Now playing: Bitmob 2.15

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

When we rolled out Bitmob 2.1 a few weeks ago, we immediately noticed a few things that needed fixin' right away. We also didn't get a chance then to include some features that we really wanted on the site.

Enter Bitmob 2.15. It's just a small update, but the following fixes and additions are now live:

  • We realized the Facebook “Like” and “Share” functions were a little redundant, so we took one out and then added Reddit and StumbleUpon links. If you want to support Bitmob and see the site stick around for a while, please use these social-networking buttons!
  • You can now reply to comments, up to one level deep.
  • You will get a notification email if someone replies to one of your comments or a thread you’re already in (similar to Facebook). If you want to opt out of this, go to your Profile page, then Account Settings.
  • When you log in, upon reloading, the page should take you to whatever you were originally trying to do (such as replying to a comment). You might have to wait a second for everything to finishing loading, though.
  • You can now report an inappropriate comment to the moderators (via the “report” link).
  • Now, if we promote a community story to the front page, that post is locked to further changes unless done by a staff member. Sorry -- we had a few writers make changes after we edited and front-paged something, and we can’t take a chance that they’ll slip in something inappropriate (hasn’t happened yet...we don’t think!) or any grammatical errors (has happened). If you have issue with any edits or need to add or change something after the story’s locked, contact the editor listed in the “editor’s note” section at the top of the post.
  • Safari users can now register on Bitmob! Until just recently, we had no idea the Captcha human-verification system was missing on Safari, making it impossible to register for Bitmob on that browser. (Who uses Safari anyways? Not us! Hence this bug going unnoticed for so long.)
  • Fixed some date-stamp and ordering issues with your posts on your Profile and Post Manager pages. Your newest articles should always appear at the top, and if an older one gets promoted to the front page of Bitmob, it will receive a new date stamp (the time of the promotion) and be listed accordingly.
  • Fixed a ton of formatting issues and little bugs you probably weren’t even aware of. Don’t you worry about it!

If anything here is not working properly, feel free to comment below to let us know.

We thank you very, very much for continuing to support Bitmob! We have more features and fixes planned, so stay tuned.

 
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Comments (21)
Headshot1
April 28, 2011

Who uses Safari!? That's cold, Dan...

Shoe_headshot_-_square
April 28, 2011

Haha, I thought about calling you out specfically there, but I was being nice! :P

Mikeminotti-biopic
April 28, 2011

Weeeeeeeeeeeee! Replying is funnn!!!

Pols-400
April 28, 2011

It's certainly better than IE.

Rm_headshot
April 28, 2011

I might have to report Damon. If he uses Safari, there's obviously something not right going on here.

Photo-3
April 29, 2011

yeah, man. I'm on a Mac but I don't bother with Safari. Just Chrome and Firefox on occasion. 

Default_picture
April 28, 2011

Site seems to load faster.

Default_picture
April 28, 2011

Hurray fixes!

Default_picture
April 28, 2011

Ditto!

Sexy_beast
April 28, 2011

I think this calls for a celebration. And a celebration calls for beer!

Ragnaavatar2
April 28, 2011

Nice! I've been a Bitmob members since its very first days, but only until recently did I decide to be more active in the community. It should be easier and better with the new features you just added. Thanks!

Shoe_headshot_-_square
April 28, 2011

Thanks Carlos (and everyone else). You should check out those fixes for Bitmob 2.1, though. A lot of them are huge. Glad to have you back (more active)! :)

Default_picture
April 29, 2011

The comment reply thing is really cool. I'm liking these fixes.

Me04
April 29, 2011

The comment replies are ace. I really should write something for here again; I've writing reviews for another site (hey, it's free games) and I've kind of neglected Bitmob in the meantime. Going to have to change that!

Default_picture
April 29, 2011

Comment replying is cool, but apparently we can no longer edit our comments.

Shoe_headshot_-_square
April 29, 2011

Ah, crap! I didn't realize we lost that. Problem is, when I log in, I have the option to edit *all* of your comments, because I'm an admin. So I never realized the ability to edit your own comment got lost somehow.

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll put that in the bug list for the next round of fixes. Sorry about that!

Default_picture
April 29, 2011

No problem. I always put my comments (those longer than a sentence or two anyway) through a spellchecker anyway. Just a nice feature to have.

Shoe_headshot_-_square
April 29, 2011

No, definitely. It's something the community wanted early on, we implemented it, then we forgot about it, because we don't notice it on our end. Hope to fix it soon!

Sany0276__small_
May 02, 2011

Locking edits once a story is promoted is a very good idea, as some of us don't have the ability to leave things alone (or in my case, may be too stupid to realize their story has been promoted until they get an email saying otherwise). 

Shoe_headshot_-_square
May 02, 2011

I didn't think any of you guys would like this feature! ;)

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July 29, 2011

chrome ftw

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