Product Update: Page Improvements, Radmin Merging, Registration Enhancements & 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.

We're rolling out a bunch of improvements later tonight. Here's what you'll find waiting for you when you get to work tomorrow.

PAGES CHANGES

We received requests from around the network to improve and stabilize /p pages. We want you to know that we hear you - and we've dedicated a big part of the last few weeks to making your experience creating and editing pages significantly more awesome. We're really excited by what we've come up with - and we hope you will be too.

The 'Duplicate Image' issue is fixed. Metros were reporting an issue where any images uploaded to /p pages were appearing as the first image on the page (as opposed to separate images). This will never happen again.

The 'I can't add anything below this video!' issue is fixed. After uploading a video to a page, it was often difficult to add any text or media below it. That issue is fixed too.

We decreased the line height of text. Pages now have a tasteful and respectful line height of 1.5 em.

We upgraded the Medium Editor. The open source WYSIWYG editor that all pages utilize was in dire need of an update - and you will now observe both increased speed and stability when editing /p pages. This upgrade also fixed some specific issues including making the H1 and H2 buttons work in content-heavy pages and ensuring that centering a piece of content did not strip its HTML properties.

Here’s to less stress and more stability when building pages! And they're going to keep getting better.

OTHER POPULAR REQUESTS

1. We've added 'The bands you follow just announced some shows' emails to conference lenses. Now, users will be alerted when their favorite artists announce SX shows. Please note: these emails will not send if the venue name contains 'tba' or 'tbd.' This prevents placeholder events from firing off these alerts.

2. We've displayed Artist Popularity in Radmin Artist Lists. This is especially helpful when determining which of two legitimate artists is the most frequently used.

3. Metros have frequently had trouble exporting the HTML for their 'Top Picks' email blasts because of Admin's inability to load excessively large featured event ads.

So, we've built an alert that displays whenever one attempts to upload an advertisement greater than 2 MB. Please heed its warning.

4. We made front end search honor deleted page counts. So you won't be seeing this anymore:

5. We squashed a bug that was preventing all relevant 'Latest' posts from showing up under their appropriate hashtag,

6. We removed the calendar view from ECP, Artist and Venue Pages. It was mostly empty and slow to load. But now it's gone - and visitors get to spend more time on the strongest parts of the sites.

REGISTRATION CHANGES

1. We've added co-registration across all metros. Co-registration is an awesome way for our network to work together and increase registration opportunities for users that are traveling away from their home city. Here's how it works:

When users register for a DoXYZ site, our platform checks their IP addresses to see if their location matches the metro for which they are registering. If there is a more proximate option available, our platform will offer the user the ability to register for his/her home metro in addition to the site (s)he is visiting.

So, for example, if a music fan in New York City signs up for Do512 by registering for a SXSW Party, (s)he will then be immediately prompted to sign up for doNYC via one of these pop-up windows:

These windows are customizable, so let us know if you’d like us to edit the copy for your metro.

2. To prepare for our migration to Mandrill, we also broke the different types of auto-generated messages into separate emails. Previously, users who registered for a metro by entering a giveaway would receive one message explaining that they had both (1) entered the giveaway and (2) signed up for the metro. Now, such users will receive two separate emails, each explaining one individual action.

The reason for this change was made to avoid the large number of permutations caused by collapsing multiple emails into one. This update might not sound sexy - but it's a huge step forward in giving you the ability to build your own super sleek emails for giveaways, RSVPs, band notifications and more.

MERGING

You can now merge venues, artists, users and events in Radmin. The process works as follows (using events as an example):

1. Select the event you would like to merge other event(s) into by selecting the merge icon.

2. Search for and then select the events you would like to merge. You may merge multiple events at a time if so desired. Then click 'Merge Selected Events' to complete the process.

The main event will inherit the merged event's votes plus any of the following fields that are left blank on the main event: ticket URL; ticket info; cover image; poster image; description.

In artist merges, the main artist will inherit the merged artist's gigs, fans, festival gigs and grooveshark songs - plus the following if left blank on the main artist: YouTube ID, cover image; icon image; Facebook ID.

Users will inherit all of the events, venues, permissions, votes, RSVP, preferences and images of the users merged into them.

Venues will inherit all of the events, scrapers, featured widgets, advertisers and images of the venues merged into them.

Last but not least, we prevented the merge of an event with RSVP. giveaway or advertisement into another event.

If anyone has any questions about merges, let us know.

Thanks so much for reading, everyone! Have an amazing rest of your week - and here's to the network! Every week, we grow stronger.