News: all updates for our software and apps (page 3)

Here’s my second “v9 feature hilite” email, about the next big feature of last week’s CLZ Movies v9 release.
(tip: if you missed feature hilite #1, you can read it here)

Today, we are going to discuss the new collections tab-bar.

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Fixed:

• Tapping an actor could crash the app

Fixed:

• Tapping an actor to view all his/her movies could result in showing movies from someone else
• iPad: Tapping a result from the search box top right didn’t select the right movie
• Add screen:
• For TV Series and Box Sets, the “Add Sheet” wouldn’t always pull up high enough to show all data
• Add button wouldn’t always immediately work
• Cover from previous result would sometimes show in “Add Sheet”

Last week, we released version 9.0 of the CLZ Movies mobile app, our biggest update ever! So big in fact, that you may not have checked out all the new features yet.
To help you get started with all the new stuff, I am going to do four “v9 feature hilite” emails, each one highlighting one of the four big features of this update.

This is Feature Hilite #1 and today, we’re gonna take a look at all the improvements to the Add Movies by Title feature.

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Fixed:

• The app would crash on startup for some users

Today is New Comic Book Day, so here is our weekly overview of new issues and new series. Including one new series that starts off with 69 variants (!!!) for issue one!

In total, today brings 422 new releases for only 163 actual unique issues. You can find all of them in your Add Comics screen now. Or better yet, browse them all using the Add screen’s Pull List tab!

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It has been a while since we had the chance to sit down and work on the CLZ Movies app for a longer stretch. That is, doing improvements that are specific to movies and DVD/Blu-ray/4K releases. In fact, the project took much longer than anticipated, as new ideas for improvements kept popping while we worked on it. And we decided to just let that happen and create the best version of the app that we could think of right now.

Today, we can finally show you this huge v9.0 update for your CLZ Movies mobile app. Here’s what’s new:

• Improved Add Movies / Add by Title screen
• Collection tabs: easily switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
• New: tap an actor name in details to show all your movies with that actor
• Better screens for reporting “unrecognized barcodes” and adding those movies anyway
• When adding Box Sets, the app now automatically asks “Singly Entry or Multiple Entries?”
• Many new icons for digital and streaming formats

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This is CLZ Alwin, with the very first CLZ Newsletter for 2024.

We started off with a bang, with the introduction of our new “Club CLZ” support forum. This is now THE place-to-be to get support for the software, the apps and our Core online databases.
Read on below for full Club CLZ info and sign up instructions.

As for software releases, we did two big updates for Connect. No updates for the mobile apps yet, as the mobile dev team is still working on the upcoming huge 9.0 update for CLZ Movies. Taking a bit longer than planned, mainly because we decided to add more improvements than originally planned. Full details below.

The Core content team is as busy as usual, with all the weekly new releases, plus our ongoing project of checking and improving all video game cover images in Core.

A summary of today’s topics

• Club CLZ is live, come join our new support forum!
• App and software updates:
  • Comic Connect: New Check Value screen
  • Connect: now available in Portuguese, Danish, Serbian and Slovak
  • Coming up any day now : CLZ Movies 9.0
• CLZ Core updates:
  • Core for Games: update on our “Wrong Covers” project
  • Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary

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It is Wednesday again, always the craziest day at the CLZ HQ. We always try to prepare as many releases up front, which works pretty well for DC, but then lots of variants and exclusives are only revealed on NCBD itself, so that is a challenge each and every week.

This week, we see only 177 actual unique new issues, but because of all the variants, the total number of releases comes at 441! All available in your Add Comics screen now.

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Thanks to our translator Frank Silas Kesia Jensen, the Connect web-based software is now available in Danish!

If you are interested in translating Connect to your language, let us know!
The main translations we are looking for at the moment are:

• Norwegian
• Swedish
• Italian

Looks like the slow weeks are over, as today’s NCBD brings us 506 new releases, for a total of 234 actual new unique issues.

The full content team has been working hard to add them all to Core and to complete all entries with as much details as possible. We just finished and you can now find them all in your trusted Add Comics screen.

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Thanks to our translators Fernando Carvalho, Milan Sobat and Brano Mazari, the Connect web-based software is now available in 3 extra languages: Portuguese, Serbian and Slovak!

Thanks guys!

If you are interested in translating Connect to your language, let us know!
The main translations we are looking for at the moment are:

• Danish
• Norwegian
• Swedish
• Italian

Wednesday means: New Comics! Looking at our list by release date, we’re seeing 347 new releases today. Not counting variants, the total comes at 155 new unique issues.

Rowdy called in sick today, so completing all of today’s releases was up to Justin and Taco. But the work was just completed. All 347 new releases are now listed in Core, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information, etc..

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A huge update for your CLZ Movies mobile app is coming up, probably next week. Here’s a sneak preview of all the new features and improvements:

• Improved Add Movies screen: big cover images for 4K/Blu-ray/DVD releases
• Collection tabs: easily switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
• New: tap an actor name in details to show all your movies with that actor
• Better screens for reporting “unrecognized barcodes” and adding them anyway
• Many new icons for digital and streaming formats

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Up until today, the CovrPrice integration has been all about getting values for the comics in your collection. Super useful of course, but… since launch (back in October 2022), a common question from CovrPrice subscribers has been:

“How can I quickly check the value of a comic that is not in my collection?”

And they’re right. There’s other situations in which you may want to check a comic’s actual value, e.g. when you are looking at a comic you may want to buy.

