We’ve just pushed out a number of small upgrades to the site that should make browsing just a bit more enjoyable:
Popular This Week (By Category): Our “Popular This Week” section (the sidebar of just about every page on the site) now updates per-category. So, if you’re in “Upcoming > Desktop,” your sidebar will show “Popular This Week in Desktop,” where you’ll see the top item this week was a piece from Lifehacker called “Prevent Windows from Making Copies When Control-Clicking.” This should be a nice feature for catching you up on the news if you do something crazy that keeps you away from ReadBurner for a few days, like say, go on vacation.
Paging: This is really just some catch-up, but we’ve now got paging for sources, authors, and an individual user’s shared items. Thus you can see how many shares have been made on every story published on Download Squad, written by Sarah Perez, or shared by Corvida, since we launched.
Integrated Comments: With all of the buzz about Disqus over the weekend, what better a time to use their API to integrate recent comments from ReadBurner into our sidebar? Our goal by doing so is to bring more people into some of the conversations that are taking place on ReadBurner and fostering greater community.
You should also notice the site running a bit faster, plus some ongoing tweaks to our algorithms to improve the quality and accuracy of our categorization and relations between items. Let us know if you have any feedback, and stay tuned for some more exciting news later this week.
_adam
8 Responses
Benjamin Golub
12|May|2008 1Nice job adding paging but is there a reason not every url is paging? Why not page the front page?
adam
12|May|2008 2@Ben - Since Upcoming is always changing and time-based, it doesn’t seem like there is much of a need for it.
Benjamin Golub
12|May|2008 3Guess I was just looking for a technical reason. RSSmeme pagination was crazy easy because I added it once and every single page has it (including json/xml/rss) since they all use the same template and same method for generating the query.
Only about 300 views a month (out of about 150000) ever go to the second page of RSSmeme. So you’re right that it isn’t really necessary but I thought it was odd that you went out of your way to not have it on every page when it seems to be easier to add it to every page by default.
Azeem
12|May|2008 4Nice job.. but it seems kinda awkward that the recent comments in the sidebar doesnt link to the page where the discussion is taking place……
drew
12|May|2008 5@Azeem that’s a tweak that Disqus will have to make. We’re going to work with them on that
It’s was in there, it was just displaying oddly.
srcasm
12|May|2008 6Great job on the updates so far guys. I like the pagination feature and the fact that the popular for the week changes is great. I do agree with @Azeem that the comments need some linkage but I’m sure you’ll get this done soon.
drew
12|May|2008 7@srcasm thanks for the support, it means a lot. talking to disqus at the moment re: comments
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13|May|2008 8[...] is no exception. In the past few days, they’ve rolled out some great new features — categorized popular this week, paging on certain pages, integrated comments and the latest is a partnership with NetVibes. This last one is exciting. From the ReadBurner blog, [...]
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