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Spring cleaning

Posted by Mark Wed, 23 May 2007 16:00:00 GMT

A new version of the site went live last night and here are the highlights:

Friends and Communities

eBible.com is about sharing the Bible with others and most of us are already doing that in some form “offline” in our everyday lives. For many of us this is through specific communities such as a church, ministry or school that we attend. Our goal is to reflect these communities online at eBible.com so everyone can extend their fellowship and Bible study among these communities online.

Everyone who signs up for an account at eBible.com can now find and add their church from our database of churches. (If it is not there they can quickly request it to be added). Everyone else who already has an account is encouraged to go to the new “Communities” tab in their Settings to find and add their church community as well. All of this is an effort to help people better connect with others at eBible.com who are also involved in the same church, ministry or school community.

You will also notice that you can add individual “friends” in order to share bookmarks, notes and topics with each other. (Just a bit of name changing here from “My Community”)

View other people’s friends

When viewing someone’s eBible.com profile you will now see a button to “View Friends”. This is a great way to see others who are using the site and add them to your own list of friends. Here is an example

Personal Commentary

Another new button on each profile is “Personal Commentary” which is just a simple view of all the person’s shared notes on the Bible. The notes are in canonical (Gen-Rev) order and is a good way to find people who you may want to add as a friend if they have some insights you find interesting. Here is an example

Related Topics

I love this new feature. On every bookmark search we now display a list of related topics that helps you find even more great passages. Look at the left sidebar on this search for redemption for example.

Bible Search Changes

We have tweaked our Bible search algorithm a bit and are really liking the new results on many searches. Give it a try and let us know if you are able to recover verses you kind of remember and discover new verses on a topic or issue.

As always there has been some bug fixes and work on optimization in this release and we look forward to much more in the coming weeks and months! Post your thoughts, comments and feedback below as comments.