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Western Honeybee (Apis mellifera)

Honeybees go the extra mile for some pollen.

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[8techlabs-blog]

How to Balance Fixing Performance Issues and Adding New Features in Web Applications?

In today’s digital landscape, web applications are essential for business operations, marketing, and consumer involvement. As organizations expand and consumer expectations rise, development teams are frequently confronted with the difficult task of balancing two key priorities: addressing performance issues and introducing new features.

While boosting performance improves the user experience and increases efficiency, new features are required to remain competitive and meet market demands. Prioritizing one over the other, on the other hand, might have negative consequences—performance concerns can lead to a poor user experience while failing to innovate can result in a competitive disadvantage.

This blog delves into how to balance improving performance and introducing new features to web apps, allowing firms to satisfy technical and market demands efficiently.

Why Balancing Performance and New Features Is Crucial

A web application‘s success depends on both its performance and its features. However, relying entirely on one might result in imbalances that impair both user happiness and business progress. 

Performance:Performance is an important component that directly influences user retention and happiness. Users can become frustrated and leave if the application has slow loading times, crashes, or problems. Ensuring that your web application runs smoothly is essential since 53% of mobile consumers would quit a site that takes more than three seconds to load. 

New Features:On the other hand, constantly adding new features keeps users interested and promotes your company as innovative. New features generate growth by attracting new consumers and retaining existing ones who want to experience the most recent changes.

The dilemma is deciding when to prioritize bug fixes over new feature development. A poor balance can harm both performance and innovation, resulting in a subpar user experience and stagnation. 

Common Performance Issues in Web Applications

Before balancing performance and features, it’s important to understand the common performance issues that web applications face:

Slow Load Times: Slow pages lead to higher bounce rates and lost revenue.

Server Downtime: Frequent server outages impact accessibility and trust.

Poor Mobile Optimization: A significant portion of web traffic comes from mobile devices and apps that aren’t optimized for mobile fail to reach their potential.

Security Vulnerabilities: Data breaches and security flaws harm credibility and user trust.

Bugs and Glitches: Software bugs lead to poor user experiences, especially if they cause the app to crash or become unresponsive.

Strategic Approaches to Fixing Performance Issues

When performance issues develop, they must be handled immediately to guarantee that the online application functions properly. Here are techniques for improving performance without delaying new feature development: 

Prioritize Critical Issues:Tackle performance issues that have the most significant impact first, such as slow loading times or security vulnerabilities. Use analytics to identify bottlenecks and determine which areas require urgent attention. 

Use a Continuous Improvement Process:Continuously monitor and optimize the application’s performance. With tools like Google PageSpeed Insights, you can track performance metrics and make incremental improvements without major overhauls. 

Optimize Database Queries:Slow database queries are one of the leading causes of web app performance issues. Optimize queries and ensure that the database is indexed properly for faster access and retrieval of data. 

Reduce HTTP Requests:The more requests a page makes to the server, the slower it loads. Minimize requests by reducing file sizes, combining CSS and JavaScript files, and utilizing caching.

  5. Leverage Caching and CDNs:       Use caching strategies and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to deliver content quickly to users by storing files in multiple locations globally.

Why Adding New Features is Essential for Growth

 In the rapidly changing digital environment, businesses must continually innovate to stay relevant. Adding new features is key to maintaining a competitive edge and enhancing user engagement. Here’s why:

User Expectations:Today’s consumers expect personalized experiences and constant innovation. Failure to add new features can lead to customer churn, as users may feel your web application no longer meets their needs.

Market Differentiation:Introducing new features allows your application to stand out in the marketplace. Unique functionalities can set your app apart from competitors, attracting new users and increasing customer loyalty.

Increased Revenue Opportunities:New features can lead to additional revenue streams. For example, adding premium features or new integrations can boost the app’s value and lead to increased sales or subscription rates.

  4. Feedback-Driven Innovation:       New features are often driven by user feedback. By continuously developing and adding features, you create a feedback loop that improves the overall user experience and fosters customer                 satisfaction.

Read More: https://8techlabs.com/how-to-balance-fixing-performance-issues-and-adding-new-features-in-web-applications-to-meet-market-demands-and-enhance-user-experience/

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Itchy skin disease with nodules: Prurigo nodularis is a chronic skin disease defined by itchy skin and hard itchy nodules on skin surface. This impacts approx. 181, 000 residents in the United States and has a great influence over the quality of life of sufferers because of sleep loss and other forms of stigmatization1. Specifically, Nemolizumab seems to have a promising efficacy in clinical modalities since it relieves itching and decreases the size of the nodules for patients.

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Preparing a lab for practicing hashtag#pentest can take time. Depending of the vulnerable and attacker machines, you may need to download a vulnerable #virtualMachine, install it, fix eventual issues on #VirtualBox or #VMware, start services, maybe prepare the #database, #tools, #proxy, #certificates, etc… Pentest-Tools.com provides ready to use free pentesting labs, including #webApps,#Redis, #RestAPI and #GraphQL.

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[changes]

Friday, December 8th, 2023

🌟 New

On web, we’ve removed the option to delete your account from your primary blog’s settings. Account deletion can still be performed via your account settings.

We’ve rolled out some visual changes in the iOS and Android apps to how reblog information is displayed in post headers. These changes have been live on the web for a while, now it’s in the apps!

In the public API, we’ve added a new field to the Post object, “parent_post_url”, pointing to the reblog’s parent post (often referred to as the “prev” post).

🛠 Fixed

We’ve fixed a bug that was preventing the DuckDuckGo browser on Android phones from being able to copy links to posts.

