Hello all, just wanted to take a few minutes to give you a heads up on some new features that have popped up on oneforty this week.
Review Helpfulness
Users are now able to provide some feedback as to whether a review was helpful to them. By simply clicking yes or no for a particular review you will not only be helping to surface the best reviews but you will also be helping improve the oneforty experience for others by helping improve the content. Reviews are now sorted by how helpful the community feels they are by default, but if you enjoy the classic experience you are free to toggle back to sorting by date.
Spam!
As some people may have noticed spam is everywhere! Unfortunately oneforty is no exception. This week we rolled out several measures to help mitigate spam and other offensive material. While fighting spam will no doubt be an ongoing battle we hope these incremental improvements begin to help. Please let us know if you see spam and/or offensive material getting though by flagging them.
Application Pages
We made some significant improvements behind the scenes with regard to the how application data is stored. While many of the changes are not noticeable to the typical user they will make the overall experience better. One user facing improvement is platforms an application run on work the same way as tags and categories. Users are able to see what platforms an application runs on as well a drill into a particular platform to see what other applications are out there for that platform. On the developer side we made implements to how we capture data about your application, including allowing you to specify the platforms and categories apply to your application.
The Road Ahead
This is only a taste of the improvements we have made so far and there is much, much more to come! While the list of things to come is nearly infinite here are some things on the horizon: refining how people can browse apps, including allowing users to combine categories, tags, and platforms to help find applications. Allow users to specify platforms, categories, etc that they are interested in to allow us to tailor a more customized experience and continue to improve the user experience.
While we certainly do not have a shortage of ideas please do not hesitate to give us some feedback. Let us know if you feel something is not working well. Let us know what you would love to see us do next.
To all the developers out there, we want to talk to you! If you are interested in helping us pilot some new features please let us know.
