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Friday, November 9, 2007

Blogit passes half a million blog entries, over 2 million comments

Earlier this month, the Blogit ecosystem reached the half a million mark in blog entries and over two and a quarter million comments! Go Blogit members!

The 500,000th blog entry was posted bspinner on November 1, 2007 at 4:28 PM PST (or Blogit Standard Time).

Thank you all for making Blogit one of the longest running blogging communities in the world.

Blogit Team
www.blogit.com

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Try the new Interactives space!

One issue on Blogit is that there are two distinct "camps":

a) The traditional or "main" camp, with blogs of articles, short stories, poetry etc.

b) The interactive activity or "interactivities" camp, which has evolved over time, containing blogs of games such as "name this celebrity", lists or riffing off of words.

Many people tend to be more interested in the traditional camp, while others may prefer the interactive camp. This is causing a conflict between what's acceptable and appropriate in each camp.

So, when you look at the lower part of the home page, you'll now see two distinct spaces: "Main" and "Interactivities", each with its own New Blog Entries and New Comments.

We hope this will encourage both camps to participate in Blogit even more, since they won't be stepping on each other's toes.

To make a blog appear in the Interactivities space, please use the Members' Games or Lists & Information categories. Please review your existing blogs and move any as appropriate. As always, we may move blogs into these categories if appropriate.

We hope you enjoy this new part of Blogit, and would welcome your feedback. We'd like to thank the people who emailed us and suggested that we try to find a way to allow both camps to coexist peacefully on Blogit.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

New features and user experience improvements!

Blogit is pleased to announce the following new features and improvements to the Blogit user experience based on requests from members:

New blog upgrades include:
  • Blogs are now displayed more quickly using new Microsoft technology.
  • If you have the Silver or Gold plan, you may now add a calendar to your blogs by selecting the calendar template from the list of choices or by checking the "Show calendar" box in the Easy Template Designer. (If you have an advanced template, learn how to add these features.)
Most blogs will also see the following features (if you have the Gold plan and are using an advanced template, learn how to add these features; if you are a Classic subscriber using a Classic custom template, these new features are not supported):
  • Each blog now includes a list of the 5 most recent entries on the right side of the blog under the section titled "Recent Entries".
  • You can now find the URL for each blog entry or comment on the web page itself so that you don't have to know to click on Permalink *and* find it in the web address field. To find the URL, click on the "link to this" link under each blog entry and each comment.
Additional user experience improvements include:
  • When responding to a specific comment, the subject of your comment automatically includes "Re: comment subject" so that readers can easily see what you are responding to.
  • You can now click on the Last and First links instead of only the Next and Previous links to skip to the end or beginning on Search results or when looking for entries on a blog.
  • With the most common Blogit nicknames already taken, Blogit now suggests a nickname if the one you want is not available.
  • Popularity rank now has an information icon next to it; simply mouse over the icon to learn how popularity ranks are calculated by Blogit.
  • To prevent spam, emails (both member-to-member emails and email-this-page emails) are now limited to 5 in a 24-hour period.
We continue to improve Blogit based on members' feedback, and appreciate all input from Blogit members. Thank you!

Regards,

Blogit Team

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Blogit commenting system upgrade

Based on your suggestions, Blogit today released several changes and upgrades to the Blogit commenting system available to members:
  1. View up to 100 pages of comments in the "New Comments" section linked from the Blogit home page (like the New Blogit Entries pages). You can now easily stay abreast of the latest discussions.
  2. View all the comments that you've left on blogs so that you can return to a specific comment and see if anyone has responded. You will find this new feature on your My Account page, where the "Pictures & Links" section is now called the "Comments, Pictures & Links" section and has a "View comments I've added" link.
  3. When responding to a comment, you can now see the comment you are responding to.
  4. The comments link under each blog entry that used to say, for example, "Comments (1)" now says "Add or View Comments (1)" to reduce confusion among new members who want to add or view a comment. If you have a custom template that says "Comments", please consider updating its text to reduce confusion for readers.
  5. The "New Comments" page now reloads automatically so you no longer have to keep refreshing it to view the newest comments.
  6. Check out all of the comments ever left on your blog entries via your "Write" page and the "View new comments" link (previously, you could only see only four pages of comments on your blogs).
    1. Please let us know if you have any questions about these. Thank you.

