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New Feature on adventures, and a couple of others

Maybe you've noticed how lately I've been trolling on all the adventures that talk about a bra to please also add a review for it.
I've been doing this because the effect has been that we end up with many less reviews that we'd normally have since most of the experience of the bra gets shared here.
It is important to remember that adventures are short lived so the content shared is very unlikely to be seen by anybody in a couple of days. And what's worse, any great advice or conversation that happens on it, will get lost.
The best place for this conversation to happen is on the bra review, that way people will find all this insight in a predictable way.

Adventures have a particular characteristic, they provide immediate feedback, as reviews are buried in the bra model page and may note get input in some time.

To help with that, you will notice that now, in the categories options you can indicate that you are talking about some of your bras (Shows by default the most recent 7 bras). By selecting this, the adventure you share will also be stored as the review for your bra! It will behave same as an adventure because it will show in everybody's stream, and comments and votes will go to your review. You can go at any time to your bra review and edit this content. Comments made on this Review/Adventure will be visible from the bra model's page so future users can find this too.

If you need to talk about other bra that's not on the list, at the moment you have to go the traditional route to write the review, but there you will find a new option to "share this review as an adventure", that will result in the same effect as previously described. It will show in the adventures stream and everybody will see it and be able to comment on it.

Please help me troll users when you see this happening. This will make the bra database much richer and useful for visitors instead of the few users that are lucky enough to see your adventure on the first page.

Other features added:

# Easier listings notifications
I think that the listings notifications we have here are a powerful feature, sadly many people don't know they exist, and even those who do, forget about them. Adding them is a pain and non obvious.

What I've done is add a link "Notify me on listings" both on bra model and bra size pages. Clicking on it will automatically create a notification for you. This should be much faster than the previous manual process.

# Per brand reviews
I've found that this can be useful for bloggers mainly, now on each brand you can get a list of all the reviews written for it regardless of the model. It may be useful to get a good insight of the brand, but you can also filter it to read only related blog posts. So it should be an easy way to find "Blog posts about Comexim" and such. Of course this works only if bloggers do link their reviews here.

# Text view for your listings
When you go to your listings page you will see a "Text view" option, that will show a piece of text with a snippet of all your listings and link to an image so you can easily copy and paste this somewhere else where you want to advertise your bras.

# Adventures URLs are more anonymous
This is a bit of a technical bit, but old URLs exposed the author of the adventure to unlogged users and search engines. Now only logged users will be able to see your username when reading your adventures. This is important because this keeps your Bratabase username hidden from Google so it is harder to find your bra profile on the Interwebs.

# I added sticky adventures
Like this one. Only I can set it when I see fit.

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Shared on Aug 12, 2014 Flag this