Whoa, I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since we’ve posted to the blog. But don’t worry, we haven’t gone anywhere! We’ve had our heads down crunching on some cool new features that you all have been requesting. Honestly, we love hearing from our users, it’s what inspires us to get up each morning and make the site better and better. Our goal is to make the site easier to use but not give up any functionality along the way. It’s a tough job, but we’re committed to making Fanpop your favorite site to visit each day.
When we first designed the site, we were focused on keeping things really simple and uncluttered. We debated whether or not we need both ratings and bookmarks (saving your favorite links). We decided to streamline things and make it so that whenever you rated a link, it would also save the link for you. We realized over time that a lot of people weren’t catching on to this feature since it was not obvious that rating would do anything other than rate. People are familiar with saving bookmarks and favorites in their browser and on other bookmarking sites, so we decided to add that functionality. Sometimes you don’t want to necessarily save all the links you’ve rated, just the best ones. Now you can click on the little green save button on a link and it will be stored away nicely in a list of your favorite links across the site! And don’t worry, you can still get to all your ratings too!