Big Things Draw Near
November 3rd, 2007
We’ve rolled out one final update to ImThere in advance of the major changes that we’re launching at the Under The Radar conference on November 15th. This update consists of nearly 50 new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Here’s an overview:

The Friends tab sidebar now displays all friends’ status messages in one place. Venues and artists are now sorted by how many friends have added them as a favorite. Hovering over or clicking the favorite count displays those friends.

You can now invite your webmail contacts to ImThere
- Hotness now better handles local events and updates drastically faster
- Invitation and friend request emails and mobile messages have been cleaned up
- Notifications are now displayed and linked on the sidebar Inbox tab properly
- Favorite lists now scroll without ever getting cut off
- Tags were removed from event listings to give more room for the associated venue, artist, time, and date
- Invitations now better handle custom addresses
- WYSIWYG editor output is now rendered properly on content and user pages
- URLs are now auto-linked in descriptions on content pages
- Time-zone support improved for clarity
- Communication center message previews have been truncated to make scanning through messages easier; other UI improvements were made as well
- Numerous fixes and improvements throughout the site, especially with the friend and mobile systems
Overall, you should find ImThere to be very solid. We’ve reached the point where the base of the site is very stable, and now we get to build awesome things on top of it and make larger-scale changes. As mentioned, you’ll start seeing exactly that happen very soon!
If you have any thoughts on improving ImThere, please let us know on Lighthouse!
November 25th, 2007 at 05:49 PM
screw that. I want to know now!