Tutorial9 Preview Update #1
It’s only been 3 days since the Tutorial9 Preview launch, and we’re already hard at work on adding new features, and responding to your feedback. Take a look at some of the updates so far:
Member Notifications
One of the big goals of the new Tutorial9 is cultivating a fun, and helpful social experience. We’ve got our work cut out for us in this ambition.
Member notifications are the first step in providing more meaningful discussion on the site. With notifications, tracking your personal discussions on Tutorial9 is much easier. If someone replies to a comment you make, you can quickly jump to that comment and follow-up if you choose to (or give them an upvote if they were helpful!)
Comment reply notifications will especially come in handy in socially geared forums on Tutorial9, something you’ll hear more about very soon.
The system can only track discussions for registered Tutorial9 members. At the moment, only comment replies are tracked, but further functionality is planned (link approved/denied, tracking specific discussions). An option to receive email updates is also in the works.
New Stickers
We’ve added several new stickers in the first few days post-launch. Many more are planned (as well as a system for creating your own).
The new stickers are Talkative, 30 Comments, and The Big One-Zero-Zero. They are unlocked for leaving 10, 30, and 100 comments.
More stickers coming soon folks! We’ve had to focus a lot of our efforts on fixing some bugs this week!
We <3 hearing from you
It really makes our day when people let us know how we’re doing (the good & bad, it’s all very useful to us)! Let us know if you have any thoughts, ideas, or if you have a bone to pick with us.
Changelog:
- Added a notifications system that shows users replies to comments they’ve made. Additional notification types coming soon.
- Fixed an error that was not allowing users to recover passwords.
- New Stickers added: “Talkative”, “30 Comments”, “The Big One-One-Zero”
- Minor style fixes (Thanks Andrew for help with CSS3 Transitions)
- Thumbnails no longer required when submitting links to speed up the process. Thumbnails generated by Tutorial9 staff.
- Share buttons added to posts, downloads, and links (Twitter & Facebook).
- Default Tutorial9 Feed now shows posts and links. [Custom feeds coming soon]
- Performance tweaks.
43 Comments
I like the new tutorial9 ! :) To update a profile, we have to type a new password or re-type the password again… is this normal ?
Flag as inappropriatePerhaps I missed it, but I would like to be able to look up posts I made through my account, posts as in thread comments, and be able to read the comments others have made via a link in their profile.
Is T9.net also getting a facelift after the preview period or is this how it will look?
Flag as inappropriateThe site is nice funktionally, although I dislike that you dont have your own tutorials.
The site feels lika a very funktional well-programmed shell, without its skinn. The site needs a design, right now it feels like you just pulled something together to make the shell have some temporary solution.
Some buttons and a gradient with a very common blue color, nothing special at all.
Flag as inappropriateWe do have our own tutorials still. We will continue to publish original content as always.
Flag as inappropriateDo you guys still buy tutorials?
Flag as inappropriateMilton, mate, he answered your question already several days ago. Scroll a bit down and see this part:
>>Milton: “Do you guys still buy tutorials? Would really hope to have that feature back.”
>>David Leggett: “We are working on a new author program. We will be sure to let everyone know when we are buying tutorials again.”
Flag as inappropriateI always loved your site and now you are going to the next level. Making changes keeps it interesting.
Flag as inappropriateCan i also suggest actually that we can ‘favourite’ posts. Similar to the way you can favourite tweets on twitter. There are a LOT of posts that come through the site and some we may want for a later date could possiabley get lost!
Flag as inappropriateDo you guys still buy tutorials? Would really hope to have that feature back.
Flag as inappropriateWe are working on a new author program. We will be sure to let everyone know when we are buying tutorials again.
Flag as inappropriateI like the new direction and features of the updated T9. I’m not digging the new design that much though, I like minimalism but this feels a bit too empty/flat and the color scheme is quite common.
I did some browsing of the older photography tutorials, the rollover effect is not working (using FF if that helps).
Flag as inappropriateThanks Lind, going to look into that.
I appreciate your feedback, it’s very helpful!
Flag as inappropriatePhotoshop not photography, my bad.
Example Tutorial: Correcting Exposure with the Shadows & Highlights Tool
I don’t remember the old T9 having this simple function but I’m suggesting a “Back to Top” somewhere. Good for long tutorials/articles.
Flag as inappropriateWouldn’t it be useful when the ‘Bliss Meter’ scores are shown in the/a list of articles?
Flag as inappropriateThat way people can easily distinguish good and better links from one another, and find what they are looking for even quicker.
A ‘rank on score’ functionality would be even better!
That’s definitely on the list of to-do’s! Certainly makes sense to rank by score :)
Thanks for the feedback.
Flag as inappropriateThis is a nice positive step towards making the site more social and networked. Look forward to further changes!
Flag as inappropriateCan you make an old version of the site? Pleaseeeee…
Flag as inappropriateI cannot even more navigate to bookmarked tuts, is boooooriinnnnnnnng..
Gimme back the old site with the new function and I will be soooo happy.. this site for me is now tooooo bright, really!
