Now Even More Social - Sometimes Small Changes Have a Big Impact
Today we rolled out a tiny improvement that could have big impact on further enhancing the fun of shared discovery on BlinkList.
Just yesterday I wrote that on BlinkList you can automatically see if one of your friends have blinked a site when you notice a smiley in front of a link like this:
Well, it turns out that after a while the smiley is not all that interesting because more often than not, you are just too lazy to click to find out who of your friends has blinked the site. So, today we replaced the smiley icon with an icon with a small profile picture of your friends. This small change has immediately made surfing on BlinkList way more fun! It now looks like this:
So, if your friends have blinked a site, you will now always see their profile pictures show up. What if two of your friends have blinked a site? Well, in that case we show the profile pic of the person that first blinked the site.
Let us know your thoughts! We love to keep innovating and look forward to making BlinkList better and better.
PS: For the rest of the week we are focusing on a new server upgrade since we know that speed and reliability is absolutely critical. We are hoping that the new server will allow us to significantly speed up the site and make it much faster, more responsive, and more reliable during our peak hours.