It’s been a little over a month since the dev team has reported on any new releases, but in reality we’ve been rolling out a handful of small changes over the course of the last 30 days (we’re ninjas like that). Have you noticed the newly-designed profile pages? Comment count on challenges? Smoother comment-posting?

Today, we’re adding to that list a handful of exciting updates that we think will change the way you interact with the site. Introducing Most Active Challenges and Open Profiles!

Most Active Challenges

After analyzing usage patterns, feedback and community preferences, we are introducing a new way to organize challenges in the community. The brand new Most Active tab uses a custom-crafted algorithm to display the most active challenges at a specific moment in time. We’ve defined a challenge’s activeness as a factor of user interaction as well as time. This is all in an effort to find the most natural and relevant way to let you see the challenges you’d most likely be interested in.

Keep an eye on the Most Active tab in the coming days and let us know what you think!

Open Profiles

One of the biggest parts of a social network is socializing with other community members. So, today we’re opening up everyone’s profiles to allow greater communication and interaction amongst everyone. We were finding that the friend approval process was inhibiting a lot of interaction and saw no need to keep profiles private. We hope you agree!

A few other updates…

In addition to the Most Active tab and Open Profiles, you should be happy to hear that we’ve added the ability to see friends on user profiles. At the moment, we are only showing a user’s 12 most active friends, but we are working on improvements that will allow for viewing of all friends soon.

Lastly, you should find that logging in and registering for the site is much smoother now. Not only have we reduced the number of fields required to register, but we’ve also rebuilt the login system from scratch to allow for more efficiency and less errors.

Feedback

We typically don’t get a lot of feedback through blog comments (most feedback comes through our official feedback system), but I want to encourage all of you to leave your thoughts here. It’s a great way to engage the dev team directly and voice your feedback (especially on our latest updates)!