Ron Paul Pwning the Competition + new features.

Wow, the Paulites are going wild on TryThis. At the time of this post, Ron Paul has 401 votes while Barack Obama is in a distant second with 19. Unfortunately for Barack, there’s no second place here…actually there’s no second place in the actual election either so…good luck everyone. With six weeks left I think the real question is whether or not Ron can break four figures.

Anyway, we added a couple of cool new things today. If you’ve asked a question you now have the ability to close it by selecting the best recommendation. The best question will be marked as such. Once a question is closed, nobody can recommend stuff anymore.

We also added bubble tooltips in some places. Everybody likes bubbles. Bubbles ftw.

I Just Tried…

Try out our new “I Just Tried…” feature and tell everyone what you just tried and what you thought of it! Head over to Try This and look at at the right side and click on the Click here to tell people about something you just tried. Check it out!

Spam reporting and other vendors

A bunch of changes went in today including the (spam) link at the bottom right corner of every discussion note. Clicking on this makes an entry into the spam reporting system where the admins can then decide what action to take.

We’ve also added a few new stores to add products from and will continue to add more. We’re still tweaking the interface so some changes are coming. You can now recommend products from Sony, Buy.com, CompUSA, SHOP.com, and many more!

There is also now a way to view the product via a popup link, by clicking on the [view] link, from the site before you recommend it.

There are a lot more new features coming. Stay tuned!

-Wally

Questions no longer have a type

A fairly major change went in this morning allowing the questions and suggestions to be more open. You no longer have to specify a type for the question and can now suggest a product, map, person, or custom image to any question. This should allow for more flexibility and eliminate the problem where people were asking for place suggestions but did not bother changing the question type to place.

Also with this change, the leaderboard is no longer real-time. It will now be recomputed nightly.

Leaderboard

The new Leaderboard is now available! Stats are gathered in real-time and the board is updated in real-time. More detailed stats are available and will be made available on the profile page once we are done making the modifications.

We will soon be hosting a contest where the top ranking users will receive some awesome prizes!

-Wally