Direct LifeStyle Announcement

Dear Direct LifeStyle Members,

Over that past several weeks, our website has undergone some upgrades and
changes. We really appreciated your patience during this process. Today
we are happy to announce the Official Relaunch of Directlfiestyle.com.
While there still may be a few bugs, our website is now stable enough to, once again, begin sharing something amazing with the rest of the world. Thank you again for your patience.

You can also follow our updates on this Blog and these Social Communities:

Twitter - http://twitter.com/directlifestyle

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Direct-LifeStyle/113780551535

Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/directlifestyle

Share Something Amazing,
Direct LifeStyle

Direct LifeStyle Features..

Direct LifeStyle has a little bit of something for everyone. From people who want to promote their brand or business to those who just want to share with the community!


Here is a complete list what Direct LifeStyle has to offer -

• Vote and comment on stories that interst you


• Submit news, articles, videos and images from anywhere on the web


• Submit your own content


• Save Stories to your personal profile


• View your voting and comment activity from your profile


• View your profile stats


• Add other Direct LifeStyle members as friends and message them from your profile
  
• Join and create interest groups


• Use groups to promote your personal brand, business, music band or for any other topic of interests


• Share stories with your group


• View stories in real time by using the Live Feed


• Narrow your search using Category, Tags or Advanced Search

and Finally our best feature is You! Without our members their would be nothing Amazing to Share..

Bug Update: Karma Fixed

We have just repaired the karma feature which is a point system calcuated within a one (1) year period.

The point system is as follows:
Votes Before Link Went Published = 3 points
Votes After Link Went Published = 1 points
Links Submitted But Not Published = 2 points
Links Submitted And Published = 20 points
Comments = 3 points

Your Karma Stats can be viewed within your user profile.

New Features and Upgrades for Direct LifeStyle

We are happy to announce serveral new features and upgrades for directlifestyle.com


New Features:
Upload image capture - When you submit a url, direct lifestyle will automatically crawl thumbnails associated with the url submitted. You can also upload pictures from your computer or upload with a direct link to a picture.


Meta description capture - When you submit a url, direct lifestyle will automatically crawl the url submitted for a description for your story.


Friends section in profile - Now your friends can be viewed by all in your profile.


Add to-social bookmarking - You can now share a story from directlifestyle.com to the top social websites with the add to link located at the bottom of every story. You can also share a story using the social bookmarks button from addthis.com


Advanced search - Narrow down your searches and find just what you want.


...and ofcourse we now have a blogger blog and a twitter account where we will keep our users updated with all the latest from directlifestyle.com


Upgrades:
A few template design changes.

Videos & images now show in a shadow box when clicked on.

Added back to profile link in modify profile page.


Bug Fixes:
When clicked on, vote, bury, save, did not automatically refresh.


Current Known Bugs:
Live (all) not showing up.

The karma feature is currently not working.


Upload image capture - if you delete an image, the page must be refreshed in order to select a new image.

Direct LifeStyle blog

Welcome to the Direct LifeStyle Blog. Our blog's purpose is to keep the community up-to-date with the latest developmental updates, announcements and news related to Direct LifeStyle. We also value our users opinions, any suggestions or ideas are very much welcomed.

Share Something Amazing!

-Direct LifeStyle