As you guys know, porn on the Internet is an unstoppable force. Much has been said about it, and you can check the experts’ opinion on the matter: the meme video The Internet is for Porn tries to explain the phenomenon to a wide audience, while the well known “Rule 34” summarizes the spirit of [...]
Don’t forget to check the buzz! Presenting the posts filter
As you guys already know, Wixi is a media-based social network. The media sharing is quite clear in the site, but we feel sometimes wixians forget about the “social” side of it. Continuing with our idea of presenting old features to new users, we will review the posts filter.
By default, all your friends’ activities are [...]
The Friends Sidebar
Hey there again Wixians! In the next series of posts we will review Wixi features that might not be well known but are very useful. We want newcomers and veterans alike to take full advantage of our service, and in the coming weeks we will reveal some hidden nuggets of functionality in Wixi that might [...]
More about Wixi Shaken: the public Media Tab
Hey there again, wixians! As mentioned in our previous post, we are developing Wixi v2.1 –a.k.a Wixi “Shaken”. This new version will have some nice new features that we will gradually reveal in a series of posts, before it’s launched.
A favorite addition of ours is the new public Media Tab, which you have already previewed. [...]
Wixi v2.1 “Shaken” is coming
I can’t say much more for now, but as you can see one new idea we are considering involves public permalinks for videos, so you can share your media with anyone without a Wixi account.
POST EXTERNAL VIDEOS DIRECTLY IN THE FEED!
You can now post external videos directly to your feed from a YouTube, Dailymotion, MegaVideo or Hulu URL. Just post your message with the URL and the magic happens: the link is parsed, the title is fetched and the video appears.
The link will also be added to YourMedia automatically. Since we’re treating this as a [...]
IPHONE SUPPORT DISABLED
As you already know, we’re undergoing some deep changes with the developement of Wixi v2.1. Briefly put, the site is slowly heading towards a links-sharing model –what we feel will be the most practical for both kind of users, uploaders and leechers.
As part of this series of changes, we will be dropping [...]
CUSTOMIZE YOUR WIXI & HIDE YOUR ACTIVITIES
A new update of Wixi was completed yesterday, and covered mostly small bug fixing. We also tweaked some existing features to improve your experience. The two main changes that you will notice are:
1. Profile Tab – We redesigned the “Customize your Wixi” section, where you can change your avatar and wallpaper. We [...]
TOP VIDEOS, PROFILE IMPROVEMENTS, NEW FILTERS
We made a new upload to production today, with some bugfixes and changes. Since we want to improve communication with you guys, we will be announcing here what new features are being introduced to Wixi every week.
Here are this week main changes:
- Profile Tab was improved, we took care of some details [...]
WIXI GOES FLEXIBLE
A lot of subscriptions today have rigid pricing plans that don’t allow you flexibility. When Wixi launches its new version 2 this year, there will be three user options: Free, Premium and Unlimited. If you are paying for the Premium or Unlimited subscription, and you are not 100% satisfied, then you can cancel at anytime, [...]
