Improved Functionality on YourStreet

Over the last month we have been quietly rolling out some improvements to the user experience on YourStreet.  Here's a few of the things that have been introduced recently:

• More informative tooltips.  When you mouse over a map pin you'll now see the headline of the article or discussion, allowing easier and faster exploration of the map.  As before, clicking on a map pin gives you more information and a link to the content.

• Comment previews.  You'll now see a real-time preview when you leave a comment on an article or discussion.

• Subscribe to discussion threads.  When you create a conversation, you now have the option of having new comments emailed to you so you don't have to keep checking back to see if someone responded.

• RSS subscriptions for discussions and articles.  There's now an RSS feed for every article or conversation on the site.  Want to follow an interesting conversation?  Just subscribe to its RSS feeds and follow the comments in your favorite feed reader.

• Flagged content.  If you see an inappropriate comment on YourStreet, there's now a "flag content" link that you can click to report it to us.

• Faster site loading.  You'll notice that the article list now loads before the map so you can see more content quickly.

We're working on a bunch of even bigger improvements which we'll be announcing in the next few weeks.  Is there a specific change or improvement that you'd like to see on YourStreet?  Let us know on the comments, or use the feedback form on YourStreet.  We'd love to hear from you.

Comments

[Geoff]

Hi,

One thing I've noticed is that if an article has been published and then subsequently edited, yourstreet.com displays both. I would suggest that you would only want the latest version based on the time published so there are not duplicates with potentially different headlines or body text.