Updates from the Development Team
The Zoom call this week featured Casey Sanders oof the Development Team accompanied by Kevin Anderson.
They acknowledged that the primary focus of the team has been the development of the upcoming news feature for ActiveRain.
It has been released to a select in-house Beta team to test and it is expected that it will be released within the next few months.
They have a dem-ops person that has been working on the infrastructure and service materials with the intent of moving to a new environment and expected to see it done soon. The intent is to see the site run quicker and faster and they hope it will be seamless.
The have been working on small fixes throughout the site and have also spent some time on the multi-blog spammers. The temporary solution has been to limit the number of daily blogs, but this hope is to fix that further.
They have worked to keep spammers limited and have also spent time with requests that have been submitted by members.
While they have been working on mostly technical issues there is little that they have done anything large that would be directly noticeable.
Casey offered that there are a few high priority items that are still being considered such as the memorial board, leaderboard fix to allow for active bloggers to be recognized over members with high points that are no longer as active.
Another high priority fix is the tagging in the remarks of the posts which is being addressed as time allows.
They have made sufficient changes to the design of the blog platform to remove the tab that was once at the bottom of the pages that would make the posts more adaptable to either smart phones or tablets and feel the site itself is now acceptable for any device being used.
There are still a few minor changes being considered that will make it easier to view on smaller screens.
They are still working on the referral points system that has not been working for a while now.
Casey did offer that on the horizon is the new products section of the platform so that it will be more informative and cleaner looking.
Also, part of their agenda is to clean up and make more efficient the referral section of the platform so that it will once again allow for submitting and tracking referrals.
They are also considering the maps and neighborhood areas of the platform to make it more adaptable to posts and listings and allow new neighborhoods to be included.
Casey had to jump off after almost 30 minutes as he had another call to attend.
The tone of the call was upbeat, and it was positive for the changes that are being made and the continued work being done to make ActiveRain more positive and informative.
Updates from the Development Team
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