Anonymous surfing now available

You can now browse other sites without showing up as a visitor in the widget or the stats for those sites, if you'd like to keep your surfing habits completely anonymous.

The new setting is under "Edit Profile" in the account settings section. It's called "Allow people to see when I've visited a blog".

By default it is on, which is the current behavior.

With this setting off (anonymous browsing), you can still chat on web pages, but you will not show up as "online" or in the recent list.

You will still show up as visiting any circle homepages off of the nearcircle site itself so if you want to hang out and chat, you can go there and still advertise your availability.

Remember though that keeping your self visible on others pages has some really nice effects.

I've found that people clicking on profiles they see on webpages is one of the strongest traffic generators for your websites, so consider it a tradeoff of your anonymity for new referrals to your sites.

I'd like to thank the member who requested this change, I really act on all your feedback.
I'd tell you who it is, but I think they would want to stay anonymous :)

In other news....

I've put the multi circle widget work on hold for a bit to make a category based directory of circles, since that it is the #1 requested feature.

Thanks for circlin !