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Crash (7)   ranked 1,302 out of 32,698 in mylot.com2 years ago

Hello everyone!

As you may have noticed already, we launched some new myLot features today. These upgrades are all a result of feedback from myLot users, so thanks for the ideas! Most of the bugs are now taken care of, so I wanted to give a quick overview of what's new.

First of all, we have introduced something called myLot Code. This allows you to use special markup in your myLot posts, including bold text, italics and smileys! In order to reward our active users, this feature is available only to users with a user rating of 200 or more.

Next, you now have complete control over the email notifications that you receive from myLot. Go to "edit your preferences" and then click on the new Notifications tab. You can now specify the following:

subscribe to myLot digest
email me when someone responds to my discussions
email me when someone comments on my response
email me when someone sends me a friend request
email me when I receive a new referral
email me when myLot sends me an alert
email me when I am awarded a best response
email me when someone accepts my friendship request
email me when I receive a private message

I don't think that "email me when myLot sends me an alert" is working quite yet, but it should be functional soon.

Finally, we have also introduced myLot Flyers. A flyer is a special referral link that better enables you to promote myLot to new users. You will see the special Flyers link in the right rail of any interest page. When you click on the link, you are given a variety of different links to choose from to promote myLot and that interest. If someone signs up for myLot after clicking on a Flyers link, they are credited as your referral.

So basically, Flyers are a way for you to make more money by promoting myLot on your blog, MySpace page, etc. They are a work in progress, and you should expect to see further improvements in this area in the future.

That pretty much covers it for this upgrade! We'd like to thank the myLot community for all of the suggestions. Be on the lookout for more upgrades in the coming weeks and months!

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 70/100. brettfavre (404)   ranked 3,773 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

Thanks mylot and crash keep up the great work its nice to know that you guys are always trying to make mylot a better site!


myLot reputation of 86/100. mvsrao (3639)   ranked 6,094 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

well, we (old users) have waited a long time
for some of the above changes ! finally they
have come when many of old users are inactive here !


myLot reputation of 96/100. gharinder (1085)   ranked 484 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

nice to learn about these changes. i admire your efforts, thanks.


myLot reputation of 84/100. myrith (1043)   ranked 2,054 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

That's wonderful,people here will love the changes, at least I know I will,quite an improvement.Thanks mylot!


qudus25 (1)   ranked 24,307 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

same here, im speechless!

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2. myLot reputation of 98/100. Jemina (2558)   ranked 682 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

I was wondering what that mylot code that I see on the left of the box when I type my responses. I never dared click it. What a shame.
Well..Does it mean I can now change the interface of my text? let me try it at once. Wow! That's truly amazing. I had been wanting to have it here and finally it's here. Thanks myLot for the new improvement/feature here. I am going to love it more here. happy


myLot reputation of 84/100. oneandonemakesix (24038)   ranked 2,244 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

Isn't it wonderful? Now all I have to do is get familiar with the flyers, but I've never been good with referrals, so I'm not going to worry to much about flyers, but I think it may bring more people here to enoy the sight.

The emoticons and the bold, italic, and the underline is great,

Because now when I cut and paste text from something else, I can make italicized so it stands out..

there are some updates to the mail features that I am not thrilled with here, but I think as with all updateds we will become accustomed to them, and either loe them or love to hate them.

But I"m glad to see that mylot is trying ot make this the most rocking social sight on the net.

Mooch


myLot reputation of 98/100. Jemina (2558)   ranked 682 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

I know it's really wonderful and it makes me excited about it. Now we can play around with the text and even add emoticons to make our to show our emotions.
My referrals don't seem to believe they can earn online. They just don't have enough patience. So I don't really care so much about flyers like you do. The email, I have filtered it in my gmail inbox so they don't really bother me at all.


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12494)   ranked 489 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

I got lost trying the codes. Let me try this once more here.:)
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~


myLot reputation of 93/100. RowenaTheWitch (556)   ranked 1,146 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

I too want to play with the new mylot code!lol
The smileys are a good idea also, it's boring to just type:) instead of happy


myLot reputation of 98/100. Jemina (2558)   ranked 682 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

You guys are enjoying the new myLot code eh? Good job myLot! thumbup

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3. myLot reputation of 84/100. oneandonemakesix (24038)   ranked 2,244 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

Wow Crash

Thanks for the update, and the information from flyers, I have yet to find them but I'm glad that you explained them, I will be looking for them, and hopefully mylot will continue to grow because of this.

I am hearing a lot of frustration about the email updates and people having ot go to profiles to the discussions that they want to respond to.

I was a little upset that there was no warning as to the update, and down time for maintenance.

But the smiley's and emoticons were a real bonus for us to come back to.

Thanx for the update

Mooch

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4. myLot reputation of 90/100. wisconsin26 (2006)   ranked 1,086 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

This is working for me actually about 6 hours ago I was starting to getting notifications from my lot.. some things maybe missing but for the most part they are working fine or at least that is what I am seeing!

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5. myLot reputation of 87/100. owlwings (5335)   ranked 694 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

I particularly welcome MyLot Codehappy This should certainly help to make discussions and responses more readable (if used responsibly! blink)
It's latish here in the UK sleep, so I will check out the Flyers tomorrow.

