Episodes v1.1

Published on 27/02/2011

Part of the fun of releasing applications is pushing out new and exciting features. Unfortunately before you can do that you need to solve outstanding issues. Thankfully with two bugfix releases behind us (v1.0.1 and v1.0.2), Ben and I are now looking to improve the application in some exciting (and hopefully unexpected) ways.

Here’s a quick list of the changes we’re hoping to roll-out later this week:

  • Within your Watchlist, the Upcoming section will now show the next episode of a series that is due to air. We think this one will make a lot of people very happy.
  • We’re looking to introduce the ability to mark historic episodes as being seen/unseen. Making your way through an old Mad Men boxset? Not a problem. Tick episodes off as you watch them.
  • Finally, we’re making it possible for users to allow friends to see what’s on their watchlist. The service is totally free, and it’s opt-in. You can see an example of a public watchlist here (note: still very much a work in progress).
  • A number of UI tweaks and fixes to customise and polish certain native behaviours we weren’t very happy with.

Look out for Episodes v1.1 in the near future.