so we’re open…
yes, after a couple weeks we’ve finally finished our initial feature set and are already hard at work putting together features for the next major release (some time by Sept 6th… mark your calendars). you might be asking “things look a little light, what happened?” well as we mentioned before, we had to drop all of the alpha tester’s posts, since many we’re what you would call… useful. but a big thanks to everyone who helped out during alpha testing, you all did an awesome job and we know you’ll keep posting.
so now to the important stuff, what’s in release one. well here’s a short list of features to get you going
- post mini-reviews (obvious i know, but i wanted the list to look big)
- replay to other users reviews
- follow users you love (or really like if the word love makes you uncomfortable)
- flag awesome reviews for other users to easily find
- send users notes about movies, other users, pretty much anything
- create a ’shelf’ of movies you really like
- email review system
- rss feeds for user reviews, reviews for movies and people you love’s reviews (much more coming soon)
- and some more stuff i can’t think of right now
i know it doesn’t sound that impressive, but check out the list of features for the next release…
- full api that allows you to get movie info, user reviews, really everything in our database
- showtime listings customized to your zip code
- better sorting of reviews on user pages
- iphone app (probably a web app at first)
- facebook app
- movies search
- probably a lot of bug fixes
and while we’re on the subject of bug fixes, we’d like to take a moment to ask for your help in entering bugs that you find around the site. you can either enter them online at bugs.moviestring.com or send an email to new@bugs.moviestring.com (this will automatically open a new ticket for you). thanks!
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