Introducing the SoulPancake Weekly SPoonful

Say hello to the all new SoulPancake Weekly SPoonful. A weekly email containing some community highlights and fresh content from around the site.

What’s Included

In each email you’ll see two of our favorite recent entries from around the site, and a few submissions from the Question Collective. You get all the information you need packaged neatly within one email. For each submission we showcase the user’s name, link straight to their profile, link straight to the discussion of each submission, number of responses and so on. For each featured entry from the site, we also display its category, and a short excerpt from the piece. You can preview what one of these emails looks like here.

Subscriptions

If you’re a member of SoulPancake, you’ll automatically be subscribed to get the emails. Of course, we know some of you already have enough email to deal with, so turning them off is incredibly easy as well. Simply login to SoulPancake, navigate to Settings then to My Account and un-check the Subscribe to SoulPancake Weekly Highlights checkbox. Or you can just click the unsubscribe links at the bottom of the email. Then you’ll never receive these emails again.

We hope you enjoy the Weekly SPoonfuls!

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.

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The Question Collective: Uploading Tips and Tricks to Get You on Your Way

By now you may have come across our Question Collective and thought to yourself, “Hey, I have a great idea that I would like to share, but what’s the deal with uploading images and how do I get in on that action?” Well, fear not as I am here to guide you through this process and have you contributing your insights in no time.

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