You Might Have Noticed Some Changes
If you’re just now checking out the site, you might have noticed some changes! Heavy as Hell has been upgraded to version 2.0 of OpenVoter. With this release there are plenty of new and exciting features.
1. Sharing
You can now share submissions with your friends. Just click the share link, enter a personal note if you choose to, and click share. Other users will now get an alert telling them to check out the submission.
2. Distinction Between Stories, Photos, & Videos
You can now submit a story, photo, or video as the actual submission, and browse by type.
3. Alerts
You can now be alerted either by e-mail, or on-site alerts, or both about new shares, comments, and private messages. All you need to do is set your preferences in your account page. By default, alerts are only on-site.
4. Private Messaging
You can now send private messages to other users. Just click the envelope button on the bar on the top of your screen.
5. API
Heavy as Hell now has a basic API. If you’re a developer be sure to check it out.
6. Subscriptions
You can now subscribe to comment threads to be alerted when a new comment is posted on a thread you’re subscribed to. By default you are automatically subscribed to the thread when you submit the story or when you leave a comment, but you can change this in your account page.
7. Filters
You can now enter keywords in the filter page to hide submissions with these keywords from view. Don’t like stories on Radiohead, just add the word radiohead to the filter box and those stories will vanish from site.
8. Blocking Users
You can now block users to hide their submissions and comments from view.
9. Nested Comments
Comments and replies are now nested for easier reading.
10. General Improvements
The site has been generally improved and hopefully it shows.
Well thats a basic summary of the changes, and new features, let us know what you think and what could use improvement.
