July 5, 2012

  • Photos, Pulses, Videos Coming Soon to Your Xanga Frontpage + Unlimited Protected Posting

    Two quick updates for all of our users!

    1) Photos, Pulses, Videos coming soon to your Xanga frontpage

    We posted last year about our plans to have Photos, Pulses, and Videos show up on your Xanga frontpage:

    If I post a pic from my iPhone directly onto my Xanga... I'm going to want people to see it! But right now it gets sent to a separate "photo blog" on my Xanga site, where it gets almost no traffic (we've looked at the stats - more on this in a later post).

    We've addressed this issue in the mobile app by blending all updates - weblogs, photos, video and pulse - into a single, unified blog. For starters, it helps makes the app much more streamlined. But it also helps you find updates from your subs that you easily could've missed on the live site!

    This is part of a major effort to focus Xanga on blogging. And it's been so awesome to see in action during mobile testing that we're going to be offering this new unified blog soon across the whole site, starting with interested users. Soon you'll see my weblogs, photos, pulses and videos all blended together on my Xanga site frontpage, at john.xanga.com.

    We've made a huge amount of progress with our mobile app in recent months, and mobile uploads and posting is on the rise.  So the time feels right to move forward here, and we're ready to launch this update soon!

    If you'd like to keep photos, pulses and more off your frontpage, you can opt-out by tweaking your settings:

    • For Theme users:

      Click "edit theme", then click the little pencil icon to edit your main weblog module, then adjust the new "Content" setting...

    • For Custom Look & Feel users:

      Go to your "Look & Feel" settings page and adjust the new "Weblog >> Content" setting...

    2) Unlimited Protected Posting for all coming today!

    We're also working on allowing anyone to add as many users to your Protected List as you'd like. Previously this was a Premium-only feature. This update should be rolled by the end of today.

    Have a great weekend, everyone!

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