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!
You all have done some wonderful updates, and I thank you. Perhaps you could work on integrating an app that would allow two or more members to see and talk in real time (like Google Hangout). For those wishing to meet someone special, this can cut out a lot of bull and wasted time.
Yes, it's on the list once we stabilize what we have.
Thanks for all the work put into this site. It's great to have like minded people to chat and meet.
@admin Have you considered including in profiles the users last login date? One of the things about most dating sites I find more frustrating is thst many of the accounts are probably abandoned. Typically, the site owner doesn't have any incentive to remove them, in fact they have an incentive to keep them so that their "member count" is high (but effectively fake), giving an endless stream of profiles to right swipe on. :-/
Disabling accounts thst haven't been logged into in 30 or 50 days is another option worth considering.
Good work btw, I'm enjoying the site so far, both the contributions of the members to discussions, and the layout and functionality of the website. Oh, and the price is right. ;-p Cheers.
Thank You for all You Do... "I appreciate, Really Appreciate, Most Appreciate"... there was this Mexican singer in the 20th century that after each applause always answered like that... more funny in spanish by him I reckon.
Thank you for providing this community for us!
Do you need beta testers for Android?
Also I have noticed that on Android the messenger service has a huge problem ... The keyboard covers the message window being written in.
I have been delighted however by everything else that I have used and the members are a joy to converse with.
This is great thanks. My favorite part is the advertising on religious pages. #dead
I am wondering why text in non-latin letters does not show up properly in postings but gets replaced with question marks (just tried to paste some unicode-encoded arabic letters). If everything is utf-8 this should work automatically unless the code actively prevents it somewhere, I assume?