🚧 Ongoing

Nothing to report here today.

🌱 Upcoming

Check out this prototype we’re working on over in Tumblr Labs called “Communities”!

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with the community.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out the new Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

[thisispoggers]

There is just something magical and heartwarming about seeing Monsta post about how the BBB elementals hang out with each other cuz I’m so OBSSESSED with it

Like yes I wanna see Cahaya get fed up with Api and Daun breaking into his lab

Yes I wanna see Api and Taufan hanging out with Gopal and doing their cute lil dance segment

Yes I wanna see Taufan spending time with Yaya and tryna not die to her baking

Yes I wanna see Ais and Daun hanging out and having fun

Yes I wanna see the Ori trio chilling with each other and reading books

YES I WANNA SEE THEM JUST BEING WITH EACH OTHER MONSTA PLSSSSS I NEED MORE MOMENTS LIKE THESE

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[wip]

Tumblr labs addition maybe Whilst using tumblr I have amassed quite a large following 40K+ I don't have the time to prune all the dead and barely active accounts. ideally a tool is what is required, that has moderation type filters that let the user specify the range of activity or there lack of to remove. As a healthy forum runs on people posting often and the dead wood being removed.

Answer: Hey there, @tgcarahart.

We would love to build more bulk-action tools on Tumblr as a core platform improvement! Gardening your following and followers are one of the areas where that would make a lot of sense. However, we’re not sure yet where it fits on our priority list, but it may be a part of our plans next year. Stay tuned to @changes blog for updates on that.

In the meantime, if you want to do this kind of thing yourself and dip your toes into some programming, you can leverage the public Tumblr API to do exactly what you want. In fact, we just published an example of how to get a list of who you’re following based on activeness and mutual status here. You could probably tune that to do what you want with a little work! We’d love to have more examples in that repository.

Thanks for your question, and we hope this helps!

[equipo]

Cambia, todo cambia

🌟 Novedades

Hemos replanteado los botones para borrar una cuenta o un blog en la versión web para evitar confusiones. Verás que la opción para eliminar tu cuenta ya no aparece en la configuración de tu blog principal: la encontrarás en el apartado de configuración de la cuenta.

Hemos hecho algunos cambios en el diseño de las aplicaciones para iOS y Android, concretamente en cómo se muestra la información sobre los reblogueos en la cabecera de las publicaciones. ¡Ya llevan un tiempo aplicados a la versión web y por fin han llegado también a vuestros dispositivos móviles!

En la API pública, hemos añadido un campo nuevo al objeto de las publicaciones, «parent_post_url», que apunta a la publicación original de la que procede el reblogueo (a la que nos solemos referir con el código «prev»).

🛠️ Mejoras y solución de problemas

Hemos solventado un error que evitaba que el navegador DuckDuckGo pudiera copiar los enlaces a las publicaciones en dispositivos Android.

🚧 En curso

Nuestro equipo está trabajando con esmero para actualizar los documentos de ayuda. Si encuentras cualquier información confusa o que no esté al día, no dudes en escribirnos.

🌱 Próximamente

Estamos diseñando una nueva función en Tumblr Labs: ¡la hemos llamado «Comunidades»!

¿Tienes algún problema? Envía una solicitud al equipo de asistencia y se pondrán en contacto contigo lo antes posible.

¿Quieres hacernos llegar tus comentarios o impresiones sobre alguna función? Echa un vistazo a nuestro flamante blog Work in Progress y empieza a compartir tus ideas y sugerencias con la comunidad.

¿Quieres apoyar Tumblr con una pequeña contribución? No te pierdas el nuevo distintivo de fan incondicional en TumblrMart.

¡Y no olvides que puedes consultar todos estos cambios en cualquiera de los idiomas disponibles en Tumblr en los blogs oficiales de los equipos internacionales!

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[cyle]

what’s some feedback staff has received and implemented? how’s the process there work?

some big ones i can think of:

we brought back replies (lol)

we fixed the video player (lol)

we built 1:1 direct messaging

we built group chat (lol)

we made it easier to share tumblr posts outside of tumblr

we built Blaze so people can advertise their posts on tumblr

we built Post+ and Tipping so people can monetize their blogs

we rebuilt new user onboarding to emphasize following tags and blogs

we built ad-free and other things you can buy to support tumblr

we brought down load times of the apps from 3 seconds or more down to below a second

we had built a lot of little experimental features in Tumblr Labs, and we're building more in the new Tumblr Labs team

we fix bugs every day, big and small

the process depends on what kind of feedback you're talking about:

a bunch of us on staff are using tumblr all day every day so we naturally see feedback circulating around the community. this is a lot less actionable than you'd think, which is why we encourage people to send in actual feedback via our Support form.

our support folks are reading every support request that comes in

those requests generally make it to one of two places: either it's a bug/glitch and gets filed as a bug report (or added to one if there already was one) or gets added to feedback about a feature for further consideration

we hold weekly bug triage meetings to prioritize those bugs in a big queue for engineers to work on, or send them directly to teams to address

if it's feedback about a specific feature, like one that just launched or changed, the feedback gets funneled to the people working on it for consideration

and this probably isn't the kind of "feedback" you meant, but we also keep an eye on hundreds of pieces of data moving daily/weekly/quarterly/yearly to spot trends in behavior and action on the platform across the millions of people using tumblr. we run A/B tests and experiments as a means of gathering quantitative feedback.

and there's a lot more that contributes as "feedback" that informs what we work on. market data, trends in the social media ecosystem, product development practices, hack days/weeks internally, how our public API is used... there's a lot of feedback in the system, way more than any one person can handle.