idiomag

Just a quick update…

After the last release, we did a survey to find out what you thought. Based on that we made the following changes:

1. We have removed the article abstracts. Many people said they found them useful, but it was generally agreed that they cluttered the articles.

2. The music player now only plays music specific to each article, as many respondents found that playing music from the whole magazine was confusing. However have no fear, if you still wish to listen to the whole playlist in one go, this is available when you’re on the Dashboard

3. We have been working to solve the video errors: Youtube have introduced geographical restrictions on many music videos, which was causing errors for some of our global users. We’ve reorganised to make sure our videos are available to as many people as possible, and if it isn’t available - it will skip on to the next one!

4. We did a big clean-up of articles, and particularly the spacing within articles to help improve readability. We collect articles from so many different sources that this is a tricky problem, and we’ll be continuing to work on this.

5. We improved the balance of the personalization system, so that for people with wide music interests, your magazine doesn’t focus too much on one area.

6. We introduced a “Sharing Bar” to the article page, so with one click you can post any article to Digg, Facebook, Twitter etc, email it to your friend, or even embed it as a widget on your own page.

Hope that helps improve your idiomag experience. This is only the start, don’t worry if you’re comment wasn’t responded to in the improvements above, we’ll be sorting it soon!