Community 2.0 feedback & changelog

Kiki W, Feb 26, 2016 :

Hey guys,

What you’re seeing right now is the first step towards a perfect Community 2.0. In this iteration, we’ve made the following major changes:

• We upgraded the entire design down to the last detail to give you a more pleasant reading experience.
• The homepage now features six tiles that take the place of the five stickied threads. This allows us to present you with more curated content along with visual illustration in a more digestible way. They expand to various formats including important threads, notable users, wonderful community videos and interesting external links. We’ll use this to highlight stuff we really want to share with you guys - like the “community highlight” tile, or our user spotlight.
• We’ve upgraded good ol’ recents with a choice of recents, most viewed and most liked. Recents is still right there on the front page, and now it’s a longer list.
• We repainted your profile wall. In addition, we added a shortcut to “Watched thread” and “Watched forums” on your profile page. You can see them after logging in. Let us know if you find them useful.
• Threads can now be upvoted. The more you upvote a thread, the more likely that it’ll turn up on Most Liked on the home page.
• By popular demand, the “Create New Thread” button has been removed from the front page. You can still create a new thread as you wish under a certain category, which, hopefully will lead to fewer threads getting placed in the wrong section and lambasted by veteran thread placers.

In addition, there are a few things that we would like to implement shortly, and we’d love your feedback on:

• Would you like to see more tiles on front page? Like a 12-tile carousel, for example?
• We noticed that the sidebar is looking a little empty now. What would you like to see there? Related posts? An overview of your profile? Recommended users to connect with?
• We are also considering replacing pagination with an infinite scroll on the thread page. Thoughts?
• The loading animation should also be prettier. Wanna pitch in? We’re open to your design suggestions and submissions.
• Would you like "Categories" on community navigation to be a full list? Right now it’s a selection based on user numbers.

At the same time, please let us know if you spotted anything odd on the current version. You can write your feedback in the Feedback forum from that red little Feedback button on the right of any pages.

Enjoy Community 2.0. Let’s make it by users for users.