What’s new?
You might have noticed a few new features on 43places lately. Here’s a quick run down of some of the new stuff we’ve been working on.
- Entry Types: We’ve added “entry types” that let you classify the type of story you are telling about a place. We hope these may give you some inspiration as to the sorts of stories you might want to tell. Find the entry types by writing an entry about any of the places on your list. Still want to add your own title; select “A story about this place” and it works the same as it ever did.
- Tag Browsing: We’ve reworked the way tags are working on the site. Now anyone can tag anything, wheteher they’ve been there or not. So if you are in to organizing, help us describe places with tags. You can also get a taste of the new way to browse tags we are developing by going to a city (like Seattle and clicking on one of the tags on the right such as restaurants, bar, or park. From there you can refine with related tags as well as narrow down (or scale up) the geographic area you are interested in.
- Events: We’ve recently added the ability to add an event to a place and also created a way you can tell people in your city what events you are attending. For example, check out all the shows Todd is going to lately (you can see them on the right hand side of profile page). The astute will notice that we’re collaborating with Upcoming.org to import events from their site as well for specific cities. You’ll notice these events because they are linked back to Upcoming under the event name.
- Check-ins: I think we talked about this before, but we’ve also added a feature that lets you “check in” at a place where you are a regular. You can do this from the website, from email, or from your mobile phone. It’s a fun way to track your visits and start to see the places where you are a “regular”. For an example, check out the spots Erik frequents (you can see them right below the map on his profile page).
More to come
We have lots more work we are doing on this push to improve 43 Places, but we’d love to hear from you. Have a great idea for what we should be working on? Add your idea to http://ideas.43places.com or send us an email at local@43places.com.
Thanks!
Great work dudes
Excellent! Thank you for the enhancements. I particularly love the checkins and events. I can’t wait to see what’s next!
re: Entry Types:
Even though the default on the dropdown has now been set to “A story about this place” so the title entry box appears immediately (the difference is already visible with far fewer untitled (“the last time I’ve been to this place”) stories that don’t invite reading), there is still a BUG with the mechanism:
When you are done writing (or partly), and choose a *preview*, and then want to go back to editing by choosing the edit link, the dropdown reverts to another default – and hides the title.
This, of course, should not happen: (re-)editing an entry after preview which already has a (visible) title should not make it into a different type of entry which hides the title again!
Please fix.
I am sure many of the “the last time I’ve been to this place” entries still appearing now really started their life with a real title that got lost when some one previewed and didn’t notice the title was lost! (I didn’t notice at first either… it took stumbling over this several times before I found where the problem was.)
About listsofbests and allconsuming:
I don’t like the look of allconsuming either. In fact, I reallty thought it was an *old* site (a very old one): from the era of “we don’t really know anything about wesite design yet”. The different look also makes for a jarring effect when moving between integrated sites. 43whatsits sites look clean, listsofbests almost (that page header looks ugly though) and allconsuming looks like a left-over that doesn’t belong at all.
If these sites are meant to be wholly integrated, there should be some sort of ‘master design’ that ties them together, where each site could have its own variation on the theme without being so different that it looks like it doesn’t belong.
BUG?
I can’t see my own comments. On the main page it says “7 comments” (that’s two from me) but when I click through I see only 5 (all those *not* from me).
Looks really nice — having just started here and all, it was all just part of the site for me to begin with, but it’s quite something! Gotta question, though — having linked into my flickr account just fine, it doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge any of my newer photos since then. Any guesses?
I love the enhancements to the SF pages — very nice. BUT I think it might enhance the usefulness of the SF pages to put the Bay Area there together as a grouping. (SF, Oakland, San Jose, etc.)
hey i dont see where can i add the upcoming info, please help
ill is
I love your idea for this site so much!
I decided that I wanted to make a mission, and finish all of my 43 things this summer. I think if we all made our goals a reality it’d make life much more enjoyable!
let me know what you think!
-morgan tepsic
all of a sudden….people arent getting my replies to their posts(via email notification ) and am not recieving any email notification on coments on my entries… even people clicking on “meet me” does not send me an email alert…………what is goin on here!!!!!!!!!!