Bitmob 2.16 is live: A few fixes and improvements

Shoe_headshot_-_square
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

We just updated Bitmob with a few tweaks and fixes:

  • You can edit your own comments again. Sorry we dropped this function by accident with our last update!
  • When you put a URL in the comments, it should consistently hyperlink now for easy clickin'.
  • You can reply to all comments now, even though replies will only go one level deep. So if you reply to a reply, it will just appear at the bottom of that mini-thread.
  • If this is all working correctly, you should get an email notification (unless you opt out via Account Settings under your Profile tab) when:
    • Someone comments on a story that you wrote.
    • Someone replies to your comment.
    • Someone adds another reply to a comment you've already replied to (sort of like Facebook's commenting system).
    • You "subscribe to this comment thread" (by clicking the link at the bottom of the comments, below the "write comment" box).
  • Before, if any writers used a headline that started or ended with quotation marks, our system would delete those for some unknown reason. This is fixed now.
  • A very tiny handful of profile pages were broken, and their users couldn't access them. This is fixed now.
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes and minor tweaks that will make our lives easier while working on this site.

Note: Embedding video is a little wonky right now, and we're not sure why. We're working on this! In the meantime, if you try embedding a video and it doesn't work, but we're editing the article for you to put on the front page, we'll fix this in the backend. That's what she...never mind.

Also: Reminder about stuff!

 
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Comments (13)
May 24, 2011

Great, great, great! Loving the constant updates and improvements guys. Keep it up!

Shoe_headshot_-_square
May 24, 2011

*like* :)

Twit
May 24, 2011

I feel like Bitmob is the Minecraft of game press sites now.

230340423
May 24, 2011

We're ridiculously addictive and contain terrifying green creatures that chase you until they explode?

Twit
May 24, 2011

Either Bitmob is constantly updating or I can theorize on Shoe's method of self-defense.

Lolface
May 24, 2011

Strange, Bitmob will not load up on my iPad. Can anyone help with that?

Shoe_headshot_-_square
May 24, 2011

Hey Matthew...it loads on my iPad (1). Maybe it's just your Internet connection or something? Bitmob is a little slow on the iPad. We haven't really optimized the site for that format, to be honest. But it should work! I'm looking at it right now on my iPad.

230340423
May 24, 2011

It also loaded up on Safari on my iPod Touch with the latest iOS firmware.

Lolface
May 25, 2011

Apparently, there was an iPad update that I missed, and installing that fixed the issue.

Shoe_headshot_-_square
May 25, 2011

Ah good, thanks for the update.

Default_picture
May 25, 2011
Yay! Thank you for fixing the system. Now I can change all my awkward, *controversial* comments. (not really controversial)
Mindjack
May 28, 2011

Digging the update! Here are two small suggestions.

• I really like the “shoe boxes”, but I’d like to see more than three. It’d be nice if there was a little arrow on the right, and when you click or hover over it more boxes would scroll into view.

• Everyone loves avatars/profile pics. Right now they only look good on our profile pages, but they’re a pixelated mess elsewhere on the site.

Shoe_headshot_-_square
May 29, 2011

Thanks for the suggestions! I agree with you on the profile pix. Right now, that would take a much bigger redesign than we're ready for, but we'll keep it in mind if we do that.

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