Mar 19

Let's talk about new features

Fri 19 Mar 2010 07:59:54 | 9 comments
What is requirement ? Requirement  is what user wants so we are closely watching support forum to get your requirements. This blog is a summary list of what we have done so far. 

We worked on several features of progress, but in this section i want to talk about only four of them : (1) Social Graph (2) Copyright (3) Advanced search (4) Improvements on incoming messages

Ok, let's go step by step

On Social Graph aim is to give group members to control their privacy. If current group admin enables Social Graph (from admin panel --> General settings --> Advanced settings --> Social Graph Enabled) then all the current group members can able to use this features. Hey what privacy ? Social Graph enables group members to grant below questions answer easily.

  • Who can view my profile page ?
  • Who can view my blogs, photos and videos ?
  • Who can comment on my blogs, photos and videos ?

So just go and decide the answers of these privilege questions ! 

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please use our new copyright access system. What is that ? It is simple, every group has a  "Report an Issue" link at the footer (at the end of the page). Just click it and you will see another copyright link which forwards you to the copyright system. That's it !

There is a regular search system in grou.ps. Furthermore we have added new advanced search feature. This advanced feature is totally controlled by group admins. What does it mean ? Group admin can add or disable searchable items. By default searchable items are enabled like that : name, gender, country and profile questions. These items can be searched by the groups members and as i said these searchable items are controlled by group admins. How can you access this great advanced search feature. Simple ! First click on members then you can see search link, just click and you'll see regular search and advanced search right over here. 

We have added some improvement on incoming messages. Now every conversation is its own thread. Also now, it is very simple to reply a message and delete a message or messages, just one click. Furthermore new arrived message are in bold so that you can easily notice. Sounds good.

Other features are on the way, stay tuned !

Comments

i spotted a major problem, reply button is not there for members the swirl icon does not show, plus poke and exept friends text is blank
Yet another pointless update that makes things even more complicated. Get rid of that god awful tool bar. It looks ugly!
Agreed. The tool bar does not make anything easier nor does it add anything relevant. What it does do is make things complicated for users that are slow at adapting. It also seems that people have been unable to log in after the update and their profile is no longer visible.
Folks, valid comments, we'll consider that and keep you updated.
Have you heard the saying, the customer is always right. why the groups logo it has no meaning to my site, it should say menu, your getting to heavy with your branding nowq you have more then any other provider, its getting stupid now i was promised white label forever, i was lyed to i was misled and cheated . old sites should not have branding MAYBE GROUPS HAVE FORGOTTEN THERE PROMISE.
I feel the same way about this, Jay. Grou.ps, you need to stop ignoring what the majority of your clients are saying about this new feature. None of us want it, in fact we'd much prefer that you change it back to the previous version. As Jay said, the customer is always right. You don't want to end up driving us away as we're your only source of income.
@Jay @krishenderson21 no worries, please take a look at: http://www.groups-corp.com/blogs/103054
What I'd really like is for chat to be improved, I want to be able to toggle whether I allow all my group to chat with each other or only people to chat with their friends (sort of like Facebook chat). Google Gadgets is nice and all but I'd also like OpenSocial integration as well as the option to disable gadgets in favor of OpenSocial. One more thing: HTML5 video! I'd love to be able to use my own video player rather that the default one (I'd like to add Watermarks and what not but thats not a major issue). Yeah that's about it, thanks for listening and hope to see those features soon!



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