July 2010
1 post
Woah, new reputation points system and layout!
Dearest friends and users,
We’ve been working hard to implement a few improvements over the past week. We’ve added a new reputation points system! Basically, every blog now has a reputation score which is made of points awarded through interactions with the site. For example, you’ll be awarded points whenever people subscribe to you, reblog your posts, or comment on your posts....
June 2010
2 posts
Posting speed upgrade and comments!
Hello friends, we have been hard at work to improve the Howl experience for all of our loving users! First off, we’ve changed and upgraded our link poster, so whenever you stick a URL in and click ‘Preview’, it should retrieve data a bit quicker. We have also added a thumbnail selector, so you can now choose which image thumbnail you’d like to use in your post. You can...
Finally, a preview feature!
Hello friends and users,
We’ve finally rolled out a little preview feature that will let you see exactly what you’re about to post! Simply paste the URL and click “Preview”, and we’ll load all the post data in a box below. You can edit the highlighted text by clicking on it and typing. This means if you want to fix the titles or descriptions before posting your link,...
May 2010
4 posts
Background customization, subscriptions + streams
Hello friends,
We’ve been working hard the past few weeks to fix up a lot of bugs as well as release a lot of new features. One includes a better designed settings page, where you can now also customize the background images of your link blog by uploading an image or setting a bg color.
We have also introduced subscriptions and a stream. To subscribe to a user who posts interesting things,...
New Twitter + Facebook features!
Hello friends and followers,
We’re happy to announce some new features for you. They’re both regarding more integration with Facebook and Twitter. Not only can you register and login using your social network accounts, but you can also connect them to cross post to them whenever you post on Howl. That means if you want to sent a post out to FB or Twitter when you share a link, it can...
Keep on truckin'
We’re pushing along every day by improving our site with new features and bug improvements. Lately we cleaned up a bunch of usability things like automatically adding http:// before pasted URLs, as well as validating URLs so text and HTML can’t be posted. Users can also now delete posts through the edit page of their link post.
Got feature requests? Bugs to report? We’d love to...
New blog
Hi friends,
Welcome to Howl’s blog. We’ll be writing about news, updates, bugs, feedback, changes, and everything else regarding our startup.
If you’re unfamiliar with what Howl is, just check out http://www.howl.com
Howl is a link blogging service that lets people share links quickly and easily. We’re a new startup and we hope to build something people grow to love.
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