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This month’s Mosuki update includes some very exciting new features that we’ve been fine-tuning for a while.

Email replies

You now can reply to Mosuki messages directly from your email program. When you get a Mosuki message from a friend, or a message posted to an event, in email, you can reply right from your email program. There are a few important caveats to this feature:

• You must reply using the email address that you log in to Mosuki with. For most people, this won’t be a problem. However, if you have your email forwarded, or if you use “dash” addresses, you have to be careful to change your “from” address before sending the message.
• You must reply using the “Reply-to” address in the email message. Again, this won’t be a problem for most people, since most email programs do this automatically.
• This feature doesn’t work for Hotmail users yet. Hotmail sends very badly formatted email, and it’s going to be a lot of work for us to correct it, but we’ll fix it eventually.

We’ve been using this feature ourselves for a while now, and it’s super useful. Try it.

Scenes

The real exciting new feature is something we’re calling scenes. Scenes are a whole new way to find out about, and share, events. A scene is a community where people who like a certain type of event can keep track of those events. A scene has:

• A collection of similar events.
• Members who are interested in those events, who can add events.
• A discussion forum for talking about and planning events.
• A public calendar, and public RSS and iCalendar feeds of those events.

If you join a scene, you will find out about new events and messages in that scene, in email and in the new & upcoming event lists, and meet people who are into the same kind of events as you.

Any group of people and events can be a scene: a film festival, a sports team or season, your burning man camp, your favorite genre of music, really anything at all. And you can share your scene calendar with anyone — they don’t have to be Mosuki users.

You can find scenes, or create new scenes, by clicking on the scenes icon at the top of every page. Once you join a scene, you can add an event into that scene simply by selecting the scene name on the event page. New events in your scenes will go out in the daily email, just like new events that your friends have added.

Before you get too excited about scenes, just wait! We’ve got a whole lot more improvements to scenes on the way, so stay tuned.

Miscellaneous changes

Besides all this, this release includes the regular dose of bug fixes and speed enhancements. As always, let us know what you think, and enjoy!