Hallelujah, and whoop-dee-doo! The Mercury has a brand new sexified website, with all sorts of new toys for YOU to enjoy! Surf around and check out these great new features:
⤢ Comment on anything and everything! Not only can you write your own reviews of movies, clubs, events and restaurants, you can now comment on any story on the site. SO BE NICE. (Please?)
⤢ “Found It” is easier to search than ever! We really souped up our event search engine, so now you can browse for events and restaurants in any section of the city, and for whatever day you want! Compare it to other engines, and I think you’ll agree it’s the bomb-diggy-diggy.
⤢ Create your own profile! By creating a “MyMercuryFace” account, you can save your fave Mercury stories, your reviews and comments, AND GET THIS! You can even get email and text reminders for upcoming shows and events! (I needed this SO bad!) You can also save lists of your “MyMercuryFace” friends, your fave venues, and make custom lists. Check out my profile page for a good example of this stuff in action!
WANT TO CREATE YOUR PROFILE? Simply go to the top right hand corner, and tap “Create account.” You’ll see your blank page, then go to the top right again and tap “Edit Profile.” You’ll be able to post your picture, create your name, and submit your cell number so we can send you reminders!
NATURALLY, THIS SITE IS NOT THE FINISHED PRODUCT. We’re still working hard on ironing out the bugs (and new ideas and functions are already in the planning stages). But we need your help to let us know what’s not right! PLEASE OFFER YOUR SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS BELOW. We’ll try to respond to your suggestions as soon as possible!
As always, thanks for being a loyal Mercury reader, and let us know what you think!
new is good, but slow is bad.
the site takes tooo long to load….i’ve been checking the music pages…and oye…tooo long.
also, there’s not enough content when i do a music search. there should be lots of bands prior to having to go to the “next page”…only to wait for another reload…stop with the reloads..plzzzzzz
design wize….the look is kinda boxy and rigid
the three comments per page deal is waaaay lame.
i wish i could favorite blog posts (i read blogtown more than anything else on the site). often i cant watch videos or read stories at work, but want to remember to read/ view them later…
Hmmm… from where I sit, the pages load faster than ever. But I’ll see if it’s any different when I get home! Also, I’ll pass along the suggestion that three comments per permalinked page is laaaame!
Thanks for the suggestions! Keep ’em coming!
Heh. I, Anonymous commenting should be fun.
I see you’ve set the comments-per-page limit higher then three… do you have it at infinity yet? Because that’s where it should be.
And, as a poor bastard still stuck on dial-up, I sincerely want to thank you for not turning the merc site into one of those modern, overblown clusterfucks.
So, I get a 404 page when I post a comment, but the comment still shows up.
I’m I correct in my observation that even though I’m now logged in, I still have use a preview page before I can post? Lame!
And basic html’s been disabled? Super unbolded lame!
Kyle, I’m not the tech expert around here, but I know the editorial staff’s already whined about html in comments—and our other whining has been met with prompt fixes, so I don’t doubt we’ll see that really shortly.
The preview is to give you a second chance to fix your typos and your lame arguments. Not yours in particular, just lame arguments in general.
I have nothing to add. But I REALLY wanted to comment and see my face appear.
And instead of “lame,” can we all agree to switch to merde? It’s much more interesting.
I think the comments should be sorted oldest to newest as default. (Maybe changing the default view is in the settings – I haven’t looked at everything yet.) Who likes to read conversations backwards? Not me.
Also, after thinking about it for an hour and a half, I feel that the changing of the permalinks was a drag move.
If the comments/profile pages are going to be as potentially navigate-y as they currently are, they should be coded to pop-up with a navigation bar. I’m using firefox3 on tiger, if it matters.
I want numbered comments again so I can conveniently say, “I agree with rom @ 10 about the comment display defaults.”
The pop-up comment windows only seem willing to display 42 comments at a time, with the “view all” button doing nothing.
Is anyone else not able to subscribe to blogtown as an rss feed now?
My feed’s still working, but it keeps getting dumped on with the same 20 stories.
The Music Listings page is incredibly annoying compared to how it was before where all listings where on one page. It still be like the Movie Times page: all one page and listed by region.
As an avid reader and a web applications developer I’ve been waiting for this for a while.
So yes finally.
You may want your guy to check out the character encoding of the posts I get what I think should be bullet points as • under Windows XP/Firefox 2.x.
p.s. you’re new AJAX-y “edit comments” interface seems to have some z-index issues with your ad’s – the textarea input text (and overflow scrollbar) are floating on stop of the right side ad sections while the textarea input it self is floating under… resizing the window doesn’t seem to fix it either.
– Dex
You could try not using Windows XP?
Now I get to see my face (and strawberry/rhubarb pie)! Hell yeah!
My main concern is that when I registered for the site, I received a confirmation email w/ link but was not required to click on the link in order to complete my app. Oh noes!
The feed’s not working for me either via my google reader 🙁
Seemed like my RSS feeds were working up until a day ago and now they’re stuck on stuff I’ve already read.
Rather than criticize something that has gone wrong with the website change, I’d like to applaud you guys for a simple yet awesome feature.
If a user attempts to make an action that requires being logged in, the website prompts the user to login, after the user logs in after the prompt, the initial action that the user requested is completed.
Oh GOD! I wish every site did this. Thank you for implementing it properly!
postscript: Please remove the mandatory comment preview. Cheers!