Janis Updates

Here are the new Janis updates so far:

1. Mod list updated and editable
2. Captcha added to registration
3. More info on profiles for mods
4. Club added to profile
5. Edit button on poetry comments
6. Unable to hack clubs/PM's
7. Quotation marks and hyphens can be copied from a word document into posts and poems.
8. List of helpful poetry sites updated
9. PMs provide a link to recipient's profile
10. Weekly contest nominations should not disappear anymore. (It's currently showing 32 poems! Lucky judges.)
11. There is no longer a limit to the number of authors you have on your Favorite list. Go nuts!
12. You can now access who has you listed as a Favorite Author!
http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/favorites.html
13. Club managers may now sticky, lock, and delete their club's threads.
14. There is a "correspondence" button in PMs. If you click on the button, it takes you to a list of all your past conversations with that person.
15. Recent comments, poems, and quotes by your favorite authors now visible under account news
16. You can now search your own poems. WOOOOt.

The better place for #15 is as a link on the right side under favorite authors. It is just an eyesore right now.

People can complain all they want, something NEW happened and Janis updated something... I'm thankful!

I don't get what the fuss is about. It's no different to bloody Facebook where you get bombarded with all kinds of crap on your home page. Same philosophy here. It's the way social internet networks have evolved. No one is forcing you to read it. I quite enjoyed reading mine. They are my favourites after all.

I think this exhibitionist feature encourages more activity and participation in members through greater awareness. If you want to extend the stalkerish aspect to it, you can even have links on your profile for "recent comments made", "recent threads made" and "recent posts". I would favourite someone just to read their posts. Most people are better at arguments than poetry.

I just noticed that once you click onto a poem and scroll down it will list the last five comments.

I like the new Account feature. The only thing displaced is the solicitation to nominate for the weekly contest. Of course, that link remains to the right.

I'm not entirely sure I like the new updates. I liked how clean and tidy everything was before, Especially with the poems. I like less clutter. And I never really liked the creeping factor of facebook. I wish with this there was an option to turn it off. It's a bit of sensory overload for me.

The whole idea of "Account News" is to show recent activity on our OWN account.

Let's ask Janis to fine tune this to show recent comments on OUR poems, and discussion threads WE started, and leave out all the irrelevant comments on other people's poems, and most important, have this stuff disappear once we have looked at them.

^ Irrelevant comments I think not, I personally like reading the comments my favourite authors have written on other's poems, it brings me to read new authors work,
I agree that maybe once we have viewed these we can click to remove them off of the main page.

I am glad Janis is updating and making changes :)

I'm w/ Tara Kay, I like reading the comments as it brings me to other people I may not have seen before.

Being able to remove them would definitely be handy though.

I could do with out it, but I don't mind it at all. Maybe reading other comments will make me want to read the poems they refer to.

About the design stuff, I figure we'll be well-used to it in a month. Let's give it a bit of time.

I've already felt the benefits of this new system. I received two comments on an old poem of mine because one commenter saw a comment from another commenter in his account news. Nice.

Yes, let's have an option of removing viewed items, and let it bring up newer ones. And if it bothers people too much, this type of news can be transferred to the "favourite authors" tab.

I like Kiko's idea of notification of new posts added to any threads we're involved in.

It may not be the prettiest thing, but I'm fine with it. I see its merits.

Latest update. Titles of poems on the nomination list & your 'Latest poems, quotes and comments of your favorite authors' list will change from blue to purple once read/clicked on.

I like the randomness on the nominations list!!
Now no one can have a clue which poems might win. GREAT

Is it me or the poems in the nomination list change from blue to purple whenever I read them?

I noticed that too. kind of nice huh. then we know we have already read them, not just nominated poems-any poem you read

^That was a Larry Idea. : )

Edit: Hrm, it's not working for me. But it IS randomly shuffling the nominations list every time I click back.

Nominations page is reordering itself every time I refresh the page, and I'm going to check out this blue/red feature now.

AWESOME!

EDIT: The blue/red feature works. I got confused for a second because the poem I clicked moved when I went back.

Also, an update for judges! You should no longer be able to see the points given to nominated poems by other judges. Hopefully this well encourage you to remain unbiased in your picks :)

Blue/Purple is not working for me either and the poem stays in the same place on the list when it takes me back there.

I like the blue/purple - it would have been SO helpful as a judge beforehand to have that tool. It's just something different. I remember when Janis changed the colors of the site and we all freaked out and hated it.

I think I joined right after that, Britt. I don't know what the original colors were, but I remember people talking about the "weird pastel color-scheme." I kinda dig it, though. At least we're not yellow on a black background with sparkly animations.

Edit: My Blue/Purple nomination thing works, now. I just had to refresh the page. That will be really nice to have, I think!

I think you were here when it changed. Was it really that long ago? I think just 2-3 years ago, right?

Sylvia, try refreshing the page.

I don't have the best memory for dates in the world, but I don't remember it looking like anything else...

The colours didn't change that much, it was always a peachy pink theme. It just became more translucently peachy and took on that fading gradient in the shading of the headers.

Loving the shuffling nominations, and if the judges can't see each other's votes, that's fantastic. The colour change idea is pretty neat (though as a judge, a masking tool is required to keep track of the poem's contest potential- or lack thereof- rather than just whether it's been opened).

Sylvia, try refreshing the page.

I deleted the cookies and history for my browser and it now works and the poem moves.

Since Janis is busy giving this site a makeover, why not change the front page. I'm way tired of seeing the same all time greatest poems up there, like "Butterfly Kisses," with its 3000 comments. And the top rated recent poems are usually not that well written.

Why not just use the front page to post weekly winners dating back several weeks, which will be updated every week.

Oh I agree. No matter what complaints there are about the contest now, at least poems like that aren't winnng anymore. Shudderrrr.

Have to agree with you guys. We'll see what we can do.

Questions.. How come if I go to clubs there are some brakers saying {mod action} next to each club?

And when I'm not log in, there shows the last date there was an update in the forum of the club? Is that update from one of the mods or is it reflecting the last activity that took place within the forum made by the club members?

Hi Everlasting!

Mods have been given the option to delete clubs if they are really old. The dates are up to show the last time posts have been made in the clubs. So for the ones who haven't posted since 2008, we figure they're probably safe to delete. They need at least 2 mods to agree to delete them, though.

Hello, Sibyllene

Thank you for the info. It seems that there a few clubs being non active, with a lot of members :-s.

And now I'm wondering, how come there are some accounts that only have the registered date rather than the last time they logged on? My thinking is that they have stopped connecting..

But then I thought that for instance, if I stop connecting in the lapse of 120 days my account will be deleted and I won't be able to access it again and others won't be able to see it either.

Then do our accounts still remain in the data base with our data, but we cannot have access to them even if we try to log in after a long time but people can still see the accounts?

P.s ..Sorry, If I'm posting my question in the wrong thread..

The rules state they can be deleted, but the site doesn't automatically delete them.

The people with the registered date, just means they haven't logged in since.

At least we're not yellow on a black background with sparkly animations.

^^

HHMM, i wish Janis could add something yellow ...maybe a Sun..on the front page :(
I shall send him a pm!

And I agree with Kiko.

A sun would be nice. A little touch of Nana warmth to brighten PnQ.

Hehehe :) I agree :P lol

^ can you shine on us with your weekly mission :P ?

LMAO I always see your "weekly" requests after I do them haha, oh man, am I being late ? or you're impatient my dearr

Impatient :p

Just gotta say, I am loving the feature in account news where you see your favorite authors comment/post new poems etc. It's gotten me to branch out and find new poets I like :) Woo hoo!