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9rules Ali
Written by Scrivs on February 8, 2007
When we began work on Version 5 of 9rules we had to come up with a codename, and we came up with Ali. There were many reasons for this, but one of them was that with each round he fought, Muhammed Ali grew stronger as a fighter and that’s what we wanted Version 5 to represent. It is impossible to write one entry that documents everything that has changed and been added, so over the next week you will see entries from us highlighting different sections. For now we’ll just leave you with a few starting points:
- 9rules Live - expanded to give readers more options for viewing 9rules member content
- 9rules Member Site Profile - each 9rules member has a dedicated page for their site
- Topics - Find information quickly on popular topics
- my.9rules - customize your experience on 9rules
Now we are off to get a little bit of rest, but there will be plenty more talk about all the new stuff that 9rules has to offer.
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February 8th, 2007 at 4:56 am
There are so many pages and sections that we could talk about (like this) that it’s nearly impossible to slam it into one entry. We may have to break our entries up over a few weeks instead of just one, who knows
February 8th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Nice! I like it. On the blog are a few unstyled elements (like the menu) but other than that, I love the new design and especially the features.
February 8th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Okay, I have to say it, these comments look seriously cool. Great work 9rules!
February 8th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Thanks Glenn! I just hacked the new blog theme together from a mashup of code from other places on the site. Over the next few days I’m sure I’ll be changing things up, as you can see some parts aren’t as “designed” as others lol.
February 8th, 2007 at 5:26 am
It is looking great Mike, even the gradients have been spruced up.
February 8th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Awesome stuff.. really - it’s great.
Now, can someone please decide if Round 5 has finally washed up yet?
Cheers.
February 8th, 2007 at 5:30 am
[...] Oh, and I just checked out the new 9rules site (related 9r blog post here). A note was published on the private forums last night saying it was going live shortly, and think my response was something like “Noooooooo”, but this delay in my vacation has earned me the time to check it out. And so should you as well. The new site is easier to navigate around (and find yours truly). It is also much more involving and interractive, and hopefully will become a place not just for lucky few who bribed the right people the right amount of money, but also those who just like great content all in one place. Go check, sign up for a Notes account and get posting. [...]
February 8th, 2007 at 5:42 am
WOW! the 9rules/my section is amazing
this is my new myspace! Im gonna post a bulletin
February 8th, 2007 at 5:51 am
I think a better namesake would have been Ali ibn Abi-Talib. You know, that hugely popular, widely revered Islamic leader… ?
No? Never mind.
February 8th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Oh and good work by the way. This is shit hot and I can’t wait to get out of work so I can play properly.
February 8th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Looking very good!
February 8th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Awesome is about the word and nothing but congratulations hugs. Even prouder (it was possible) to be a member today.
February 8th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I think you’ll foind more activity with Notes if you offer a way for someone to look up their password.
February 8th, 2007 at 10:35 am
The site looks incredible. Clean, inviting and fun.
February 8th, 2007 at 11:52 am
This makes me happy in my giddy bits.
February 8th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Looks very good. Looking forward to more information
Now why is my last.fm feed not working …
February 8th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
my.9rules looks like a lot of fun! I love how much brighter you’ve made the site — it feels like a house that’s been beautifully renovated. You can still see all the lovely things about the original, but it’s been lifted up and given new life. And Ali? Great name.
February 8th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Hey Deepak, the file we parse in for Last.fm is this:
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/USERNAME/recenttracks.txt
Sometimes the Last.fm recent tracks list is empty, either from that using it recently or other reasons. Can you put your username into that URL and let me know if anything shows up?
February 8th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Mike,
It’s empty, so the list is rightfully empty. I presume last.fm does not include tracks from the previous day in it’s recent tracks list.
Thanks
February 8th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Hey guys, huge, huge congrats. I’m totally swamped today, so no time to go digging, but this is a fantastic upgrade to your platform!
February 8th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Ok I just wanted to say that this is the coolest thing since sliced bread, Good Bye MySpace hello My9rules! Wouldn’t it suck if it turned into that?
February 8th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Hey Deepak, actually you bring up a good point, maybe I can look for a different list to show in case you’re not a hardcore Last.fm user (I’m not either.) Thanks for the tip!
nick, yeah it’d be a terrible tragedy if we had millions of pageviews a day. Terrible I tell ya.
February 8th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Brendan: nope, it’s not. I know, don’t even say it….
Jeremy: thanks
Thanks everyone, glad you like it. Guys worked hard on this.
February 8th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Jules: I had it reset. You should get an email. Let me know if you don’t.
February 8th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
9rules Reloaded…
Or how I’m still marvelling at the sheer beauty and practicality of the best damn blogging commnity on the planet.
……
February 8th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
9r5…
So i haven’t posted for a while, but i had to mention something about the new version of 9rules, codenamed Ali.
First thing i noticed was the updated header. After looking around i noticed much more than that, and at first glance there were a cou…
February 8th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
This post is really quite modest :).
February 8th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Mike, I meant it would suck if it turned into a place crawling with a bunch of stalkers and teenie boppers.
February 8th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Aye, ’tis a great thing to be sure.
The new layout looks sexy (the comment form is cool) - makes me feel all tingly and that’s always a good thing (at least for me).
Tyme: at least you’re thinking of me, which also makes me tingly, but we won’t go there.
The theme feels ‘fresher’ rather than ‘all new’ - which imho will make people still feel at home.
