YouTellYou

Fixed a very hidden bug in the search: after I introduced searching by story number, the search had become case sensitive! (you never never never test too much…)

Raise your hand if you knew this: if you concatenate a number to a string in MySQL using the CONCAT function, the LIKE comparison becomes case sensitive and worst the LOWER function does not work. So let’s say you want to concatenate the column userNumber with the column userName, you don’t do it like this:

CONCAT ( userNumber, userName)

but you have to do it this way:

CONCAT ( FORMAT (userNumber,0), userName)

The FORMAT function converts the userNumber column to text and everything is fine again…

I got rid of the “yesterday” period that made little sense and added an “all times” new period that shows the most viewed / voted / by cat / by author stories of all times (up to 36 stories).

Like the change?

Just deployed a new exciting functionality for YouTellYou, now you can publish your on-the-road stories from your mobile phone via email! And you can even add an audio commentary, if you like!

Here is how it works:
Just create an email, attach your photos and send the email to stories@youtellyou.com, it’s that simple!

Within ten minutes from receiving your email YouTellYou will create and publish your Story:

• The subject of the email will be the title of your Story
• Any text in the body of the email will be placed in the summary of your Story (up to 500 characters)
• The photos will be arranged automatically, one per section, in the order you have attached them
• If you record a voice message and attach it to the email, YouTellYou will place a Quicktime player inside your Story summary and your readers will be able to listen to your commentary

As soon as your Story is published you will receive a confirmation email with the address of your new Story.
If you have signed up for YouTellYou and you send the email from the address you have specified in your profile the new Story will be added to your stories, otherwise a new profile will be created and you will receive the username and password in the confirmation email.

GIVE IT A TRY!

New splash page for YouTellYou, hopefully more enticing than the previous.

Here it is:

How do you like it? Any suggestion?

All YoutellYou pages have now the lightbox help page.

Actually for the time being it’s one general feed only.. you can subscribe to YouTellYou All Stories feed and check the new stories from your feed reader!

More feeds in the pipeline as soon as the number of posted stories reaches a threshold that makes it worthwhile.

Now you can email the address of your personal YouTellYou Magazine Page or any other Author’s Page.

From an Author Page (your own or somebody else’s) click on the email icon and fill the form.

The email recipients will receive a link to the Author’s Personal Page.

LOTS of right complaints about the browser back button not working… it’s fixed now, with the exception of the changes in the “flavour” and the period of the Magazine.

Technically: I have changed all window.location.replace(url) to window.open(url, “_self”) while the changes in flavour and period are different Ajax versions of the same page.

Thanks to the YouTellYou readers and members that are providing feedback! Due to popular demand…

1. The YouTellYou logo is now clickable: takes you to the current magazine page
2. Dashboard has been renamed to be My Stories
3. My Zine has been renamed to be My Mag
4. The “back to” Zine, Map, Search options have now the word back to in front and back to Zine has been renamed as back to Mag
5. The Editor and Preview pages menus are now fully consistent with the work flow: Properties, Editor, Preview, Publish
6. As a consequence you can now publish straight from the Editor (although I wouldn’t recommend it)