RealTown Development

<p> RealTown has unveiled its brand new look this weekend and we hope you are as excited about it as we are. The new design is a 6-month collaborative effort between RealTown&#39;s top developers, designers and publishers. </p> <p> Our new look is designed to be attractive yet functional. We have improved the readability by increasing the width of the page, allowing for more high-quality content between pages. </p> <p> One of the most notable changes is RealTown&#39;s home page, which now includes the latest group discussions. We are also planning to showcase a &quot;Welcome to RealTown&quot; video on our homepage which won&#39;t be activated until clicked. </p> <p> Another major change is My RealTown. The feed reader has been given a significant upgrade and now supports more of our own feeds plus customized feeds based on you Friends List. </p> <p> Please let us know what you think of our new look. We are looking forward to hearing your responses. </p>

<p> I would like to suggest a feature for managing my RealTown blog. I would like to be able to reply to emails including moderated comments with an action related keyword as the first word of the email (approve, disapprove) rather than the only way to perform those actions being to go to the blog manager, which is not very mobile device friendly. If this were done I could be more responsive in my comment moderation. </p>

<p> As some of you might already know, RealTown is now on Facebook. Check out <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/RealTown-Real-Estate-Network/127987981271">our fan page</a>. If you are a Facebook member, become a fan!<br /> <br /> Do you have any request or suggestions about what content you&#39;d like to see from us?<br /> <br /> </p>

<p> We have added a new feature to RealTown Groups that allows you to preview a discussion before opening it. For those of you who participate in the RealTown Communities website, you may already be familiar its version of this feature. </p> <p> To enable discussion previews, click the checkbox labeled &quot;Show Summaries&quot; at the top of any discussion list. When this checkbox is checked, you will be able to preview the first post of any discussion when you hover the cursor over its title. </p> <p> This new feature is available on all group discussion lists, as well as Search Results, Recent Discussions and My Discussion Tracker. </p> <p> Please note that this new feature requires a javascript-enabled browser, such as Internet Explorer 6+ or FireFox. </p>

<p> I would like to receive email notification when someone join to my group. How do I do it? </p>

<p> First, I must say that most things work very well and are fairly easy to use and understand... Kudos!!! </p> <p> I do have 3 things I&#39;d like to see.<br /> (1) I&#39;d like to be able to split a thread in my group. This allows the creation of a new thread without deleting things that don&#39;t belong in the thread they were posted in. Most BBS&#39;s have this ability, and this is very much like a giant BBS.<br /> (2) There appears to be no alert to let me know that someone who isn&#39;t part of the group posted a message that requires my approval. It would be nice to be alerted to this fact.<br /> (3) I would like to completely turn off the pop-up when I mouse over a thread as that features is more than irritating, it&#39;s making me crazy... LOL<br /> <br /> Thanks for all the good stuff! And thanks for listening! </p>

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<p> In my opinion these:<br /> <a href="http://www.realtown.com/community/">http://www.realtown.com/community/</a> </p> <p> Should be localized, one for every city and state in the us. </p> <p> For SEO reasons this should happen gradually, as qualified (for quality control) screened moderators who live in the local communities can be found. I am interested in putting all of my clients into such an arrangement. I see a marriage of unpaid qualified moderators, and a banner rotation within the community for paid advertisements from local vendors and other advertisers. i also think Realtors should be encouraged to blog &#39;about&#39; their listings here. Your thoughts? </p>

<p> While I enjoy most features, the Show Summaries feature is irritating because I don&#39;t really like something popping up in my face just because my mouse happened to be over something on the page and when I uncheck the box, it is re-checked whenever I come back to the main page. </p> <p> As a suggestion, either make an icon I can hover over to get the summary, my personal preference, or when I uncheck the box, I never want to see a summary pop up again no matter what list of discussions I&#39;m looking at anywhere, unless I recheck the box. </p> <p> Thanks </p>

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<p>We noticed an issue earlier today regarding Single Sign On between RealTown and Point2. The issue involved a failure of the new authentication module interfering with the SSO module's ability to save session data.</p> <p>This issue has been fixed and marked as resolved. If you are still experiencing trouble logging in with Single Sign On, please let us know.</p>

