July update

July 14, 2011 by Daniël

This week we’ve updated Peers.me with the following:

• Contact list
• Markup for waves with Markdown
• Permissions for waves
• Inbox preview pull down
• Star your waves
• “Archive all”-button
• Update marker on waves
• Secure connection

Contact list To give users a more personal interface, we’ve introduced a contact list. This contact list doesn’t include all users and groups, but users or groups you’ve had a conversation with, your fellow group members and your groups. Favorite contacts can be starred for easy access. We’ve dropped the groups and users overview with the introduction of the contact list. Wave permissions By default a participant has full access on a wave, which means this participant can edit all content, add replies, add and remove other participants and publish and unpublish waves. But sometimes you want to add a participant without all these permissions. It’s now possible to set participant specific permissions for waves. Next to full access, we’ve added the commenter and read-only permissions. A participant with commenter permissions can only add new replies to a wave and edit these replies. A read-only participant can only read the wave and nothing else. Full access participants can set and change the permissions of all participants.  Of course every participant can remove itself from the wave.

Inbox preview While typing your waves, you may notice you’ve got unread waves (seen by the number after “Inbox”). Normally you would have to save your work and navigate to your inbox to just see who and what is being shared with you. From now on you can directly see such information in the inbox preview pulldown. Simply click the Inbox button and the pulldown will appear. Click a wave to navigate directly to the it. Click inbox to navigate to your inbox.

Some waves may be important to you. Maybe because you’re waiting for an answer or you’ll just want to mark them for something else. We’ve added the possibility to star your waves and easily filter them from your inboxes. Click the star icon on top of the wave or at the wave in the inbox and their starred. Easy as that. Archive all Sometimes, after your long vacation, you have some unread waves in some groups. Maybe they’re not that important, but to archive them, you’ll have to do that one-by-one. Say goodbye to manually archiving. At the top bar is now a “archive all” button. This means the waves your seeing can be archived with one click. So if your filtering your waves on a hashtag #design and as participant with:martin, you can now archive all waves with Martin and #design in one click. Or navigate to a group inbox and click archive all to archive those waves. Update markers It sometimes can be hard to recognize those messages in a wave which are new or updated. You can only recognize it by the date and time. From now on, new or updated messages are recognizable by two colors: green for new, blue for updated. Secure connection Since today we’ve got an SSL certificate. Login at your domain at https:// instead of http:// (you will be redirected). You can check the ceritificate by clicking on its icon (or other green area). An popup like this will be displayed:

Next up Next up is realtime collaborative wave editing!