July 16th Release Notes

Here’s what’s new in Rypple from last week’s release.

I think we’re being followed

So much great stuff flows through Rypple that it can be tough to pay attention to the things that are most important to you. This week saw the introduction of our “following” feature to help you keep tabs on what you need to see. You can easily follow people and tags by clicking on the new follow buttons you’ll find on profiles and tag pages:

You’ll get an email whenever the followed person receives kudos, commits to action, or shares a question. Following a tag will get you an email whenever items are tagged with it. Here’s an example of what a notification would look like if you were following Tihomir, one of our awesome developers, and David, our Co-CEO (note the unfollow links at the bottom).

You’ve got mail

The more you use Rypple, the more email you get. Fact of life or awesome news in your inbox? We think it’s the latter, and we want to make sure you do too.

We’re redesigning and streamlining all of the emails you get from Rypple to ensure that they’re packed full of useful info and armed with easy ways to comment and become part of the conversation. Now you’ll be able to consistently reply to the email when you want to add your $0.02, or a click a link to visit Rypple on the web and see the full thread. As you can see in the follower notification above, we’ve also made them much simpler and more text-focused so they’re easier to quickly scan and read.

Here’s another example:

Battling multiple email address disorder

Turns out there are lots of you folks who have more than one email address at work. I feel your pain — I’m jgoldman, jay.goldman, and jay so there are a bunch of ways to find me too. Good news for all of you: this week brings email aliases to Rypple! Now you can add new addresses to your account settings and consolidate your various addressed into a single Rypple account (as long as they’re all at the same domain, like rypple.com).

Custom kudos for everyone!

Seems everyone loves their custom kudos. So much, in fact, that we had no end of requests for the ability to make them available to everyone on your domain. Requests granted! Domain admins can now create custom kudos that everyone in their domain can give from their admin dashboard: