Four New Features!
Posted by Jason Schupp on 2 July 2007.
Four new features were launched today: contacts, messaging, blocking and subscription editing. If you've been on the web over the last few years, you already know how most of this song goes, but in the off chance that's not the case, here's what's new:
You can now mark people as a contact, which lets you easily find them again—kind of like marking a photo as one of your favorites. You can view your contacts from your profile page, and see who's marked you as a contact. And, like other people's favorites, you can view other people's contacts by going to their profile page and clicking on the link for their contacts. To mark someone as a contact, either go to their profile page, or if you've found that they've marked you as a contact, you can do it right from that list.
Once you mark someone as your contact, you can go to the Photos and Stories sections and view photos and stories from just your contacts. If you've been using RSS feeds to follow people, we now offer an RSS feed of all the stuff your contacts have been posting to JPG. You can find the link to that at the bottom of your contacts page. (While we were at it, we added tabs to the People section: the default People view, people who have been published in JPG, and your contacts.)
We also now let you send private messages to another JPG members. You can get to that by clicking Mail up at the top of any page once you're logged in. If you've received new messages, you'll see that up there, too. You can save messages you've sent or received until you delete them.
Then there's blocking, which is kind of what you wish you could do to that annoying person at the bar that won't take no for an answer, because either you're not interested, or you're just not that kind of girl/guy. On someone's profile page, there's now a link to block them. Doing that will prevent them from sending you any private messages or making you their contact. (If they have you as a contact already, you'll be de-contacted. If that's a word.) You'll also lose any messages you've received from them if you've saved them.
That leaves subscription editing: if you're a JPG subscriber, you can now edit your own mailing address information so we know where to send it. Just go to your profile page, edit your profile, and choose the Subscription tag. If you've got more than one subscription (say you bought one for someone as a gift, and one for yourself), you can edit any or all of them.
We've got more stuff coming in the near future, but right now I'm being handed a glass of whiskey to celebrate the launch of the new stuff today, so I better stop here before I start slurring my typing. I don't know why I'm taking it; whiskey always gives me a headache...
