We've been very busy behind the scenes of Meetifyr making changes to how events are stored. The reason for these changes was to give us more flexibility in how events are structured so that we can move forward with features we know users are waiting for.
One fortunate side effect of the changes is that there's a noticeable speed increase across the site due to us making better use of Google App Engine's data storage, which can only be a good thing!
So with that work behind us we can continue adding features and strive to make Meetifyr the easiest way for friends to arrange a meetup.
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
New Help Page
We've added a new help page to Meetifyr today, it's basically a quick start guide to setting up an event. Meetifyr is still pretty simple so as you can image the guide is quite short!
We've also made a few subtle changes to the main calendar page, the Free/Busy selectors now fill more of thier cells which we hope will break up the white space and make it easier to see what's happening at a glance.
We've also made a few subtle changes to the main calendar page, the Free/Busy selectors now fill more of thier cells which we hope will break up the white space and make it easier to see what's happening at a glance.
Saturday, 21 August 2010
New Feature | Comments
Today we've added a new feature, Comments, anyone can now add comments to any calendar on Meetifyr. The idea is to give all the people involved in a meetup somewhere to make notes or share a discussion, maybe discuss which bar you're going to or say what time you're going to arrive.
To add a comment you just need to click your name in the list of people attending and enter what you want to say. Once you've clicked your name we remember who you are so the next time you view that calendar you'll already be selected.
To add a comment you just need to click your name in the list of people attending and enter what you want to say. Once you've clicked your name we remember who you are so the next time you view that calendar you'll already be selected.
This also means we know when someone re-visits a calendar, which we hope to build new personalised features with, like 'Show me everything that's changed since I last visited' or 'Link my availability across calendars'.
As ever, if you have any ideas for new features or things you'd like to see Meetifyr do then please let us know.
Saturday, 24 July 2010
New Feature | Where
One of the first feature requests we got after the launch of Meetifyr was to add a 'Where' field alongside the 'Why', 'When' and 'Who'. Its such an obvious request I've no idea why we haven't added it sooner. Anyway here it is, pretty self explanatory.
We also took this opportunity to make a few teaks to the design hopefully making things a bit cleaner and more consistent.
We also took this opportunity to make a few teaks to the design hopefully making things a bit cleaner and more consistent.
Monday, 21 June 2010
New Feature | Calendar Overview
We've been noticing for large calendars with lots of busy people it can be difficult to see who's free when and generally what's going on. To help with this we've just added a new Overview switch which gives you an uncluttered read-only view of everyone's availability.
Once a calendar starts getting busy and you need to see which date is best for everyone try selecting Overview for a clearer picture.
Monday, 14 June 2010
Share your calendar with AddThis
The main idea of Meetifyr is that people create a calendar, fill out their availability then send the calendar round to friends so they can do the same. Up until now we've not provided a easy way for you to share the link to your calendar, we expected people to copy and paste the Url into email/Twitter/Facebook and distribute it themselves.
Today we've added the fantastic AddThis widget to all calendars so you can now share your calendar with incredible ease. AddThis is the #1 web bookmarking and sharing service and allows you to share a link instantly through any of their 293(!) registered services. The simplicity of the AddThis service works well with Meetifyr and now makes it even easier for you to arrange that meet-up with friends. What are you waiting for!
Monday, 24 May 2010
New Feature | Editable Attendee Name
Just a small change which we hope you'll find useful, you can now edit an attendee's name after its been created.
We've also removed the helper panel at the top of the calendar page which showed the first day everyone was available. We decided this wasn't giving much value since its just as easy to scan the column headings to see the first one with nobody set to busy. Also the first day everyone is free might not necessarily be the best day to meet up.
I intend to write a further blog post to elaborate on this but any thoughts in the mean time please let us know.