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ballhype.com - 5/11/2009

BallHype Gets A New Look

Hi BallHype Friends!
We wanted to give you a heads up that your beloved site will be getting a design update in a few days.

Here are some of the planned changes:
• Story clustering: multiple perspectives on a topic will be grouped together for easy viewing.
• Larger story thumbnails.
• Streamlined voting mechanism.

To get a preview of some of the key changes, we encourage you to check out some of our other sites that showcase this design:
• ActionSportsBlips
• ShowHype
• GadgetBlips

If you have any questions or concerns about the redesign, please feel free to send me a message or contact us here http://ballhype.com/contact/

Best,
Robyn74

• char6587

  +2

  no downvotes?

  noooooooooooooooo

  Posted 5/11/2009 respond (flag)

• asujon

  +3

  No downvotes make the soccer haters sad. Anyone who has ever submitted a post about soccer knows exactly what I'm talking about.

  Posted 5/11/2009 respond (flag)

  • EthanJaynes

    +2

    That also goes for anti soccer blog posts. The soccer lovers love to use the down vote at that point in time. Just sayin.

    Posted 5/12/2009 respond (flag)

• TheProgram

  +1

  Let's get this started.

  Posted 5/11/2009 respond (flag)

• Robyn74

  +1

  So glad you guys favor the downvotes! Haters can still vote down a story, the link is dislplayed in the line next to comments.

  Posted 5/11/2009 respond (flag)

  • asujon

    +1

    Don't know about the others, but I definitely was not supporting them. Downvotes are pretty much only used by people with personal vendettas against either the topic or the person who wrote it.

    In theory, they would be okay if everyone used them and used them similarly, but right now they give just a few people an inflated sense of power.

    Posted 5/11/2009 respond (flag)

• Douglass C. Perry

  +2

  A new look? Change? And..., gulp, improvements???!!!

  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

  Just kidding. I can't wait to see clustering work on BallHype, especially when those 58 link stories come our way. Bla-blam!

  Posted 5/11/2009 respond (flag)

  • EthanJaynes

    +2

    A new look? Change? And..., gulp, sarcasm???!!!

    Posted 5/12/2009 respond (flag)

• bigbosox24

  +2

  I don't know if I like or not, will have to wait and see..

  Posted 5/12/2009 respond (flag)

• novafantasysports

  +1

  Looking forward to the changes.

  Posted 5/12/2009 respond (flag)

• paneech1472

  +1

  It should take a whole day to get used to the changes.  Looking forward to the new look!

  Posted 5/12/2009 respond (flag)

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