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New Look, New Features!
by Jason on 12/17/2008
At long, long last, the new batch of site features is deployed. You'll notice immediately a wider layout that looks a little better and does a nicer job for the forums. Over in the "My Account" area, you'll notice a site-wide e-mail feature, where you can send private messages to other users. When you review new excerpts, you'll notice the ability to save an excerpt as a draft, so you can work on it in bits and pieces before finally submitting it when you're happy with it (although of course neither you nor the excerpt gets any points for doing the review until you've submitted it). In the bookstore, you'll start seeing detail pages for the items that are up for sale, as soon as we get them filled in, and the ability to rate and review stuff that's for sale too. Writers will notice that they now have the option of specifying what kind of manuscript they've written: novel, novella, or short story collection. The forums have been re-worked to support a better category structure, which will make it a lot easier for people to start conversations on all sorts of topics and find them later.
I will add detailed instructions on how to use all this stuff over in the Help area in the next day or so.
Anyway, go explore and enjoy the new features! And as always, don't hesitate to let us know over in the forums if you think of any other ways we could improve the site.
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