[ChangeLog] August 9th, 2022 Release Notes

Michael Silber
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We hope you’ve been enjoying the new Product Hubs and Launch Pages. We’ve been making changes based on your feedback, and we’ll continue to improve the experience around reviews, related products, and more.

  • More reviews Product reviews are an integral part of knowledge sharing in our community. They help build social proof, attract more visitors to product pages, and aid users in the evaluation of new products to try. Thinking of that, and to make it easier for everyone to share their knowledge about different products, we’ve added a new “leave a review” sidebar section on the homepage where new reviews can be quickly added.

Sidebar review unit

We’ve also created a new option for makers to “invite people to review” from their Hub pages. Once a review is submitted, it gets added to the Product Hub and can be found under the comments section of the user’s profile.

Invite to review

  • Office hours Share your feedback with a real-life Product Hunt product manager. Navigate to ‘Office hours’ from the main navigation, under Community, or simply click here to schedule a video call. We ask that you please limit this conversation to feedback on Product Hunt.

Office hours

  • Product Launch embeds It is now easier to share your launches with your community outside of Product Hunt. Badges can help you drive support to your launch and share visual summaries in blogs and press outlets. You can find a link to your embed page from your Launch. An embed page for your product hub is coming next.

  • Mobile apps Psst.. we’re working on some big changes to our Android and iOS apps. If you want early access to help us with testing ![sign up to join our Beta Program

Until next time...

Product Hotline

Replies

Massimo Chieruzzi
Great job Michael, quick question, are API v 2.0 in sync with these changes?
Chris Messina
This is great! Curious how much do launch day reviews impact leaderboard ranking relative to comments or upvotes?
Michael Silber
Hi @chrismessina 👋🏼 Good question. Reviews were shifted away from the launch page to the product hub. We don't consider reviews when it comes to leaderboard rankings.
Chris Messina
@product_at_producthunt oh interesting! Ok, good to know! I've seen launches in the past that had low reviews and it seemed to negatively affect their rank in the leaderboard.
Chris Messina
Can you speak to any changes you've made recently to the search page? Seems like it's missing some of the previous functionality?
Michael Silber
@chrismessina We'll have an update on search soon. We're testing some things out 🧪
Arpan
That's great!