So we’ve been working hard to release a small gift to all of our beta testers who’ve been extremely helpful over the past few months, and we’re very pleased to announce:
Flickchart for iPhone - http://iphone.flickchart.com
For those of you lucky enough to have an iPhone 3G (or the original iPhone), you now have a great way to get in some of those extra rankings while you’re waiting in the queue lines to see The Dark Knight, or during the agonizingly long 30 minutes of commercials playing before the movie starts.
This is a work-in-progress, but the core ranking functionality and the ability to view your top 20, as well as the global charts, are all in place.
We’ll be adding more features to this in the future while we also continue to dig in to all of the great suggestions you’ve been providing us on our Get Satisfaction page, and through your many excellent emails.
We hope you enjoy Flickchart for iPhone, and as always, please let us know what you think.
We just pushed up some new code to take care of a few requested features and fixes:
BUGFIX: Adding Friends now works correctly. You can go to any user’s profile page and add them as a friend. They’ll receive an alert on their profile telling them about your request, which they can approve or delete.
> on Get Satisfaction: I get an internal server error when adding people as friends
UPDATE: Posters Stick When Choosing “Haven’t Seen” - while many of you have been enjoying the new “Haven’t Seen” functionality while ranking, the “seen” movies were sometimes moving from side to side or changing posters. This is now fixed by keeping the poster of the seen movie on the same side and only replacing the unseen movie.
> on Get Satisfaction: Do not randomly place movies when clicking “Haven’t seen it”
FEATURE: A New Look For Discussions! - We’ve simplified the sometimes confusing 2-column matchup comments and consolidated everything into a single column. We still show which movie a commenter prefers, as well as their agreements and disagreements in a more streamlined way. Your feedback on this new look is welcome as we continue to refine the experience of debating classic movie matchups.
> on Get Satisfaction: Matchup Comments Not Useful
We’d like to get some well-written feedback about Flickchart from some of our current beta testers, and for those of you who aren’t in the beta quite yet - here’s a chance for you to get in on the action immediately:
If you’re already a member of the Flickchart beta and you’re interested in writing up an article about us, submit your URL to the article/blog post to inquiries@flickchart.com, and you’ll receive 10 free invites to send to your friends and let them in on the fun.
If you are a blogger or reviewer and you aren’t in the beta yet, you can also email us at inquiries@flickchart.com and tell us a little about yourself and the blog/website where you’ll be posting. Once we review your inquiry, you’ll receive a personal invite from us, and for each article link submitted, we’ll send you 10 free invites as well.
Thanks, and looking forward to reading your thoughts about Flickchart!
Erik was gracious enough to have Jeremy and I on the RandomChatter podcast a little while back and devoted almost an entire episode to talking about Flickchart.
We had a great time doing it, and it was very cool to be able to talk about why we created the site and what’s to come. If you’re interested to hear what we sound like, and find out more about the origins and future of Flickchart, give it a listen.
Direct MP3 Link (1hr, 3mins.)
You can also subscribe to the RandomChatter podcast through iTunes.
We’ve been working real hard to push some new things for Flickchart. Here’s a breakdown of the latest changes:
- BUGFIX: Ordering of items on Users page and homepage Recent Activity should now be correct
- BUGFIX: “I’ve Seen It” links are now correctly hidden for profiles other than your own
- BUGFIX: Alerts are now deletable on User Profile pages
- UPDATE: Movie Info pages have an improved layout
- UPDATE: Charts pages have an improved layout
- UPDATE: Favorite Movies pages have an improved layout
- UPDATE: More movie information is now available on the Movie Info pages, such as Genres, Actors, and movie trailers
- FEATURE: Rank Any Movie - now you can rank any movie by going to a movie’s Movie Info page and clicking “Rank This Movie”, this will give you the opportunity to get any movie into your list
- FEATURE: Haven’t Seen Stickiness - now when you choose “Haven’t Seen” on the left or right movies, the one that you HAVE seen will remain up for the next pair, and you will be presented a movie from your current list for the new movie. This will keep you from having to miss ranking a great movie that comes up against movies you haven’t seen, and also hopefully keep you from having to click Haven’t Seen as often.
- FEATURE: Global Ranking Charts - we have integrated line graphs showing the movement of movie’s rank over time - a very cool visualization of how your favorite movies are changing position at Flickchart
Coming Soon: Major updates to the commenting and Discussion pages that will allow you to make comments on matchups more easily from the homepage, and visualize the conversation in a more streamlined way.
As always, we’ve sent out our next batch of invites - so if you haven’t gotten on the list yet, sign up now!
Big thanks to all of our beta testers for all of the excellent feedback. If you have more ideas, questions, or problems, be sure to check out our Community Help at Get Satisfaction. Take a look at what others have been contributing and let us know what’s on your mind!
