Updated Editor - Now with Video Support!

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Friday, 01 September 2006

Updated Editor - Now with Video Support!
Now your Xanga Editor lets you upload videos directly into your weblog entries! Just click the new "Videos" tab in your editor to try it out:

http://www.xanga.com/private/editorx.aspx

The upgraded editor may look a bit different, but it's really the same code - Janet just reformatted and rejiggered it to support video. This new design lets us support more multimedia - in addition to photos and videos, we're finishing up support for audio uploads!

We've kept the old editor as an optional setting for now. Please give the updated editor a try and let us know how it works.

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That's some good stuff!
- 9/1/2006 7:51 PM
- bfine107 (message)
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I'm not sure what "rejiggered" means exactly but I'm excited that the new editor uploads as quickly as it does.

You might have a good thing going here.
- 9/1/2006 7:53 PM
- bfine107 (message)
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Thanks.
- 9/1/2006 7:53 PM
- DarthNater1986 (message)
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Awesome!
- 9/1/2006 7:57 PM
- drumcorpsmember1 (message)
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So, this is all good and dandy. Xanga has a bunch of really cool features now, but I think it's time you clean it up a bit. Make it more user friendly. More stylish. Clean it up so it looks like it all fits together seemlessly. I feel like there are a lot of loose ends as well as some overlooked features. Work them all into the blogging system (have it blog-focused) and clean it up! That's my suggestion.
- 9/1/2006 8:25 PM
- Haloburn (message)
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XANGA IS NOW CERTIFIED BETTER THAN MYSPACE.

cant wait for audio uploads.

you guys rock.
- 9/1/2006 8:29 PM
- GunStarHero1988 (message)
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So, this is all good and dandy. Xanga has a bunch of really cool features now, but I think it's time you clean it up a bit. Make it more user friendly. More stylish. Clean it up so it looks like it all fits together seemlessly. I feel like there are a lot of loose ends as well as some overlooked features. Work them all into the blogging system (have it blog-focused) and clean it up! That's my suggestion.
Posted 9/1/2006 at 8:25 PM by Haloburn

true i didnt find out about webblong booster until last night by Theo
- 9/1/2006 8:30 PM
- GunStarHero1988 (message)
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yay!

next up... a search bar for all our entries and comments, right? =)
- 9/1/2006 8:34 PM
- junshien (message)
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GunStarHero1988 - Yeah! That, plus Xanga Dash, and footprints, and messages, and, whoa, they have a lot of stuff. They just need to bring it all together! =] *nods*
- 9/1/2006 9:08 PM
- Haloburn (message)
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thanks for putting the old version back in. it's what i use and prefer.

Cheers!
- 9/1/2006 10:34 PM
- Crimson_Zephyr (message)
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getting better everyday
- 9/1/2006 11:36 PM
- nothingnormal (message)
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Audio uploads will rawk
- 9/2/2006 12:48 AM
- Pete (message)
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hey i noticed i kouldnt wrap text with my pic.s what the deal. i thought it was a kool idea to incorporate pics with text.
kould you guys bring that back or am i missing something.
- 9/2/2006 1:58 AM
- GunStarHero1988 (message)
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Thanks Marc!

But no man... don't take that old editor away, coz the new one doesn't work for me and I still use the old one. Thanks!
- 9/2/2006 3:19 AM
- KaLeiKristy (message)
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This is great... now if we could just upload videos without a rating, get rid of site ratings, and let me access explicit rated sites like the 36 year old I am and not the child you are treating me like, then I might actually be happy with Xanga again. lol.
- 9/2/2006 4:05 AM
- Anatole69 (message)
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thank you x a n g a dot com
enjoy your labor day weekend.
- 9/2/2006 8:01 AM
- DisBoiRichyard (message)
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somethings up wtih my editor!! i dont have the photo/ text tabs at the top of it.. where'd they go??? I NEED THEM!!! i dont wana use my editor without them!!! :( the "normal" one is to confusing to use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 9/2/2006 11:11 AM
- narcissa_xoxo (message)
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news flash: the new editor still isn't as good as the old one. and now, for some reason, even when i go to the editor preferences, i STILL can't get the old one back.
- 9/2/2006 8:42 PM
- eviloverlord88 (message)
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1. PLEASE - when there are changes like this, don't change people's defaults to the new stuff. Let them make the change when/if they are ready.
2. The new editor loads a bit slower than the previous one - which was really, really slow on a dial up line (which is all I have). It makes using xanga pretty miserable. And then, after one realizes that someone has gone and changed my personal preferences, again, then I have to work through a couple or three screens to find the setting to change, back to what I wanted, which also is slow because of the slow link.

How about this, how about if there is a new feature, going to an all text intro page that describes the change and contains any settings that need to be set if the person wishes to try the new feature, but leaving the settings alone ?
- 9/3/2006 5:06 AM
- lvirden (message)
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DITTO to what Ivirden said.

And... In addition to my little rant over here, I've also noticed that my line breaks have been removed (replaced with break tags), and all the text in my post during edit mode are SQUOOSHED together in a bitterlovely clutter of text and code.

PLEASE REVERT BACK TO THE TRUE PLAIN TEXT EDITOR.
- 9/3/2006 5:15 PM
- XINERGY (message)
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I don't know if it's just my problem or what, but the "New Entry" button on Xanga Dash still links to the old editor : http://www.xanga.com/private/xtools/xtoolspremium.aspx

Could you please fix that as soon as possible?
- 9/4/2006 10:48 AM
- snow_eternity (message)
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the new editor is still slow and worst of all, it's not CJK compatible
- 9/4/2006 12:40 PM
- fiansis (message)
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I have one problem with the new editor settings: When I make a new post, I prefer to first enter the information in plain text, then if necessary, make any edits in rich text. I like that you can now choose plain text as the default, but there isn't any way to make a quick switch to rich text without having to change the default settings.
- 9/5/2006 10:41 AM
- janusfiles (message)
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It seems that now not only is my editor setting defaulting to Rich Text, when I try changing it won't change (this wasn't a problem before).

With Safari, I can't get photos to upload in the Rich Text editor. After I choose a photo file and click Upload, I get a message telling me I have to select a photo first. I don't see how this problem could be the result of some kind of "advanced" technology that Safari doesn't support.

Before I'd just go to the old editor which worked quite well, but I can't access it now. I don't know if something just went down over the holiday weekend or if this is a permanent change, but it's definitely not working for me.

I'm going to try making a post without photos, hopefully that will work, but if this is just a minor bug please fix it or at least make the Old Rich Text editor available again!
- 9/6/2006 10:28 AM
- AeroGo (message)
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Keyboard shortcuts (CTRL-B, CTRL-K etc) don't seem to be working on the new editor (Firefox 1.5.0.5, Ubuntu Linux 6.06). They worked in the prior version (editor.aspx)
- 9/8/2006 1:36 PM
- sean (message)
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