Are you compatible?

It's been amazing to see all the great questions flow onto wis.dm and watching the number of answers go over 500,000 during these past two weeks. That's a big number for a site that is just getting going. It's now time to start putting all those answers to good use. Today, we are introducing a way for you to see how compatible you are with other wis.dmers. Based on all the questions you've answered, wis.dm will now tell you who's answers are most similar to yours. And as you keep answering questions, you'll see the compatibility matches update based on all your new answers. Take a look at the new matches feature in the people tab.

We've been hearing from many people on wis.dm that they want more interaction with their friends and want to answer their friends questions. So we've moved friends to front and center on the homepage. Now, with one click, you'll have access to all your friends' latest questions. wis.dm really is more fun once you have friends on the site. And if you don't have any friends on wis.dm yet, invite them in today.

See a question that you think shouldn't be on wis.dm? Now you can mark it as inappropriate. wis.dm members are the best judge of appropriate content for the wis.dm site. If you see a question that you think doesn't belong, then use the "mark as inappropriate" action on the question detail page.

We are excited by these changes, but we are a little biased. Let us know what you think!

Look out for wis.dm alerts

New feature alert! We just pushed out the first wis.dm alerts this afternoon. Now, when someone comments on one of your questions, wis.dm will send you an email alert with a direct link to the comment. You'll also get an email when anyone writes you a new personal message on the site. We heard from a lot of members that they wanted a better way to stay on top of activity on their questions. These new alerts should help. And, if you don't want to get the alerts emails, they are easy to turn off from the My Account page.

We want to hear if you find these alerts useful. Are they too frequent? Want more alerts? Please share your thoughts with us.

Friends Network & Improving Search

We've just released some tweaks that we think you'll like on wis.dm. First off, as you invite your friends to the site, whether it's by clicking the "invite friends" button or sending a great question, they'll be added as a friend in your wis.dm network. That means every time you ask a question your friends will be notified in the status bar and vice versa plus you can show other members just how popular you are!

We've received a lot of feedback about how the order of results in search showing oldest first is most annoying so this has now been changed to show most recent first and applies to search and topics.

Finally when you're viewing the details of a question the default page shows all answers and comments, much nicer when you're trying to establish who said what.

That's all for now and as ever keep sending your feedback, we love to hear from you.

Thanks

Invite your Friends to wis.dm

We've been live for a week now and the response so far has been fantastic so a big thank you to you, our users.

Our focus now is on getting more people to join wis.dm. That means more questions, comments and interesting people for you to interact with and compete for points! We'd really like you to help us to grow the wis.dm community and to assist you we've just just added the "Invite Friends" button enabling you to ask a friend to join wis.dm. You can't miss the big button at the top of every page, just click it, add your friends email addresses, write them a brief note and before you know it they'll be on wis.dm. There is also the "share with your friends" link to use when you ask or are viewing a question. So if you write or read an interesting question and you'd love to get your friends point of view why not send it to them by email or share it with them on Facebook.

We look forward to you working with us to grow wis.dm and as ever if you have any feedback write to us: feedback@wis.dm.

We're having fun with wis.dm and we hope you are too.

Weekend Update

It's been a busy three days since the public launch of wis.dm and we're thrilled with the response. Here's a quick update on what's happened.

- Growth: Over 2,500 questions have been asked and the wis.dm community has responded with more than 40,000 answers and comments. We're seeing new faces in the crowd every day so thanks for helping us get the word out.

- Ask a Friend: This has been a popular feature and we've made a few updates to it based on member feedback (the most requested change was to clear out the email addresses after you click send). Let us know if there are other things we can do to make it easier to share questions.

- Question Links: We've heard about a few issues with the way a link is added to a question, so we're changing how it works. If you paste a URL instead of typing it yourself, the default text (http://) will now be overwritten.

- Points: If you haven't seen the leaderboard, take a look. This is where you can checkout the top members and see who's most active. There have been some delays between updates to user points and we've worked hard to speedup the process. You should be seeing a noticeable improvement tonight.

That's it for now - keep an eye on this blog for more news soon.

Welcome to wis.dm

We've been in development for a little over 9 months now and today we're excited to launch wis.dm, a valuable extension to your online social experience. The vision behind wis.dm is simply to enable you to ask, share, grow and learn as a part of a rich and vibrant community. The premise is a simple question which you can ask to test the balance of opinion on something in particular or to prompt wide interaction amongst the community, all curious and excited by challenging questions and interesting discourse. As we begin the roll-out and the membership grows we are finding the community's Questions both informative and entertaining, and Answers - well, perhaps just a little surprising. We're enjoying it, we hope you will too.