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Changes to the Huddles

Over the last few weeks, there have been quite a few changes to the Huddles.  Here's a quick and dirty breakdown of what's new and improved.  We'd love to get your feedback on what we've done and what you'd like to see.

1. New home page - Now featured on the home page of each Huddle, you can see a few of the top Huddlers, a recent news item, featured debates and wikis, as well as some of the top products in each community. 
   
2. Live feed now available - On the home page (toward the lower right hand corner above the footer), check out the live RSS feed.  This will allow you to keep up on all the excitement around the Huddle as it's happening.
   
3. New product addition wizard - Our brilliant engineers have come up with a way for you to easily add a new product to the Huddler database.  Streamlined in the process, you can customize the display name, description, add an image, add links/specs/model numbers, and more.
4. Multi-Huddle displays - Now that we have three Huddles, on each user page, you'll be able to see which Huddles that user belongs to.  So you can follow them not only on Green Home, but you can also see what cell phone they recommend or perhaps learn who their favorite gymnast is!
5. Touch ups to product and user pages - If you've been around the Huddles for a while, you'll notice some new design, particularly on the product and user pages.  The intent was to make the pages a bit cleaner and highlight the stuff you care about.
6. Images matched with search results - Now when you use the search tool, there are images and icons that come up next to each search result (i.e. when you search for the Tesla Roadster,  next to the result for the 2008 Tesla Roadster product page, there is a little thumbnail of the car - and next to the result for the "I saw a Tesla Roadster on the road" thread there's a sweet little icon of speech bubbles...see below).  You can also search all the images in the Huddles now.
7. New "Invite Your Friends" - You may have glanced at the "Invite Your Friends" button at the top right corner of the page.  But  now it's even easier for you to do.  You can import your entire email contact list (don't worry, we don't save any of your personal information at all) and select who you'd like to invite.  It's a great option for those of us with slightly less than perfect recall of email addresses.
8. New "Find Your Friends" - Similar to the Invite Your Friends tool, the Find Your Friends tool allows you to see which of your friends have already registered on Huddler by easily comparing our database to your email address book.
   
9. "Other threads" viewer in forums - So you may have noticed that in the forums, our "Other threads" viewer along the left hand side was recently given a make over - it followed you as you scrolled down the page.  Well...now you have the option to resize that viewer (just drag the bottom of it down or up).  And if you're not such a fan of having the viewer move as you scroll the page, you can click the "Don't follow me" button and it will stay in the same place.
   
10. Spell check and formatting - Now you can check your spelling in forum posts, wikis, and reviews.  Also, in reviews, along with spell check, you now have the option of making some words in bold, italics, or turning them into links.

Categories: New Features

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