The Robot Co-op

As the site has grown we’ve learned better ways to do things. The time is at hand to swap our old way of doing subscriptions (on 43 Things and 43 Places) to the new way (on 43 People). Soon we’ll be redirecting http://www.43things.com/zeitgeist/subscriptions to
http://www.43people.com/subscriptions

What this ought to mean for the site(s) is better stability and fewer errors (oops pages). It will also mean that all subscription reading will happen on 43 People. It will take us a bit of time to work out the kinks, and oh, on the internet we all love change, but for some people this change probably will take some getting use to. The upside of a faster and more reliable site is likely worth the hassle.

In the new year we have a wicked plan (it’s called 6/6/6 internally) to make the site wicked fast.

You can now send your future self a reminder for any goal on your 43 Things list. Here’s how it works:

• go to the goal page, click “add a reminder” (upper right).
• select when you want to be reminded via a dropdown (in a couple days, next week, next month, in about 6 months, by next year)
• customize the reminder to your future self (or just use the text we provide)

That’s about it. You cancel the reminder by clicking a cancel link when the reminder email shows up in your inbox.

We’re also riffing on All Consuming right now and added I am consuming this and I have consumed this links on the homepages along with some convenient Ajax-tion. Suggestions are always welcome.