Hello BitViewers! Welcome to the first Checklog post.

I am thrilled to announce a series of new features and improvements we have introduced to our platform. Thanks to the amazing work of RottingSunkist, we have refreshed the play button design, which should enhance users' video-watching experience.

Additionally, we have introduced a new feature called "Channel Honors", which is available to channels with over 75 subscribers. We believe this feature will encourage users to actively build their channels and create engaging content.

We have also redesigned the playlist feature to provide users with even better experiences. Furthermore, we have improved the channel embedding functionality and fixed issues with the search feature on the channels page.

Moreover, users can now sort videos on the video page using time filters, making it easier to find the latest videos. To improve users' control over their channels, we have decided to hide banned subscribers or subscriptions from their profile.

For users accessing our platform on mobile devices, I am pleased to inform you that we are working on a mobile version of our site. This feature will allow users to browse and watch videos more easily on-the-go. There will be a blog post in the next few weeks describing progress on the mobile version. For now, stay turned!

We are very excited about these changes and improvements as they will enhance the user experience on our platform. Therefore, we encourage you to visit our site and see these new features for yourself!

Keep expressing yourself,
<3 vistafan12 and The BitView Team

Hello everyone! Hope you're having a great day. Today, BitView introduce some new features, which include:



Partner updates

• Side images are here! Upgrade your branding with images that contain links to your website.


• You can now set a link to click in your channel banner

Watch page updates

• You can now watch Honors in every video's "Statistics & Data" section.


• @mentions and timestamps are now links that get you to a channel page or to a certain point of a video, respectively.

Minor changes

• Channel opacity has been restored.


• Your homepage title now uses your display name.


• Updated default profile picture.

FIRST PLACE: Shark plays Windows 7 Games
http://bitview.net/watch.php?v=eLVkGDTg

SECOND PLACE: My new Xbox 360 (game console review)
http://bitview.net/watch.php?v=lX5CsXkSzbO

THIRD PLACE: Bitview Game Review: Minesweeper!
http://bitview.net/watch.php?v=O5nEMWN7pUe

THANK YOU EVERY0NE FOR PARTICIPATING!
I hope we can have just as many amazing submission this month too!

Today we launched partnerships, a program to boost your branding with BitView. If you want to do more with BitView and meet the requirements you can apply to the partnership program.



Advantages


- Custom banner for your channel and watch page


- Custom box for your channel


- More to come in the future!



How do I apply?


It's as easy as entering the partnership page and pressing apply. A moderator will review the application and accept or deny the application.



Which criteria do I have to meet?


To qualify for the BitView Partner program, you must meet some minimum criteria:

- You create original videos suitable for online streaming.
- You have >75 subscribers.
- Your account does not break any Community Guidelines.

We know this update has already its time, but we want to show you what you can do now on BitView.



Updated Homepage

Streamlined homepage. Get more done in less space, in a modern fashion.



Updated Videos and Channels page

We refreshed the Videos and Channels page.



Updated Groups

2006 called. It wants its groups page back. We finally got rid of that dusty, old groups UI and replaced it with a more simple and efficient one. You can now also delete groups and leave them.



Updated Watch Page

You can now watch your favorite videos in Theater Mode or watch it on another window.




You can also manage your video now via the watch page.






Updated Channels

Do you like customization? Now you can add featured channels, give it a title, and choose some of the world's most iconic fonts such as "Arial", "Verdana" or "Times New Roman". Channel backgrounds have been upgraded in quality and descriptions allow for more content, so you have more space to describe yourself.


Updated Account pages

Now you can manage your videos more efficiently with the new Account pages, which include: Account, Favorites, Playlists, Subscriptions, My Videos, Viewing History...



Updated Header

You can now access everything you need on a click with the new header.





Updated Blog Page

I guess you have realized by now, as you are reading a blog post here...


Updated Search

You can now search channels if there are no videos found. It has moreover been added a fresh layer of paint to its UI.



We hope you like these updates. There are more to come in the future, so stay tuned on our Twitter or join our Discord.

People and videos that break the rules (or more importantly the law) will be getting removed. Bitview hasn't been associated with Vidlii or Kolyama since February.

Hey BitView users! You may get deja vu from hearing this, But new owners have aquired BitView! Although you wont notice the changes immediately, BitView's quality will slowly begin increasing.

-- hwd and sks2002

The month has ended, and so the contest. And we have the winners!

1st Place: Bitview castle in minecraft From Pews

2nd Place: BitView in Minecraft! from chaosweegee217

3rd Place: Minecraft Cake from retrogames6425


Thanks for participating! There were 36 entries added to this contest!

Hello there BitViewers. We’ve recently seen people making videos on what they want but we’ve noticed some people posting comments saying “it’s not made in the style of 2008” and we do not agree with them statements. We don’t mind what kind of videos you upload on the site (apart from videos which break the rules like Pornography, gore, hate speech or copyrighted videos). We want this platform to be welcoming to anyone. It doesn’t matter if you make original content, make videos in a style of a particular year or even making a video in your own language. You know that the BitView team and the community will welcome you to this site and the community as a whole.
~BitViewTeam

Hello there BitViewers, we’re here to say thank you for helping BitView to become what it is. We’ve hit over 10K users on the site!!! Which is equal to the population of these British towns, Crofty and Scorton!!!

Here’s all of the stats from the website as of the 3rd of June 2021.
Site Stats
Users:10,012
Videos:25,624
Total Views:803,048
Total Comments:31,958
Total Favorites:19,776
Total Ratings:65,029
Total Friends:12,954
Total Subs:22,431
Total Bulletins: 4,061

Here’s to another 10k!

