About Social Media Today
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 about, and under 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. However, 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.
Also, 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 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 moving forward within the scheduled parameters and the final phase of the applications development is under way.
From our WordFrame Blog
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