Slick New User Account Pages
One of our ongoing projects has been revamping all of the useful pages in your account at IntenseDebate.com. We’ll be the first to admit it, there’s a ton of awesome features in your profile but they need to be better organized so you can find them all! We don’t want you to be overwhelmed with too many sudden changes, so we’ve been rolling out small changes over the past several weeks, some of which have likely gone unnoticed, until now…
We have released two major changes. The first is our stylish new home page at IntenseDebate.com. Since you have to be logged out of your IntenseDebate account in order to see the front page (click here to logout), you might not have noticed that one. But, the next change you will undoubtedly notice when you’re logged into your account, and that’s your shiny new Edit Profile page.
So what’s new?
It’s all about the layout. On our old profile pages we just crammed in as much as we could. We would release new features like our Twitter integration (tweet this & latest tweets) or our Gravatar support and we would squeeze it into the old page. Now we’ve organized it a bit more sensibly. In your Profile Panel you’ll find the following:
- Account Page: here you can manage your basic account settings like your username, email address, OpenID, password, and email notification options.
- User Profile Page: your display name, profile description, and your personal websites (linked to in your profile) are all located here.
- User Picture: manage your Gravatar or IntenseDebate avatar.
- Services: this is where you can manage all of your 3rd party services that you link to in your profile, as well as your Twitter account integration.
We think you’ll agree that this is a major improvement. Hats off to Isaac and Jon for their work! Keep an eye for more changes as we continue to make our way across IntenseDebate.com. 🙂
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- Account tab
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- Profile tab
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- Picture tab
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- Services tab
Posted by Michael Koenig in features
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Thanks for the updates. I like very much!
I ❤ IntenseDebate
…And we ❤ our users 🙂
Great work! 😉
Looking good 🙂
looks great!
I really like the new look and usability of this update. Very visually appealing and simple to navigate. Thanks for the continued development!
Yay! And I can finally moderate from the IDC page 🙂
I hadn't noticed the "Already cool?" login prompt, that doesn't really work, lacks class and comes across as arrogant, suggesting that people who have not yet joined are not yet cool.
Thanks for the feedback. We're taking a look at this.
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Thanks Isaac, great to see how responsive you guys are to your users.
That is also the first time I've ever received a reply by video comment 😀
Keep up the good work, I am really excited about how ID is evolving.
We're going to change commenting online forever 😉
Video comments are actually pretty convenient…
i am waiting for the updated dashboard page. it can become quite tough to manage if you are using ID on multiple blogs. 🙂
We hear ya! What do use the most in your dashboard? What would you like to see?
moderate comments from all the blogs at a single location?
i have also noticed that on the ID hosted blog moderation page, we do not get to see the link posted by the commenter. i have to use wordpress backend to get that data. on editing the comment, i can see the URL inserted by the commenter.
Re: Moderate comments in a single location.
What we could probably do in the future is just having a queue of the most recent comments from all your IntenseDebate-enabled blogs that are awaiting moderation. That'd be pretty neat.. Probably something better suited for a Blogs dashboard though. Please let me know any and all thoughts you have on the subject 🙂
sounds pretty cool. please highlight links left by the commenter on the ID backend. some comments look fine but are accompanied by spammy links.
Love the new look. Any news on the ability to require anonymous commenters to supply an email?
This would go a long way in encouraging civility on many sites.
Thanks! No news at the moment, but this is definitely something we're looking at. Thanks for letting us know that you're interested in it.
Once again, as a commenter on ID blogs, I am impressed with the changes. The comment I made to you earlier, Michael, regarding the odd response when using the dashboard, is now a moot point. The new dashboard is great. I am still getting used to it, but I wanted you to know that there is no longer a problem, from a commenter point of view.
Thanks,
Jim
Thanks for letting us know Jim. I'm glad to hear it! 🙂
I have had no trouble with your new account pages so far, but there are still a little teething problems connecting my wordpress blog comments to your website.:|
I checked your account and I reset your import. Please let me know how it goes. If you still encounter an issue please email me at support@intensedebate.com. We'll get everything fixed up. 🙂
This new look is very streamlined and much easier to understand.