So after an all night-marathon development session we are finally ready and happy to announce ActiveRain's newest addition: Channels & Topics.
For an overview of what Channels and Topics are check out this post by Brad Andersohn: "How to Use ActiveRain Channels"
Although the content being displayed today in most of the Topics and some of the Channels is sparce and even somewhat confusing, we have great plans for what we believe Channels and Topics will grow into over the next few months. More immediately (tomorrow night) we will put live a few extra design finishes on the home, channel, and topic pages to help make it clearer. (We recognize that some of the design elements are not displaying properly and as a result are making it difficult to navigate through the channels and the topics.
Here is a partial list of the changes we've made:
1. Rearranged the layout on the ActiveRain home page. Most notably, we removed all advertising on this page, added Channel and Topic Navigation, and provided greater prominence to the featured articles. (Within the next few days we expect to have posts from people our members subscribed to show up in the list.)
2. We removed the ActiveRain logo from the header area on pages optimized by the ActiveRain Customizer.
3. Featured Members are now displaying on the city level for logged in users. We play to make it display this way for non-logged in users soon.
Please check out the changes and let us know your opinion on this blog post. Our company philosophy is to release site upgrades as fast as reasonable and then look to our members for feedback. We do this so that if we are moving in a wrong direction with a product we can learn about our mistakes early and then adjust our direction before wasting unnecessary time and resources.
Comments(53)