New Feature: Future Posting

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

New Feature: Future Posting
We know some of you wanted to write posts and have them appear publicly at a certain date and time. Thanks to Janet and Ayça, you can do that now!
Adding a future post is easy; just open your editor and check for the "edit" link in the "time" field.

If you want to set your post's timestamp as a different time, click "Edit" - you'll see the time change into an editable format.

Now choose the date you want and you are done!

After you save your changes, you will see your future post at the top of your weblog.
More info on how future posting works:
- Only you will see your future posts when you are signed into Xanga.
- User tags will not send emails for future posts.
- Future posts will not show up on tag pages or on blogrings until the time comes.
- Weblogs can be posted up to two years in advance.
P.S. With future posting comes the ability to post from an earlier time, too, so you can update your blog from as early as 2000 - just modify the date and you're good to go.

We want to hear what you think! Let us know if we can help clarify anything about this new feature.

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This is an awesome feature! Thanks for continually working hard and giving us such frosting with our xanga!
- 5/6/2008 4:05 PM
- shanandcrew (message)
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Love this feature!
- 5/6/2008 4:05 PM
- lemonifresh (message)
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abracadabra!

This is great! I'll definitely be using this feature.
- 5/6/2008 4:06 PM
- spiritedsherry (message)
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future and past posting, eh?

my readers will no longer be impressed by my late-night cleverness.
- 5/6/2008 4:07 PM
- Hareton (message)
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This feature is going to save me so much trouble. I am always forgetting birthdays and special days like that. Now, I just have to do it ahead of time and everyone will be happy. I do not forget to celebrate the special days.....I just forget to create a blog to honor the day.
- 5/6/2008 4:07 PM
- mundanejane (message)
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sweet
- 5/6/2008 4:08 PM
- Jlamar92 (message)
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Haha, I just used that an hour before you posted this I thought it was always there, and I just hadn't noticed it. Woo~ Cool feature =)
- 5/6/2008 4:11 PM
- rloveution (message)
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That's really awesome! Thanks!
- 5/6/2008 4:16 PM
- MeganNoble_24 (message)
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wow....... this is AMAZING!

You guys just improve and improve and this is why I stay with XANGA!
- 5/6/2008 4:17 PM
- ilovepearly (message)
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I saw this earlier today and I thought it was so cool!
Thanks Janet and Ayca!
- 5/6/2008 4:18 PM
- skanickadee (message)
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Didn't Google Mail do this as an April Fools joke? I don't understand why or how this is practical....
- 5/6/2008 4:19 PM
- tenigee (message)
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Interesting, I hadn't thought of a need for this feature, but I'm sure I'll use it!
Thanks!
- 5/6/2008 4:20 PM
- meganalissa (message)
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That's actually a pretty cool feature. +1 for the xanga team!
- 5/6/2008 4:29 PM
- elvesdoitbetter (message)
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This sounds like it's going to be a great feature!
- 5/6/2008 4:31 PM
- joel8191 (message)
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@tenigee - Well, it probably won't be used by everyone, but I know I get ideas for posts in sets of 3 - 5 then put off posting them because I don't want them all posted at once (only your latest post really gets read). Then when I go back to post them later I've lost all the magic from my idea and it just never gets posted. This way you can write whenever you're inspired and have it come up at the time you want.

Or maybe if you tend to write at 2am when no one is on and want it to show up on the stalker feed when more people will be online checking their subs.

It will be ridiculously useful for some and completely ignored for others.
- 5/6/2008 4:35 PM
- elvesdoitbetter (message)
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I like this feature! Thanks
- 5/6/2008 4:34 PM
- ckakin2006 (message)
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i like the future posting, but the past posting seems like its ruining the magic of the time u posted
- 5/6/2008 4:37 PM
- unATTAIN_able (message)
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@elvesdoitbetter - Ahhh, ok.
- 5/6/2008 4:40 PM
- tenigee (message)
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Future posting good.

Past-posting, very bad.
- 5/6/2008 4:43 PM
- HomerTheBrave (message)
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comment formatting: still very bad.
- 5/6/2008 4:43 PM
- HomerTheBrave (message)
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I like this new feature very much. (:
- 5/6/2008 4:48 PM
- Miss_Smylez (message)
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Ninja attack!
- 5/6/2008 4:50 PM
- pedrothepoet (message)
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I second Homer. Scheduled posting = good, and something many other blogs allow.
Past posting = horrible idea.
- 5/6/2008 4:50 PM
- NQbass7 (message)
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awesome
- 5/6/2008 4:52 PM
- disentangle (message)
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when they are posted, will they appear, stated that they are/were a future post?
- 5/6/2008 4:55 PM
- ONE_DAVID_S (message)
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