BallHype Blog

We’re technically still in closed beta, but the old-timers will notice that there are a bunch of new users on the site. We’ve begun issuing beta invites en masse so that we can start testing more of the community features and site performance. If you’d like more beta invites to pass along to your friends, let us know.

Site updates:
- One of the more noticeable changes on the site is the new voting widget. Thanks to Kris for coming up with the cool and very distinctive new design.
- In the customization widget, you can now select individual favorite tags so that top stories about only Barry Bonds will appear on your home page instead of top stories about all of your favorites.
- A couple of you asked that we improve the tag finder feature. It’s now easier to select among the search results.
- Lots of bug fixes, mostly identified by beta testers. Mac users are likely still having a hard time using the site in Safari. Sorry about that… we are going to get a Mac for testing purposes but for now if you’re using Mac OSX use Firefox. Thanks louismg for the catch and workaround. UPDATE: thanks to Dave’s bug fix, Safari support has been reinstated.

Keep the suggestions coming! We’re hard at work on some really fun stuff - hope to have it ready in a few days so check back.

Can you have too much of a good thing, even when that good thing is the most Hyped sports content? Yes, if you don’t care about the NBA (although how could you not love that sticker dunk?) and are looking only for some spring training tips.

Yesterday we released My Ballhype – a customizable home page that lets you select which players, teams, and other types of content to view on your home page. We basically widgetized the entire site, so you can also bring in your own story submissions, your comments, votes or messages, as well as those of your favorite users. Once you’ve picked your content blocks, you can drag-and-drop them to rearrange your home page however you want.

In the coming days we will add more filtering functionality to My Ballhype and more customization options.