activerain features: New batch of ActiveRain enhancements - 06/06/07 09:54 AM
We just put up a new batch of enhancements to ActiveRain based off of your requests these past couple weeks. These enhancements are a part of a continuous effort to improve your experience and provide you with more ways to find content.
New filter for blog posts:
Enhancement #1 is an additional filter for … (67 comments)
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activerain features: Private groups and other enhancements - 05/20/07 10:46 PM
Private groups are here! We just released them along with several enhancements to the existing group features on ActiveRain. The three main improvements were, the addition of private groups, the ability to invite members to a group, and categories to help people find groups to join. Details on all of these … (56 comments)
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activerain features: Non-member comment notification improvements - 05/12/07 01:18 PM
This morning we put up a couple minor feature enhancements to ActiveRain, which members keep asking for. Here are two of the main ones.
Comment notification for non-members
We added a new way for non-activerain members to receive email notifications of replies to comments they leave on blogs here at ActiveRain. This enhancement … (28 comments)
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activerain features: In the works - Customizing Your ActiveRain Blog - 02/18/07 05:40 PM
One of the most commonly mentioned shortcomings of blogging on ActiveRain has been the lack of customizability of the platform of members blogs. We work to create a very easy to use platform for the real estate industry and never intend or do intend to compete with the feature sets of other … (45 comments)
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activerain features: Localism update - Neighborhoods, communities, urban villages... - 01/24/07 02:48 PM
Again, if you don't know about Localism our consumer portal which is under development you can read more here. As promised we are pushing new features every couple days to get us to an official launch in a few months. This morning we released an update allowing members to add communities/neighborhoods/urban … (80 comments)
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activerain features: Lots of site updates Tuesday morning... - 01/15/07 12:44 AM
Just a heads up to ActiveRain members, there will be a whole bunch of site updates coming on Tuesday morning. Many of these updates are based on member feedback over the previous two weeks. Here's a bullet list of some of the updates, there will be more details Tuesday morning.
Members will … (39 comments)
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activerain features: Points, dashboard changes and other stuff... - 01/02/07 02:48 PM
Some of you (ok, many of you) already noticed some changes to the Blog Dashboard this morning and have noticed some changes to how blog posts are scored recently. This is all part of our continuous evolution to try to keep things fair to members, both new and old. Handing out … (72 comments)
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activerain features: Localism.com photo uploads - update - 12/30/06 04:16 PM
This is an update to the post Upload regional photos to Localism.com and earn points!
Based on member comments we made a couple of quick changes to the photo upload capability on the consumer portal Localism.com
Photos are now being automatically resized to a maximum of 800x600 upon upload, since full size … (39 comments)
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activerain features: What is Localism? - 12/18/06 03:23 PM
For several months we've been talking about how we are going to construct a consumer facing side to ActiveRain. There has been a lot of speculation on what form this would take, so we decided to give our members a sneak peak into the ongoing development efforts at Localism.com We are still several … (72 comments)
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activerain features: New group features - 12/07/06 03:46 PM
Since we put up the beta of the groups functionality about a week and a half ago, we've steadily launched features and enhancements and have quite a few more coming early tomorrow morning. So here's a rundown of things that have been added since we put up the initial beta or … (57 comments)
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activerain features: Major ActiveRain feature release - Tuesday morning - 11/26/06 05:39 PM
We are doing a large release of new features on ActiveRain.com very early Tuesday morning (4:00 am PST). The main item in this release will be the beta launch of Groups on ActiveRain.
For several months it has become very clear that for ActiveRain to continue growing there needs to be a way for … (42 comments)
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activerain features: A couple of ActiveRain changes - 11/09/06 10:42 AM
Early this morning we put up several small enhancements to the ActiveRain system. Ben pushes them live at about 4:00 am well before I'm awake, so I'm just now writting the post about them.
1. We added a hit counter to blogs as suggested by numerous people. This hit counter displays at … (39 comments)
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activerain features: New blog categories and regional blog display - 10/21/06 01:50 PM
About 3:00 am PST the proposed blog category changes went into effect. Instead of the previous 5 categories there are two main categories, "For Real Estate Professionals" and "For Consumers" each with a set of sub categories. This new category system is to help people efficiently find the posts they want … (24 comments)
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activerain features: Proposed blog category changes - 10/19/06 02:13 PM
Based on feedback we are going to try to be more pro-active in getting members involved in updates to the system before we make them. This will prevent people from being so surprised when something changes and also get feedback before implementing a change.
One of the changes we plan to make … (38 comments)
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activerain features: Associate blog groups - 10/08/06 08:00 PM
This morning we made a couple changes to a feature that many members never knew existed but judging from the reaction many members rely on. That feature is called "associate" blogs. Under your profile you can create groups that you can add member's to, in ActiveRain speak these are associate groups. … (19 comments)
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activerain features: Blog bookmarking - 10/03/06 12:48 AM
Several members asked for an easy way to bookmark posts to read later, so we just implemented it...
Now at the bottom of each blog post next to the rating control a "Bookmark" icon will appear (if logged in).
Clicking on the "Bookmark" icon will add the post to your onsite bookmarks and … (40 comments)
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activerain features: System downtime Thursday night 10:00 pm PST - 09/20/06 07:47 PM
We are going to be launched a cool search that will allow users to search blog entries, forums, and profiles Thursday (tomorrow). This release will require the site to be offline for about a half an hour as all of the existing content is indexed and is scheduled to take place at … (19 comments)
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activerain features: More updates to ActiveRain last night... - 09/19/06 12:43 PM
Some of you may have already noticed but we made several updates to ActiveRain last night. Here's a quick rundown of what they are...
1. We added two additional catagories that blog entries may be posted to "Advertising a Listing" and "Other Advertisement. While we didn't exactly intend for people to use the blogs … (34 comments)
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activerain features: Just pushed lots of new site updates - 09/11/06 09:24 PM
Ben just pushed up a big round of enhancements to our live servers. Here's a run-down of the major ones...
1. Added the last 10 (public) featured blog postings to the front page. A few people had commented that they had originally though ActiveRain was simply a real estate directory, so by … (12 comments)
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activerain features: Geo targetting featured profiles on home page - 09/10/06 02:39 PM
I just thought I'd let people know ahead of time of a change that will be going into effect early this week, so we don't get hundreds of support emails saying something is broken. We are going to try targeting the featured profiles displayed on the front page to the state the … (13 comments)
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