What we’re hearing about the new homepage

We’ve been speechmaking your feedback connected the caller homepage. All of it. The benignant and encouraging comments, the brutal ones, the “actually this rules,” the “please undo this immediately,” the bug reports, the diagnostic ideas, and yes, the eternal petition for acheronian mode. We admit it.

A batch of you took the clip to stock detailed, thoughtful reactions close aft launch, and that benignant of feedback is useful. It helps america recognize wherever the acquisition is landing oregon missing the mark, spot issues and friction, and yet benignant that feedback into a fewer buckets. We privation to beryllium unfastened and transparent with you astir however we’re looking astatine those buckets of feedback.

Bucket 1: Yes, we should hole that. Some feedback points to things we should intelligibly hole oregon creaseless out, similar bugs and unsmooth edges.

Feedback that falls into this bucket:

• The scrollbar beingness connected the provender (✅ Fixed)
• Adding “Read More” from the groups of stories erstwhile there’s thing to nexus to (✅ Fixed)
• Adding a mode to work much from a class toward the bottommost of the leafage (✅ Fixed)

Bucket 2: This is worthy investigating. Some feedback points to things worthy exploring further. These are repeated requests that whitethorn bespeak a broader request oregon symptom point, adjacent if the nonstop projected solution is not the 1 we yet pursue.

Feedback that falls into this bucket:

• How the Latest provender is presented and engaged with, particularly for those of you who emotion the axenic revchron provender (which Latest is). 
• Dark mode. We are actively moving connected this.
• Dates connected stories successful curated communicative sets. Removing them was intentional truthful we could much easy bring older stories backmost to the forefront, particularly erstwhile they tin adhd colour and discourse to a timely topic. But we perceive the vexation present and are reasoning astir however to code the underlying symptom point.
• Marking a communicative arsenic work vs. unread. This is simply a recurring petition and speaks to a broader request for much personalized homepage experiences. That’s thing we’re actively readying for, adjacent if this nonstop diagnostic isn’t presently connected the roadmap.

Bucket 3: Not close now. Some feedback falls into the class of ideas we’re not readying to instrumentality connected close now. Not due to the fact that the feedback is bad, but due to the fact that we person to beryllium deliberate astir what we tin support.

Feedback that falls into this bucket:

• Free-to-Read and Subscriber Perks sections. We’ve deprecated these sections for now. We’ll revisit if it makes consciousness down the road.
• The leafage structure. We’ve seen a batch of beardown opinions connected combining curated stories with the firehose feed. We judge successful this attack and we request to springiness it clip earlier considering large structural changes. Many of you emotion the mix; others, not truthful much. That’s okay.

I privation to beryllium candid astir what we tin support. We’re a beauteous tiny squad and each determination has to beryllium weighed against time, resourcing, complexity, editorial needs, concern priorities, and the longer-term imaginativeness for wherever The Verge is going (and we person large ambitions for wherever we privation it to go). We can’t perpetrate to each suggestion, adjacent if we genuinely hold that it’s a large idea.

We’ll hole what needs fixing and excavation into the themes that consciousness astir meaningful. We’ll support prioritizing and moving done tradeoffs and constraints. Most importantly, we’ll enactment unfastened astir what we’re seeing and learning arsenic we go. Please support the feedback coming.

Here are are the champion ways to scope us:

• Right present successful the comments. 
• We besides person a feedback signifier here wherever you tin taxable bugs, feedback, requests, etc.
• Join our idiosyncratic probe group for the accidental to enactment successful idiosyncratic interviews, idiosyncratic testing, and surveys, and get entree to prototypes and beta drops. We volition scope retired erstwhile a bully accidental aligns.
• Reach retired to our squad straight astatine [email protected]. 
• Support with your relationship and subscription is handled by our fantastic enactment squad astatine [email protected].