May 8. 2007 - Email Verification, Recently Popular, And Podcasts, Click here to read about these new features! Options

[Talia]

Hi guys,

I'd like to give y'all a quick update about a few changes we've made to the site. First of all, and probably most importantly, we have implemented email verification. This means that from now on, anyone who registers will need to verify their email address. Hopefully this will clean up our site just a little more (and by the way, have y'all noticed how almost all the spam is gone now that we've implemented the new spam filters?).

Also, we have added another section to Today catalog. You can now browse videos that were Recently Popular. These are videos from the past few days that have a high rank, as well as some Metacafe classics from before. If a video is released to Recently Popular, it will NOT appear on the Highest Rated pages since it is a video that has been previously released, but it is a second chance to see videos you may have missed the first time, or liked a lot and would love to see again. Before you ask, the videos are randomly selected by our system and not by staff recommendations.

We have also added a new button to the footer - the Podcasts are back! You can now receive Metacafe's top videos to your iPod!

Finally, we have slightly modified the location of the related links on videos. Now they appear within the box beneath the video for faster and clearer access.

Hope y'all are doing well.

[belbazar]

Thanks Talia
New spamm filter is working really good...

Good do hear you again

[Screenwriter10]

Good to have you back, Talia. This place gets to be a bit of a mad house without you around, it seems.

[Jack Johnson Fre...]

She's not back yet. She said she has some family emergency or something and she won't be back until next week. She probably just popped in to post this. It's not even on the blog yet. In the post she deleted she said she'll see us next week.