The Devil's in the Details

In the last few weeks, wis.dm has really begun to hum along nicely.  You all are creating an inquisitive, welcoming, and rather addicting community!

So what has Team wis.dm been up to recently?  Well, aside from trying to drag ourselves away from answering and commenting on all your great questions, we've been listening to your feedback, and trying to polish and streamline the wis.dm experience.  The devil is in the details on these things, and we're working hard to make things less devilish.

Just today, a small but important feature was added to wis.dm.  Are you ever in a great question browsing session, deep into recent questions, or browsing questions from an intriguing user, and then you click through to a question, comment on it, and then feel lost because there's no good way to get back to the list of questions??  Well, US TOO.  So starting today, you'll see a small link under the big questions tab on question pages, "return to the question list".  Trust me, start using it, you'll love it.  You can now jump in on discussion and check the crowd's answers without even breaking stride.

You might also have noticed recently that our emails have a new look.  Still the simple wis.dm feel, but a little more polished, less ugly links, and you know they're from the site when they come from alerts@wis.dm.  As part of this change, be sure to check out your account preferences.  You can now opt to receive email notifications of personal messages, of activity on your questions, or both.  We believe you should control your wis.dm consumption, and this is a first step towards giving you more control.

Finally, the team is working very hard to keep wis.dm running smoothly as we grow.  We are flogging the hamsters that power the site as hard as we can to keep wis.dm peppy and reliable.  You all have logged over 7 Million answers in wis.dm to well over 300,000 questions, and we challenge you to keep going.  Anyone want to guess when we'll hit 10 Million answers?

Thanks for reading, keep wis.dming and spread the word to your most curious of  friends!

WhereTF did those two weeks go?

Hey everyone, it's been a couple of weeks or so since the last post here and I'm feeling guilty about it. We've been working hard on what we're calling "outbound communications", which wraps up a bundle of things including improvements to our email notifications (letting you know when you get messages, comments on questions, etc.), wis.dm updates and a new newsletter. It's all looking good and we're hoping to get a "release" out later this week. Hopefully you'll see the first wis.dm newsletter in your inbox first thing next week. Otherwise, it's been a busy couple of weeks with business basics - speaking to our (extremely nice) investors and such like.

I have really missed not spending so much time on the site and at one point almost asked: "It's been a couple of weeks since my last question, did you miss me?" You know the sort, right?

We've also been busy planning major improvements to the wis.dm profile area and the points system. I'm really looking forward to this section of work as is the rest of the team. More on this to follow.

Hope everyone's enjoying the site and watch out for more, right here, in a couple of days.