Release 2.7: Revamped Endorsements, Mobile UI, and anchor follow alerts It’s cold, dark and rainy here in NYC this morning, but we’re upbeat because we have another big release to share for PLOW. We’ll create…
Release 2.7: Revamped Endorsements, Mobile UI, and anchor follow alerts It’s cold, dark and rainy here in NYC this morning, but we’re upbeat because we have another big release to share. We’ll create our own sunshine, dagnabbit! Our endorsement module gets it’s biggest UI refresh yet. We’re now showing multiple anchors by default, giving you
Release 2.6: Boosted Comments Dearest citizens of PLOW - You’ve really spoiled us with the commentary. When we browse content on PLOW, we’re struck by how often the community is leaving thoughtful, original comments on items. In many cases, the comments are even better than the original item. With release 2.6,
Comments with muscle Dearest PLOW people - PLOW is a forum for thoughtful curation and discussion. We have been very impressed with the quality of the commentary that you have provided on top of content so far and we want to give you tools to make that process easier and more rewarding. With
A whole new grid for 2016 Grid [https://www.flickr.com/photos/phwoton/15409645657/], Berlin, 2014 ©CC BY 2.0. Dearest PLOW beta people - I’m very proud to introduce you to PLOW 2.4 (https://plow.io [https://plow.io/] ), featuring a whole new homepage grid. This is a big release for us, and
Release 2.3: A Bundle for the Holidays The holidays are nearly upon us and its been a while since our last update, so we’re going to wrap a bundle of features that we’ve put out in the last few months and call it ‘Release 2.3.’ I promise, even when the communication volume is low,
PLOW loves your keyboard Even though we’re on our phones constantly, just like you, we still have a secret thing for keyboards. We’re geeks at heart, and keyboards unleash the power user inside. With release 2.2 [http://blog.plow.io/2015/07/30/release-2-2-smart-anchor-recommendations-keyboard-friendly-anchor-page/] , which introduced full keyboard control to anchor
Release 2.2: Smart Anchor Recommendations, Keyboard Friendly Anchor Page The PLOW team has been cranking and we have another good batch of features for you. The back-end team has been building up our ability to make sense of content and we have our first user facing feature leveraging their work. We have huge plans for these systems going forward.
Release 2.1: Patched digests, YOUR feeds, Setup page Now that we’re all on the new app (see Boom — PLOW beta! [http://blog.plow.io/2015/07/15/plow-beta-boom/]), it’s time to smooth the app out and iterate based on your feedback. We’re relying on your input, of course. If you have ideas for how to
PLOW. Beta. BOOM! PLOW. Beta. BOOM! Thank you for giving the initial PLOW alpha a shot. We’ve learned a ton by observing patterns of usage and from the detailed feedback that many of you have sent us. We took that feedback to heart, added some new product and user interface ideas, and
What are they building there? You may have noticed that we’re heads down right now. The product updates are scarcer and there are a few bits of functionality that we would normally be jumping on to fix, but we just can’t spare the cycles. It kills us, frankly, to be so focussed on
Release 1.16: In-App alerts, Twitter handles, and friends for the cowboy Good folks of Plow - Our latest release introduces in-app alerts for the first time. Until now, you’ve relied principally on email alerts to be notified of relevant activity. Many of you love your email and we’ll keep that coming. At our Plow Nation event in SF earlier
What’s this all about anyway? Don’t worry, we’re not getting existential. We’ve just created a few short videos outlining our objectives for Plow and providing some hands on guidance on how to use our product. It’s concise and hopefully useful. Plus, we now have funny hammer men, an enormous Plow drill,
Release 1.15: Prelim user score and ‘Clean Up’ button Hello good Plow folks! We have another big release for you. As promised, we now bring you POINTS on each keyword page. When you participate in the curation of a keyword, you will amass points that drive the placement of your avatar on each keyword’s leaderboard. Also, we now
Release 1.14: Social login and revised email templates It’s been a busy summer and the PLOW dev team is cranking. This last release included some heavy lifting, especially with social login. Now you can register and login with your Twitter or Facebook credentials. You may have also noticed that our emails are suddenly much snazzier. We’re
Spring releases at Plow Good Plow people, We’ve been hard at work over the last few months making Plow faster, more robust and easier to use. Here is a quick update on changes that have been recently deployed in production. Release 1.11 We focussed on a series of usability improvements, including keyword
Plow Nation #2, so much fun! #3, New York! Thanks so much to Rachel [http://mvp.substanti.al/user/Pascha], Noam [http://mvp.substanti.al/user/NoamSzoke], Tisha [http://mvp.substanti.al/user/isabel_kitty], Colin [http://mvp.substanti.al/user/coleo33], Manuel [http://mvp.substanti.al/user/mguerzon], Kenesa [http://mvp.substanti.al/user/Kenesa], Alexandra [http://mvp.
Endorse articles, save the world Plow [http://mvp.substanti.al/], at its heart, is about small communities of subject matter experts directing the attention of people who don’t live and breath a given topic. The most obvious way to do this is to seed an article to one or more keywords in Plow [http:
How to @reply and #hashtag Dearest Plowies, You may have noticed the announcement of Plow’s @replies and hashtags [http://blog.substanti.al/2014/02/07/replies-and-hashtags-come-to-comments-with-plow-1-10/] last week. Today we want to give you a quick tutorial on how they work. @Replies On every article page you there is a comment section [http://http/
@replies and hashtags come to comments with Plow 1.10 Friends of Plow - Plow beta will be a substantial relaunch of the service, and while we’re still more than 30-days away from the full launch, we’re going to start dripping in beta features now. If they’re useful in the current (MVP) service, why keep you waiting?
Introducing search (this time for real) and Plow 1.9 Plow 1.9 is here, and the headliner is our vastly improved search function. Until now, search was merely ‘Search keywords.’ Truth in advertising is important, and we didn’t want to overpromise. You’ll notice that we’ve sneakily dropped the ‘keywords’ portion of that phrase. What could that
Friends of Plow, come play with these new features. (Release 1.8) We are excited to release the latest Version of Plow. Come in and kick our tires. A few easy steps to check out the new features: 1. Login at http://mvp.substanti.al 2. Click on some keywords and follow them if you haven’t already. 3. Ditto with some
Out with the Stash and in with the Plow We’ve been running with Stash as a placeholder for our Alpha thus far, but we’re ready to bring in the new year with a new name: Plow. Stash has always been a placeholder brand and we’ve gone through literally hundreds of candidate names looking for something that
Plow’s Rough Guide to Posting Content Ok, we all know our MVP needs some interface help. We are in the process of a next iteration of UX. But you can curate content like a boss right now with just a little orientation. Check out the screens below for a quick overview. Lots of pink arrows! You
Stash 1.7 — introducing the item score Summary tiles for items on keyword pages now have a 1–10 rating in the lower right-hand corner. If you haven’t noticed them, check out Web development [http://mvp.substanti.al/term/Web_development] or San Francisco dining [http://mvp.substanti.al/term/San_Francisco_dining], or any other
