VideoSift v3.2 is now operational.
This is sort of an incremental upgrade with mostly only changes to the user interface. Here are all the changes:
This is sort of an incremental upgrade with mostly only changes to the user interface. Here are all the changes:
- No more Hot tab - The hotness listing is now the default view of the front page. There's a new pair of "order by" links just above the video listing that allows you to toggle between hotness and the original newness listing.
- Goodbye Link Partners - Our Link Partners program has been disabled as it has failed to perform as well as we would have liked, so the space it was taking up is now free and clear.
- Sidebar Cleaned Up - Several sidebar panels have been removed from all common areas, while others have been combined into a single panel at the top of the sidebar which continually rotates its contents
- Featured Comment Moved - The featured comment from the top of the page has been moved into the top of the sidebar rotation.
To view the old default listing for the front page, click the "Newness" link at the top of the video listing.
But I don't exactly like how videos that are getting lots of views end up on the front page despite being lowly voted and/or even downvoted. More controversial videos have an advantage.
Thanks for cleaning up the sidebar.
I don't like having the rotated sidebar panel at the top of the member's profile page. Do you think we can have page stay the same? And when I went to my profile page it called me MaxWilder in the donation solicitation.
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I don't know how exactly the "hotness" function works, but I hope there is a minimum number of votes before it gets high in the list. I mean time/numberOfVotes is relatively easy to manipulate, isn't it?
The hotness / newness switch is having some issues - stand by.
The hotness algorithm can definitely be tweaked to be more fresh than it is. It's currently geared to allow something to be on page 1 for a day, but that's probably too long now.
Let's watch it and toy with it to see where the best settings should be.
>> ^twiddles:
when I went to my profile page it called me MaxWilder in the donation solicitation.
I don't like having the rotated sidebar panel at the top of the member's profile page. Do you think we can have page stay the same?.
Rotating sidebar topper has been removed from the member profile.
As I generally have my bookmarks on the left, the image "Support VideoSift" moves under the tabs (front - blogs), aligned to the right, leaving a white space. Doesn't look nice. If the image were the size of the "S" smaller I think it would exactly fit to my window.
And apart from increasing attention for charter member support it would be nice if visitors can see more easy they can join up and contribute:)
Is, uh, there any option to uh.. turn the 'less-than-tens' off again?
I promise I'll be good and rummage through the unsifted pile more often.
Edit: Durr, I can read! Sorry
I'm thinking like an arrow that let's you go to the next rotation and one for the previous.
uncluttered and simple, the google way-that's the ticket!
agreed with hotness being unnecessary, could care less what the buzz is...
uncluttered and simple, the google way-that's the ticket!
That is why there is an option for "hotness" and "Newness", meaning you can pick you poison, I think everybody can appreciate that.
There goes my blog traffic
"Blocked" next to a video - just to clarify . . . this means a video is not accesible in some countries?
Yep!
>> ^MINK:
small thing... when i roll over "views" i get an incomprehensible collection of numbers that don't make any sense, even to 6 decimal places. I am sure you have explained it somewhere, but it is the opposite of intuitive.
Not related to v3.2, but it's been explained several times. It's more diagnostic info not so much general purpose, but I'll make sure it gets added to the FAQ.
It's the votes to unique views ratio, and the format is
"votes:members_viewed (votes / members_viewed)"
another rough idea - i was thinking about a way to promote some of the older posts that are just amazing but sadly get little or no attention after a few months. my idea is that we introduce new "promoted" tab which would act much the same way as former hot tab did. each privileged member (say silver and up) would a get a chance to promote one video per day that is older than 6 months, independently of current power points system which could still be used to selfpromote, promote newer stuff and personal queue. to somehow reward sifters for promoting rare gems we could sum up the votes of videos you promoted and award a star point for every xxx votes the promoted videos got out of that exposure. that would also eliminate the need to have videos sorted by hotness on the front page as you'd get an assortment of excellent promoted videos each day in the "promoted" section
no quiero, es mal
How can they be considered hot?