Fresh & Fried
By Lemon - Mar 26, 2012
Dear users,
It has been almost one year since our last update, we had promised you a lot of features and we hope we don't disappoint with this new update to the website.
With this update we bring you some new features:
- Facebook and Twitter connect integration
- Revamped dashboard with search ability
- Checkin to your episodes with an optional message
- Tweet or post your checkins to your facebook wall
- Notification center to make it easier to see who mentions you and who wants to be your friend
- Revamped episode pages making it easier to mark multiple episodes as watched
- You can now checkin to episodes without following a show
In addition, a couple things have changed that effect the behavior of a couple buttons
- We removed the acquired option to episodes
- Unfollowing a show no longer removes your checkins for that TV show
We have also made some improvements on the design and usability of a few pages:
- Brand new homepage
- Improved the dashboard with more informative activity streams of your friends
- More filter options for the various show discovery pages
- Improved the profile pages
- The tag pages now allow you to sort and filter shows
- Searching for tags is now possible
As well as some other features and improvements that we leave you to discover.
We hope that you enjoy this update and don't hesitate to leave us some feedback on the update as comment.
Followmy.tv's Team.
Comments
@josbeir I didn't check it, I thought It will storage ALL the tags searched, you can only have 1 tag searched.
btw congrats about the notificacion icon, it works very well :)
@SeiTaN Why would you want to remove de search tag? You can just switch back to the unwatched/pinned tabs with no refresh ?
* Vertical list gives a bit visual issues because many shows only have only 1/2 seasons... Others have like 20.. horizontal placement was giving us the best option .
We'll check how we can improve it tho.
The Episode List page is now too long (each episode takes too much vertical space), I dearly miss "Aquired" and I don't like the 3-click Checkin (was 2-click before).
How about a 1-click checkin by clicking the number of stars next to an episode with the option to add a comment?
On the other hand I really like the option to sort and filter the tag pages, though I'd like to be able to use multiple tags in the same search, i.e. hbo+comedy.
no more acquired? arg... this is what made followmy.tv better than others...!
Some "issues"
-How can I remove search tag from dashboard avoiding refreshing (F5) dashboard?
- In a show's the bulk editor, the position of list of seasons being vertically is weird to me, Could it be horizontal?
Sorry my english, thanks guys.
@Jakurdo Indeed, they are not there (anymore), but currently the episodes list page has no functions besides the information that is shown.
I would be a fan of this config:
- episodes page: button to checkin (under the rating for each episode) + button at the top to mark the whole season as watched
- “bulk edit" to use the checkboxes + 4 actions
@jaaan That's true, but then again, you can't edit anything in the normal episode screen right? Or did I just miss those buttons?
@Jakurdo agreed, you can do that in the bulk edit screen, but not in the normal episodes screen.
@jaaan Quick fix for "mark the whole season as..." At the top, next to the watched, not watched etc buttons, you can click an icon that selects every episode of that season. Then you can just click watched and presto, you marked the whole season as watched ;)
Overall a good update (I specifically like the comments per episodes on the profiles).
3 points of improvement though:
- Checkin > Checkin: 2 clicks. Understandable that you want to push the ratings / comments system, but the 2 buttons should at least be on the same vertical line to make the 2 clicks more intuitive.
- Putting the bulk editor on a separate page: good choice, but I miss the buttons per episode (could be placed under the episode rating (hidden)), and I miss the "mark the whole season as..." buttons. In the episodes list it is also not indicated which ones you've seen.
- Instead of "1" and "2" indicating the seasons, put "Season 1" and "Season 2" (larger area to click). Also a "Show all" button could be beneficial.
Again, overall it's a good update with some nice new features / added visuals, but I do miss (some aspects of) yesterday's clean and fast UI.