New referer tracking and flagging features
Wow, it’s been a big day for the blog. Here’s our newest pair of features — an upgrade to our flagging system and a new “Recent Links” tracker on every download page.
Flagging: Some content that’s not allowed on DivShare is bound to make its way onto the site, and we rely heavily on our users to flag these files to bring them to our attention. People have done a great job so far — both in keeping copyrighted and adult content off the site and reporting it when they find it — but we’ve found that our flagging system needed a couple upgrades.
Since it can take us a long time to identify the true contents of a file, we’ve added a way for the user who flags a file to tell us why they’re flagging it, so we know in advance what we’re dealing with. This also helps prevent accidental flagging, because we’ve heard that some non-English-speaking visitors accidentally click “flag” because they think it’s the “download” button. (We’re too cool for a download button :))
Referer Tracking: Our next feature answers a burning question for any DivShare extraordinaire — who’s linking to my files? Now, the site tracks your five most recent referers for each file and displays them on the download page, with links back to the original pages. Just like trackbacks on your blog, this is a cool feature that lets you keep up on who’s digging what you’re sharing.
You’ll notice that the link shows only the domain, but the destination is the actual page — that’s why several different URLs all show up with the same domain in the example above.
Hope you enjoy these fancy new features, and keep your eyes open for a lot more this weekend and next week. And, if you’re not already commenting away, now’s the time :).
February 1st, 2007 at 2:38 am
what better feature is to have our own web maybe like myname.divshare.com or something easy to remember
February 1st, 2007 at 10:11 am
I am still not able to figure out how the referring page links show up . Where do we supposed to go to see them. No trivial clues on the web site.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I have no idea where it is either. What “download page”? Is this feature not implemented yet?
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 am
Al & Rick: These appear on any of your download pages that were made public, and that you shared the link with, eventually getting posted on a web site or blog. If your file hasn’t made it to a web site, the referrals won’t appear.
February 11th, 2007 at 7:21 am
That’s good.
and I just wanna a new function:folder
I think that better than tag
February 19th, 2007 at 6:35 am
[…] And, to finish off the night, we made some more changes to file flagging. You might remember that last month we added a flagging reason to the form, and now we’re taking it one step further and allowing multiple users to flag a file. This way, we’ll be able to more easily tell if 500 people think a file is breaking the rules, or if one random person clicked the button by accident. […]