Not sure if this has already been suggested, but something that i use a lot on Flickr and DeviantArt is RSS feeds.
Suggested feeds:
- Your watchlist [shows when artists on your list upload new work]
- Any user’s portfolio
- Any user’s journal
- Activity on your bubble [favourites, comments]
These days I use RSS feeds almost exclusively. Apart from The Age, I don’t read any websites that don’t have an RSS feed [except for online apps ala Gmail, Google Maps etc]
I currently have 125 feeds in Google Reader[!].
Another small thing that has been bugging me is that when you paste a url into your journal/a comment/an image description it isn’t automatically converted into a link. It’s weird that I would just expect this but I think most websites and apps do that these days.
Anyway, cheers guys and keep up the good work!
EDIT: I’m having a hell of a time creating something that looks like a bulleted list here. I had to use double line breaks [which i’m guessing converts it to a new paragraph].
-ab
peter
Thanks for the suggestions Aaron. We’re releasing an activity monotor tomorrow which goes some way towards your RSS feed idea – and a full implementation of RSS feeds is on the horizon – but a release date is yet to be locked down.
The issue of formatting in the journals is a more general one – quite a few people have had issues with creating links, inserting breaks et cetera. We’re going to take a step back and have a bit of a think about this before deciding on the best way of approaching formatting.
Aaron Booth
Cheers Peter, looking forward to the new features!
kookylane
Hi Aaron, meanwhile you can use the tags to format your text.
Webgrrl did a list of it here
Very usefull =P
mikoto
The formatting setup is not that bad. See this discussion that goes into reasoning why this method is suitable.
webgrrl
If you want to place a widget on your website/blog etc that can accept HTML codes..
you can grab the RedBubble RSS feed widget i made today..
visit my BLOG post – and you can grab it
Cliff Vestergaard
Go to my (Girl and beer) and I will tell you how it done.