Today Gather launched major improvements to the article publishing tool. You are now one step closer to sharing your articles on Gather with our new single page publishing process.
Now you can more easily manage your articles and edit your settings without the need to click through extra pages. Bringing all the article options to a single page will reduce the time it takes to publish your content and make changes when editing existing articles. The options have not changed, we have just made things easier.
You will also notice that we have made significant improvements to the recent content pages for articles, images, and video. These changes follow the recent update to the updated member profiles page. These improvements build upon our new search technology and allow you to refine the listings of items on these pages to more easily find people and ideas that interest you. Simply click the refine options in the left column on these pages to get to the content and people that interest you most. We've also included improved pagination to these pages so you can skip through these pages to see the people and content available on Gather. Just like in search you can refine these pages using the most used tags, groups, and profile information to find what interests you most.
Search improvements on Gather have opened the doors for these enhancements and a variety of other upcoming ideas. Oven the next few months we will be working to build better experiences for your profiles, namespace page, the My Gather page, improved navigation, and even enhancements to the Gather home page. We hope you like today's improvements and look forward to more enhancements to come.
As always, your feedback is valued. Leave us a comment below and let us know what you think. And Thanks to all of you for using Gather.com
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Comments: 64
I'd be more willing to click through three pages to publish an article if it meant that you could determine who flagged an article or rated your article a one. And, I'm positive that I am not the only one who feels that way.
Is there a place to make suggestions or bug reports?
One nice feature would be just the names and links to articles we have commented on to be able to go back and keep a conversation alive or check on comments. This thing of having to load and scroll through pages is medieval, time consuming, does not lead to continuing conversations.
it might be a though to allow people to edit comments, or maybe just their last comment on a certain article for clarity or typos?
Great improvements though! ;-)
Since one of our recent site upgrades, Gather members can only publish to either public groups or private groups, but not both at the same time. The reason for this change to selecting public groups seperated from private groups is because anything that is published to private groups should remain private, and not visible to all members. Private groups are not meant to be included when publishing content that you want to make publicly visible to everyone on Gather. Prior to this change, content published to private groups was often visible to everyone, and content published to everyone that included only private groups was made in effect strictly private. The process has been changed so that what is meant to be public stays public, and what is meant to be private stays private.
If you feel the need to publish something to both public and private groups, you will need to publish that piece of content twice. You may need to rethink why you made your group private to begin with.
Thanks for keeping us posted on the upgrades.
My only issue is my over full Gather in-box. When I get a message delivered to me I delete it in my personal e-mail, however I don't log into Gather and delete it in my in-box...now it's out of control and there's no easy way to 'delete all'.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Leah
When people invite you to join a group, maybe showing the name of the group, the creator of the group and a group description would help people to know where to post and where not to post their articles, photos and videos. This has become a problem recently with people posting to completely inappropriate groups - but I believe it's because most people just click accept on new group invites rather than finding out what the group is about.
Neat improvements. Thanks.
Oh, re Frank's all groups - what about favorite groups?
fingers crossed..ohpleezohpleezohpleez i DO believe in Santa Claus!
and bigfot,aliens fromouterspace,alternate dimensions,that blackmold is a sentient being, that I'll lose 50 lbs by Christmas....:)
Thanks...
; )
As long as we are throwing other ideas out there, ha ha; I would like to be able to feature an image in my groups like we can an article. Images can get buried so fast sometimes, not getting the recognition they might otherwise... Just a thought... ;-)
Take care.
To address a few other comments made here about the lack of an option to simply select all your groups, this is another area where I'm not getting the reason for this need. Selecting groups to share your content with should be a thoughtful process where you carefully select individual groups that align well with your content subject matter. Simply publishing everything you post to every group isn't typically an appropriate thing to do. Around Gather this is referred to a "Group Spamming". We do understand that sometime you may have several groups around a similar topic and that's fine to share with several related groups. We are working on a feature to organize your groups in to sets. This will allow you to post a new recipe, for example, to all your food related groups. We hope to introduce this new feature sometime in the spring.
Thanks for all your feedback. Remember that you can always submit your ideas and thoughts to the group Building A Better Gather".
Jim Bostick, Director of User Experience at Gather
1. Automatic saving every minute while drafting articles will be a great advantage.
2. Just as we get email alerts whenever somebody comments on our article, it may be a good idea to get similar alerts when someone responds to our comments on somebody's article. One disturbing aspect is getting email alerts even for our own commets, i.e., responding to somebody's comments on our articles.
To get feedback even more promptly I suggest you provide a click button "Feedback" at the top righthand corner which will take us directly to 'support.gather.com' . This would help in recording your problem the moment you encounter one.
A simple enhancement would be to list them alphabetically. If you use a SQL query to build the page, it would be as simple as adding an ORDER BY clause.
If you want more info, feel free to contact.