New feature: Navigate to previous story branches
Unlike the relatively obvious notifications and comments features I’ve added in the last month or so, here’s a little addition I made last weekend that you may not have noticed.
Take a look at the screenshot to the right: notice anything different? Yeah, that little back arrow in green and white (highlighted in the screenshot with a red box around it) is what I’m talking about.
You’ll see this new icon at the bottom of every branch or chapter of a story (i.e. anything past the first page of the story.) That little icon pops up a modal (shown below) which lets you jump back to any previous branch or chapter of the story you’re ready. Handy, eh? I added this based on your feedback — I had several people contact me via email or on my profile suggesting
Weekly roundup for April 28 - May 11, 2008
Well, as you may have noticed by watching the site over the last few days, I’m back from my week-long holiday in Hawaii and I’ve been busy getting the site updated with a bunch of new features.
What new features might these be, you ask? Yes, I’ve added a new comments aggregator page, improved commenting in that you can now read merged conversations with all authors (for profile-to-profile comments), and I’ve added a little navigation tool to help users jump back to any previous branch or chapter in the story they’re currently reading. Watch the blog for more info about these changes over the next day or two!
This last two-week stint has been quite eventful, aside from site updates. Protagonize is up for a PopVox Award, made the cut for round 2 of the 2008 New Ventures BC Competition, and last but not least, we cracked the 1,500 author milestone yesterday! At last check, we’re sitting
