Groups 1.5 on Vimeo Staff Blog

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Share on Twitter
Now you can share your videos on Twitter! Just click the Share icon in a video to launch the Share module.
Channel Notifications
Channel owners now have a new section in their channel settings to optionally receive emails for when someone posts a message to their shoutbox and for when someone subscribes to their channel. Adding moderators to your channel also now has an approval process, where both parties will receive emails when the request happens, and when the request is approved.
People Subscribed To Me
There is now a new page within your My Contacts where you can see what users are subscribed to you and what they are subscribed to (likes, videos, and/or appearances).
Featured videos for your group
Have any videos you want to show off in your group? You can easily add any 3 group videos to feature on your group homepage.
Featured videos on your profile page
Have any videos you want to show off on your profile page? You can easily add any of your 3 public videos to feature on your profile page. Try it now.
Removing Video Thumbnails
Everytime you upload a video, you get 12 thumbnails to choose from. Now, a month from the day you upload your video, we will automatically remove any unused thumbnails. But you will always be able to upload your own.
Improved Searching
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Login and Join Vimeo Lightbox
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Better referrer statistics
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Share on MySpace
Everyone says they hate it, but everyone has a MySpace profile! We've added MySpace to the Sharing options.
Badge additions
You can now add channels and albums to any Badge that you create. Yipeee!
Daily Email Update
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Converting time during transcoding
Ted and Casey added a nifty little feature that will display the time remaining to convert your video during uploads.
New Hubnut Behavoir
From now on, the Hubnut will not auto-rotate when it is loaded on a page. This will only affect all newly created Hubnuts, not those that are currently used on other sites.
Search Channels
Now you can FINALLY search for Channels. Use the 'Search' box in the top navigation bar, make sure its set on 'Channels', and search away!
Posting to Flickr
It's back! You can once again post your videos to Flickr. You can also post albums. Do this by clicking on Share and navigating to the "Post this..." tab.
Expanded Tag Browsing
Clicking a tag from a video will bring you to an improved tag browsing experience. Now you can browse videos with that tag in your videos, all videos, your contacts' videos and more. Vimeo members who use that tag most are also noted.
New Avatar Feature
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Spam Filters
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Add Multiple Email Addresses
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Blake Whitman June 19th, 2009

Believe it or not, we launched Groups almost exactly one year ago today. In that crazy year, we've seen Groups take off in ways that we could only have imagined. And like any feature we create here at Vimeo, we count on user feedback to help us improve each feature and add the granular controls and tools you guys need.

Without further ado, I present Groups 1.5!

So what's new with Groups 1.5? Well, a lot of cool things.

* Private Groups - You now have the option to make your group private, so only the people you invite can join and see the group.

* Approve videos - Groups now have settings in which creators and moderators can choose to approve or reject videos that are added to a group.

* Group Albums - Create albums of videos within your group in order to organize videos, create playlists, or simply showcase certain videos that you want to highlight.

* Customize the homepage - Show/hide certain modules on your group's homepage.

* File pages - Photos, documents, music, and other files now have their own pages within Groups so users can comment on them and see a preview of the file.

* Message all members - Group creators and moderators can now send a message to all members of a group. Don't worry, any member can opt out of group messaging at anytime.

* Delete videos - Moderators can now delete videos from the browse page.

We also have removed the ability for moderators to edit titles and descriptions of videos within a group in order to respect the video creator's titling preference.

We hope you guys enjoy the new features and let us know here if you experience any issues or bugs. Special thanks to Jake, for taking the lead on the development of these new features. Thanks Jake!

Love,

Vimeo
- Erik Dasque 5 months ago
  
  Cool beans. When are the new stats coming out? That's really what I have been looking forward to.
  
