Today there is one major development and two minor updates that we want to share.
First, the development: <span><a class="ajax" href="at?id=akkartik">akkartik</a>~ has joined team Hubski! Actually, akkartik has long been a behind-the-scenes asset. He is an Arc enthusiast, and has often served as my Arc sensei. It’s no exaggeration to say that he understands the workings of Hubski more deeply than I. However, more important than his expertise (and doubling the size of our development team), akkartik ‘gets’ Hubski, and our goals.
Welcome aboard, akkartik!
The updates:
First, thanks to akkartik, passwords are now salted. Passwords had previously been hashed, but now a salt is added as well. <span><a class="ajax" href="at?id=DanQ">DanQ</a>, <span><a class="ajax" href="at?id=ll">ll</a> and others have made other good security suggestions, and we plan to implement more improvements.
Second, as you might have noticed, you can now save comments. <span><a class="ajax" href="at?id=BLOB_CASTLE">BLOB_CASTLE</a>~ suggested this some time ago, and we agreed that there was little reason why comments couldn’t be saved like posts. In fact, comments are often the most valuable content to be found.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
p.s. Sorry for the extended downtime last night at about 1AM EST. We were implementing some changes so that akkartik and I can more efficiently collaborate, and it took longer than we anticipated.
Wow, I was actually mentioned for a suggestion I made. This makes me feel like I am part of some sort of functional democracy, were good ideas are listened by others, and are implemented. EDIT: Any updates on the source code? Also what made you decide to use Arc, and how is it better or weaker than other languages for this specific task?
akkartik, Welcome! I'm very excited to be working with you for a number of reasons, the biggest being what mk wrote, you "get Hubski". We are lucky to have you!
I don't know if this is unreasonable to ask, but maybe hubski could make some kind of page / updating post that has a list of all the features / bug fixes you have on your list to do. It'd be a great place to see if my ideas are already being worked on, and a place to suggest things. Thoughts?
I wonder if they could use a bug tracker then link to it with a 'report a bug' button instead of using the bugski tag. Encourage proper bug reports and such.
This would be great! I'd love to be able to say "when did we get to do that? Oh! February!" or whatever.
We aren't. It has been implemented in Arc for HN, however. We are either going to have to do it ourselves, or hope for an update from pg. We'll keep moving in the right direction here.
Could you ajaxify the hide button a bit? So it doesn't cause a full page reload when you click it?