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05-10-2000
Skoolhouse Mix of the week
Big congrats to DLG with his Disko
Technology mix. This mix has been
selected as the skoolhouse mix of the
week.
The mix of the week is hand picked by
the staff at skoolhouse.com. It is now
linked to directly off of the front
page of AKA.com
This large portal site is viewed
by a much larger audience. We will
continue working with AKA.com
to promote everyone on this site!
05-08-2000
Skoolhouse 2.0
It's obvious that 2.0 is now up.
Somewhat less obvious
are the changes we've
made based on our experiences with
old skool skoolhouse
and all the feedback we've gotten from
users.
We think the new format
and features are "mad phat", and can't
wait
for everybody to try
them out:
1) BEHEARD - Uploading
is MUCH easier, faster, and more
reliable. The old uploading
process kind of, well,
sucked. Our host didn't like it much
either because it
was eating up most of
their RAM. To improve everything for
everybody, we've set
up a pop-up FTP-upload
window that you can use to "drag-n-
drop" your mixes right to the
Skoolhouse RealAudio
server. The FTP window shows a
progress bar during the
upload (finally!) and
when it's finished, you just fill out a
short form
and select your track
from a list of recently uploaded
tracks.
2) If you're a
Skoolhouse "regular" (you know who you
are), you can now
claim a little piece of
Skoolhouse 2.0 as your own by becoming
a
Skoolhouse
Affiliate. Affiliates get to
create and maintain their own "site"
within
Skoolhouse using a web-
based interface that allows you to
submit articles,
pictures, shouts, etc.
If you're interested in becoming an
Affiliate, send
a writing sample to djav
id@skoolhouse.com.
3) LISTEN area
improvements - First, we've changed the
list display to a search-engine style
that cuts down loading
and resorting time dramatically
(because you're only getting 10
items at time, instead
of the whole list). Second, every
style (House, Jungle,
Breaks, Hip-Hop, and
Trance) and within them, every sub-
style has its own
list! So, if you want
to see the top ten Party-House tracks,
you can do that.
Or you can see the 10
most recently uploaded Hip-Hop tracks,
etc. We think this
makes the tracks a LOT
easier to get to and make sense out
of.
That's about it for
now. Look for more in the future,
including the opportunity
to become a Skoolhouse
Virtual Resident DJ!
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