Thursday updates

Hello Bitstrippers! Lots of performance improvements going on behind the scenes this week, as well as a few visible updates which we just committed:

• Confirmation when you’re about to leave a comic/character builder without saving your work
• Embedded blog viewer reads will soon be included in a comic’s view count
• Improved friend finder - search by email

We had wanted to improve the friend finder for awhile, not everyone has an accessible webmail address book, and not everyone wants to give us their password (we promise not to read your email!) - for those situations, you can now type in as many email address as you’ve got and search for them on the site.

Searching for users based on their username, and Real Name will be coming soon as well. Visit the new friend finder and check it out (you’ll need to be logged in to see it).

Easter Monday Update

A few of the eggs from the update this evening:

• Comic searching - use the search box at the top right of most pages. It will search the title, text-bubbles and character names for your search terms.
• Friends thumbnail/Character list image - they’re working! They’ll update when you add/remove friends, and when you make new characters.
• You can now change your email address in your account settings.

We’ve also passed the 20,000 character mark earlier today - amazing stuff!

Stay tuned for more updates…

Teeny-tiny update

Hi everybody - a few small changes this evening:

• glasses with clear lenses are back
• lost your password? You can reset it through the site (just try logging in a couple times and then follow the link)
• your personal profile is listed in a linkable way, send the URL to your friends and they’ll view your specific profile (and not their own!)

State of the Strip - 7 days old

Good evening my fellow Bitstrippers, 7 days and 12 hours ago we removed the velvet rope and released the site to the world. It’s been an unbelievable rush to watch the reactions ripple out across the net and to witness the explosion of content, creativity and humour amongst our users. We had no idea some of the strips you’ve been making were possible!  More than anything, seeing your reaction is inspiring us to work that much harder on bringing you the best possible bitstrip experience we can.

What should you expect in the next 7 days? A small mountain improvements and fixes that you’ve been asking for: searching, rss feeds, better friend searching, performance improvements, better series management and of course, more artwork! As much as we enjoy seeing banana phones we’ll soon have an array of cellphones and telephones art to use.

We’ll also be keeping this dev blog up to date with the latest changes and improvements. You can also follow bitstrips on twitter for status notices.

Thanks again to all our new users in the last week for making our first week such a blast. We can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next!