Over the last few weeks, I've been doing a weekly blog post summing up the new product features that we've rolled out over the week. We practice continuous deployment, so there's something new (or tweaked) every day – and usually multiple times per day. Thanks to Alon Salant over at Carbon 5 for helping us to jumpstart into our current (awesome) continuous deployment practice.
The week of Dec 13th was light in terms of public facing features. We made a lot of tweaks to our back-end administrative tools and updated components of the notification system.
When you participate in a challenge, we send you an email when another micro-volunteer also participates in that challenge. In an ideal scenario, you're waiting on the edge-of-your-seat to hear what people think about your challenge answer. But, we know that this may not always be the case.
So, now, you can "unfollow" a challenge in which you've participated. We want to make extra-sure that we're only sending you emails that you want to receive. Here, you can see that new option:
And we've made a few more refinements to our algorithm for selecting your personalized weekly challenge. Our challenge routing engine is getting smarter and smarter. Here's a screenshot from a weekly challenge that was sent to a micro-volunteer named Vani:
Thanks to www.vark.com for email formatting inspiration. We loved their notification format so much that we borrowed a good chunk of it!
Love to hear your thoughts on our notifications system. Are you getting too much, too little, or just the right amount of email from us? Any and all ideas welcome.
