All About Oikos

One of the major requests for improvement on the first version of Oikos, was for more ways to personalize the Oikos experience. People felt very restricted by the few options. We agreed that something should be done to expand the ways people could make Oikos their own.
Members of the first version of Oikos had two […]

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The My Stuff menu helps you keep track of all your relationships in Oikos V2.

The first item in the pop-up menu is the My Pages window, which contains enough to warrant its own blog post. (Coming next.)

The second item in the menu is the My Friends window. Here’s where you can keep track of all […]

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Just like the first Oikos, the new version has groups. You can have an unlimited number of groups, and the groups can have an unlimited number of members. Groups keep everything and everyone organized in your Oikos.

Every group has a wall, a page that can be completely customized to represent the group. The wall is […]

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The Oikos Version 2 member directory hasn’t changed very much since Version 1. You can view all the members of your Oikos and sort through them alphabetically. You can add people to your friends list, as well as start chat conversations. Administrators can use this page to add new members to their Oikos.
The only new […]

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Just like we added categories to forums, we added categories to Media in the new version of Oikos.

Inside every category is a list of media albums. You can see a thumbnail of the first media item in each album. You can see how many pictures, videos and audio files are inside. Also, you can see […]

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We’ve added categories to the forums in the new version of Oikos. We put them in there to help you manage your forums better. We’ve always wanted to keep the forums simple, so that they were easy to understand and use, but we thought adding categories would be a welcome improvement, without complicating things too […]

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When we launched Oikos Version 1, we received plenty of feedback on the calendar. The old calendar would only allow individual dates and events that would repeat perpetually. On the dates that repeated, if the event was edited, every instance of that event was changed.
The Oikos Version 2 calendar is much more robust. You can […]

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One of the major requests for improvement for the next version of Oikos, was for there to be more ways to personalize the Oikos experience. People felt very restricted by the limited options, and we agreed that something should be done to help people make Oikos their own.
Our first idea for making Oikos more customizable […]

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As we said in the previous post, we hid the chat feature in the footer so it wouldn’t take up screen space when it wasn’t being used.
When you click the far left-hand part of the footer, it opens a list of all your friends. When you click one of the names from the list, a […]

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We received a lot of great feedback when we released Oikos V1. While people had plenty to say about what they liked about Oikos, they also had a few improvements that they wanted to see. We were happy to oblige.
The original version was optimized for a 1024 x 768 screen resolution, but would not expand […]

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