OPW updates!
1/8 '17
Some things are new on One Post Wonder today:
- Follow Fridays! This is very simple: on Friday, the "suggested topic" is always "who else should your friends follow on One Post Wonder?" and there's a little "Follow Friday" indicator. When posting, consider using the little-person icon, which is a handy way to mention someone in your post. It is my hope that this will help people who show up with just one or two connections and never really get "plugged in" beyond that.
- By popular request, the header bar now stays with you as you scroll, even on phones. But I am interested in feedback from folks who may have been happier the other way. Let's see how this goes.
- Numbered lists (as you may be noticing).
- Strikethrough (as you may be noticing).
- The plaintext versions of important emails like account confirmation emails have working URLs in them. This is important to
my fellow nerdspeople who for various valid reasons loathe HTML email, and possibly other corner cases. - When you paste a URL into your text and OPW makes a nice little presentation block out of it, the URL field gets populated right away.
- The "bug report" icon is only available to logged-in users now. Which means no more spam for me to sort through. Which means I will pay better attention to your bug reports. w00t.
What would you like to see? What do you think would help the platform reach more people for the right reasons?
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Memory issues on a previous phone and never bothered to switch when I got the new phone.
On desktop and on Android, websites can now have their own notifications if the user opts in, even if you're not on that website or in that browser right now. And the feature is coming to iOS, folks suspect this year.
With notifications added there is precious little reason to write an app unless you need the zero-friction cash flow of in-app purchases. (Yes, yes, they take a huge bite, but does the user want to give your rando app their credit card number? By finger typing it? No they do not.)