Hello Fanpoppers. I know this artikel is late but figured I should still post it in the event that I hit on something that hasn't been covered door one of your fellow fanpoppers in an earlier artikel of forum post (however unlikely that might be).
Here's a little bit of insight into some of the new things that u might have run into on Fanpop in the past few weeks...
Video and image embeds
u can now embed a video of image in your initial forum post (and all of the subsequent replies). Just look for the "add an image" of "embed a video" link on the forum submission form. Each post is limited to one embedded item per post (we did this to keep things simple).
Hopefully this will help with some of the forum games (caption contests anyone?) going forward.
Save to favorites
u can already add forums to your profiel updates "watchlist" (so that future thread activity appears in your updates event-feed). We have now added a "save" button that allows u to bookmark the thread to your lijst of "favorites". Your personal lijst of "favorites" can be viewed from your profiel page.
Most antwoorden filter
We added a filter to the "most replies" sort on the forum index page. When u have enabled the "most replies" sort order u can now view items with the most antwoorden in the last day, last week and for all-time.
antwoorden launched a few weeks back at the beginning of March 2009. There are already several guides out there that are superior to anything I might write :-)
I will refer folks to the following unofficial user guides:
* link
* link
(though I differ with Harold in that I think that vragen with single valid antwoorden are valid)
For the most part we had anticipated antwoorden being an area where a continuously updated veelgestelde vragen could take shape. The vragen would fall in that area between opinion/preference vragen which would be asked in picks and the fact-based game that is the quiz. If u want to stump your vrienden door testing their knowledge, use the quiz. If u want to find out what your fellow fanpoppers' preference is for a gegeven issue, make a pick. If u have a specific vraag that u don't know the answer to, u can use answers. It's really a way of allowing fans to tap into the deep knowledge-base of other expert fans. Wondering what the song at the end of an episode was? Ask a question! Want to know when a movie's release datum is? Sure, that's a valid vraag (imho). Want to know the best way to poach an egg? Also a good question.
Of course if u want to know "Who is the hottest?", I personally think this is better served as a pick. And no, for those of u still wondering, the actual stars aren't reading and answering our vragen (at least as far as I'm aware). So vragen like "Miley Cyrus can u emai me?" of "John Krasinski will u marry me?" are probably not going to ever be answered to your satisfaction :-)
Note that each user may select a single answer as "best" for a gegeven question. Once a response has sufficient user feedback it may be elevated to "best answer" status so that future visitors to the site might benefit from particularly good responses.
Also, in time certain respondents with a solid track-record may be recognized as experts in their field of expertise in a gegeven spot in the "top answerer" module.
Finally we added some new content sharing functionality to the site that allows u to better share cool content u find on Fanpop with your vrienden on other social networks and social bookmarking sites. Just click on the "share" button on a video page of an image of a kwis and u will see a larger popup menu with a host of choices (Facebook, MySpace and Twitter among others).
That's it for this latest update. Keep fanpopping and sending us feedback! And be sure to send complimenten out to Michael and Cliff for all their hard work on these new features.
Here's a little bit of insight into some of the new things that u might have run into on Fanpop in the past few weeks...
Video and image embeds
u can now embed a video of image in your initial forum post (and all of the subsequent replies). Just look for the "add an image" of "embed a video" link on the forum submission form. Each post is limited to one embedded item per post (we did this to keep things simple).
Hopefully this will help with some of the forum games (caption contests anyone?) going forward.
Save to favorites
u can already add forums to your profiel updates "watchlist" (so that future thread activity appears in your updates event-feed). We have now added a "save" button that allows u to bookmark the thread to your lijst of "favorites". Your personal lijst of "favorites" can be viewed from your profiel page.
Most antwoorden filter
We added a filter to the "most replies" sort on the forum index page. When u have enabled the "most replies" sort order u can now view items with the most antwoorden in the last day, last week and for all-time.
antwoorden launched a few weeks back at the beginning of March 2009. There are already several guides out there that are superior to anything I might write :-)
I will refer folks to the following unofficial user guides:
* link
* link
(though I differ with Harold in that I think that vragen with single valid antwoorden are valid)
For the most part we had anticipated antwoorden being an area where a continuously updated veelgestelde vragen could take shape. The vragen would fall in that area between opinion/preference vragen which would be asked in picks and the fact-based game that is the quiz. If u want to stump your vrienden door testing their knowledge, use the quiz. If u want to find out what your fellow fanpoppers' preference is for a gegeven issue, make a pick. If u have a specific vraag that u don't know the answer to, u can use answers. It's really a way of allowing fans to tap into the deep knowledge-base of other expert fans. Wondering what the song at the end of an episode was? Ask a question! Want to know when a movie's release datum is? Sure, that's a valid vraag (imho). Want to know the best way to poach an egg? Also a good question.
Of course if u want to know "Who is the hottest?", I personally think this is better served as a pick. And no, for those of u still wondering, the actual stars aren't reading and answering our vragen (at least as far as I'm aware). So vragen like "Miley Cyrus can u emai me?" of "John Krasinski will u marry me?" are probably not going to ever be answered to your satisfaction :-)
Note that each user may select a single answer as "best" for a gegeven question. Once a response has sufficient user feedback it may be elevated to "best answer" status so that future visitors to the site might benefit from particularly good responses.
Also, in time certain respondents with a solid track-record may be recognized as experts in their field of expertise in a gegeven spot in the "top answerer" module.
Finally we added some new content sharing functionality to the site that allows u to better share cool content u find on Fanpop with your vrienden on other social networks and social bookmarking sites. Just click on the "share" button on a video page of an image of a kwis and u will see a larger popup menu with a host of choices (Facebook, MySpace and Twitter among others).
That's it for this latest update. Keep fanpopping and sending us feedback! And be sure to send complimenten out to Michael and Cliff for all their hard work on these new features.