Dear Freesounders,
It is christmas time (again), and the freesound team has prepared a present for you…
We have been working on a new functionality* which has just been deployed, and that will allow you to follow?freesound users and get notifications when these users upload new sounds! But not only that, you’ll also be able to follow groups of tags, and be notified when new sounds are uploaded that have these tags. It all works in the following way:
- When visiting a user profile, you’ll find a “Follow” button right under the user avatar. Click on this button to start following that user.
- When browsing sounds?by?tags, you’ll find a “Follow tags” button under the group?of tags that you selected for?browsing. By clicking this button, you’ll start following sounds tagged?with?all of these tags.
- In your settings page, you can tick the new checkbox that says “Receive weekly stream update email notifications” to turn on notifications for new sounds uploaded by the users you follow or?with the tags you follow. We will only send you one email per week, with a summary of all updates, and we are only going to send that email if there are updates.
- Once you start following users and tags, you can use your new activity stream page?to show all updates from users and tags you follow. By default this page shows updates for the last week (just like the email notification), but you can also specify other periods of time and, for example, list sounds uploaded by the users you follow that were uploaded during the last month. You’ll find a link to the activity stream in your home page.
Hmmm.. that is all! We hope you enjoy this new functionality and, as always, please tell us if you find things that are not working as expected!
keep on Freesounding!
* thanks to nunoh who joined the team for a while and did most of the implementation of this?functionality
And so it begins…
Massive thanks to Nunoh and Fred for this awesome feature.
Hey I might be wrong but I might have brought this up a while ago in the forums or at least was apart of the discussion, I love the feature already and it has helped a lot. You guys are doing a great job, good luck.
Trying to better the already enjoyable experience… I’ll give it a try.
Fantastic! Big thanks to all developers!
I’m not a big fan of being followed, but with Freesound, I make an exception. Love you guys very much. And much appreciation for your work here.
cool, thank you!
Hi, Love your site and I have loads of sounds to upload, but I can’t register and I don’t get any confirmation email. I’ve registered twice with no confirmation emails or replies to the contact form.
Can you please either send a confirmation email to the email addy I’ve supplied here or get the system to work so I get one automatically.
Thanks
Jake
Great idea, might (and sure will) help with searching for sounds your into, and thats what it`s all about. Thank you for your work!
You guys are a bunch of bad asses!
So glad you did this! …will improve so many things! Will it show when people respond to comments?
Happy New Year!
Can we get a list of people who are following us? 🙂