This month, a lot of work was done “under the hood,” but something has changed outside as well. In short:
1. Negative
We rarely make changes to the mechanisms of karma and minus - usually everything was limited there by coefficients and thresholds. At the same time, they recognized that these mechanisms are imperfect and therefore have always been open to proposals for their improvement.
Firstly, the opportunity to vote for publication from the feed was lost. We studied voting from the tape and came to the conclusion that it is often used for other purposes: either to minus (for example, competitors), or to add friendly posts.
Fans of conspiracy theories will think that in this way we decided to increase the number of views (it is), but we were still guided by a different logic (but this is not accurate): in order to evaluate the article, you must first open and read it. After all, no one evaluates books on the cover? So it is here.
Secondly, we “complicated” the minus by adding the need to indicate the reason for the minus (anonymously). This is what you yourself have repeatedly suggested to us, this is what we have long thought to do, but somehow somehow our hands did not reach. We held a vote for the reasons for the minus ( on Habré and VK ), excluded from the results those who can’t vote for posts (for more accurate statistics) and formulated a dozen reasons - they all appear when you click on the ↓ arrow at the post. According to our plan, this should a) reduce the number of minuses and b) add a "educational effect" for the authors of the publication - so that he understands what the minuses are for.
Click on the rating (by the author of the post) will show information about the minuses and help to take into account errors in the future:
Just let's not minus anyone for the sake of testing features! Testing on prod - is dangerous for conscience.
2. Become an author
The historical “Sandbox” has not changed its essence, but has changed its name - now the link in the header of the site is called “Become an author”. This section is needed only for beginners (who want to register) and ordinary users, judging by analytics, almost did not look into it - therefore, we had complete freedom of action there. Now there is a text about what and how to write, as well as information that we are always ready to help new authors.
Take a peek .
3. Closing TMFeed
Over the course of a month, we began to receive complaints that TMFeed was working “somehow wrong” - sometimes “skeletons” appeared instead of recordings. We studied the problem and decided that it was easier to close the service than to repair it - because, in fact, it was a service-laying for the aggregation of all posts from Habr and Giktayms. And after combining the projects, the need for it disappeared and the new mobile version completely replaces it.
Oh, not clinking glasses.
4. Guests and polls
Previously, the results of the polls were not shown to guests, but now they are shown. And along with this there was a proposal to log in. And all this in the desktop and mobile version, in Russian and English.
5. Better comments
We redid the back and front comments in the mobile version so that they work faster - loading new ones, minimizing, moderating.
6. Dialogs in the mobile version
In the last release, we announced dialogs in the mobile version of Habr, and by today we have fixed all the bugs found in them (including the display of short dialogs).
7. Customization for Windows XP users
And we have as many as 1.43%. We corrected the work of Habr in Chrome 49 - the latest version that works on XP.
8. Bumburum got a cat
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