The latest upgrade includes over 10 major improvements and we are going to mention just a couple of them with this message.
The first important feature we implemented is the ability to post articles in the system by e-mail.
We created this feature to be quite flexible and useful for all our
customers especially the ones which have more than 15 communities and
groups running under one system. The newly designed feature allows
users to post articles from their e-mail account directly into the
WordFrame powered system or community of their choice.
We also implemented three different methods which manage how the comments on a specific article are displayed and presented. The three methods include:
1. Regular – Reverse chronological order.
The
comments are posted in reverse chronological order with the first and
oldest comment positioned just under the article it is commenting. The
other comments regarding this article are positioned underneath it in
the order of their composition and entry. This comments organization
method does not allow you to comment on comments with clear visible
connection between the comments themselves. This type of organization
has no ability to quote parts of other comments either.
2. Threaded Comments view –
This
type of comments organization is the closest to the forum comments and
topics structure. Only the comments which are in reply to the original
article are in reverse chronological order while the WordFrame users
have the opportunity to comment and reply to the comments already in
the system. Each reply to a comment will be indented slightly to the right clearly showing what the original comment was. The WordFrame users can quote portions or entire comments from the other users who commented that specific article.
3. Reverse chronological order with comment header –
This
newly implemented Comments display organization puts all comments into
reverse chronological order. All comments are ordered by the time of
their entry. The users have the ability to comment not only the article
but the comments of the other users as well. This time the comments in
reply are not indented or put under the comments they are affiliated to. Each comment which is in reply to another comment has a specifically designed header clearly pointing out
to what comment by what author the current message is related to. This
type of organization of the comments also allows the users to have
quotes from other comments while replying.
Useless to say the WordFrame administration module allows changes and toggling between the three methods with one click only while completely preserving all entry-reply relations while switching between the three methods. For now the third method is the preferred choice for most of our customers.
The
last but certainly not the least of the more significant features we
implemented in September was something extremely useful and in many
aspects – unique... We call it Premium Content Communities.
Premium Content Communities are a smart way to monetize
your WordFrame powered social media system via a subscription model.
Users of the system can subscribe and have access to the content, the
available data and the discussions in a specific community or a “subscription package” of communities.
The access to the communities is restricted and only allowed either by
the positive payment confirmation from your payment processor or
specific administrator’s permission regarding a specific user to get
access to these types of communities. The system has easy to use yet
comprehensive settings allowing trial periods that could be paid for or
free together with an extremely flexible configuration method regarding
the subscription packages generation allowing almost any type of billing cycles and subscription length periods.We
are also happy to mention that the Development of our WordFrame v2.0 is
within the scheduled parameters and the final phase of the applications
development is under way.