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
Mr. B – will there be a Directory on the Philly site? I can think of a few people that might want to get a listing.
Congrats, Mr. B. It looks great. It will take some time to get used to it, but it’s certainly an upgrade. I’m sure you’ll get that slide thing fixed, but not complaining in the least.
Brownstoner Philadelphia looks great too. Looking forward to learning something about a city I’ve only been to twice. Very cool.
Congrats on the redesign and Philly site launch.
One observation: When you are on the Philly site, there is no easy way to return to (or get to) the Brooklyn site.
Like it very much. Took me a minute to realize the name is now on top of the comment, but the comments section is easier to read with the two colors. Very nice job Mr. B
i like very much the new headline typeface
So exciting to be part of the growth of this brand. Your efforts continue to pay off and reap dividends, Mr. B.
Did you ask for this, DIBS? You’re so spoiled!
***Bid half off peak comps***
Perhaps you could add a feature where specific posters’ comments could be ignored by a user. A couple of sites including facebook have this option.
Squaredrive, same for me. In Firefox it looks like a mess, in IE it looks great.