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.

Kemarin Rama menulis di Daily Social 'Koprol: Jual atau Tidak?'. Berhubung sudah lama tidak diberi kabar, isinya hanya tebakan. Sori banget, Ram! Perkenankan kami menyusulkan fakta:

1. Update

Daily Social: "Koprol belum menambahkan update apapun dalam beberapa bulan terakhir"

Koprol: Tiap bulan ada update, bahkan yang terakhir adalah yang paling berarti.

Kami perbaiki fitur atau bikin yang baru tiap minggu. Lalu di-release paling lama tiap bulan. Release yang terakhir (sehari sebelum Pesta Blogger) justru paling berarti, yaitu Koprol yang awalnya tempat percakapan / conversation, mulai menjadi panduan kota atau social city guide.

Dengan cara rating yang diperbaiki, cara tambah tempat yang dipermudah, search tempat menurut jarak, search tempat menurut rating, dan terutama 'Top Places Nearby' - daftar tempat di sekitar anda berdasarkan penilaian anggota lain, Koprol telah memanfaatkan 'wisdom of the crowd', 'social recommendation', 'crowdsourced hyperlocal directory',  'consumer-generated marketing' atau istilah lain yang sok asik.

Berkat update ini, Koprol makin ramai dan tiap saat ada review yang bermunculan. Mau lihat tempat favorit di sekitar kantor baru Rama? Silakan lihat di sebelah kanan. Urutannya bisa berubah tiap saat!

Update berikutnya? Sedang dikerjakan. Nantikan 2 minggu lagi.

2. Persepsi

Daily Social: "Calon investor bilang they don't know what they're doing"

Koprol: Outsiders are curious about our plans

Kami tidak bisa konfirmasi soal investor, tapi jelas banyak yang penasaran mengenai Koprol dan bukan sekedar sebagai user. Mereka yang sudah jadi beta tester bisa menangkap niat Koprol, bahkan sebelum diterangkan. Tapi mereka yang baru coba Koprol selama 1 menit atau hanya dengar dari pihak kedua atau ketiga umumnya salah sangka, terutama karena Koprol sering dideskripsikan sebagai 'Twitter Indonesia' padahal bukan.

Tapi tenang saja. Maupun selama ini kita sibuk sendiri dengan produk dan komunitas, kita juga mulai melayani orang luar. Tiap pihak yang ingin tahu, apakah marketer, operator, investor, sedang kami temui satu persatu. Sedangkan untuk para penonton lainnya, mungkin kita perlu bikin kampanye 'Koprol bukan sekedar microblog'?

3. Statistik

Daily Social: "Compete.com menunjukkan trend menurun"

Koprol: Google Analytics kami mengatakan jauh sebaliknya

Di atas adalah 2 grafik yang sama persis: monthly unique visitors since April. Lalu kenapa untuk bulan Agustus, Compete bilang jatuh menjadi 400 kemudian 250, sedangkan Google Analytics bilang naik menjadi 6000 lalu 8000 uniques? Karena Koprol tidak dibuka untuk tracker luar seperti Compete, jadi kayaknya Compete hanya hitung halaman login.

Memang, baik 250 maupun 8000 bukan angka besar, tapi yang penting aktivitas naik terus. Ini karena makin banyak anggota merasakan serunya Koprol. Mereka menambah dan menilai tempat tiap hari. Silakan lihat tempat favorit untuk pizza, sushi, soto, bakso, coffee, salon, pancake, dll.

4. Jualan

Daily Social: Jual atau tidak?

Koprol: Tidak!

Nanti dulu dong, Ram. Katanya mau lihat 'killer feature' dulu?

-

As you can see in the chart above, yesterday our traffic spiked dramatically. Let's see which of our new features caused our unique visitors to multiply:

Could it be the Auto Check-in?

This is a neat feature, especially when you're on mobile. You can make a post that at the same time checks you in to a place. To do this, start your post with the name of your Favorite between hash characters and follow with your message. For example:

#my campus# going to class!

This checks you in the place that you favorited as 'my campus' and the post will be put in that place. This shortcut feature made it that much easier for people to post right away upon arriving. People have been using it and calling it 'jumper', 'teleport', 'zap!', all sorts of nicknames.

Could it be the Messages?

DM is here! Now you can send direct messages by starting a post with 'to:' followed by the recipient's username. You can also send a message to a set of friends which we call 'entourage', by starting a post with 'ent:' followed by the entourage name. You can create entourage by going to Friends > Entourage. This caused people to send private stuff among their friends that they don't usually share in public.

Could it be the new navigation?

With the new Messages feature, we restructured the navigation. We combined 'Commented' and 'Mentioned' into 'Me & My Friends' and put the Unread link in front. Now you don't have to go to Commented then click Unread, because you can click Unread right from the homepage. This easier access caused people to keep on replying each other and made conversations longer than usual.

Could it be the new mobile features?

We added stuff that wasn't on mobile before, like Alerts so you can approve friends on the go, People search, plus like in the full site the navigation is now simpler with 'Unread' more exposed. More fun on mobile mean more reason to check back while on the road.

Could it be the Email notifications?

This must be it. Now people are notified by email when their friends find them on Koprol. This is a common feature, but we just implemented it and so most members just realized that apparently lots of their friends are already on Koprol. Now that they found each other, it's much more fun to keep testing this beta product.

-

So more of our 1300 beta testers are now active on Koprol. We can't wait to show you more stuff that are being prepared in our kitchen right now. Meanwhile have you seen our public homepage design for next week? It was leaked by Daily Social