Listology Change History
Submitted by jim on Tue, 01/22/2002 - 05:20
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- 3/21/2002
- Implemented a printer-friendly version of all lists. Just click on "print" for a given list, or navigate to a users profile, click the "print menu" link, and check off those items you'd like to print.
- 3/15/2002
- You can now customize the order in which your genres will display on your profile page display order (so you can make "books" appear before "movies" on your list, for example).
- I have added an "all" link to the "recent updates" box (and I've collapsed that list a bit so it doesn't take up as much verticle space).
- The "What's New" link in footer now points to this list.
- 3/11/2002
- Themes are here! You can now customize http://yourname.listology.com to your heart's content. Check out the tool and the help.
- The "recent" box now includes all content and an "other" link in addition to the entertainment links already there.
- www.listology.com weblog will only show entertainment news. yourname.listology.com weblog will include all weblog entries posted by you.
- The custom genres screen now tells you how many items you have in each genre, and you will be prevented from deleting genres with items in them.
- Each forum post now has a named anchor in front of it (<A NAME="555">)>. This allows you to link directly to a post instead of the overall list (more specifically, it should make the browser scroll to the post). The NAME reference is equal to the message ID, which you can easily deduce by looking at the URL of the post's "reply to" link.
- I've tried to clean up the text such that "comments", "posts", and "discussion" are used consistently.
- 1/22/2002
- Weblogs! Now, instead of having hand-picked "editors" that can post to the home page, anybody can. You can also access a user's complete posting history in their weblog. To see you own (in administrator mode) click the new My Weblog button above.
- Syndication! This is still in its infancy, but you can now suck Listology content into your own home page, whereever that may be. Here are instructions.
- I've added a preference so that when users click on your name, you can decide if they are redirected to your weblog or your lists
- It is now possible, when viewing a person's profile or one of her lists, to do a search within that person's content (a third checkbox will appear in the "search" box to the left).
- The nightly e-mail has been updated to include full news postings to go with the "list update" summary
- When creating/updating content, you will notice a new "teaser" field. This allows you to automatically create a weblog post in association with the content. The weblog post will appear on the home page and your weblog, and will automatically link back to the content it refers to. So if you make a bunch of interesting changes to a list, you can summarize them here, and that will flow out to various places so folks can see what you've been up to.
- There is now an option to hide your e-mail address behind a web form, which allows you to still receive e-mail from visitors, while hiding it from the spam scrapers. I have taken the liberty of selecting this option for everyone that previously published their e-mail address. You can change it back via your profile settings.
- I have loosened the many of the limitations on custom genres (as opposed to the "core" genres of movies, books, music, and television).
- Several other tweaks that I really should have written down. I'm going to start keeping better records now.
- 2/22/2001
- Launched Listology 2.0.
- 4/2/1999
- Launched Listology 1.0.
Author Comments:
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Jim, love the 'blogs, just been chuckling over some of the old ones (ahh! those were the days).
Found no bugs, but I'm untrained in bug-hunting.
TL's just about perfect now - but you do know you'll never completely remove that 'just about', don't you?
Thanks bertie! I certainly know what you mean about "just about." I was an architecture student for 1.5 years before ditching for the English degree. In design, I've found that there's no such thing as "finished."
Jim,
When you click on someones name sometimes it brings up their lists and other times it brings up their weblog. How do I (the Viewer) select which I would prefer seeing? Or is that set by the Viewee?
That is currently set by the viewee. The idea is that they can decide which facet of their content best represents them. But there must be a bug, because currently nobody is set to "weblog." Can you give me a "click path" that reproduces the problem?
I can't seem to recreate it. Whenever I click on someone's name now it takes me to their lists. Where is that set in our preferences?
My Menu >> Profile >> "Listology Home"
Jim, I know this might seem like an odd request but I hate, hate, hate where the My Weblog button is placed. Every single time I go to update one of my lists I click on the My Weblog button because that was where the My Content button used to be located. It's not really that big of a deal but I just thought I'd mention it in case others had kvetched as well.
On a semi-related note have you considered breaking out Browse and Ramdom into their own buttons? They look sort of cramped right now.
First item is fixed (might take a moment for cached files to clear out). You're right, that was annoying!
For item 2, I believe 5 buttons across the top wraps on low-res displays. I didn't want to demote either of those buttons to "Highlights" in the left column, so that was my solution. Inelegant, and it bothers me. Not sure what else to do. Might still demote one, might still decide to alienate low-res folks. :-)
Had an amusing thought . . . Now that themes are done (mostly), just for kicks I should create a theme that reproduces the Listology 1.0 purple design. :-)
It's been long enough that I don't remember what that looked like, but I've never been a fan of the yellow ;)
:-) I eagerly await your alternative theme. I'll be checking kbuxton.listology.com regularly.
give me a few days :)
Yes, make a theme for the old look! I liked the old look (though I know find it hard to remember exactly what it was).
Not that I don't like the new look . . .
Uh, Jim, maybe the "What's New" link at the bottom left should now point to this page, rather than the announcement from last February?
That does make sense, I must concede. :-)
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