Until now, our recommendation has always been: “Either use the CovrPrice.com website, OR, create a “Temp” collection in your app and add the comic there so that you can see the value”.

But not anymore! Your Comic Connect software now includes a new “Check Value” screen, that lets you quickly check a value of a comic, either by scanning its barcode, or by using the super-fast issue search. Just set it to Raw or Slabbed, pick a grade and go!

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Yep, your favorite (and most expensive?) day of the week again: New Comic Book Day. Lots of opportunities to spend more money today, with 172 new issues and a total 389 new releases when counting all variants.

Rowdy, Justin and Taco just finished adding all 389 new releases to our Core online comic database. All entries have been made as complete as possible, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information (with correct Cover Artists listed for all variants), etc.. etc…

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NCBD Week One for 2024! We thought that last years last NCBD was slow, but this week it is even worse. Only 366 new releases. Leaving out variants, the number comes to 156 unique new issues.

Rowdy, Justin and Taco just finished adding all 366 new releases to our Core online comic database. All entries have been made as complete as possible, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information (with correct Cover Artists listed for all variants), etc.. etc…

Join CLZ Comics on Facebook or Discord

Our “CLZ Comics Community” group on Facebook (over 23,300 members) is a great place for talking about the app, about comics and everything comic related. Our CLZ Comics Discord server (over 1,000 members already!) is more of support forum, to ask questions about the CLZ Comics app or about the Core online comic database.

Click here to join:

• CLZ Comics Community on Facebook
• CLZ Comics support forum on Discord

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Improved:

• Messaging and flow after tapping the “Add Movie” button

Fixed:

• A crash could occur while updating values from CovrPrice
• A crash could occur while updating comics with key information
• While typing in the search box above the folder panel, letters could disappear
• Tablet: when selecting a series, the app would scroll that series to the middle of the folder panel
• “Sniper” button didn’t show if sort order had never been changed in the app
• Update from Core did not download the back cover if available

The end of the year is near, so this is CLZ Alwin with the 12th and last CLZ Newsletter for 2023. But first: A happy 2024 from the entire CLZ Team (13 people now!): Martin, Rowdy, Sven, Stijn, AJ, Pim, Joe, Bernard, Justin, Taco, Senno, Sytske and me, Alwin!

December 2023 was kind of a slow month in terms of app updates and software releases. But we have definitely not been sitting still 🙂

With CLZ Comics 9.0 alive and kicking, our mobile team Pim, Bernard and AJ are preparing four upcoming v9.0 updates for the other four mobiles: CLZ Movies, CLZ Games, CLZ Books and CLZ Music. Read on below for more details.

The CLZ content team has been working on three huge Core projects, for movies, games and comics. More info below. We even hired a new part-time content manager to help with that: Taco’s friend Senno has joined the team for two days a week!
Also, Justin has created a cool Wrap-Up 2023 infographic about our Core comic database, find the link below.

Let’s go over these projects in this newsletter:

• App and software updates:
  • Coming up: version 9.0 for the CLZ Movies/Games/Books/Music mobile apps
  • Coming up: additions and improvement for the Connect web-based software
• CLZ Core updates:
  • Core for Games: better cover art and region info for game releases
  • Core for Movies: better cover art for 4K, Blu-ray and DVD releases
  • Core for Comics: internal database re-design
  • Core for Comics Wrap-Up 2023

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We’re closing in on the end of the year, so it is time for the

CLZ Comics Wrap-Up 2023!

We have done some queries on our Core online comic database to gather popularity stats, based on usage of the CLZ comic database app and sofware. Using the results of those queries, CLZ Justin created this nice infographic with top 10 lists.

Enjoy!

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This it, the very last New Comic Book Day of 2023! This “between X-Mas and New Year” week, we only have half of the CLZ Team at the office, so we were quite happy to see that today was one of the smallest NCBDs of the year, with only 460 new releases. That is, when counting all variants. Without counting variants, the total comes to 181 actual new issues.

Rowdy and Justin did all the work this week and just an hour ago, they finished adding all 460 new releases to our Core online comic database. All entries have been made as complete as possible, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information (with correct Cover Artists listed for all variants), etc.. etc…

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Phew, finally a “slower week”, with “only” 547 new releases. For a total of 273 actual new issues.

All of them have just been added to our Core online comic database by the CLZ Content Team (Rowdy, Justin and Taco). They have made the entries as complete as possible, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information (with correct Cover Artists listed for all variants), etc.. etc…

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Here it is, the 3rd and final “v9 feature hilite” email. Today’s email is about two new tools we added for quickly finding a specific issue in your database:

• Issue Search: use the search box top right to search for a specific issue, e.g. “amazing 362”
• Jump to Issue button (aka, the “sniper” button”): tap, enter issue number, bam you’re there.

BTW: if you missed them, you can still read the first two v9 feature hilite emails on our CLZ blog:

• The new Check Value screen for quick checking a CovrPrice value, without having to add the comic to your app.
• The new Collections Tab Bar, for easily switching between collections using tabs at the bottom of your screen.

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Over 600 (!!) new releases on this week’s New Comic Book Day! To be precise, 601 total variants, for 296 actual new issues.

The CLZ Content Team (Rowdy, Justin and Taco) just finished adding them all to our Core online comic database, as complete as possible, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information (with correct Cover Artists listed for all variants), etc.. etc…

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