Changes at YourStreet
This weekend you'll be seeing a lot of changes at YourStreet:
- New layout. The first thing you'll notice is that we removed the news map. Supporting mapping of each article was just too expensive to maintain, but rest assured that you'll continue to find the latest local news for your city or town on YourStreet. As an added bonus, you'll find the pages load much faster than before.
- Profile changes. We have decided to no longer support user profiles on YourStreet and, as a result, all user data has been deleted. Recently it's become clear that pretty much everyone has a Facebook profile and it no longer makes sense to force users to maintain separate profiles on each site they join. So YourStreet now integrates with your Facebook profile. When you comment on an article you'll see the option to login using your Facebook credentials. You can also choose to have the comments you leave at YourStreet appear on your Facebook profile. So with one click you can let all your friends know what you're thinking!
- Discussions. While you can continue to comment on articles, YourStreet has discontinued discussions, at least for now. We're hoping to re-introduce this feature in the near future.
- Related articles. For every article on YourStreet you'll now find other stories related to that subject. This allows you to explore a topic in more depth than before.
- More topic pages. For every location that YourStreet covers, we now have pages that will show you articles about business, crime, entertainment, health, politics, sports or technology in that area. We don't yet have content for every topic in every location, but we're working on it.
- More entities. Before, YourStreet provided news about your location. Now we have expanded to show you news related to local landmarks, events, and companies. You'll be able to find more information about more stuff on the new YourStreet.
- Better search. Now that YourStreet covers a lot more information, we've made it easier for you to find what you're looking for.
We hope you'll visit the new YourStreet to see these changes in action. Please let us know what you think by commenting here or using the feedback form linked to at the bottom of every page.
Thank you for being a part of our community!
The YourStreet Team