The options to turn emails of and on in such a detailed manner is also very welcome.
Way to go, MyLot!

One thing that I only discovered when I went to post this is that only 3 MyLot Emotes are allowed per post!


myLot reputation of 87/100. owlwings (5335)   ranked 694 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

(As a matter of fact, I think that three is overdoing it, now I see my response!)


myLot reputation of 95/100. webeishere (12494)   ranked 489 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

Now how do I add emoticons?
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~[b/]


myLot reputation of 73/100. everlasting (9961)   ranked 3,052 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

hi grandpa bob!
it should be the closing for your bold text to take effect and not the [b/].


myLot reputation of 70/100. theprogamer (7518)   ranked 3,722 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

Bob, click mylot code on the side of the comment box to insert them.
Or you can use [em] and [backslash em in brackets]. Use the emoticon name you want in the code. "Happy" for example.

Example.
(em)happy(/em) Replace the () with []
= happy

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6. myLot reputation of 93/100. carmelanirel (6339)   ranked 1,311 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

These are awesome updates Crash, I really like using the emotes.. thumbup Though I am still trying to figure out how the bold/italics/underline works, I have tried different methods, but so far I can't get it right.. I was hoping though, the upgrade would be something along the lines of being able to click on a link from my in box to view the whole discussion so I don't repeat something another mylotter had said..(I did that tonightblush) But, maybe next time??wink


myLot reputation of 85/100. razcal2267 (9500)   ranked 1,193 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

It is actually rather simple. you click{B}{I} or{U} or and combination of those and then enter your text between. Say you want to bold the word Wow You click the [B} and then type WOW between the the two{B} and that is the part that will be bolded so it will look like WOW.


myLot reputation of 64/100. AedonLeone (469)   ranked 7,070 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

The bold, italics, and underlines are all really simple to use. Just click on myLot code and select which one you want to use, then type the text you want emphasized in between the bracketed b, i, or u's. You can also type them manually, like the last commenter said, but the last tag needs to be{/b} and not{b} or everything you type after that will probably be bold, too. The slash tells the web browser that the text formatting stops there.  ;-)

Now if only I had enough posts to actually be able to use the darn codes...:-(


myLot reputation of 99/100. heavenschild (1716)   ranked 547 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

Another way that works is to highlight the part that you wish to be bolded, italicized, or underlined

As for clicking on the discussion in the In Box and being able to read everyones responses before responding...I am longing for this as well!

Thanks for mentioning this for me my friend!

~Heavens~


myLot reputation of 93/100. carmelanirel (6339)   ranked 1,311 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

Thanks Razand AedonLeone, I have done it that way and it didn't work. I will see if what heavens says will work..


myLot reputation of 93/100. carmelanirel (6339)   ranked 1,311 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

Hey it works when highlighted!!w00t

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7. myLot reputation of 85/100. razcal2267 (9500)   ranked 1,193 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

The upgrades are much better then your last set of DOWNGRADES. Hopefully the next set will be better and will not take days to work out all the glitches and bugs that you all will have to be working on after this set.

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8. myLot reputation of 98/100. patgalca (6053)   ranked 1,172 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

Just a note to admin, I got the alert on this and the link to this discussion. But when I clicked on the link that was supposed to take me to this discussion it took me back to my home page. This has happened a couple of times before. So I had to search high and low for this discussion.

Thanks for all the new features.


myLot reputation of 95/100. speedy1279 (1490)   ranked 396 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

Yeah that same thing happened to me. Also now, my homepage is all messed up. The two columns are side by side like they should. I have to scroll all the way down to the end of the page to find the other column. It almost looks like the column widths have been increased so they won't fit side by side anymore. But the funny thing is I didn't do anything to my homepage. I was on here a little bit ago and everything was fine and then when I just came back on now. It's all messed up.


myLot reputation of 98/100. patgalca (6053)   ranked 1,172 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

My home page went like that one day last week. I just ignored it and the next time I went on it was back to normal.


myLot reputation of 98/100. moneyandgc (3083)   ranked 526 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

When I clicked on the alert all I got was a white page. I had to go searching for the actual discussion too. I just typed Crash into the search bar and then clicked on his/her icon to get here.


myLot reputation of 85/100. razcal2267 (9500)   ranked 1,193 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

Same here. I only was able to get to this discussion through a friends profile. It seems to be like one of the email glitches that so many were talking about yesterday.

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9. myLot reputation of 98/100. jennybianca (6394)   ranked 66 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

Thanks for informing us of these changes. I especially love italics, bold text & smilies. I can't quite see them yet? Maybe it is only for discussions, & not responses? Maybe I just need to refresh the page, or reboot?
Anyway, I will figure it out.

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10. myLot reputation of 100/100. joyce959 (1279)   ranked 609 out of 32,698 in mylot.com   2 years ago

Those are great updates that will help myLot members. But I prefer not to use some of them. Thanks anyway.


eshwar_1989 (80)   ranked 29,400 out of 32,698 in mylot.com  2 years ago

thanks for keepin me informed


cervion (19)  2 years ago

this is a great addition to mylot, keep up the good work

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