Philly Launches; Brooklyn Redesigned
Big news around Brownstoner HQ: After many months of planning, Brownstoner Philadelphia launches this morning. With its incredible architectural history and passionate residents, Philly has the two key ingredients for a successful Brownstoner community. With Gabby Warshawer, a three-year veteran of Brownstoner Brooklyn, at the helm and a handful of local contributors in place, we…
Big news around Brownstoner HQ: After many months of planning, Brownstoner Philadelphia launches this morning. With its incredible architectural history and passionate residents, Philly has the two key ingredients for a successful Brownstoner community. With Gabby Warshawer, a three-year veteran of Brownstoner Brooklyn, at the helm and a handful of local contributors in place, we hope to do exciting things in the City of Brotherly Love. We urge you to check out the site and, please, take a minute to shoot an email to your friends and family in the area.
In related news, you may notice that things look a little different around here. With the help of the crack team at Six Apart, we’re pleased to debut an updated look for Brownstoner. Not too much has changed: The headlines are a little bigger, we’ve added some shortcuts for spreading stories via Twitter and Facebook, and we’ve tried to bring the neighborhood archives into greater prominence.
In the future, we hope to start having some overlap between the Philly and Brooklyn sites where appropriate. Most importantly, we plan to introduce a shared Forum, where posts that are not geographically specific can share feedback. At some point, the renovation blogs may be co-mingled too.
We look forward to your feedback on both sites. Please kick the tires and let us know if you see any problems. Thanks for playing.
Mr. B
Moved to Philly and luv it!
Mr. B, maybe include Roxborough in your coverage area. Lots of cool houses and people there. Also has its fair share of class warfare.
working fine from firefox for me…
Montrose, I think you’ll like what you see of Philly.
Mr. B, the site is pretty sticky, with pictures taking a while to pop up, wiggy scrolling, etc. I am sure you know that, but navigating is a bit more awkward at the moment than before.
Ditto was CGar said about avatars. It makes it easy to scan long threads. And ignore/follow features would be nice.
Hard to read in Firefox. And as someone mentioned, the Brooklyn tag line continues on the Philly site.
P.S. Mr. B, can we have avatars like the Twitter people do?? ^^^
Mr. B, I emailed a few friends from college who are still in Philly and urged them to register.
Mr. B, as much as I hate to disagree with Snappy, and I’m sure to pay for this later, please can’t you put names back BELOW the posts??? Seems to be general consensus on the OT. <<<<