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The Syrup Just Got A Little Bit Thicker
After weeks of working around the clock, we’re happy to roll out some exciting new features and critical enhancements to our growing community. We think you’ll love them just as much we do… Let’s dive in.
Your New Home
Every one of us now has a place to call home on SoulPancake. If you’re an existing member, login and click your name. If you’re new to SoulPancake, signing up is a breeze. Your profiles track all of your discussions, submissions and any direct replies you receive from around the community. You can also share a little bit about yourself, connect to twitter (more on that later), and link to your website. To view other people’s profiles, simply click on a profile pic from any discussion thread, or whenever their username is mentioned in discussions.
Discussions & Replies
Tracking everyone’s discussions is fairly straight forward in terms of functionality. We are particularly excited about the way direct replies are being handled… When you login to SoulPancake, to the right of your name is an @reply notifier. When someone replies directly to anything you’ve said around SoulPancake, this will notify you of the new message. Click the reply notification to view all of your @replies, which are stored under the main tab in your profile.Question Collective Submissions
From your profile, you can now see all your past submissions to the Question Collective. Clicking on “See them all” opens up your personal gallery. You can also navigate to “My Submissions” from the main nav.
Twitter Integration
Yup, we love twitter too…
And now we’ve made it even more seamless to communicate between both communities. In your “Settings” page, there is a new tab called “Twitter” where you can fill in your twitter username and password. Once you’re done, you’ll see a little “Tweet this” button when you’re leaving a response or submitting to the Question Collective.
The way we’ve integrated twitter is pretty unique. Every time you leave a comment or upload a question to the collective, and you have “Tweet this” enabled, SoulPancake will send out a tweet to all your followers, linking back to the discussion you’re having, or your submission. You never need to leave SoulPancake, manually go to twitter, type in the tweet, shorten the link, or anything like that. We have a group of randomly generated phrases that will get tweeted to all of your followers once you hit Submit. The system knows where you are at any given moment, so everything is automated.You can disable this altogether in your settings and the “Tweet this” button will not be visible. Of course, connecting both accounts is totally optional, but we think it makes for a more dynamic impact when being active.
Optimization, Behind the Scenes
In addition to introducing a slew of new features to SoulPancake, we’ve done a lot of cleaning up behind the scenes. We continue to focus on providing a stable infrastructure that allows us to innovate the way our community actually interacts. Our growth up until this point has outpaced our initial expectations, and we’ve been doing our very best to keep up.
Thank you to everyone who continues to be a part of our ever-growing community… Enjoy!
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 26 comments26 responses to “The Syrup Just Got A Little Bit Thicker”
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absolutely amazing,
this is precisely what I was waiting for
thank you Rainn!
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The TWITTER shit is SICK!
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LOVING THIS
!Joel M. May 2nd, 2009 at 03:16
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I love the response notifier.
Thanks!I’m having a little trouble figuring out how to navigate to find the response, though. And I’m really curious about that little figure which sort of looks like half of a flower which appears in the right column of my message page.
Blue Crayon May 2nd, 2009 at 06:26
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the reply notifier is really cool, really, really cool. and incredibly useful.
Chris636 May 2nd, 2009 at 10:07
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I must say. I am fairly blown away. I haven’t seen twitter tie-in like that before, and the reply notifier is something a lot of other websites should be doing. But for some reason, are not doing.
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@BueCrayon: to get to the @replies, literally just click the notifier… It’s that simple!
For the two icons… The half flower means “Question Collective” and the other one means “Blog Post/From the SP team” — they’re used to differentiate between types of media you’ve commented on.
Jen, Gary, Joel and Chris… Thank you!
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I love all the new features (though when I click on my @replies, I can’t see the whole reply…it’s chopped in half).
Now if only I became a featured contributor…
Mychal May 2nd, 2009 at 14:42
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Haa, these are all the things i sent you via twitter and now they’re in the site. My life is complete.
ElePhatt May 2nd, 2009 at 17:55
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@Mychal: It’s specifically an Internet Explorer issue. If you try Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Chrome, you’ll be all set while we get the Internet Explorer fix out.
@ElePhatt: We’ll always be open-minded… and LOVE feedback!
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Perhaps a technical question, answer if you’d like.
How did you approach the twitter combination? How did you make it so I don’t have to leave SoulPancake? and how did you get them producing auto generated messages like that?
I ask because I run a community as well, and find what you did with twitter was highly effective.
You don’t have to reveal secrets, but anything would help.
Best, Mony
Monarck May 2nd, 2009 at 18:31
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LMAO, is that Arsinio Billingham from 30Rock?
Sarah J. May 2nd, 2009 at 18:38
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@Sarah: It is!
Tracy: “Hall or Billingham?”
Jack: “You know someone named Arsenio Billingham?”
Tracy: “No”
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Thanks so much… Soul Pancake just keeps getting more and more awesome!
By the way, I have a delicious pancake recipe if you would like it.
Jennietruthseeker May 5th, 2009 at 16:54
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GREAT STUFF. How is the Man Cave Rainn?
pharmdstp May 27th, 2009 at 17:44
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This is one good looking, sexy theme, love it! What theme are you using?
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Very interesting post… Would like to use some of this on my blog. Is that ok or not?
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@David: What exactly do you mean “you’d like to use some of this on your blog
?” If you mean by linking to the post and quoting it, by all means… Go right ahead! – Be sure and send over the link to your blog when you’re done. -
This place just keeps getting better. Very happy to be a part of it.
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@JefPrice: Thanx so much, there’s a lot more exciting stuff to come over the summer… We’re hard at work as we speak! Thanx for being a member early on.
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perssonally I ‘m no Twitter fan, compared to this place it seems utterly poitless and badly designed, I speak as a non-geek . what I like about what your doing, or so it seems so far is providing interesting, challenging and creative stuff to snap your synapses at! great!
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I can tell that this is not the first time you write about this topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?
p.s. Year One is already on the Internet and you can watch it for free. -
I love this place!
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mr. wilson, this website is one the greatest justices to happen to society and the internet in…..ever! thank you so much and your show is the bomb (the office).
James Brown August 20th, 2009 at 09:16
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After reading this usefull article how to use twitter. I even see some sens in twittering. Thx a lot.
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Thanks for sharing this, it will really improve my use of twitter.
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