Topic: New Features and Changes

Hi all,

We made several significant changes/improvements to the site this week.

1. On registration every new member is now given a 30 day trial of Premium Membership along with 7.5 points. So, let's welcome the new members with hellos, connections, and reviews. You'll earn points for it.

2. We also closed the Free Group to new members so while the group will stick around for the moment, no one new will be able to find or or join it.

3. You will now receive email alerts when your connections post content. You can choose to turn these off for any connection by going to the Connections page.

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/connections

If you experience any problems, let me know.

Thanks,
Sol

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Great Sol, thanks for your attentiveness to everyone's comments.

Now, can you make the site more iPad friendly? tongue

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Great Sol! Good job. The site gets better every day. Now, I want to side with GP. Can you make the site more iPad friendly?

Kiss,

Gacela.

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Now, I want to side with GP. Can you make the site more iPad friendly?

Yes, we'll tackle this over the next couple of weeks.

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5 Reply by JL Mo (edited by JL Mo 2015-02-06 21:31:38)

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I haven't been getting ANY email notices of my connections posting content. Same problem I had with the old system. I didn't receive any notices of Charles Brass posting, for instance. I'll (triple) check my settings, just to be sure, but if you could look into that, I'd appreciate it.


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I just checked my connections, and all do show as 'yes' to notify. Thanks again.

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The problem I've been having when using my tablets, Kindle Fire and Dell is with the inline highlighting. Without a mouse I can only highlight the width of my finger. When I drag nothing happens. Is this something you're working on?

And THANK YOU SO MUCH for the email alerts when contacts post new content!!!!

dags big_smile

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The problem I've been having when using my tablets, Kindle Fire and Dell is with the inline highlighting. Without a mouse I can only highlight the width of my finger. When I drag nothing happens. Is this something you're working on?

Are you pressing and waiting for the cursor to appear and then seeing two arrows appear at either end that you can lengthen to select the text? I will do a video next week that describes exactly how to do an inline on mobile. Maybe this is the problem.

It should definitely work on Kindle as I've tested it extensively on one. It should also be okay on Dell. Let  me know how you are doing inlines and then we can take it from there.

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I haven't been getting ANY email notices of my connections posting content. Same problem I had with the old system. I didn't receive any notices of Charles Brass posting, for instance. I'll (triple) check my settings, just to be sure, but if you could look into that, I'd appreciate it.

We didn't have emails on the new site until this afternoon. Check your spam folder to make the emails aren't going there. By Monday we'll have a new fix in that should limit emails going to spam.

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SolN wrote:

The problem I've been having when using my tablets, Kindle Fire and Dell is with the inline highlighting. Without a mouse I can only highlight the width of my finger. When I drag nothing happens. Is this something you're working on?

Are you pressing and waiting for the cursor to appear and then seeing two arrows appear at either end that you can lengthen to select the text? I will do a video next week that describes exactly how to do an inline on mobile. Maybe this is the problem.

It should definitely work on Kindle as I've tested it extensively on one. It should also be okay on Dell. Let  me know how you are doing inlines and then we can take it from there.

SolN--of course I wasn't waiting for the arrows...it works when you know how to work it...problem solved! Thanks so much for your patience!!  dags big_smile

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The little home image has disappeared -- used to be just to the right of the POST YOUR WRITING.
Thank you for all the enhancements -- major among them are is the email notification of postings.

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Wilma Bailey wrote:

The little home image has disappeared -- used to be just to the right of the POST YOUR WRITING.
Thank you for all the enhancements -- major among them are is the email notification of postings.

Wilma, mines still around.  Clicking the "The Next Big Writer" logo top left corner will also take you home!  smile

Cheers Janet

And to Sol, like everyone else, thanks for all the improvements!

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I see my little house. Thanks, Sol, for all your hard work.

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Hi all,
Just a note that we had to turn off connection emails for the weekend. There was a bug. We'll have it fixed and running in the next couple of days.

Sol

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14 Reply by njc

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FYI, I got the email notice on Judy Goodwin's new chapter before it showed up on my home page.  It took at least ten minutes, and probably more, for it to show up.

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