Posts tagged newfeatures

Starting today, it's going to be a lot easier for new members to add their bikes to Pedal Room.

Instead of going through the full registration form, they can now skip directly to the add a bike form. If they're not logged in, they simply provide a username and email when they're adding their bike and we'll create an account for them.

Hopefully this will encourage more people to join and add their bikes since it's a lot less work to create an account and add a bike now. Pedal Room should then grow faster! Everybody wins!

Over the long weekend, we had the opportunity to think and sketch out future ideas for Pedal Room. Here's a little taste of what we're considering doing.

Marketplace

We plan to build out a very simple marketplace where you can sell bikes and bike parts. It's gonna be sweet!

Mobile App

Coomer's already playing with the alpha version of the new Pedal Room mobile app on his iPhone. It will allow you to quickly and easily see what's going on in Pedal Room land. There will also be cool features like finding people and bikes near you. In a new city and looking for people to ride with? Just click the "find nearby" button and contact some nearby cyclists!

Even Better Bike/Member Search

We'll also be rolling out some sweet new search features that will make finding others even easier!

Sharing Options

We want to make it easier to share bikes with the world! Quick access to share URLs, Twitter and Facebook integration, etc.

That's not it, but that's what we're thinking right now. What do you think? Let us know!

Today we launched something that we've been meaning to build for a while - better bike search. After all, bikes is what we're all about. Now Pedal Room has better bike searching options.

You can search by keywords like you've been able to before, but also by location, and you can choose to sort bikes in various order and show only bikes with photos as well!

One thing we had a lot of fun building that we hope you guys will enjoy is our location search. Say you see some cool bike in Ballard (a neighborhood here in Seattle) and want to find it. You can search for location "Ballard" on the advanced bike search page, choose to sort by distance, and then results will come back not only in Ballard, but also in the neighboring areas. Of course, if you sorted by distance, the bikes closest to your entered location will show up first. See the image below for a rough idea of what we're talking about.

Enjoy the features, and let us know what you think!

We just finished upgrading our tag clouds to make it easier to see what the most popular and least popular tags are. There used to be a ton of tiny tags and one or two large ones, but now tags are better distributed thanks to our new logarithmic algorithm. We hope you guys enjoy it!

Also, we upgraded our member search with an option to search for only members with bikes. We'll be adding a similar option to find only members with photos and sorting options soon, as well as sorting options for bikes and an advanced bike search! Check back often for more features and more great bikes added from all over!

We just released some new features that we hope you guys will enjoy! You can now browse bikes by tag, search for members by location as well as name, order member search results, and find everything a bit easier (we hope) with the new navigation menus.

Pretty soon we'll be building an advanced bike search as well as enhanced member searching options, and much more! Let us know what you think, and stay tuned for more updates!

Just a little preview for you guys. We'll be releasing some new features this weekend, including advanced member search, and better bike browsing/searching options, as well as our new navigation menus to expose the new functionality. Stay tuned and ride safe!

Every so often, you see something really special - a gorgeous bike or beautifully-thought-out photo for example - and you just want to share it!

Starting today, we'll be featuring bikes on Pedal Room! Awesome bikes, bikes with great photos, bikes that are unique, etc. Be sure to check back often to see what's featured, and give us a shout if you see something feature-worthy!

We just released a neat new feature for you guys! You can now view
stats on your bike, including bike pageviews and how many people (and
who) have favorited your bike. Just login and view your bike(s) and
you'll see the info on the right side of the page.

If there are any other stats you'd love to see for your bike, let us know and we'll consider adding them!

We also fixed a couple bugs and did some small tweaks here and there, including automatically linking URLs in bike profiles and cleaning up the home page a bit.

Visit Pedal Room to check out the new stuff!

Over the weekend, we did a lot of work on Pedal Room.

Most noticeable are the new formats for notification emails. They now are sent out in HTML (and text as well for older email clients/phones, etc.) which makes the links work better and the emails in general work better.

The other work this weekend was all behind the scenes. We switched over to a more powerful unit testing framework (SimpleTest for those who are curious) and wrote over one hundred new tests. The new framework and tests allow us to release code more rapidly, because testing lots of functionality is now done quickly and automatically. This translates into better stability, fewer bugs, and more features, so stay tuned!

We just released some new notification options! You can now get email notifications when you receive new messages or comments!

We've also added the ability to view your sent messages and enhanced the reply-to-message page so that the message you're replying to is displayed. Let us know what you think!