Lonely Planet Labs

Recent improvements to lonelyplanet.com

Katie MarcarLonely Planet author

Last week we successfully released another fortnight’s worth of changes to Lonelyplanet.com.

It is a fairly small batch we can announce this time as the team has been working for 4 weeks on functionality for the following fortnight’s release. So stay tuned…

Below are highlights of the changes we introduced this time:

• We made it easier for users to navigate from a thorn tree post to a Thorn Tree user’s profile page. By just clicking on the poster’s username that sits with their post and selecting ‘view profile’. Thorn tree users have wanted this for some time, so it is a happy moment when we finally get these small improvements out to the user. This should also improve traffic to our new profile pages as it makes them easier to discover. It also complements the work we are currently doing (but is not yet live) to show a thorn tree activity stream on the user’s Profile page, alongside their groups activity.
• For Trip Planner users we fixed a bug – so now if you print your trip the POI details associated with your trip will also print. We also added the ability for a sponsor to display their logo within trip planner. First campaign using this is the MasterCard campaign in the US.
• For Lonely Planet blogs we fixed a bug so that users wanting to comment on a blog post can now sign in directly from the blog post to do so.

I will try and keep these brief and keep them coming each fortnight.

Cheers
Katie Marcar
Global Website Manager