MyTVShows Blog

After a few weeks of development, we are updating MyTVShows with a bunch of new features, starting with a new logo (courtesy of Quodis). The old logo was more related to movies than it was with TV or TV Shows, so our friends at Quodis designed our new logo based on the RGB of the TV Screen (if you look closely to your TV Screen you’ll see a bunch of Red, Green and Blue dots).

Other new features include:

• Friendly URLs: you can now navigate through all pages with simpler URLs like http://www.mytvshows.org/show/prisonbreak/ or http://www.mytvshows.org/user/ivogomes/ (the older URLs still work, so that you wont lose your bookmarks);
• Layout improvements: some pages were completelly changed and we made many tweaks and improvements here and there;
• Timelines: You can now check your timeline (your recently watched episodes); your friends timeline; and the global timeline. You can also subscribe the RSS Feed for a user’s timeline;
• Stats: You can now check who are the most addicted users;
• Twitter On/Off: If you configured your Twitter account on MyTVShows, you can now turn the notifications on and off with just one click;
• Internet Explorer: MyTVShows should work ok on IE7 and IE8 (we wont have support for IE6 and lower). Known issues: the language selection menu is still buggy in IE;
• New languages: We now have another language available: Slovenian! We will also have Spanish and Polish soon;
• Microformats: We added some microformats to the show pages. If you have a browser that supports microformats, you can automatically subscribe the calendar for your TV Shows;
• Many small changes:
  • Selecting all seasons when importing a new Show;
  • Asking for your current password when changing to a new one (for security reasons);
  • Better support for browsers with JavaScript turned off;
  • New “about” page with all the credits;
  • Added the option to mark all episodes as unseen;
  • Some speed improvements on loading images and JavaScript;

Hope you like it

When you add a new Show, if you misspeled it’s name or entered a diferent name than the original one, we now provide a few suggestions so that you can add the propper show to your database.

Hopefully, this will prevent users from adding duplicate shows with diferent names like “Reaper / The Reaper” or “Big Bang Theory / The Big Bang Theory”.

You can now navigate through the All Shows page by selecting a letter, and you’ll gett all the shows starting with that letter. This makes it easier to find a show that you’re looking for but don’t know the exact name to perform a search.

This weekend we added a few more features to MyTVShows.

First of all, we changed the menus. The previous version was getting short on space and we needed to add a few more items so now we have a main menu and each item has its own submenus. We think this will make it easier to navigate through out the website and allows us to add some more items as we develop more new features.

Widgets

The widgets are now available to all users. We added the possibility to select how many episodes you want to show and the code updates automatically:

Widgets

Twitter integration

You can now let MyTVShows post updates to your Twitter account whenever you mark an episode as seen. Just fill in your twitter accout details (unfortunatelly Twitter requires us to ask for your password, but we promise we won’t use it for anything else than this).

Twitter account details

And it will look something like this on your Twitter account:

Hope you like it!