It’s pretty simple and I love it,Keep good working guys
Flag as inappropriateI dig the minimalistic look. I like the idea of tut9, provide the best links from all over the web and when you do your own tuts or resources they’re always of a high standard. Plus an awesome community.
Props guys!
Things that should hopefully come:
more community interaction, forums so people can talk and collaborate.
Just putting it out there, I’m not a fan of any ‘subscription, pay for premium content’ services offered and when I do, I usually want a ‘one off’ payment.
I’m a fan of GoMedia’s 2hr long video tutorial and I don’t mind paying for value and high quality content/tips.
I dislike subscriptions to anything :)
Flag as inappropriateBuild personal Fav. List or Fav a posts.
Facebook application that show the user submited stuff.
More biutifful user submitted stuff array just like Team forest users list with badges.
… Soooo much ideas for you guys!
Flag as inappropriateUpdate the design? Have a mobile site, maybe?
Flag as inappropriateMobile styles coming eventually. 99.9% of our readers use a widescreen computer, so we’re getting things running well for them first.
Don’t think we’re leaving out mobile viewers forever. We’ll get to them as soon as possible!
Flag as inappropriateI now had start my first big big website project and those idea you have for your own website put in my head some even more idea.
I have a question… What is thé chart points give ?
Flag as inappropriateThe new T9 is awesome guys. Keep working!
Flag as inappropriateThanks!
Flag as inappropriatethere should be a category for original post from T9
Flag as inappropriateHey PsyCore,
We do indeed have this, but after several of our fans not being able to find it, it’s clear that it has to be redesigned! Until then, you can access ONLY Tutorial9 original content here: http://www.tutorial9.net/archives/?source=tutorial9&sort=newest
On all category, tag, and archive pages, you can select between Tutorial9, User Submitted Links, and All near the top of the page in the “Source:” dropdown box.
Flag as inappropriateohhh nooo… i will miss the old design, was so perfect… but i like this one, nice work!
Flag as inappropriateLoving the new T9, I didnt expect something like this.
Flag as inappropriateYou guys have totally surprised me and done a great job.
All this whole idea is kinda revolutionary in my opinion.
Good luck! ;)
Seeing my name on the front page made my day :) thank you for that.
Flag as inappropriateThere’s no more option for selecting a picture for a submission. Why?
Flag as inappropriateAlso, the sticker idea is great, waiting for more of them, thanks. :)
I mentioned this in the changelog, but not in the main update, oops!
“Thumbnails no longer required when submitting links to speed up the process. Thumbnails generated by Tutorial9 staff.”
We made this decision to make the submission process easier. Now users don’t have to take time to create a 60x60px icon whenever they add a new link. We may add an optional thumbnail field for people who want to create their own in the future :)
Flag as inappropriateThat’s a good idea to speed up the process. Though I liked cropping pictures to leave only the best moments of the tutorial.
Flag as inappropriateVery understandable. I think it’d be a good thing if we gave users the option, so it’s something we’ll definitely work on adding back in another update.
We’ve been publishing tutorials for close to 3 years now, so we’ve had quite a bit of experience creating a good thumbnail. We’ll do the best job we can in the meantime making the thumbnails ourselves.
Flag as inappropriateOkay, hope I’ll see it again in the next update.
Flag as inappropriategood work will see more features to be added here. Wish you all the best and look forward to see something new
Flag as inappropriateWhy do the RSS feeds show duplicates?
Also the RSS is messed up, I have to come to Tutorial9 to click on some links e.g (The Realistic folded paper effect).. It’s ridiculous and I’m thinking of just unsubscribing.
Flag as inappropriateDo you have the URL of the feed showing duplicates? We’re trying to migrate all of our feeds to the new site, but we may have missed something.
Right now, there is only one feed, but we are designing a custom feed generator that will allow you to select what items are syndicated (and how). For instance, if you don’t want to participate in the discussion and rating, you could pick a feed that shows direct links instead of bringing you to Tutorial9 first. You could also subscribe to a feed that only displays Tutorial9 original content.
We expect this feature to be available in the next week. We’ll post more details in our next update.
Thanks for the feedback!
Flag as inappropriateMaybe this is the reason why today twitterfeed was tweeting the articles twice
Flag as inappropriateMaybe, we only had one feed enabled on Twitterfeed though, so I’m not really sure. We’re trying out a new service that has a feature we were looking for anyways, so I think that problem is taken care of.
Flag as inappropriateCurious what feature it was?
Aditya Chadha
Flag as inappropriateGM, Twitterfeed
Aditya,
We want to post many items at once on the site (ie: 10 new items at 9 AM), but we want to trickle them out one at a time each “X” hours on Twitter. I wasn’t able to figure out how to do this on Twitterfeed (if it is possible).
I publish a few other RSS feeds through twitterfeed on other sites and have never had trouble with it :) For some reason, it seemed to be double posting Tutorial9′s content even though we only had one enabled feed.
Flag as inappropriateGood work! I’m looking forward to more new features!
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