We are continually reading through your feedback, and thank each and every one who has contributed constructively. Today My.Netscape got a small feature update addressing some significant concerns in the portfolio and bookmarks sections.


First, you can finally add indexes to your portfolio just by editing the module preferences and changing "Show market summary" to yes.


We also added renamed capability to the bookmark list. Simply click the title and it will turn into a textbox, change the name and hit <ENTER> and your done.

These two large changes as well as a new liquid layout and a host of other bug fixes will hopefully solve a lot of the issues some of you have had.

Figure 1: Our developers worked hard over the past 24 hours in the computer dungeon we've built for them.

You know all those people you see on TV who have gone in for some plastic surgery and come out with just a wee bit too much Botox? Or people who have their smile worked on and it just looks a bit too much like the smile on Jack Nicolson's version of The Joker in Tim Burton's Batman?

Well, yesterday, after our facelift to our member pages, many of you let us know loud and clear that you thought we'd crossed that line from delicate touch up to Frankenstinian abomination.

Today, we pushed an update to those changes that we hope will convince you that we were just suffering from some post-facelift swelling.

We've fixed a lot of bugs, ordered member activity in chronological order on the profile page, and added more options for the Friends' page, including as list of your friends' recent submissions (as in the last generation of the profile pages) and a Recent Friends' Activity page, which is a web-based version of our recently released Firefox extension. We've also added a new stats page and upped the font size of any Notes you want to add to the stories on your Activity pages. Also, there is now a note at the bottom of each story indicating what type of interaction you had with the story.

As always, let us know what you think. We'll keep the developers in the computer dungeon for as long as it takes to improve this site. They like it in there.

Yesterday afternoon, we pushed a newer version of the homepage. Instead of 3 stories from each of the top 5 channels and 2 stories from each of the next 5 channels, this new iteration of the homepage displays the top 2 stories of each of the top 10 channels and the top story from each of the next 5 stories, ranked. We think this brings a more balanced experience to the site, while allowing for more growth of the individual channels. You can still find the pure-ranked version of the homepage via the More Hot Stories link at the bottom of the homepage. We still have hometest (what had been the homepage last week) and hometest1 (top story from the top 25 channels) up and running as well. Now, what can we test on hometest2 next... ;-)