Monday 18 August 2014

Changes in August release



Users are now required to Sign up to use the service. The performance is now better than before. The page loads in less than 1 seconds.

1. Google Places Search:

Geolocation and the fallback IP triangulation can find the current location of the user or at least the city where the user resides. But at times users may want to start search from some specific place. In this case, users can make use of the Google Places search:


2. Search Filters

In the previous release, a user could search using filters Category and Tags. But that was not sufficient. In this release, we have a new filter added to people search - Type. This filter was added for categories like Blood Donors, Missing People, etc. The Type includes options like - Patient / Donor, Missing / Found, etc.


3. Search Results

The search results now show more results than before:


4. Marker Popups

Marker popups are now better than before. The picture frame and content rearrangement makes the information more readable.


Plans for the next release:

1. Location enabled tweets when a request for blood is posted on Loppee.com. This was tested successfully.
2. Geo-Fencing for alerts and notifications.