Songbird Blog » jim http://blog.songbirdnest.com Play music. Play the Web. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:55:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Add-ons Redesign is A-Live! http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/05/28/add-ons-redesign-is-a-live/ http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/05/28/add-ons-redesign-is-a-live/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 01:20:56 +0000 jim http://blog.songbirdnest.com/?p=402 Add-ons Re-animated

The new add-ons site is (a)live!

We killed the crufty old bugger and worked a little re-animation magic to bring you the healthy 8 pound, 2 ounce site we have today. He babbles more than he talks, but he’s already up and walking around.

As stated previously, our 2 main goals are to make it easier for you to find add-ons you find interesting and to improve the overall experience for developers. We ended up having to rewrite the site from scratch, but we’ll now be able to add new features more quickly and more easily.

Let us know what you think.

Thanks!

]]> http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/05/28/add-ons-redesign-is-a-live/feed/ 9 Scheduled Downtime for Songbird Add-ons Site Today http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/05/27/scheduled-downtime-for-songbird-add-ons-site-today/ http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/05/27/scheduled-downtime-for-songbird-add-ons-site-today/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 18:30:18 +0000 jim http://blog.songbirdnest.com/?p=399 Update @ 3:27pm: it took a bit longer than we expected, but we’re back online!

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We’re making some scheduled changes to the servers that host the Songbird Add-ons site today. We expect the site to be down for about two hours. The plan is to take the site offline at approximately 12:00pm (1900h, UTC-8: view in your timezone) and be back online by around 2pm.

]]> http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/05/27/scheduled-downtime-for-songbird-add-ons-site-today/feed/ 3 Add-ons Site Redesign Peep Show http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/05/17/add-ons-site-redesign-peep-show/ http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/05/17/add-ons-site-redesign-peep-show/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 20:35:13 +0000 jim http://blog.songbirdnest.com/?p=392 Yes yes y’all! We’re about done with a brand spanking new add-ons site, and we wanted to give you a sneak peek.

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Here’s what we’re doing and why…

We want to make it super easy for people to find and install add-ons they find interesting. To that end, we’ve simplified the UI and added search, tags, and categories.

We also want to improve the overall exerience for add-on developers. We’re extracting and displaying more of your add-on’s data – your icon, your homepage url, friends who’ve contributed, and more. We’ve also improved our upload validation to better adhere to Mozilla’s spec. This should make it dead simple for Mozilla devs to port their add-ons to Songbird. We’ve added feeds for add-on comments and you can now include HTML in the “Description” that appears front and center on your add-on’s detail page. Anything goes (within reason), so have at it!

When we began this project it quickly became obvious that we needed to rewrite the site from scratch. This took longer than we would’ve liked, but it was totally necessary. There was just too much stuff that needed to happen under the hood. The good news is we’re now in a great position to be able to add new features more quickly and more easily. Hold us to it!

We’re also trying out a new visual style. Please let us know what you think. We’re excited to hear your thoughts on the new look.

Thanks!

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