ImThere, 2008
January 12th, 2008
With the holidays behind us, the team has been hard at work finishing the first update to ImThere in 2008. That update is now here! It brings us into the world of Ruby on Rails 2, the major new version of the platform ImThere is built on. We can now take advantage of all of the great functionality and performance enhancements that Rails 2 offers, which we’ve already started to do. In the process of all of this, we took the opportunity to overhaul our code base and get it in shape for a brand new year of development.
Not only is ImThere now faster and easier to build on, it also features a number of great enhancements and fixes:
- Rewritten search system that provide much more accurate results
- Rewritten related content system that provide truly useful suggestions
- Reworked timeline and content stream to load faster
- Clarified time display on the Going On Now bar
- Fixed navigation issues on various pages
- Improved tagging functionality
- Tweaked invitation system
- Tweaked mobile system usability
- Numerous styling improvements
All in all, this is an important update that will have long-lasting effects on ImThere. One example of that is our forthcoming API and sharing functionality that is now possible with this update. Expect that and a whole lot more in the near future. 2008 is going to be a great year for ImThere!
