Heavy As Hell Blog

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.

Keith Wagner Heavy As Hell News 2.0, newfeatures, openvoter

It’s been a year since the launch of Heavy as Hell using the SocialVoter CMS.  We’ve seen some active spans, and some not so active spans.  Truth be told, we like the more active time spans a lot better as more content gets submitted so we end up seeing a large range of stories of all types.

Anywho, in the next couple of months, Heavy as Hell will be getting a major overhaul complete with tons of new features and a brand new look.  The SocialVoter CMS will still be the management system behind it, but it will have a new name…OpenVoter.  I’ve been working on it steadily over the course of the past several months and hope to have it finished up in the next month.  Then it will be tested and released here for your enjoyment.  I don’t want to ruin the suprise of all the features that it includes, but suffice it to say, the number of changes and everything will make it feel like a brand new system.

In the meantime, enjoy the site, become more active, submit more stories, post more comments.  This site isn’t about us the admins, its about music, you and the community!

Keith Wagner Heavy As Hell News newversion, openvoter, socialvoter