I really can’t believe we’re already on our 22nd release!
For those used to products from the huge megaliths of Microsoft and Adobe this must sound like a very large number of releases. In some ways it is. Excepting special circumstances (e.g. Christmas or everybody getting some strange virus) we release a new version of the website every 2 weeks. Each release gets a new number. We’re about 6 weeks away from our 1 year anniversary hence… Release 22.
We did think about using sub numbers so we would be like the cool kids (e.g. 0.5.1.22) but we’re too long in the tooth to worry about what the coolest kids are doing.
It make take some time to get the format for these release posts right. This is the first one so expect a certain rambling element and lack of polish.
Findability
We’ve been working hard of late on what we like to call ‘Findability’. Release 22 included a lot of work on what we call products but what everybody else insists on calling Offers.
We’ve re-designed the product listing page, adding such coolness as filters, sorting and a handy map.
For example this page is all of our products we’ve tagged as special offers. On the left of the page we have filters for price range, location, treatment and days of the week for which the product is applicable. Nifty.
Community
‘Most Active’ algorithms updated
We’ve made a tweak to the most active lists on the community page to take around 6 months of activity into account. Previously we were only using a couple of weeks so it was disproportionately favouring newbies, something a few of your noticed and didn’t like.
Privacy Options (for Therapists)
Those that have been following us for a little while know we released a major update to our therapist management area back in January. I this release we added privacy options. If you’re a therapist you’ll find it on the right hand menu when you’re logged into your profile.
Currently all that seems to make sense if the ability to control whether or not others can see you email address, phone number or website address. As we add more functionality you might want hidden we’ll add additional options here so it can be protected.