February 8th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
It is sexy hot compared to what it was.
There was something I couldn’t click through on, a few of the categories on the green.
I think it will be easier to find new blog posts in categories, for me anyway, because I found the old way of looking through blogs in a category with old highlighted posts at the top a little confusing.
February 9th, 2007 at 2:20 am
[...] Also, there is new design - Ali, there on display from 9rules which is said to be a massive change. Here are some majors mentioned - [...]
February 9th, 2007 at 3:40 am
[...] Yesterday we launched a new version of 9rules that we like to call ‘‘ (sidenote: We started using codenames for all the new versions of 9rules starting with Version 4, Phoenix, and trust me it makes things easier from a historical perspective). This version does a lot of things differently than previous versions of 9rules and adds quite a bit of new functionality. What I wanted to discuss in this entry was one of the new features of the site that we named my.9rules. [...]
February 9th, 2007 at 6:50 am
A few minor bugs that I have spotted.
Firstly, on the blog page, the links to the feeds are broken.
Secondly, then I was writing this comment, I entered my name, hit tab, then my email, hit tab, then my URL, hit tab….this took me right to the top of the page. I was expecting for it to put the cursor in the Your Comment field.
Apart from that, this is an awesome redesign. U’ve been a 9rules fan for a while, this has really taken the network to a new level!!
February 9th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Do you have a specified place for bug/issue reports? I’ve got one but would like to go through your proper channel to report it.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Ryan: You can either use this Note started by a reader or use the appropriate selection on the contact form which will send it to the right places.
Glad that the majority of people like what they are seeing. Still so much to do.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
nogg3r5: fixed the tabbing. Thanks.
February 9th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Hey Ryan, if you have a my.9rules account you can post your bugs here but if not, please fill out our contact form and select “Technical issues with the site” so it goes straight to me.
Thanks!
February 9th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
[...] 9rules, our blog network, has had a redesign and introduced many new features which make the site look and feel even more Web 2.0! [...]
February 9th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I’ve been trying to search for a note (music) that I know is there (your favorite song lyrics). I can’t for the life of me pull it up. There’s no way to access older notes if they don’t show up as one of those nifty boxes or in any of the lists. I guess whoever posted that one didn’t tag it properly, because neither “song” nor “lyrics” nor various other terms bring anything up.
I just wanted to post the lyrics to Eddie Murphy’s “Boogie in Your Butt” but I guess you guys safeguarded ‘Ali’ against any of that stuff?
February 9th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Great new things coming out of 9rules, it’s an exciting time. VERY INSPIRING!!!
February 10th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Okay, you did good, for the most part. I have to say though: do something about the home page, and the my.9r page(s). They make my stomach uneasy to see. Way too many colors floating around.
Other then that, I think you did well. The only other thing I don’t unnecessarily agree with is the amount of images, and the first time loads required.
February 10th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Although I can’t seem to login–with the right pw of course–I think everything looks fantastic.
Image intensive? Yes, but gorgeous none the less.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:26 am
[...] The new 9rules Ali is only 5 days old and already a slew of feature requests have been coming our way. What have I learned during these five days that I already knew before, but never experienced myself? Everybody wants everything done their way. This isn’t a bad thing because we all know how to make the experience better for us, but most of the time one man’s solution becomes another man’s problem. [...]
February 12th, 2007 at 8:34 am
[...] Secondly, do you know 9rules just finish redesign their blog version 5 codenamed “ali”? The most notable update on this version is my.9rules. Every user will have their own custom profile to include flickr photos, last.fm plays, blog posts and more. There are still a few new feature added, why don’t you go and take a look! [...]
February 12th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
[...] Last week we launched Ali and that wasn’t the only change that happened within 9rules. There has also been some structural changes that we would like to announce. Since all the cool and professional people are doing press releases we thought it would be best to announce these changes in a Press Release that can be read below. [...]
February 14th, 2007 at 11:43 am
[...] Jetzt hat das Blognetzwerk seine fünfte Version Ali herausgebracht und damit gleichzeitig einige wirklich geniale Features realisiert. Insgesamt scheint sich 9rules in Richtung Social Network zu entwickeln - man darf in Zukunft wirklich gespannt sein, was die Leute von 9rules noch alles auf die Beine stellen werden. [...]
February 21st, 2007 at 12:04 pm
[...] Jetzt hat das Blognetzwerk seine fünfte Version Ali herausgebracht und damit gleichzeitig einige wirklich geniale Features realisiert. Insgesamt scheint sich 9rules in Richtung Social Network zu entwickeln - man darf in Zukunft wirklich gespannt sein, was die Leute von 9rules noch alles auf die Beine stellen werden. [...]
March 1st, 2007 at 7:58 am
W00t!…
OMG THIS IS AWESOME I’VE BEEN UP SINCE FIVE A.M. WAITING FOR THIS!
Um, well, go check it out: all new 9rules. What a stunner.
……
May 19th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Ok I just wanted to say that this is the coolest thing since sliced bread, Good Bye MySpace hello My9rules! Wouldn’t it suck if it turned into that?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I think it will be easier to find new blog posts in categories, for me anyway, because I found the old way of looking through blogs in a category with old highlighted posts at the top a little confusing.
October 6th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
[...] If you haven’t seen, 9rules has had a big release update today which is being called 9rules Ali. Along with getting a facelift the core functions of 9rules have been added to and the focus taken onto readers and members. The first post on the 9rules blog announcing sums it up nicely: [...]