In the wee hours of Monday, October 12, the bleary-eyed IndieFlix staff bid farewell to the old site and ushered in the new.
It took years of planning and months of preparation, with an especially frustrating last few hours to make the final push. Ian D. and web guru Aaron Krill were in the office all weekend, until 5 a.m. that morning, preparing to go live before Scilla left the US for the Power to the Pixel conference in London.
One look at their exhausted faces and you’d think they just gave birth!
The new IndieFlix is user-friendly and aesthetically appealing. It’s a lot easier to find films on the new site, now that you are able to browse by extremely specific categories and narrow search results for shorts and features. But the most exciting part is that now IndieFlix users can participate in the film conversation by posting thoughts and comments on films they’ve seen, create their own profiles and build wish lists.
IndieFlix filmmakers also have more options to personalize their space on the new site, with new filmmaker bio links on their film profile pages. They can add personal biographies, a list of their previous works and production notes in that space. More great interactive features for filmmakers are coming soon, so keep checking back in to see what’s been updated.
The goal of it all is to build an indie film community online and bridge the gaps between filmmakers and their audiences. We want to make it easier for customers to find the exact film they’re looking for and provide a forum for them to talk about it and interact directly with the filmmakers. Before, we were unable to manipulate much of the site content, but now we really can create the store we all want to shop at and the kind of community we want to belong to, and hope you do, too.
Please browse our new storefront and be sure to send us any site tips or suggestions. There are new features slowly filtering through our testing stages and exciting new features will keep coming, so stay tuned!
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