It's that time again where the ProductWiki engineers emerge from the dark Caves of Code where we smash bugs as they scurry along and forge beautiful new features out of the clay of innovation.
The focus in this upgrade was to provide the core community with more tools to help you create and share your useful information.
Also, there's been a change in the terminology used around the site. What we've been calling a "product page" is actually more of a community report on a product, so we'll be now referring to it as a "product report".
New Features
What's Happening
- more types of contributions show up, including all edits to a product report (descriptions, titles, key features, etc.)
- new icons
- RSS; subscribe to the feed!
Talk pages
- taking a page out of Wikipedia's book we're introducing talk pages for product reports
- talk pages are used to discuss the product report itself; use it to settle edit disputes, validate product information, provide clarification on an edit, etc.
Watchlist
- add product reports to your watchlist from the "overview", "history", and "edit" tabs
- look for the watchlist tab on your user profile to see any edits done to product reports that you've added to your watchlist
- you'll receive a daily e-mail if there are any reports on your watchlist that have been modified in the last 24hrs
- you can opt out of these e-mail notifications from your user settings page
Interface upgrades
Home page / category pages
- large product thumbnail images
- the top rated pros and cons show up in the list
Product report page
- minor changes to the pro/con interface to make it more clear
- introduced a tabbing interface on for easy access to "edit", "talk", and "history"
- aggregated all of editing capabilities to the "edit" tab