<p> We are testing the waters with a &quot;News Feed&quot; utility that keeps you updated on the activity of your RealTown Friends. The News Feed is dependent on your <a href="http://www.realtown.com/myrealtown/friends">Friends List</a> and is a great way to stay updated with your favorite RealTown members. </p> <p> <strong>News Feed</strong> (beta)<br /> <a href="http://www.realtown.com/members/newsfeed/friends">http://www.realtown.com/members/newsfeed/friends</a> </p> <p> The news feed contains publicly available content that was created by your friends along with other notifications. To give you an idea of what will appear in this feed, let&#39;s assume you have a friend named &quot;Joe&quot; in your RealTown Friends List. Each time Joe performs certain activities on RealTown, you will be notified through this News Feed. </p> <p> Here is a list of the items that currently appear in the news feed: </p> <ul> <li> <strong>New Friendships</strong><br /> If Joe becomes friends with another RealTown member, you will see that in your News Feed. </li> <li> <strong>New Public Groups</strong><br /> When Joe creates a new public group on RealTown, you will see that in your News Feed. </li> <li> <strong>New Group Memberships</strong><br /> If Joe joins a public RealTown group, you will be notified in the News Feed. </li> <li> <strong>New Public Group Discussions</strong><br /> Each time Joe creates a new discussion in a public group, you will be notified in the News Feed. </li> <li> <strong>New Question in the Experts group</strong><br /> If Joe asks a question in the Experts group, you will be notified in the News Feed. </li> <li> <strong>New Blog Entries</strong><br /> Joe&#39;s latest blog entries will appear in your News Feed. </li> <li> <strong>New Blog Comments</strong><br /> Each time Joe posts a public comment on any RealTown Blog, you will see that in your News Feed. </li> <li> <strong>New Community Subscriptions</strong><br /> When Joe subscribes to a public Community, you will be notified in the News Feed. </li> <li> <strong>New Published Articles</strong><br /> When Joe publishes a new article, you will see that in your News Feed. </li> </ul> <p> At first glance, this may seem like a lot of notifications, especially if you have several (100+) RealTown Friends. However, we have imposed some limitations on the types of items that appear in your News Feed, along with how many times the same member can appear in your News Feed. In short, this means that you may not see <em>everything</em> your friends have done, but you&#39;ll see a healthy portion of it. </p> <p> Please let us know what your thoughts are and if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns. </p>

<p> It is now much easier for you to invite your RealTown Friends to your groups. If you haven&#39;t built up your RealTown Friends List, now is a great time. </p> <p> To invite your friends to your favorite group, visit the group&#39;s Member List. You can find the link to the group&#39;s Member List at the top of the group&#39;s Latest Discussions page. From the Member List page, click &quot;Invite My Friends&quot;. </p> <p> The following page will display your RealTown Friends and allow you to invite them to the group. Just click the &quot;Invite to Group&quot; link next to the friend you want to invite, confirm the action, and an e-mail will be sent automatically to your friend with a link back to the group. </p> <p> We hope you enjoy this new utility :) </p>

<p> We have rebuilt the <a href="http://www.realtown.com/search">RealTown Content Search</a> page from the ground up to help members and visitors find the documents they are looking for. Some of the major enhancements of this update include: </p> <ul> <li>Faster searching - The search index has been optimized with cached results and higher-quality indexes </li> <li>Advanced search queries - Phrases can be searched for by placing quotes around the phrase. Example: &quot;short sale&quot; </li> <li>Group discussions have been added to the search index. Note: discussions in private groups are <strong>not</strong> searchable. </li> </ul> <p> We have also made several modifications to how the search engine ranks documents. For example, articles with comments are ranked slightly higher than articles without comments. Additionally, completed profiles should rank much higher than incomplete profiles. (Hint: make sure you fill out your profile if you want to be found!) </p> <p> We are also now indexing discussions as a whole instead of each individual reply. This helps increase the quality of search hits and its overall relevance. </p> <p> If you have any questions about RealTown Search please let us know. </p>