  Also, by the way, it's "Without further ado", not Adieu.
- Andrew Pile 5 months ago
  
  Thanks for the proof-read. Stats is gonna be big, big, big. We're actively working on it now, although I don't want to give a timeline yet.
- Andrew Landry 5 months ago
  
  Nice! Sounds like a good upgrade for Groups!
- Chrizzle 5 months ago
  
  Upgrades are super beautiful.
- Maurice Hooks 5 months ago
  
  This sounds great, now all I have to do is create my own group lol
- Ian Lucero 5 months ago
  
  Yes thanks again for adding some much needed options.
- Blake Whitman 5 months ago
  
  sometimes it takes us a little while, but we get it done :)
- loonachic 5 months ago
  
  Thank you for this! These are great options! Thank you, thank you, and thank you!!!!!
- mike ambs ☂ 5 months ago
  
  I concur ;)
- Jake Carpenter 5 months ago
  
  any word on Unicorn?
- dalas verdugo 5 months ago
  
  It's coming along really well. We're working to get it out.
- Mashed Potatoes 5 months ago
  
  Big kisses.
- BigCrow 5 months ago
  
  Uhuhu! let's see, sounds great :)
- Remyyy 5 months ago
  
  Super !
- Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. 5 months ago
  
  Weee
- Batterramsound 5 months ago
  
  We in the house now
- Bill 5 months ago
  
  All these new features are good. Well done vimeo.
- Blake Whitman 5 months ago
  
  thanks, Bill.
- ailatanotos 5 months ago
  
  Bravo!!!
  
  Súper, me parece perfecto!!
  
  :D
  
  Cool Vimeo.
- Kav P 5 months ago
  
  Sounds awesome. Looking forward to using the new features!
- Benk 5 months ago
  
  "almost exactly a year ago today" brilliant!
- Benk 5 months ago
  
  I just read the new features and wow!
  
  Very deserving of the awesome .5
- Clintus McGintus 5 months ago
  
  congrats. great list of features. thanks.
- BENTECH 5 months ago
  
  Ciao a tutti bentech e' tornato, buon divertimente !
- Zod Rhombus 5 months ago
  
  My group is thriving on Vimeo! Thanks for improving the group experience! I love it here!
- Michelle Hogan 5 months ago
  
  Vimeo and the Dev Team --> ROX
- Harley 5 months ago
  
  This perfect for my "Simply Everything Group"
  
  vimeo.com/groups/simplyeverything
  
  Nice job Vimeo!
- t ian 5 months ago
  
  you guys have done a fantastic job!
  
  cheers!
- Jordan Schmelzer 5 months ago
  
  nice!
- Dorian Carlos Sensi 5 months ago
  
  Should we expect a similar upgrade also for channels in the near future? Especially concerning the possibility to message members directly?
- Blake Whitman 5 months ago
  
  We recently updated Channels a few months ago. Since Channels are not participatory in the way Groups are, I do not foresee ever offering this feature for Channels.
- suzenako 5 months ago
  
  nice hat Blake ^__^
- Blake Whitman 5 months ago
  
  why thank you.
- Bobby Craddock. 5 months ago
  
  I can't wait for 'groups 1.6'.
- Blake Whitman 5 months ago
  
  oh yeah?
- Giovanni Antico 5 months ago
  
  You forgot to mention a major update: now if you change title, description, keywords, etc. in a video after having it posted to a group, you can see the video page inside the group updated.
  
  Don't know if calling this a new feature or a bug fix, but it was driving me crazy to see in the groups my videos not reflecting updates in title, description, etc. Now I love to see the real-time updates.
  
  Thank you good guys!
- Blake Whitman 5 months ago
  
  very true!
- MariaNYC 5 months ago
  
  ooooo got to dig in this one. nice new features
- gurkan bilgisu 5 months ago
  
  thank you. Very good:)
- Músico Independente 5 months ago
  
  olá pessoal! Hello People!!
- aneth 5 months ago
  
  dont forget to come to aneth group.we are cool
- Uniontown Bible Church 4 months ago
  
  I like the albums feature. In just experimenting with that, I found that only the first 3 (alpabetically) appear under the home tab. All 5 that I put in show under the videos tab. Could albums have their own tab, which could also provide a link directly to the group albums page?
- Bret Warren 4 months ago
  
  what does it take to get the staff to look a some video's wit some feedback....
- Kino Paname 4 months ago
  
  still not possible to create hubnuts from group albums?
- Kaya Ertunc aka Karl 4 months ago
  
  Siktir!
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