AMA with Habrom v.8.0. Onboarding, news for all, PWA
April is the month of Saturday work. Our team also spent a virtual subbotnik and put things in order with some questions on Habré - which means we have a piece of news for you again. Today we are holding a regular question and answer session ( AMA ). Habr users and the Habr team can chat on the case and without. If someone forgot to look at the calendar, today is the last Friday of April, which means it’s time: you need to ask questions and write sentences, we only have time to answer them and fill up the endless backlog.
You can directly ask any questions, write a “question to the designer,” or refer specifically to some employee:
baragol - chief editor
boomburum - head of the department tocombat work with users
buxley - technical director
daleraliyorov - manager "Habra"
illo - art director
karaboz - the main for "My Circle"
nomad_77 - main for "Toaster"
pas - system administrator
salenda - home for "Freelance"
soboleva - customer care team
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Traditionally, in the AMA-posts we talk about what we have done during the month. This time the changer is as follows.
Our survey showed that it can be difficult for newbies to get used to the site - for example, they do not know what type of account they have, what can be done with it, what is karma, how to set up a ribbon, etc. It is difficult to imagine what it is for English-speaking users.
Therefore, we did a small onboarding, which should help solve this problem. In addition to compressed educational program, it allows you to subscribe to collections of hubs - for example, front-end hubs, telecom topics, administration, etc.
If you are not a novice, but also want to go onboarding and subscribe to collections of hubs, here's a link for you (keep in mind that the current settings of the tape will be overwritten).
We launched the news section a month ago and this type of publication was temporarily available only to editorial staff. From today, all full account holders can post news. Click "Write" in the upper right corner → choose the type of publication "News" → we write the most important in substance. The form for creating an entry is the same as for ordinary publications, just “News” will be in another section - no one will swear there, if the entry is short or will be supplemented. The only thing before publication is desirable to check whether the news has not already been published on Habré earlier.
We also combed the news block a bit, added new comment counters to it. The very best news will go to the post digest with publications (you can subscribe here ):
Also, every week they began to make a news bulletin - for those who have very little time. An example .
The changes are more administrative, so it is more convenient to work with the sandbox. But for beginners, added a bit of comfort. Now the publication sent to moderation (in the sandbox) will be visible in the user profile, and the moderator's comment (if the material needs to be improved) will be visible on the publication page (it was previously displayed on the edit page).
By the way, are you interested in reading about how the sandbox works?
Large tables have long been a problem on Habré (and beyond). Very few can solve this problem, very few people can do it: either everything will be very fine, or everything will go away, or scrolls will appear, or it will be inserted into the picture. Each option has its pros and cons. But we thought and decided that the best option for us is to make tables with scrolls so that they can be viewed in full size on any of the devices. Therefore now wide tables will scroll. If someone has encountered such a problem in older publications, then simply resave them.
This news is most liked by those who still use the Habr mobile application (which we, for a number of reasons, have ceased to support). We decided to do PWA , for which we prepared all the necessary infrastructure for the mobile version.
Soon there will be a beta version of the new architecture of the mobile version, after which we will throw all the forces to create the best pwa ever.
We think here on one thing, but so far at the concept level :)
Have a good weekend!
You can directly ask any questions, write a “question to the designer,” or refer specifically to some employee:
baragol - chief editor
boomburum - head of the department to
buxley - technical director
daleraliyorov - manager "Habra"
illo - art director
karaboz - the main for "My Circle"
nomad_77 - main for "Toaster"
pas - system administrator
salenda - home for "Freelance"
soboleva - customer care team
')
Traditionally, in the AMA-posts we talk about what we have done during the month. This time the changer is as follows.
List of changes
1. Onboarding
Our survey showed that it can be difficult for newbies to get used to the site - for example, they do not know what type of account they have, what can be done with it, what is karma, how to set up a ribbon, etc. It is difficult to imagine what it is for English-speaking users.
Therefore, we did a small onboarding, which should help solve this problem. In addition to compressed educational program, it allows you to subscribe to collections of hubs - for example, front-end hubs, telecom topics, administration, etc.
If you are not a novice, but also want to go onboarding and subscribe to collections of hubs, here's a link for you (keep in mind that the current settings of the tape will be overwritten).
2. News
We launched the news section a month ago and this type of publication was temporarily available only to editorial staff. From today, all full account holders can post news. Click "Write" in the upper right corner → choose the type of publication "News" → we write the most important in substance. The form for creating an entry is the same as for ordinary publications, just “News” will be in another section - no one will swear there, if the entry is short or will be supplemented. The only thing before publication is desirable to check whether the news has not already been published on Habré earlier.
We also combed the news block a bit, added new comment counters to it. The very best news will go to the post digest with publications (you can subscribe here ):
Also, every week they began to make a news bulletin - for those who have very little time. An example .
3. Sandbox
The changes are more administrative, so it is more convenient to work with the sandbox. But for beginners, added a bit of comfort. Now the publication sent to moderation (in the sandbox) will be visible in the user profile, and the moderator's comment (if the material needs to be improved) will be visible on the publication page (it was previously displayed on the edit page).
What it looks like
By the way, are you interested in reading about how the sandbox works?
4. Scrolling tables
Large tables have long been a problem on Habré (and beyond). Very few can solve this problem, very few people can do it: either everything will be very fine, or everything will go away, or scrolls will appear, or it will be inserted into the picture. Each option has its pros and cons. But we thought and decided that the best option for us is to make tables with scrolls so that they can be viewed in full size on any of the devices. Therefore now wide tables will scroll. If someone has encountered such a problem in older publications, then simply resave them.
Sample table
| Column | Column | Column | Column | Column | Column | Column | Column | Column | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Another one | Not | Not | Not |
5. Plans for PWA
This news is most liked by those who still use the Habr mobile application (which we, for a number of reasons, have ceased to support). We decided to do PWA , for which we prepared all the necessary infrastructure for the mobile version.
Soon there will be a beta version of the new architecture of the mobile version, after which we will throw all the forces to create the best pwa ever.
One more thing ...
We think here on one thing, but so far at the concept level :)
Have a good weekend!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/449632/
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