Surprise Update

Sorry for the surprise update but I noticed a significant slowdown in the user pages last week. As a result you got to see some new changes like search on the front page, more explanatory text around voting and the image, the list of most popular jokes, etc. that I wasn’t quite ready to release yet. However, so far, so good.

Hope you enjoy the improvements because there are tons more yet to come.

So far so good

Not surprisingly more people are coming than with the old version of LOL and more of them stick around than before. Also, they click on many more pages than they used to as well. So clearly the site is a big improvement over what we had before, but better is just not good enough. I want great and it’ll take a long time to get there. However, I’ve already started making some important improvements in the site that will be rolling out in the next couple of weeks:

• An archive page that lets you look at jokes in not just chronological order but also based on how they are doing in the voting.
• A greatly improved sign-in page that will encourage more people to get an OpenID and show them how they can use an OpenID they already have if they use AOL, LiveJournal, WordPress, or Vox.
• Searching directly from the home page.
• A makeover for voting to make it clearer to new visitors. Any ideas on how to explain “Possibly Offensive” to somebody with an icon or very few words is welcome…

Of course, that’s just a start for the new LOL. There’s lots more yet to come in 2008.

BTW, if you have suggestions for LOL, please add a comment. We would love to hear from you!