Today we’ve enabled three new features on Android and Me that will make sharing articles, exploring Android news, and navigating in a sea of comments easier. The changes aren’t ground-breaking, we just thought we’d make a quick post to highlight the changes in case someone was jarred by the differences.
New comment ranking
Comment rating
On each comment you’ll find a ranking and couple of vote buttons. You can vote a comment up or down, affecting its rank positively or negatively in either direction. When a comment has enough up votes, it will be marked as trusted. When a comment is repeatedly down voted, the comment will be busted and hidden from view.
New sharing options
Sharing options
We used to have a ‘Share’ button underneath each post image. The share options have now been moved above the post image with the comment count and retweet button. Displayed by default is a Facebook share icon, an email article button, an option to add the article to your favorites, a print button, and a more button hiding tons of other options.
New source links
Source links
At the end of each article you may start to find new source links. I’ve got no problem admitting we took this cue from Engadget. They are one of the premiere tech blogs and their new design has all kinds of usable bits I think should just be commonplace in blog formatting (like giving credit where it’s due). We’ve got two kinds of links, via and source. A link marked via will be the blog that alerted us of the news while a link marked source is the originating site. Sometimes you’ll see both links, sometimes one, sometimes neither. Anytime we make a post we’ll do our best to give credit and links to those sites that deserve it and appreciate others doing the same.
Enjoy
Please consider all these features beta as we work out any issues that may crop up. We hope you’ve been enjoying all the improvements we’ve been trying to make lately and will keep an eye on the site as we move forward (we’ve got big plans for all areas of the site). Our readers have been the best around and you guys are the main reason we keep doing what we are doing here at Android and Me.
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Clark Wimberly
Clark is a web designer and developer living in Austin, Texas. He runs ClarkLab, a small web firm with an ever-increasing Android focus. He's a big fan of usability, standards, and clean design.
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this is something that will get more viewers thats one thing a consumer wants is easy usability.
You’re half right. User want buy-in and ownership!