ImThere Blog

Just rolled out another update to the site. Some of the changes include:

• Friend names are now clickable on imthere/beenthere/seenthem/myfriend buttons
• Fixed issues w/ date/time display on event listings
• Various stylesheet fixes
• Fixed friends page headers showing up where they shouldn’t
• Fixed case sensitivity issues with user profile tabs
• Fixed remaining issues with certain event/venue/artist pages giving random 500 errors
• Fixed an issue with the mobile system

You may have noticed intermittent crashes on some content pages all day yesterday. We had a slight problem with the new related content box that caused some pages to crash. I managed to track it to a bug in our search system, and have patched it up. Things should be reliable again :)

It’s update day! We just pushed out a bunch of great new features and fixes. I think everyone will find ImThere much more useful as a result. First off, here’s a visual overview of the big stuff:

Use the completely new Friends tab to know where your friends are at a glance, view their upcoming and past events, and check out their favorites

Check out your friends upcoming events with one click from anywhere on ImThere

Know what events, venues, artists, and users your friends have said ImThere, BeenThere, SeemThem, and MyFriend to at a glance

Auto-detectable RSS feeds almost everywhere

Reply to a comment without leaving the page

Discover new events, venues, and artists through the Related box on all content pages

Invite your friends to events

The invitation system actually went out a bit ago, but I thought it was worth mentioning in case you missed it. Everything else is brand new, however. Those big changes aren’t it though. Here’s a rundown of the other improvements:

• Mobile functionality works from verified email addresses (this is for you, iPhone users!)
• Message center cleanups and fixes
• Chat-style ordering of Live Comments
• Timeline calendar updated to show event titles
• “Now at” notification tweaks
• Distance sorting fixed
• Real name and birthday display and privacy settings on profile
• Picture loading and thumbnail improvements
• Hotness accuracy enhanced
• Latest activity improvements
• Tag page updated to search event titles too
• Additional content type icons added
• Tightened up the site header

We’ve rolled out lots of great stuff tonight, but fear not, the team is already back at work on the next round of updates. The upcoming major features are shaping up to be very impressive, so keep checking ImThere and this blog!

The whole team has been hard at work polishing the newly launched ImThere. Here are just some of the 100+ improvements and fixes we’ve made just in the past few weeks:

• Mobile functionality fixes and improvements
• Site-wide formatting cleanups
• Sort options on all listings
• Default pictures for events, venues, and artists
• “Holiday” event category
• Venue and artist category icons
• Venue category cleanups
• Thumbnails are better displayed
• Scrolling for full-sized feeds
• Checkbox for viewing just upcoming events
• Checkbox for viewing just local artists, venues, and users
• Ability to set a hometown for an artist
• Areas without content are better handled
• Disabled states for scroll buttons when there’s no content to scroll
• Mouse over and down states for scroll buttons
• Clicking ImThere, BeenThere, SeenThem, MyFriend or adding an artist or a venue as a favorite while logged out takes you to the signup page
• Sidebar status changing usability improvements and a spinner
• Days with more than 3 events are better handled on the sidebar calendar
• Upcoming events will now always show in the sidebar calendar
• New message notification on the sidebar Inbox tab
• Pictures in content streams and timelines are better handled
• Design tweaks to the logged out sidebar
• Clicking “Send username a message” or the message icon on the sidebar fills in the “To” field with the appropriate username
• Latest Activity on listings is now the actual latest activity for that item
• Mobile help page created and linked in the notification box
• Search, tag, and non-local community pages display all content (no longer just content in your region)
• Link to get directions for an event or venue
• Renamed “Profile” tab to “Details” on event, venue, and artist pages
• Birthday user profile field stays set
• Interests user profile field updates correctly
• Locationless events are better handled
• Renamed “Latest” and “Recently Added” to “Newest”
• Corrected content stream sorting
• Fixed numerous browser-specific issues
• Admin functionality

That’s a lot of stuff! The site should feel a lot better now. Needless to say, we’ve got bunches more on the way. Fortunately though, the site is to the point where we can spend more time on larger new features, which will make ImThere much more useful. For instance, our awesome invitation system will be launching this week. As always, we’re appreciative of any suggestions or bug reports you may have. You can tell us on Lighthouse!

On a final note, I want to welcome Wesley (monki) Beary to the team! He’s our newest developer, and he’s already contributed a lot to ImThere. He brings a lot of experience with him, and we’re thrilled to have him on board. With his help, we’ll be able to push out a lot of major improvements very quickly. I think you’ll be surprised to see just how much ImThere evolves over the coming few months.

Thanks very much for using ImThere. We hope you’re having fun with it! Tell your friends :)