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Staff Blog / Channels 2.0 coming soon!!!
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Channels 2.0 coming soon!!!
As you may have recently heard, Channels 2.0 has been in development for a few months now and it will be released soon. Soon as in next week!!! We've developed a ton of new features that you're going to love, but if you have a Channel you should also know a few things might change.
We launched the first version of channels over a year ago, and there are now about 17,000 Channels! While the response and usage has been great we think Channels were over loaded with too many features that had little to do with videos. Specifically, forums, blogs, files, and calendars are a big distraction on most Channels, and are hardly ever used.
So we created Vimeo Groups. Just like how Channels are all about showcasing videos and control of their appearance, Groups are about fostering community and interaction. Groups allow you to create mini communities within Vimeo around the things you like, and meet people who share your interests.
With Channels 2.0 we've cut out the extraneous stuff and gone back to basics. We'll be eliminating forums, blogs, files, and calendars and have added three amazing layout modes which showcase videos clearly and beautifully. We've also added the ability to arrange videos within your Channel, the ability to feature videos in your Channel, categories, tags, and improved customization and themes.
Once we upgrade to Channels 2.0, all existing Channels will be updated. If you have a Channel that makes heavy use of forums and files, you can easily convert it to a Group. Just go to your Channel Settings -> Convert to Group. All of your data will transfer over.
Please post any questions you have here and we'll be happy to help you out! We're looking forward to seeing more awesome Channels on Vimeo!
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Will create channel right now!
Also - hmm... I'm wondering how many other people would find this handy. But I have one channel for every video related to our film... wether it's a teaser, or a vlog, or an episode.
But it would be cool if we could have featured tags, or just a way to filter the content in the channel in a "featured" kind of way. :P
If that makes any sense...
Thank you
It's a physical impossibility for Vimeo to design something that isn't attractive.
I'm pumped
Off our Project Pedal blog we link to our Vimeo channel for all our videos - and this is a much sexier way to present everything.
Great work! *thumbs up*
Love the upgrade guys. keep up the outstanding work.
There ought to be a difference and with this move, there is. Good work.
shot!
i've made a channel to promote my film (vimeo.com/beataignoranza) with trailers and special content. But I want also to collect comments and videos from other people about the facts of my doc. So I want to connect a group to my channel, for this is very important for me to have the possibility to link my channel with my group... It will be possible with channel 2.0?
Thanks!
Mattia
Look for our new America.gov Channel (featuring great videos from the State Dept.) as soon as it's available.
Thanks for always improving our experience Vimeo!
My biggest plight with groups is the lack of "channel" functionality around video organization and the front page. Why the need to "brand" and prohibitively design them when they should be able to flow between each other from a programming standpoint.
Hoping you reconsider it from a user standpoint rather than your design groups conclusions and preconceived notions of user behavior or desired behavior.
Can someone point me to a high traffic group that actually functions and builds community... because maybe I'm doing something wrong but I feel the group product doesn't work since it doesn't give the moderator control over the front page in any real way.
the decisions to go back to a simpler version of channels as a personal curating tool *was* based on what we found out from actual user behavior.
here are some groups where you will get a general sense of highly traffic'd groups:
vimeo.com/groups/all/sort:subscribed
Another major flaw with groups is the mass message functionality. Currently people use groups to spam there videos with one click without even having to visit the group (not very encouraging toward fostering community)... but a moderator doesn't even have the ability to send a message/email to all its members at the same time to get everyone to participate in something.
That's a major flaw with groups... and since the front page isn't a place to view moderated content with the current group set up, people just join groups to spam them with videos, not to actually discover videos and or collaborate. Groups as they function now are just spam depositories and poorly crowd sourced channels. They need and could work so much better.
Why can't you all just allow users to add the forums tab or calendar tab to Channels 2.0 if they so choose. That's the kind of group functionality I want... (Front page control... with a forum tab) not the junk collective that is my group now.
re: group > subscribers mass notification system... our current thinking on this is that the risk is just great. more accurately the risk would be too great if it became commonly misused.
re: featured videos for groups... it's something we've discussed internally and would like to implement. it just sort of got dropped down in the priority list. we will revisit it.
I wish you would rethink the mass notification system. As long as with one click, a user can a) not get email notification(I have almost all mine turned off), b)not get an actual vimeo mail when bulk sent and c)completely unsubscribe from the group in its entirety- moderators and creators will use it sparingly to avoid alienating core users or else there groups will cease to function.
can you explain this gallery a bit? Are their different views for Channels?
It's because of Channel 2.0 coming?
Peace;')
Groups have been the way to go for months now, at least when it comes to collaborative efforts, so hopefully the losses will be minimal for anyone who has been using the prior feature set?