Monthly Archives: February 2010

Heads up: “Place lists” moving from Lists of Bests to 43 Places

This is a post about two of our lesser-known websites, 43 Places and Lists of Bests.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve begun work on a big revamp of 43 Places.  One of our first orders of business is improving the way users can create lists of places.  To simplify the list-making process across all our websites, we’re going to move all the Lists of Bests place lists into 43 Places.

No need to worry about missing lists, lost data, or broken links, as nothing will be removed in the process.  You’ll still be able to track your progress as you step foot onto each of the 7 continents, and keep checking off items on the 50 places to see before you die.

As always, please let us know if you have suggestions on how we can improve our sites, even if the suggestions aren’t related to hyphenation.

Update to home page

It’s almost 43 days after New Year’s, and we hope you’ve got your New Year’s Resolutions squared away.  We just took the Resolutions feature off the home page, but you can always access your 2010 Resolutions with the tab on your profile page:

Or you can go directly to your 2010 Resolutions if you know your username, e.g. http://www.43things.com/people/resolutions/joe

From that page, you can copy individual Resolutions over to your Life List with the click of a button!

While we were at it, we did an update to the homepage, which should make it easier to add new goals and create a new account.  New users can play around with the site, adopting goals which are temporarily saved until they create a 43 Things account.  We also cleaned up the log in and sign up pages.

Check it out: http://www.43things.com

As always, please let us know if you see bugs, slownesses, or any other ghosts in the machine.

Thanks, from the Robots