Release 1.6.4
What’s new in this release:
- Suggest friends to other Zipalong users (more below).
- Improved the Find Friends page to clearly separate the users that we find based on the contacts you import from the ones we guess based on other sources.
- We added a link called How do I look? closed to your picture profile which takes you to your own profile page, as seen by other users. We discovered that a lot of users wanted to get to it, and they had to go through hoops to do it. Now it’s just a click away.
- User names are now abbreviated a lot nicer when they don’t fit in the alloted space (e.g. Dimi Paun will become Dimi P. or Dimi depending on the available space).
- More work on improving the load speed, we like snappy sites as much as anybody. We already do quite a bit in terms optimizing the browsing experience, but we always try to do better.
- Lots of feedbacks from our users where addressed.
Suggest Friends
The new feature this release is the ability to suggest friends to other users. To do so, you just select a few users from your own list of friends and send them to the other user:
How do you get to do so? There are two ways:
- When you approve a new friend, you will be prompted automatically to suggest new friends if it makes sense. This is a great way to help others to get started and connect with other people on Zipalong.
- You can just go to someone’s profile page, where you will find a Suggest friends link (on both the main profile page and the profile friends page).
And since we went all out with screenshots, here is a quick shot of the new link to your profile page:
Plans
So what’s next? We hope to have trip-level privacy settings and a revamped My Friends page in the next release, scheduled for the week of Nov 10, 2008.
Until next time,