and don't know how that happened.  There's no need to open these things in a blank page in my opinion.

Second, I know it's probably not what VP wants, but I managed to clean up my profile by clearing out all my interests and deleting my blog.  I like it much better that way!  I might end up blogging still, but the interest thing to me just wasted space so unless that moves somewhere else, I'm not filling it out.

We're always open to new features and innovative ways to make our community fun and informative too. Ultimately, we want our social networking features to enhance the reviewer's personality and perspective. Music is not something we have on our priority list at this time but that doesn't mean we would not add it at some point. Stay tuned.

I like the new design a great deal. I'm still getting acclimated but I do like it a lot more than the older layouts. I'm not sure if I miss the "helpful vote" count by each review on the home page. In some ways I do, but not enough to say, "Please put it back." Maybe it's because I have done a few reviews that I really like that haven't gotten that many hits and the HV count reminds me of that, or maybe because adding the HV box again would make the page "busier." On the lighter side of things, I noticed that the Stats logo (a pie chart) looks a bit like a light green Pac Man about to eat a wedge of St. Patrick's Day pizza. Just sayin'!

I'm really liking the motto at the top and as I visit other people's home pages, I can't wait to see what words they live by!

The ability to add more pictures and being able to search pictures from reviews--awesome!

I also think it's cool to be able to look up people in my own state.

The only thing that I found that didn't work really well was when I was trying to update my interests. Several of mine fall under "other," but I could only have one "other" under each topic. I combined a couple of things under "other" but it was a little awkward.

Overall, you guys should give yourselves a BIG pat on the back. Now if only Congress would listen to people as much as you guys do....

Thanks!  I found it.  I like that it's easy to see all the new review activity at a glance.

I like the new page so far,  I'm still getting used to it.  I like that all the stats are right there.

vivasuzi said…

Jolie, my opinion on the HV is to display it as text instaed of as an image that takes a lot of space.  That way it could just be a small text blurb somewhere on the review page.

I wouldn't mind seeing them everywhere, but would be satisfied seeing them on my own private review listing.  It probably would be messy putting them on the summary review listing, but I'm sure if that's what people want, it wouldn't be a huge deal.

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What she said. lol. I am all for not showing the numbers to the public but I would very much like to see them for myself. I rarely check other people's numbers and I don't know that it is necessary that the public know how many votes we got at a glance. After you click on a review, then you can see the HV count which is fine with me for the public. I would like to see my own HVs at a glance.

Dangit! I go away for a month or so and you guys change everything. Now I gotta learn where everything is again!

 Looks good. Keep up the excellent work!

Jolie said…
We hear you on the HV. As you can see, we are making changes on the fly given your feedback here. We have a bunch of questions for you...

With HV-
Do you want them on your public or private REVIEW page?
Do  you want them on the MyHome review listings or no?

Give us details so that we know exactly when/where you want to see them!Then, we will get to work!

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Hi, Jolie! Boy, you guys are really doing a FANTASTIC job and you've been very responsive to our concerns too. I would really love the HV things to be on each review when I call up my list. I got a real kick out of seeing them there at a glance and seeing them change during the day, especially with new reviews. Well, TA-TA for now and have a nice evening!