New Features
From now on I’ll blog the updates to tipit.to.
Messaging
You can now message anybody that tipped you, and anyone with a profile. The ability to mail thank you notes has been asked for more than once. I added some abuse protection, but we’ll have to see if I have to go a step further and allow users to block all mail sent via tipit.to
The ability to tip unclaimed tipjar owners will be added shortly.
One place where you can find the messaging icon is where you would expect it, on your tips received page:
You’re then presented with an web based e-mail send form:
We hope you like it.
Comments
Comments on tips were sort of private; they didn’t show up on your profile page, for example. In retrospect, if you can see the tip, you might as well see the comment too. So, from now on, comments are always displayed along with the tip.
Popular tipjars
The new front page algorithm introduced last week is working fine, though I think I’ll increase the factor that makes tips count less and less over time; it seems a bit too static for now.
Also more data will be added to the display of popular tipjars.