~Team BitView

The month has ended, and so the contest. And we have the winners!

1st Place: Snowmans in the winter from PASTE

2nd Place: Snow (Artsy Video) from CazOSX

3rd Place: Winter Does Not Exist from NoMax


Thanks for participating! There were more than 30 entries!

Yup, you have been waiting forever for a new update I know. But you finally got an update after around 2 years of waiting.



Thank you for being with us! We hope you like the new layout!

- BitView Staff

Happy New Year!!

I hope this year will be twice as good as the previous one - I wish you a lot of success and joy (and updates) this new year.

<3,
--vistafan12

The year has passed since the foundation of the BitView website. This is a great opportunity to celebrate this anniversary with various statistics.

(as of December 2, 2018)
Users: 2,371
When we chose 1 thousand, I was terribly happy. Thanks to you, it happened in half a year. Now there are 2 thousand of us. Thank you very much!
Videos: 6.221
Total Views: 223,938
Total Comments: 7.365
Total Favorites: 4,572
Total Ratings: 11,822
Total Friends: 5.040
Total Subs: 3.417
Total Bulletins: 1,440
Big Updates: 3

And we wanted to finish this post with a video prepared by my good buddy, @BMF:

http://www.bitview.net/watch.php?v=v0TKv2iqVcg

I apologize to you for not showing you a new layout, but we have not had time. However, thank you for everything.

I (as vistafan12) would like to inform you that I am applying for the position of a site developer. Wish me luck!

- BV Team

Hey,
we've added a lot of things to BV. Here is the whole list!

(25.06)

- Added channel customization
(26.06)
- You can set video search query options now

(27.06)

- Fixed a lot of bugs
- Made some new bugs
- New header
- Header displays unseen messages now
- Added groups
- Changed design of the page in some places
- Site is a bit wider now
- Profile changes
- Customization affects every profile page now
- Links color customization
- Order channels by "last login", "most subs" and "most videos"
- Playlist descriptions and tags
- New contest
- Searching for playlists and groups
- Time limit is 1 hour now and video quality was slightly improved too
- New My Videos/My Favorites page
- Choose your avatar
- https://www.bitview.net/ works now
- We recommend using it but since it would break old browsers, We won't force it.

(28.06)

- Added analytics (views per day)
- Custom CSS on groups

Join to our Discord server:
https://discord.gg/BwZXxFc

Or follow us on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/bitview_

Thanks you for using BitView!
vistafan12

In Dec 05, 2017,
we had a 99 users,
90 videos,
2,303 views,
173 comments and
92 favorites.

In Mar 10, 2018,
we had a 315 users,
476 videos,
41,079 views,
551 comments and
385 favorites.

Right now,
In Apr 30, 2018
we have 920 users,
1,622 videos,
99,606 views,
2,020 comments and
1,304 favorites.
And this number is still growing. It's thanks to you that the whole team is happy to have such a community.
Thanks to this opportunity, we've added some great things you can already use, such as Subscriptions, Channel 1.0 (ala 0.9) or new video quality soon.

I'm happy that I can manage a community like this.

Thanks you for make me happy. Also thanks to Jan, Animacreep, kazan and the rest of users who helps BV reach the perfect state.

vistafan12

Hello everyone!
We're proud to announce that BitView now has a VK account!
This account will be similar to the Twitter one. We will post some BitView updates to keep you guys up to date.
Cya.

-Animacreep

Hey folks,
quick update - I would like to introduce you to the new moderator @Animacreep!
I hope you will have fun with our community!
~vis

PS: In a few weeks, we maybe publish Channel 1.0.

Hey folks,
Today, just a bit about statistics and big changes on BitView.
First, let's start with the statistics.

Stats

- 315 Users
- 476 Videos
- 41,079 Total Views
- 551 Total Comments
- 385 Total Favorites

I am very happy to see what you are doing for BitView. Remember, it's your portal, you decide about it, we just watch if sometimes no bot has spammed server :P

Big Changes

The entire administration (only me and Jan in total) are working on a new version of BitView, which will be released in a few weeks. I can not tell you when exactly the new version will appear, I hope it's the soonest. Here are some screenshots:








After publishing it will look different



Thank you for being with us, see you in the next post!
-vis

PS: Follow our Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitView_

Another day, another BitView update.
A bunch of stuff got added and changed in the last few days, let me tell you a bit about the bigger changes:

Friends & Private Videos
Instead of having a big unorganized and often not even authorized list of users that can view your private videos, you can now invite others to be your friend on their channel. Those that accept the invitations will now be able to view your videos.

Deleting Comments
You're now able to delete the comments under videos that you own.

Videos List
http://www.bitview.net/sharing.php has an example on how you can display your BitView videos on your website.


Thank you for your support and the next few months are going to be exciting I'm sure.

Yes, nothing particularly groundbreaking but some bug fixes and speed improvements.
Private, deleted or videos without a thumbnail will also have a special thumbnail now instead of just showing up as an error.

BitView got a little visual upgrade and some bug fixes.

It's time for the first BitView Update.
Even though the update isn't big, it has some useful stuff which I hope you'll enjoy.

- PAGES. You can now see more videos and messages instead of just a maximum of 16.
- VIDEO MESSAGES. If the video is still converting, it says so instead of just being broken.
- RSS FEED. Get notified when new videos are being uploaded to BitView.
- BUG FIXES. Some bugs have been fixed

Here is some stats from 03/12/2017 to 05/12/2017.
Users: 99
Videos: 90
Total Views: 2,303
Total Comments: 173
Total Favorites: 92

Thank you for using BitView.
~vistafan12

Just something I did for fun and to test a few things out.