We’ve got a lot going on today at Revision3!
Our big news? Today we launched a brand new update to Revision3.com. Our new site look has been under development for more than five months, and includes a number of new features, capabilities and styles.
Let’s start with the look itself. With a complete site redesign, our site is easier on the eyes, more organized, and each show has its own destination sub-site, with its own distinct look and feel. Our new home page is anchored by a rotating module that highlights shows, events and other key happenings at Revision3. We’ve also made it easier for you to find our shows, and try out new shows and episodes you might have missed.
These new show sub-sites are actually full-blown destination sites themselves. Inside you’ll find individual pages for each episode, more pages for daily episodes (where they exist), detailed pages for each host, and much more. We’re also highlighting news and notes for each show, ensuring you never miss any details for all your favorite Revision3 shows and hosts.
And once you find a show you like, why not subscribe to it, or share it with a friend. We’ve made that easier as well, with a big “Subscribe” button in the upper left hand side of every page inside each show’s subsite. We’ve also laid out all the subscription options in one place, and made it easier to embed a show on your blog or MySpace account too.
Oh, and what about watching your favorite shows? Sure you can subscribe and download, but we’ve improved our streaming capabilities as well. Over the last month we’ve worked closely with our streaming CDN, BitGravity, to improve performance and response time, and to integrate in a larger player. Now you can see all your favorite episodes in a new 555×337 window – that’s big!
Another part of the Revision3 site you may not have paid much attention to, our strong and active community, now takes center stage as well. We’ve integrated in forum comments everywhere on the site, from the home page to show pages and even down onto episode pages. Now you can easily read comments and post your own — about Revision3’s shows, or whatever’s on your mind.
But if you want to post, you’ll have to become a member. It’s easier than ever, though, and once you’ve logged in the site changes in subtle but important ways. First, your own comments will be appearing in our community pages for all the shows. Second, you can create and upload your own favorite avatar image that follows you around. And there’s much more to come, including new customization options, chatting options and much more. And when you become a member, don’t worry – we’ll never sell your name, nor never send you anything you haven’t asked for. But I encourage you to check the box that enables us to send you Revision3 updates – you’ll be first in line for our new email update, along with updates on new features and more. You can do all that on your own personal Account page.
Speaking of members, that leads me to our second big piece of news. For the last year or so we’ve made early release of Diggnation a part of our paid membership program. But just as Woodstock became a free concert, as of today those gates are down. Everyone will now receive Diggnation at the same time. So for everyone who’s been waiting mournfully for 24 hours, or heading over to other sites to get Diggnation early, your long national nightmare is over! Diggnation, free for all, on Fridays at 7pm (eastern).
The new Revision3 website is a thing of beauty. And our amazing web development and tech team, including Ron Richards, Stephanie Chu, Jeff Rizzo, Mark Rebec, Chuck Siu, and Brendan White have put together a fantastic site – with many more cool features and capabilities to come. So make sure to keep coming back and checking here at our blog for updates and announcements of new functionality. Enjoy the site, check it out, and feel free to leave any questions, suggestions, brickbats or kudos here in the comments.
- Jim Louderback
CEO, Revision3
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This entry was posted on Friday, January 18th, 2008 at 8:09 am and is filed under Announcements. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
I’m with dyzzi. I’ve even deleted all my feed subscriptions since they have problems now too.
Now that I think of it, the last site Patrick was on, DL.TV had problems with its feeds too. I even emailed him about it, holding Rev3 up as an example of the right way to do it since their feeds never had any problems. Now. Patrick comes to Rev3…feeds go bad. Hmmm….
i purchased an ARCHOS 605 WIFI media player specifically so that I could download and watch Revision 3 shows without a computer.
Now I cannot, as the page that lists the shows to download is filled with so much stuff, that it crashes the Opera browser and I have to switch off my media player.
Please Revision 3, please provide a LO-FI page that i can access your shows from without crashing my device.
A compatible streaming player (such as that used by youtube) would also be desirable.
At first I was reading these comments and thinking… “Why is everyone complaining about it not being as easy on the eyes? Sure, black backgrounds with light colored text is easier cause there is less light coming from your monitor, but who cares, its just as easy”.. then i scrolled all the way to the bottom of the site, and saw the footer, where it showed the old colors, and WOW. The old site WAS WAY nicer to read. As soon as I saw the footer, I could instantly tell it was easier to look at. A dark gray with a light colored text… so much easier.
Yeah, and about that lame login time. I hate sites that use a “username” instead of “email”. I can never remember which username I had to use cause if the site is popular, half the time my desired username is take. So I sit there for 5 minutes trying to login with 4 different usernames, with lame 30 second load times on each attempt, then finally logged in. Then when I get back to this page to scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, it freezes around comment 30… took a while before the rest of the page finally came up.
Whatever. I love it “underground” sites are dark in color, cause its not normal, they are taking a stand against the norm. Then they get all big and change to white.
I get why they don’t have a recent released list… They want you to subscribe through iTunes for the ad money…
I also want the recent released list back. I don’t want to download every episode on iTunes. If it is because of the ad money then add more ads to the site.
I also miss the chronologically ordered list of shows and descriptions.
The thumbnails on diggnation.com are actually huge images just being reduced by the web browser. Not exactly professional web design.
Ok, I’ll be the dick. Just put the site back like it was. It was way more user friendly and way easier to see what was new. The old site was way faster too. 5 months to design this turd, you guys went backwards. Sorry, like I said, I’m a dick.
It looks good I guess but for some reason it’s now slow as dog crap.
It used to be fine. Unfortunately I didn’t do a traceroute back when it was fast to make sure it isn’t just the route that for some reason has changed.
I briefly saw a list of recently added shows! Seems that this is being worked on, thanks for listening! Site is still extremely slow though, what’s up with that?
Need at least a new releases link….but, the site is improving on load times, first few times were way long, actually thought you were down. Also a little too cluttered for my tastes….I’m not looking for G4 here, just for the content, and the shows I like and easy viewingdownloadable options.
Few Things.
#1: Honeycomb background….. It doesn’t look great and it breaks your rounded corners.
#2: This has been a problem forever but, my account never stays logged in.
#3: The front page looks like one of those fake placeholder sites for domain squatters. Lose the slideshow, instead have a list of all new shows, or maybe even try something like blip.tv has where it loops through the new content you have.
#4: I’m lazy and not in EST, can’t you tell me what the schedule is in other time zones, or at least put “7PM EST, 5 Central” or whatever?
#5: I think the site needed a change, it just needs improvements.
Looks FANTASTIC! Much faster & easier to navigate than the old site. Must have some super geniuses working at Revision3.
Congratulations!
Excellent site and it is beautifully designed….must be made from a beautiful webbie
Too much crap on the main page and slower than shit and not very intuitive…could of invested more money in your production facility than waste it on this.
IMHO
I was looking for the episode where Jim was reviewing the gutter cleaner and couldn’t remember initially which one of your shows it was on. I wanted to do a general search of your site but low and behold….there are no options to do general mass searches of your entire site. I assume that will be coming….???
thanks
Lori
I love the new site. It’s cleaner and easier to read. The only complaint I have is that Firefox 3 Beta 4 doesn’t stay logged in. Also, there’s three links on the top right of the page (username, account, and account under “Welcome Back, Username) that all do the same thing - they send the user to their account page. Just thought that was kind of silly. Thanks, guys. Made my life a lot easier to watch Rev3 shows.