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Sharing, reputation, and more
Published in: New Features, Site NewsPosted by thoaionline on 11/23/11
In the last few months, we have been enhancing the website with new features. Well, let’s just skip the introductory part and go straight to the cool stuffs.
Simplified login with Facebook connect
You can now login into Snipplr.com using your Facebook account. If you have been with Snipplr for a while, use the connect option in the Settings page. New to Snipplr? Just click “Login with Facebook” on the homepage and you’re ready to go!
More ways to share
Having saved a snippet of code that you are proud of? Talk about it! We’ve added the option to share your snippets on common social networks such as Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Find a snippet that might be of interest to a friend? You can now send any snippet to your friend via Facebook private message, directly on the snippet page!
Show your support
We believe that there are times when you want to say thanks the author of the snippet that solves your problem. The “FAV” feature is back (confession: we had a JS error that prevented the feature from working). To mark a snippet as your favourite, click on the FAV icon next to its name, a snippet you like will be marked orange. Did we mention that you can “like” comments too?
Reputation system and badges
We believe that you should be recognised for your community contribution (remember that your snippet can be of great help to others). A reputation system was created to track your submission, views and favourites that others give you. You may have noticed the new homepage arrangement with an “achievement” column. We created a number of badges that you can show off from your profile page. We will soon implement a site-wide ranking system based on the score-based reputation, which is accessible from within your dashboard.
Popular snippets by month, week, and year
The website used to display all time popular snippets based on the number of likes on the homepage. This caused some of the very old snippets (some dated back in our first days) still sticking on the front-page. We consider the freshness of the snippets just as important as the number of “favourites”. For this reason, we now display the popular snippets based on both submission time and popularity. You can even filter the popular snippets to display only notable ones by time, programming language, and tag.
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‘Tweet This’ Now Available
Published in: Site NewsPosted by Travis on 11/02/10
In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve been slowing adding a few new features to Snipplr. Now on the bottom of each snippet you’ll see a little ‘Tweet’ icon. Simply click to tell the Twitter world about your snippet.
Also, you may have noticed that we’ve been running a few featured items from our sister site CodeCanyon. If anything catches your eye, be sure to head over to CodeCanyon to check out the details!
We’re going to be slowing adding features and improving the service over the next little while. While I can’t give you a firm date yet, it looks like we may be in for our redesign in the upcoming year. Huzzah!
Stay tuned for more details =)
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iPhone Snippets on Mobiletuts+
Published in: News, Site NewsPosted by Travis on 09/16/10
I’m excited to announce that we’re going to be doing some snippet sharing with one of our sister sites Mobiletuts+.
Mobiletuts+ is a top level site for quality tutorials for mobile developers. Topics include native development with the iPhone, Android, Windows and Blackberry platforms, cross-platform development with tools like Appcelerator and Phone Gap, and techniques for building mobile accessible web sites with HTML 5.
This week they posted a quick screencast using one of the iPhone snippets found right here on Snipplr.
Be sure to check out their iOS SDK Snippet: iPhone Vibration tutorial and keep you eyes open for more to come.
Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter for more news and updates!
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Video from the Chicago Meetup
Published in: News, Site NewsPosted by Travis on 09/09/10
In case you hadn’t heard, we just had our first ever Envato community meetup in Chicago. The atmosphere was fun and relaxed and we got to meet a ton of great people.
Adam Miller from Aetuts+ thought it would be a good idea to do some live streaming from the event. In Part 1 we all get a feel for it (and you get to see a lot of people’s backends), but in Part 2 things really get rolling.
Check out our Snipplr updates at about the three minute mark of Part 2 followed by a little question and answer with Collis.
Enjoy!
Introduction: Part 1
Q & A Time: Part 2
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Link to Snipplr in Your Envato Profile
Published in: Site NewsPosted by Travis on 08/06/10
I just got the good word that you can now link to your Snipplr account from your profile on any Envato site that supports cross-site profiles.
Just head over to your Envato site of choice and after you sign in go to My Account>MySettings>Social Network Links and add your Snipplr username.
It will be a great way to quickly link to any support code or to showcase your mad hacking skills. Head over and add your link!
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Snipplr Snippets – WordPress Plugin
Published in: Plugins, Site NewsPosted by Travis on 07/05/10
The Snipplr Snippets WordPress plugin was recently updated and now works with WordPress 3.0.
If you’re not familiar with the plugin, it allows you to embed snippets directly into your Wordpress posts using the snippet ID.
Features include:
- Code highlighting using GeSHi.
- Sidebar widget to show your latest code snippets.
- Easily embed snippets into the page using [snippet id=##]
- Customisable layout using CSS. Can disable default plug-in CSS from the admin settings
- Uninstall option in the plugin settings page.
Pick up the plugin now or head over to the author’s website for more information.
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Snippets App – With Built in Snipplr Love
Published in: Site NewsPosted by Travis on 06/24/10
We just received an email from developer Vadim Shpakovski who informed us of Snippets, a Mac App that stores your valuable pieces of code so you can reuse them in different projects over and over.
That all sounds very tasty, but hereโs the best part – it has built in Snipplr submission functionality. So you got to love that!
Head over to the Snippets website, or check out the page we just put together in our developers section and let us know what you think about it.
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