Fellow Fans! Here's what's in our latest Fanpop 2.0 builds:
At bat (these features are nearly complete and slated to be built out in the near future):
The return of Featured Fans to the Fanpop homepage! This new version will showcase fans who have earned a certain number of medals and who have logged in most recently. It now lists their highest medalled clubs with links to those clubs so that others may explore and contribute. Future versions will have tabs to show current highest ranked fans, active fans who joined longest ago, and hand-picked featured fans. Got ideas? That's what comments are for!
A new look for the homepage! Image grids, automatic infinite scroll, and bigger Pop Culture images. It's definitely new and different, but we think you'll like it.
The death of the bottom "black gradient of death"! The club title may need to be relocated for visibility, but that's up for discussion. Speak up in the comments!
In progress:
Depending on poll results and our internal discussions, a title copy button for the HTML5 image uploader, along with a much lower minimum title length; links to the OG flash batch uploader
Some very important performance and image enhancements. These are behind the scenes, but are by no means unimportant. Props to the team doing this critical but thankless work.
The future:
A new fan icon footer that shows the number of medals a user has earned. The footer will be color coded. For example: 7 4 2 1 0 means the user has 7 green medals, 4 yellow, 2 red, 1 orange, 0 purple. Each number will be colored, so it will be pretty obvious what each refers to. Recently earned/upgraded medal types will appear in boldface/glowface. This will appear directly under the user icon in places like comments.
At bat (these features are nearly complete and slated to be built out in the near future):
The return of Featured Fans to the Fanpop homepage! This new version will showcase fans who have earned a certain number of medals and who have logged in most recently. It now lists their highest medalled clubs with links to those clubs so that others may explore and contribute. Future versions will have tabs to show current highest ranked fans, active fans who joined longest ago, and hand-picked featured fans. Got ideas? That's what comments are for!
A new look for the homepage! Image grids, automatic infinite scroll, and bigger Pop Culture images. It's definitely new and different, but we think you'll like it.
The death of the bottom "black gradient of death"! The club title may need to be relocated for visibility, but that's up for discussion. Speak up in the comments!
In progress:
Depending on poll results and our internal discussions, a title copy button for the HTML5 image uploader, along with a much lower minimum title length; links to the OG flash batch uploader
Some very important performance and image enhancements. These are behind the scenes, but are by no means unimportant. Props to the team doing this critical but thankless work.
The future:
A new fan icon footer that shows the number of medals a user has earned. The footer will be color coded. For example: 7 4 2 1 0 means the user has 7 green medals, 4 yellow, 2 red, 1 orange, 0 purple. Each number will be colored, so it will be pretty obvious what each refers to. Recently earned/upgraded medal types will appear in boldface/glowface. This will appear directly under the user icon in places like comments.
