Product Update: New Show Email Alerts Fixed, Links to Google Maps, and more

Our regular Product Updates give you a rundown of the features and bug fixes that were rolled out over the past week, plus a look ahead to some of the bigger changes that are on the way.

Our Product team has been over here knocking. shit. out. Check out the latest below!

New Show Email Alerts Fixed

Some of you may have noticed that you’ve been receiving a lot more new show alerts in your Inbox over the past week.


Automatically alerting users when a band they follow adds a show has always been a feature, but it had been working sporadically -- if at all. The Product team recently revamped the script that powers this feature and fixed all the old bugs that were breaking it.

Now, the script runs every three hours to check if a show has been added, leading to near-instant email alerts.

Getting this right has been a priority as we’re getting close to launch Mandrill as our transactional email provider. Mandrill will give us the power to customize the layout and content of our automated emails, but we needed to make sure they were actually sending first.

Venue Icon Links to Google Maps

We rolled out a little add-on to Event cards this week. Clicking on the little icon to the left of the Venue name will now open up a Google Map in a new window pointing to the Venue address.

Clicking on the name will still send you to the Venue page where you can find the address, phone number, social profiles, etc., but this will be a quicker way for users to find directions to the show.

The Other Bits

Here are the other important updates to note this week:

• Free Filter Added - You can now filter out shows that have the “Free?” box checked in the Approved Events queue in Radmin. This is useful when looking for the best free Events to to add to your Free list.
• Ability to Delete Event Photos in Radmin - If you add a cover photo or a poster image that you don’t want anymore, you can now remove it by clicking a handy little “x” in Radmin.
• Artist Tags Are Gone From Radmin - You’ll remember that this fall we removed tags entirely from the front-end. We didn’t like how they looked and a lot of them were pretty useless. Well, we finally removed them from Radmin, too, so there’s no longer a field filled with random, pointless tags.
• Media Search Update - The YouTube tab in the Media Search widget now shows you how old a video is so you can find the most relevant music videos for an Artist.
• Show In Footer? Bug Fixed - The “Show In Footer?” box that shows up when adding/editing /p/ Pages had a bug that caused it to disappear at certain times. This has been fixed.
• Renamed Ads in Radmin - We renamed the types of ads in Radmin to make it easier to figure out where you’re placing a new ad. Your options when creating a new ad now read:
• Featured Event
• Featured Venue/User
• Top Right Brand Ad
• Listings Middle Brand Ad
• Leaderboard Brand Ad