Show off your Neoseeker Favourites

We just launched a brand new feature in your member profile to show off all the things you favourited on the site. We call this the "Favourites" page, and its pretty cool! This page is searchable and filterable by category.

For a while now Neoseeker allowed you to favourite gallery images and videos, but now this launch also expands the number of things you can favourite to include:

• Concept Art
• Screenshots
• Blog posts (not just the blog author)
• news articles

Check out some of these pages to see the favourites in action:

Redemption's favourites
chautemoc's favourites
Xenctuary's favourites

Background

Several weeks ago we consolidated the favourites system into one big master system. This capability was actually only possible after we launched the new member profiles this summer - previous to this your favourites were stored all over the place in different systems! This consolidation opened up the doors for two things:

1. Quickly adding a favourites capability to any content on the site
2. Creating a member specific Favourites page to pool together all your favourites.

See... the ActivityLog that was met with lukewarm reception by some members is the first part of a multi stage, longer term enhancement of how you interact with Neoseeker's content and the people who are using or creating that content.

Thumbs Up

If you haven't heard already, we also added thumbs up capability to more parts of the site. Favourites and thumbs share a similar system and can now be deployed sitewide.

Show support, or show off!

So with the Favourites and Thumbs you can show people you like their stuff, and also favourite it for your future reference :P. You can also use your favourites page as a way of showing off what you think is the "Best of Neoseeker".

What makes it a Beta

Some images are missing and a few dates act funny. Search mode doesn't quite get the counts correct yet. But aside from this it is all functional! Don't forget to report bugs in the bugs forums! We'll be fixing these next week but for now go out there and favourite some things and bring much love to the content that you've enjoyed on the site to others!

Looking ahead

There's more interesting stuff planned ahead. One of the biggest challenges around is finding all the cool things on the site. With a favourites and thumbs system interlinking all content, what could be done for example, as a recommendation system? Could we use this information for instance to direct you to stuff that might be interesting to check out, based on what other members, including your friends, are favouriting and thumbing? Could we apply a similar concept to the forums to find the most interesting posts and threads for you to read?