We just pushed the 15th(!) version of our alpha release out to all of our testers. Notable improvements in the last few days:
Usability improvements to the templates
- We spent time minimizing the amount of cruft while emphasizing the actual posts and comments
- We cleaned up the beta footer. The gray background was putting too much weight on it.
- We now force proper capitalization of all usernames. Looks nice.
- We dropped the font size of the add a comment and manage your subscriptions area
Simplified things by making site-wide subscriptions the default
The Postmatic widget changes behaviors depending on where it is. Previous to this version there were three behaviours:
- If you were on a generic page or term archive you would be invited to subscribe to all site posts
- If you were on an author archive you would be invited to subscribe to just that author
- If you were on a single blog post you would be invited to subscribe to comments on that post
Thanks everyone for your feedback… it seems that comment subscriptions were pretty confusing. So, we’ve axed #3 from above. You can still subscribe to comments by leaving a comment or, of course, by replying to a post email with the word ‘subscribe’ or even subsrive, sbsubribe, subsrib!
Quieted down the notifications
When you leave a comment on a post via email you are by nature subscribing to other comments on that post. You used to get an email letting you know that you have been subscribed. We turned that one off.