New dating inbox
When you're doing online dating, you need tools that will help you
communicate as easily and efficiently as possible. Online dating sites try to
provide good user experiences so that singles can meet each other without
technology getting in the way.
On 6-Mar-2009 the free online
dating site Midsummer's Eve launched it's new dating inbox. With features
suggested by members, the upgrade echos the best-of-breed web based email
services. This will allow members to organise their private messages, and making
it easier to reach their goals of meeting new people and getting dates more
easily.
New features in the new dating messaging service include:
- Sort by sender: now members can sort their messages by sender. This
means that if an important message from a new contact comes in and members want
to track the thread of a conversation, they can.
- Sort by opened/unopened: the average online dater has a full inbox! Often
messages get overlooked. Sometimes you just know there's a message waiting in
their somewhere that you haven't opened yet, but which page is it on? Sort by
opened/unopened lets you get there in one click of the mouse.
- Sort by date. We've always had the ability to sort by date and this feature is
now complemented by the other two searches (sender and opened/unopened). Now
online daters can find the most recent messages quicky.
- Set title length: online dating messages can be long or short just like normal
emails, but often it's really useful to see a long precis of the messages in
your inbox. This unique feature which we haven't seen on any other online dating
sites, allows members to quickly skim their inbox for important messages from
new dates. Message length can be set to short (the default), medium or long.
- Check all and uncheck all buttons. If you're doing a lot of messaging you
don't want to have to laboriously tick 25 checkboxes and then hit "Delete". This
is just one example of technology getting in the way of the task, which is
finding a great new date. So we have introduced Check All and Uncheck All
buttons to easily allow the deletion of a whole page of messages in one go.
- New paging. The new paging allows users to quickly get to any page of messages
in their inbox. This is far more efficient and tidy than the old paginator.
- Better icons. Icons should always be meaningful. The old icons indicating
opened, unanswered and answered messages have been brought back with their clean
and clear appearance allowing singles to see which contacts they should be
attending to first.
- Messages per page. Each member of an online dating has a different style of
managing their contacts. Some people send and receive large numbers of messages.
Others use the free messaging sparingly. So we have introduced a feature to
allow 10, 25, 50 or 100 messages to be displayed per page at any one time.
Perfect when combined with the new sorting features to find those all-important
messages tucked away in the depths of the Inbox!
Above all technology should be a help when doing online dating, not a hindrance.
The many improvements free dating site Midsummer's Eve have introduced into
their new dating inbox will help singles to meet new people more easily, more
efficiently, and add to the enjoyment of using the site they already love.
Midsummer's Eve is a free, friendly
online dating site and we have been online since 1999.