Holiday Release

Ta da! We've taken much of the input from our Friends & Family releases and have made the changes most requested. Thanks to everyone who spent the time exercising Oyogi and coming up with ways in which we could improve the site. A special thanks to Lee who inspired the visual treatment of the dashboard and search bars. This inspiration led to other refinements of more visual elements. There are a number of items that we are continuing to work on that we'll unveil in the coming weeks, but we've been hard at work for the last few weeks implementing your suggestions ... we believe that you'll agree that the improvements are noticeable

So What's Changed?

In short, a lot has changed. In addition to alignments and spacing, the major modifications enable you to:

• Answer a question anytime you wish; you do not need to be approved to answer as was previously the case
• Continue to comment on a question even after its been successfully resolved
• Comment or clarify a question, we hope, in a much easier fashion
• Quickly post questions related to a particular entry
• Visually and functionally distinguish between posts intended to clarify a question and those intended to answer the question
• Report any offensive or abusive content
• More easily select "the answer" for your question from a list of posts by Yogis
• Provide "assists" and indicate posts that are helpful, even though they may not fully answer the question
• More easily navigate from the landing page into the interior of the site (many of you indicated that the initial page could be improved to help the intuitiveness of how to get to relevant content on the site)
• Instant message anyone who is commenting or answering a question if they are on-line; you could instant message people before this release, but we've made it easier to access Yogis online by showing you their details on any content they've posted
• Enter a subject for your chats / instant message in order to give them more context
• Quickly browse those Yogis who are on-line
• Edit your specialties
• View hits for your keyword searches on all sections of the site in boldface type

So, those are some of the highlights. You all have really helped us to build a release that, we feel, represents a noticeably better Oyogi. We look forward to you helping us press forward ...

Happy Holidays!