New Year, New Features!

Well, the holiday season has come to a close. The New Year has arrived. The champagne bottles are empty and that festive buzzing in our heads has finally cleared. So it must be time to get to the 2009 goodies—including a few oft-requested items!

Kudos Redux
We’re giving each and every SuperMixxer 20 Kudos to hand out every day. Not a SuperMixxer yet? You’ll still get ten Kudos to award to other Mixxers. Hop over to the Mixx Lounge where you’ll find the kudos “leader board” featuring:

• The top five comments in terms of kudos
• The Mixxer making the comment, and how many kudos it has received
• A Link to the comment

Claim It!
Now you don’t need to go to a partner website to lay claim to a story, photo, podcast or video. Every anonymously submitted item now offers you the ability to claim it—right on the Mixx site.

Share 2.0
We think that almost everything can be made better—and easier to use. In that spirit, we’ve been tinkering with the “Share” feature. Now you can create Share Lists of specific followers and view the entire history of your Shares. We know that for some of you, this will take a bit a lot of scrolling, but we haven’t had time to do anything about that yet. But then again, our mom always told us that sharing was good, so maybe a bit of scrolling through that history isn’t such a bad thing!  Check out the share lists at http://www.mixx.com/share_lists

Of course there are also a few site notification tweaks, some that you can file under YAURF*:

Following:

• When someone follows you and you follow them back, the original notification (“Bob is now following you”) will change to “You are now following Bob.” Leave the page and then return and you won’t see the Follow notification again.
• If you choose to “Follow All,” that little yellow message box will still show up at the top, but when you come back to the page, the original notification will be gone.

Submission and Groups:

• Click on a submission and it will automatically be marked as read and removed from your notification list. This way you won’t have to pretend to ignore notifications you’ve already read.
• Oh, and you’ll find that we’ve changed the whole “ignore” thing to “Mark as read.” We thought it was a little friendlier and smarter, since, you know, you’re not actually ignoring it if you’ve already read it.

Share:
Hurrah! One notification, and one notification only, for each Share from each Sharer.

Friends:
Now you’ll only get one active Friend notification when another Mixxer decides that you are way to cool to NOT Follow. If they’re desperate for you to love them in return (and you know they are!), they’ll probably ask more than once. This new request will automatically update the timestamp of the existing Friend request notification instead of sending another notification. One notification—new timestamp: Much cleaner inbox.

Well that’s it for this round, but we do want to thank you again for your support and your enthusiastic embrace of Mixx. We haven’t yet found the perfect words, so for now, “Thank you” will have to do. Mixx just wouldn’t be the same without you!

We’re really excited about this New Year and the amazing changes in store for Mixx, and hopefully for all of you. So, here’s to new things, and we’ll see you in the Mixx!

- Your Mixx Team

* Yet Another User Request Fulfilled

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