It's been an amazing year for Koprol, and you've been a good boy or girl. All 19,000 of you. So here's a little stocking stuffer from us: another feature update! Hopefully these include what you wished for. We've got lots more coming next month. Happy holidays!

1. Mute

You got summoned and got stuck in a thread (or roll or prol or trail) that just won't end? You can now click the mute button and stop getting notifications. Finally!

2. Block

Blocking a person not just avoids you from getting comments from that person, it also avoids you from getting summoned.

3. Tabs

More content is coming in the right-hand column, so we've organized it by adding tabs to the boxes. Expect to see more cool stuff in there later.

4. Multiple Review

Want to make a new review of the same place? Before, you have to replace your old review. Now, we will keep your old reviews. But take note: we only count your last rating.

5. Easier Suggest Place

It's now easier to submit a new place. Like before, when you search a place and can't find it, just scroll down the page to suggest a new place. Now, we auto fill the name, and there's an easy text box to choose the area. Just start typing and a list will show up. Choose and proceed.

6. Connect Yahoo! & Facebook to existing account

Even if you have not connected your Koprol account with Yahoo! or Facebook, you can still click those buttons before login. We will then ask you to connect to your existing Koprol account.

7. View Mobile version on your computer

On slow connection? Here's a tip. Try our Mobile version from your computer. Just go to m.koprol.com. At anytime, you can switch between the mobile version and standard version through a link at the bottom.

Important: Please clear your browser's cache & cookies, for these new features to work properly.

We got free themes from the best in the business, without even asking.

Let us introduce to you the first custom-made Koprol Blackberry themes, made as a contribution from Indonesia's leading BlackBerry theme makers: idberry & gindrag. Thank you, guys!

To download, go to koprol.idberry.com or click below:

Koprol Theme #1 by idberry (Deddy Avianto)

Koprol theme #2 by gindrag (Indra Gunawan)

Please visit idberry.com for more themes.

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Disclaimer: These themes are not official products of Koprol. Koprol and SkyEight is not responsible or liable for any damages. For tech support, please contact its respective creators.

Koprol has been tested since 10 months ago, but in just these last 2 weeks our membership increased by 40%. We didn't do any promoting so we think this was caused by the Yahoo! Open Hack Day, amazing press coverage, mentions in Twitter, mentions in BlackBerry community, and through word of mouth.

More than just new signups, we also saw increase in the stickiness and interactivity. Pageviews increased by 300% and comments increased by 400%. And the best is yet to come!

New Features

Twitter Geotagging

Whaddya know? Twitter finally goes location too! But you can't add geotagging from Twitter yet. You have to use other apps like Koprol. To add location in your tweets, just do these 2 things:

1. On Twitter, go to Account Settings and check 'Enable geotagging'
2. On Koprol, go to Settings > Sharing and connect to Twitter

No Hashtags

You can now crosspost without hashtags! We added an option for you to not include our location hashtags. Just go to Settings > Sharing, then under Twitter select "none". Now your Koprol tweets are clean.

Change Username

Hate that long ugly username you picked? No worries. You can now change your username by going to Settings . Just be careful! All your previous mentions will not link to your new profile page. And other people are allowed to takeover your old username. So think twice.

The best is yet to come

Expect our native BlackBerry app and our full-featured 'business account' to be available for testing in 2 months. Details coming soon.