Some big changes just went live
86- pauldeeds
- 1829 posts
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- Fans: 374
We just rolled out some fairly big changes to the site in the last hour or so. There was brief period of instability as it went out, apologies for that.
Profile Page
We made the first significant update to the profile page in quite some time. The big change is that instead of the latest, best, and hot listing we created a list of author's important hubs organized by topic. You can see for yourself on Maddie's Profile Page. We are rolling this out gradually, so you may not see it on your profile page right away (and you must have at least 15 hubs).
Other new features include the ability to search the text of author's hubs and to view a list of all an author's hubs that are tagged with a particular tag.
Because of the layout change, some of you with fairly long profile page bios may want to shorten them up a bit, in order to pull the hubs up a little closer to the top of the page.
You can thank Fawntia for most of these changes.
Photo Capsule and Link Capsule interface
We fixed a number of longstanding bugs in these two capsules and at the same time made them much easier to use (or so we think). Larry did worked on the link capsule, and Fawntia worked on the photo capsule.
Slide shows
On hubs that have at least 3 photos, that are a minimum of 150 pixels wide and 200 pixels high, you can now enable viewing of all the photos in the hub as a slide show. There is a check box in the settings box at the top of the edit hub screen. When enabled a link will appear in the first photo of the hub. To see an example, check out Paul Edmondson's hub on how to dress in Las Vegas, or my sister's hub on Restoring a badly abused Victorian House (the garage of which also happened to be HubPages' first office). Ad revenue is split on this page, just as it is on a hubs.Wow! The profile pages look absolutely beautiful! I love that readers can now see a wide variety of hubs from their favorite hubbers. Great changes - thanks so much!
91- Lissie
- 1694 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 128
- Fans: 1601
Wow the profile is so good - and so much easier to find stuff written by a specific author which has been a bugbear of mine for every! Thank you team!
93- B.T. Evilpants
- 553 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 31
- Fans: 374
It looks awesome! I love the new search feature!
99- Maddie Ruud
- 1747 posts
- HubPages Staff
- Joined: 3 years ago
- Hubs: 220
- Fans: 2748
Thank you, users, for your feedback on ways to make people's hubs easier to navigate. And big thanks to Fawntia for making them happen!
97- Marisa Wright
- 3283 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 91
- Fans: 1078
Thank you team - the Hubs listing looks great. I have only one teeny reservation - people used to see a list of our Latest Hubs as soon as they opened the profile - now, even if I shorten my profile, they're going to have to scroll down. It would have been nice if they could have stayed where they were!
95- In The Doghouse
- 94 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 110
- Fans: 564
Such an improvement, I love it! Thanks Hubpages!
93- Misha
- 10901 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 18
- Fans: 1892
Very nice! Thank you guys!
- 97
- Marisa Wright
- 3283 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 91
- Fans: 1078
I take my comment back! I just edited my profile text so it lines up neatly with the photo. The result is that "Latest Hubs" just peeks over the bottom of the screen, inviting the curious to scroll down - which means they'll see the main Hub listing. Nice!
88- funwithtrains
- 23 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 9
- Fans: 75
Looks great -- I don't have 15 hubs yet, but someday I will! :-)
97- Uninvited Writer
- 5313 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 117
- Fans: 720
The profile page looks great!
92- LdsNana-AskMormon
- 245 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 60
- Fans: 496
I just signed in and checked my profile page... and BAM! It looks great:-)
Thanks Hubpages... you ALL Rock:-)
tDMg
LdsNana-AskMormon
94- Rochelle Frank
- 1279 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 106
- Fans: 525
(With thedanger of appearing to overuse the word "wow" too much:)
Wow!! these are great!
I'm sure there are some things that still need to be tweeked ( My "Why you shouldn't have a wild animal pet" is listed under "food")-- but overall I really like the way it presents things.
Thanks!!
Thanks, Fawnita.
80- shinujohn2008
- 1312 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 4001
- Fans: 2360
When i saw the message that Upgrades is Going On - I Truly did not expect this kind of surprise. It is really amazing..........I want to hug the people who got this wonderful idea to reality. Thanks for this Great Gift
Special Cheers to Fawntia who worked on the photo capsule. It looks very nice and faster.- 99
- Maddie Ruud
- 1747 posts
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- Fans: 2748
Rochelle Frank wrote:
My "Why you shouldn't have a wild animal pet" is listed under "food"That's because you have it tagged as "food."
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- Rochelle Frank
- 1279 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 106
- Fans: 525
OK-- so I looked at some of the other ones that looked a little misplaced-- I see that the first tag may be the most important in any posting.
I don't always think in priorities. I guess there's no way to change the order of tag postings?
I will think about that next time I post. Thanks, Maddie. I think it is a great enhancement-- no 'madder' how it is listed. The profile page looks awesome. Great Job!
99- Zsuzsy Bee
- 3113 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 127
- Fans: 941
The profile page looks amazing. Thank you team for a great job.
regards Zsuzsy
87- SpotCoolStuff.com
- 41 posts
- Joined: 17 months ago
- Hubs: 33
- Fans: 106
Great improvement of the profile page. Well played!
93- Anna Marie Bowman
- 361 posts
- Joined: 17 months ago
- Hubs: 66
- Fans: 484
I love the new look of the profile page!!!! I am so excited!!! I can't wait to see what these changes bring!
