Wishlisting Blog

I haven’t posted in a while, but we’ve been busy working on some new features which I think people are really going to enjoy. In the last month, we’ve quietly fixed and updated a lot of smaller things. For example…

• At long last, with a lot of help from Kate and Shuttle, the browser button in Internet Explorer doesn’t produce cookie errors that prevented it from working. There are still bugs that need to be fixed with it, but the cookie thing was really bad.
• The friends page was reworked so you could fit more friends into one page, and you can see their birthdays and their last login time. For a good time, try searching within that section. You’ll find your results grouped by friend. Interested in buying a camera? See what cameras your friends have, and what they think of them. Oh, your friends should now be in alphabetical order by username, instead of random order.
• The search feature was updated to return more accurate results. User exsoccer91 stumbled onto a flaw in the algorithm which has since been addressed.
• The “create a new item” page was simplified, and shortened.
• The upload control used to upload your avatar and custom images has been totally reworked, and there is no longer an “upload” button. Just pick a file and the upload happens automatically. You also now have the ability to delete any image you’ve uploaded.
• If you’re in a position where you’ve tried and failed to associate with your Amazon wishlist via an e-mail address, you’ve now got another way to do it. Go to your settings page to see it. People who associated with Amazon fine won’t see any change.
• Marysharon reported that she would sometimes see a “this wish may not exist yet” message after rating an item. That problem has been fixed.
• Pulling up an individual wish was really slow for a while, which had to do with how we were fetching an item’s alternate images. That has been addressed, so pulling up items should be reasonably speedy now.
• The ability to edit your profile was pushed out to a top-level item under your image on the left, rather than being a link that’s buried in your profile.
• Juice and Kstar found some sweet typos which were fixed. Wait, you mean “account” has two c’s?

There are a lot of other little fixes, plus more to come before we release a second sweep of features. I’ll keep you posted!