How are you?

Dear Habrahabr! Writes you a regular reader from Moscow. How are you?

Over the past year, you haven’t shown anything new to us: you’ve always managed to do a little tuning of the interfaces, and the microhabr, released on the tweet-tweaking wave, was not able to occupy its niche. What happened to you? Is this all a crisis? The advertiser does not carry "babos", and companies do not buy corporate packages? You're not going to disappear, are you? Answer, please, otherwise I worry.

If you need our help - just tell me! You have a huge army of fans - give us, the users, the opportunity to help you. We feel when you feel bad. Notice, for this year there was not one great drama: “not the Habr”, “the attack of the clowns”, “for the #bali”, “for the #bali with their own for the #bali”, etc. Users of Habr humbly love you and your advertisers, they are not satisfied with hysterics and are waiting for something new.
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Maybe it's time for you to grow from a clever “blozhik” into something more?

We fully realized ourselves in the epistolary genre. Yes, you yourself see that the topics that made you Habrahabrom, drowned in the sea of ​​naked PR and angry attacks on telecoms, technical support services, opsoks, search engines, etc. Give us, the users, to do something for you with your own hands. After all, you can open the API of your main functions (authorization, posting, selection of topics, tags, comments, users) and give us the opportunity to develop new applications for you. There are a lot of technical specialists in the ranks of your users, even if they are ex. Many directors and academicians were also "techies" at one time. Everyone can create small applications.

Make a developer sandbox where we could test our applications and push them to the people's court. Make hosting our applications, their isolation, the possibility of removal in the form of widgets to the main in your own profile , and then we will do everything ourselves. We do not need diversity: if you give a trimmed PHP, limited MySQL and chrooted shell, we will be happy! Well, if you organize a payment infrastructure with an API, then we will help you earn money by creating monetizing services.

And yes, I write with a request for a gift for the New Year. I do not ask to give me an updated Habrahabr. I ask you to think about the issues raised in this letter, about your mission and tell you about your plans.