      Blogit Team
      www.blogit.com

    Thursday, February 15, 2007

    Blogit Toolbar Upgrade

    As posted on the Community Help blog as well, Blogit has released a significant upgrade to the Blogit toolbar that improves your experience when writing or editing blog entries and comments. This release has been in final testing for the last several weeks as mentioned in this response in early January, and includes the following:
    1. A reorganized layout with icons grouped together by category so it's easier to find what you're looking for -- like the toolbar in Microsoft's new Office 2007.
    2. Microsoft Word-like inline spellcheck (no annoying separate dialog box).
    3. Improved performance on the new Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 web browsers.
    4. Various bug fixes for all web browsers.
    Please let us know if you have any questions.

    Thank you.

    Blogit Team
    www.blogit.com
     
    Updated 2/16/07 9:03 am

    Tuesday, October 10, 2006

    New Comments Page Improved To Load Faster

    Blogit is working on improving your user experience.

    The writer's New Comments page now loads faster even if there are a lot of comments on your blogs.
    Thank you.

    Blogit Team
    www.blogit.com

    Friday, October 6, 2006

    Blogit toolbar has been upgraded

    The new Blogit toolbar loads faster on return visits and has a number of bug fixes.
     
    The new toolbar also helps you produce blog entries that load more quickly and look better when viewed in different web browsers.
    In addition, most features of the Blogit toolbar are now available to those members who are using the Safari web browser.
     
    Thank you.

    Blogit Team
    www.blogit.com

    Saturday, August 26, 2006

    Exclusive preview of Gozoof for Blogit members

    Starting today, we have an exclusive preview for Blogit members of a new service from Shaycom, the folks that bring you Blogit. 
     
    Check out Blogit's sister site, Gozoof at www.gozoof.com.
     
    If you know of something great on the Web (a website, a blog entry, a news story, or anything else) consider adding it to Gozoof and help people find it!
     
    Or, if you are looking for something, check out Gozoof to see if people have recommendations they have entered and rated for you.
     
    For feedback on this service, please email Gozoof.
     
    Regards,

    Blogit Team
    www.blogit.com

    Sunday, June 25, 2006

    Blogit surpasses 1,500,000 in comments!

    Earlier today, Blogit reached the one-and-a-half million mark in comments as it also nears 400,000 blog entries on tens of thousands of blogs written by thousands of Blogit writers. Go Blogit!

    The 1,500,000th comment in Blogit's history was posted by sarooster on June 25, 2006 at 1:31 PM PST (or Blogit Standard Time) and can be found here. "sarooster" has been a member since August 22, 2004.

    Thank you all for making Blogit a wonderful community of readers and writers. Here's to the next million comments!

    Regards,

    Blogit Team
    www.blogit.com

    Friday, January 6, 2006

    Blogit Search improvements

    Blogit's search feature has been improved and is now more comprehensive than beforeUntil recently, members were unable to search the name of a blog itself via Blogit Search and had to use a search engine.
     
    You may now enter any word or phrase in the Blogit Home page search box to find results sorted by relevance or date for all blogs, blog entries, and member nicknames. As before, comments may be searched via the Search page.
     
    The Search page is reached by clicking on the Search link on the top right of the Blogit website. Here, you can search all blog content including thousands of Blogit member nicknames, tens of thousands of blog names, over three hundred thousand blog entries, and over one-and-a-quarter million comments.
     
    The Search page allows you to search via three different tabs:
    • Blogs search includes blog names, the titles of all blog entries, and all content within those entries;
    • Comments search allows you to search every comment on Blogit; and,
    • Members search allows you to search Blogit nicknames.
    Please make sure that you select the appropriate tab if you're interested in searching, for example, comments rather than blogs or member nicknames. While it may take up to 60 minutes for new comments to appear in search results, you can view the latest comments almost immediately via the New Comments link on the Home page.
     
    Move over Google!
     
    Regards,
     
    Blogit Team

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