9rules today launched Ali 2. I’m going to post later on my thoughts on the design (so far being a thumbs up), but for now wanted to do shorter post in house blend about the launch. My thoughts? Yay and many other positive affirmations come to mind. I’m thrilled and enjoying the new features.

Community is a two way street

Pre-Ali 2 there was a new member’s agreement and a fair few feathers ruffling over it. Personally, I agreed as the change was to be active in the 9rules community and I was being anyway. To me as I’ve said before this has always sort of been the point for me about 9rules. I’ve never had the 9rules link farm / syndicate view (lets just leave the word blog network in the history books shall we). What I want to say with Ali 2 is that I want to recommit to 9rules and all it stands for. I feel renewed by this launch and straining at the leash to get more involved and even more proud than I was before to be a member. 9rules proves the theory to me that ‘you get out what you put in’.

New toys

So, what are the new things over at 9rules beyond the fresh lick of paint? There is so much I’m just summing up some of the main things here.

• Clips: Think snippets you and other 9rules members post from around the web and you can ‘clip it’ to show you like it.
• Store : A place to buy headers and other undisclosed additions for your profile using the points you gain at 9rules as the currency.
• Reworked areas: from member pages to communities and notes there is a face lift and refresh of format throughout, even the 9rules blog has been touched by Ali 2.
• Profile page : This has been updated to include your 9rules ’stream’ (what you’ve done on 9rules), badges (9rules member, posts made, amount of friends) and your clique membership. There has also had a feature made of your 9rules friends who become recommender’s of content for you.

It’s quite a list and I’m not really doing it full justice so would recommend you check it out as there are a lot of new things to play with and even the old toys have been revamped.

Thoughts on a relaunch

It was great to follow Mike, Scrivs and Tyme through twitter and the 9rules launch as the new site went live (there is even a podcast). A big yay to them on this great new 9rules. I didn’t think I’d be prouder today to be a member that I was yesterday, but I am. Here’s to this next step in 9rules.