Ok, another couple weeks and another list of improvements (hopefully) to the site. Here goes:
We are slowly sending out our first email of “new member matches” for those interested in dating and “interesting new posts” for those here more for community. By default, these will be sent not more than once per week and you can change the frequency or turn them off in your account settings page. Happy to get your feedback on them as we will change the algorithm over time to make it more predictive.
Sped up most pages by about 2x after we tripled signups with some advertising on a few religious website.
You can search comments of posts as well as posts.
Improved the list of "similar questions" that appear on the right of each post. It now tries to show questions that are both similar and recent (hard tradeoffs).
Made it easier for our trans members to find others and be found in search.
When you cut/paste Youtube links, they should now be able to play without clicking to youtube.
You can now see a list of people you’ve blocked in your account page. You can also unblock them (before, you couldn’t find them). We also fixed some bugs so it should work better now.
We implemented a few formatting options using a pared-down version of a markup language called Markdown. Hopefully, we can eventually upgrade the post editor to be more intuitive (e.g., WYSIWYG). Below is the result of some formatting (see photo for how it was done) and [daringfireball.net] for more information. We are only supporting a few of the basics:
#Headers:
#Bulleted lists:
make italics with single asterisks
make bold with double asterisks
make courier font with back ticks
#Make a horizontal line using 3 or more asterisk
#Basic tables:
Each | Cell | Per |
---|---|---|
Still | renders |
nicely |
1 | 2 | 3 |
Again, we want to thank you all for being patient as we improve and stabilize the website. We are also working hard on the iPhone and Android apps and are working on final bug testing now. Best wishes to you all in 2018!
Sound like good stuff I will have to try them. One I don't understand is the You Tube thing they have always played for me without clicking on the You Tube.
Oh, the new "feature" is that you can watch the youtube video without leaving the website (before it was just a link to go to youTube).
maybe a Chrome thing?
Thanks. Grateful. I feel blessed - oh, wait.................
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You have one of the most committed dev teams I've seen and I've been on a few of them. Keep up the good work.
Before, I didn't know how people were doing italics and bold. Thanks.
Cool!! I've checked to see if there was an app for android. It might be a good thing that there isn't, and when there is I shouldn't use it. This is one distraction I don't need at work. Really.
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Great! I can't wait to see the results of it all. Thanks for taking the time to do this and making this site something worth spending time on every day.
I have a 2nd level request. When I edit a comment then preview it, if I go back to edit from the preview it goes back to the posted text. The only way I can keep my edits is to copy everything to the clipboard before I preview.
I have to say though, if that's my biggest complaint, this is an extremely well done package. The look and feel are outstanding and I have yet to come across any bugs. Thank you muchly and thank the other patrons here.
Thank for the constant tweaks !
Though I will hope we can opt out of emails of matches, I'd rather see them when I visit.
I think this site will become a formidable contender among social sites - there are many out there that will appreciate it !