About UKBF change announcements

[ctrlbrk]

@Ozzy about threads such as Updated Terms of Membership and any such threads where you announce that there are going to be some site changes in coming weeks and months etc. etc. I have a suggestion.

I imagine and appreciate that some of the changes you announce when you post the announcement may have been already defined but some other changes are perhaps more in the draft stage.

In any case, it may be beneficial for the user experience that a specific announcement is posted as and when a change - minor or major - is made. So that people know that something has changed and when that change has taken place.

It doesn't have to be a long thing - just a couple of lines outlining what's changed, e.g. "Time Out is no longer available to all members", "Price of membership structure has changed, Now we just have Free + Business membership", etc.

So that the Feedback section is not then flooded with micro changes, you could even have a generic "Site changes" topic and then you add to it as and when the changes occur - maybe a topic where only certain members can post (as appropriate).

I hope it makes sense.

 

[ctrlbrk]

CORRECTION: The sentence above should read

So that the Feedback section is not then flooded with announcements about micro changes,

 

[Ethan39]

Good morning,

Thanks for reaching out.

This is a good idea, but I'll need to think over the way that it's implemented. We have a whole team catch-up on Monday mornings, so I'll bring this up today.

For some context, we have minor releases practically weekly, with bigger releases typically happening 2/3 times a quarter. The honest, and unfortunate, reason why most changes are announced ahead of time rather than at the point of release is because new features and development tasks often end up taking longer than originally planned. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't be announcing when they actually come into effect, but it explains the reason why we're notifying in advance.

 

[ctrlbrk]

thanks @Ethan39 and understood - of course I wrote the suggestion with the user experience in mind.

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

As discussed a few times has been a personalised welcome page when you land/log in - this could have pop ups or updates/news areas, but I guess the software does have limitations!

 

[Ethan39]

thanks @Ethan39 and understood - of course I wrote the suggestion with the user experience in mind.

I'll definitely be adding this to our to do list. It seems to be the right thing, to me, that we correctly announce updates.

I'm just not sure yet what the best method will be ?