A new look for 2012

09 Jan 2012

Apologies for going dark for a while today, but, as you can see, we needed to take the site offline so that we could publish this new version.

We decided to change things around partly to reflect the style of the Muvizu application user interface, which was refined a while back, but mostly to try to make it easier for us to display choice user content and for users to find the videos that they want to watch.

Our new home page incorporates a video player, preloaded with what we consider to be a worthy example of contemporary user creations, plus some other recent submissions in a scrolling strip beneath that.

Elsewhere, we've ironed out some irritating glitches in using the back button when browsing certain site sections and we've also hooked into YouTube's APIs to bring back the "most viewed" sorting function. This should now reflect the view count as recorded by YouTube.

Part of our plan for 2012 is to involve Muvizu users ever more closely in the project, to which end we've revamped our Mogul section and will expand its range of functions bit by bit throughout the year.

As with all things new, however shiny, we expect to find a few glitches here and there so please drop us a line if you spot anything that's broken, or flag it up in the forums.

Now, while on the subject of broken things, we've discovered that our forthcoming release (which we had hoped to publish today) is stuttering and falling over in Windows XP when more than half-a-dozen or so characters are created. Clearly, this won't do - given that many home users still rely on XP.

We could have put out a version for Vista and Windows 7 users, but this would have been messy (especially given our automatic update checker) and the sensible option is for us to disappoint people again and ask them to bear with us for a few days more. Rather that than give XP users something useless to them. We really are sorry about this. Really.

Best regards,
The Muvizu team