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New Community Features

Mike Schnoor — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:37:18 +0000

sevenload has made a couple of enhancements which I’d like to discuss here- and in fact, the best way to understand these new features is to check them out yourself!

Automatic “Continue” Feature after Uploading
Normally, your uploaded photos and videos are first shown on sevenload only after you have clicked on “continue” in the upload section. In order to save yourself from this extra click, you simply have to check in the box that you’d like to automatically continue after uploading. The automatically continue box can be found right in the upload section on sevenload.

Points and Guestbook on “My sevenload”
Until now, you were only able to see your Guestbook and point information directly on your own profile, but thanks to our super developers, it’s now possible to see this on your “My sevenload” page. Thanks to our team for integrating this new feature, giving us just a bit more “usability” on our pages.

New Blog Entries
It’s now possible to see what the newest sevenload Blog entries are on the “My sevenload” page (right at the top). Becuase you should always know what’s going on in the Blog, right?…

Tip: Staying on Top of Things

Mike Schnoor — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:43:00 +0000

A lot of sevenloaders are always on the prowl, ready to comment on and rate the newest photos and videos. Anyone can see where what’s going on and what the newest discussions are with the corresponding pages for Photos and Videos. And for a lot of sevenloaders it’s also important to keep track of what’s being said about their own uploaded contents.

We’ve made the “My sevenload” page even better- now users have the chance to check out the new “What’s new?” page. This way, every user can have, at a glance, an overview of what has been going on with their photos and videos.

Who just left a comment? How was that photo rated? Who has added new tags and who has been on my profile? – These questions can all be answered with a singly click, and can be found here!

Point System Adjustment

Mike Schnoor — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:58:06 +0000

We’ve been receiving a lot of feedback since the changes we made to the point system on sevenload, and the fact is that because ratings for photos and videos are not visibly honoured on the profiles yet we are going to make these additional calculations/adjustments:

1. Ratings
Photo and video rating will now be incorporated into the end points. For every 10 stars and additional 2 points will be added. Example: your photo has been rated with 8 stars 3 times = 24 stars. Thus, you will get an additional 4.8 points!

2. Comments
In addition to the points given for the commentator who uploaded the commented photo or video will also get an extra point added.

In addition, a small addition error was able to creep into the points displayed on various profiles. Our developers are currently working on getting numbers, info and facts straightened out!
Please excuse this minor irritation.

New Point System on sevenload

Mike Schnoor — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:39:18 +0000

Up to now, users with the most points received for their photos/videos were the ones who showed up as being most popular. But this meant that many of our users who are very active in the Community were not being recognized for their activity. That’s why we’ve decided to add user activity as one of our subsections on sevenload.

The new point distribution is therefore no longer affected by ratings, but rather activities such as the user’s tagging and uploading. The following list should give you a better idea of what we mean:

Uploading a photo is worth one point. And for those who upload a profile photo right away will obviously immediately profit from it.
However, each uploaded video is worth four points.
In addition, five points are giving for creating an album, writing a comment or leaving a guestbook entry. If you already have a lot of friends in the Community and actively interact with them, you’ll be rewarded for it right away!
Furthermore,one point will be given for every single rating made by the user themselves.
And for those users who are really busy bees- they’ll each receive a half point for every tag they make for photos and videos.
Whoever adds a profile photo will receive a one time only addition of 100 extra points! *the first time they add a profile photo.

We’re sure that you’ll enjoy this new point system- during our internal testing we discovered that we ourselves we getting addicted to be more active and start getting points.

Example for the new point system

Composition of the new points

Of course, we are not going to delete the old and new photo and video ratings they will just not be incorporated in the user’s profile page.

Update: We are already working on a way to reward the most active participation on sevenload with a prize. Further information will be available soon.