Replying to New upload button

Hey guys -

So today we're launching something which is pretty cool, but also has some really big changes in policy attached to it.

First off, you'll notice that the Login button has been replaced with an "upload" button, allowing you to quickly access the various ways to add content. One of the main keys to newschoolers going forwards is you adding content in any way you possibly can. We wanted to go a step further to make that even easier, and give you a quick way to access our news sharing concept. So you can now simply share news right from that dropdown - but please note this is reserved for sharing news and NOT YouTube / Vimeo links.

It is very important that you start to share news from around the internet, as well as vote up the good stuff you see in 'latest'. We want to include all of the best authors of news content in skiing - no matter who they write for or where they write it.

The second part is that we're taking a bold direction that is counter to the strategy we have been promoting for the last few years, and we are re-enabling Vimeo and YouTube videos to display inline with our videos by default. This will include the homepage of Newschoolers.

We still highly encourage you to upload your videos directly to the site, as we stand firm in our belief that there is massive value to maintaining a healthy ecosystem of video within skiing. On this end, we will be going drastically deeper into the production and monetization of high quality video assets. Our own producers and industry partners will have access to an improved and more monetizable system that runs off of our video system.

The fact is that we want Newschoolers to be the place where you can find all the best skiing content, and as much as we would like otherwise, that content is sometimes living in other places. It was high time for us to get with the current state of the internet, and embrace what people are doing.

As always, we're here to listen to your feedback and we always welcome it. So please give the simplified links a try, and let us know what you think.

I'm pretty sure this is going to be awesome.