#Iterative Development

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Iterative Development

Slice #293

[marrywillson]

We are expert reliable and effective business and start-up Iterative Development Service Company in USA.

[somanyskills]

This is good software development practice. Getting feedback from actual customer usage and aligning further development with that purpose. Someone is doing good work at Tumblr. Nice job.

Hello again, Labs here with a recap of our test of Collections! We introduced this prototype back in September and then handed the feature to a handful of volunteers sourced from the notes on that post. Thank you again to all volunteers! 

We got so much useful feedback, and wanted to share some of that here, and reveal some next steps we’re taking. There are a couple of big projects cooking in Labs, and Collections has taken a backseat lately, but it is important to us to not leave y’all hanging. We very much want to build things with you here.

Our goal with the volunteer-based super-early phase of Collections was to see if those volunteers actually use the feature, watch what they come up with, and check whether anybody they invite to Tumblr signs up and becomes a regular user of the site. Turns out, nobody did sign up — it’s not as useful of an onboarding strategy as we thought it could be.

However, one piece of feedback we got is that Collections make great custom feeds, which people on Tumblr have been asking for a lot over the years. We hear you loud and clear: you want to supplement the standard Following / For You experience with more intentional control over feed content. That’s really important to us.

With that in mind, for those in the prototype, we’ve moved the Collections list to the left sidebar / mobile navigation as an expandable area like Account, for quick access. We like this better than putting them in the dashboard tab bar, but it’s still something we’re mulling over:

We also heard the need for more filtering options beyond just blogs and tags. What about only including a blog’s posts that use a certain tag, or excluding posts using a certain tag? Or list tags with a boolean AND operator (“posts tagged [tag] and [other tag]”), not just the OR operator we’re using now for sourcing tagged posts. Lots of ideas on how to further customize what shows up in the feed, and better define what the feed is “for”.

There were other fun, tangential bits of feedback, too, like the desire to make these Collections a collaborative feature, so that more than one person can help build a Collection. There were also several usability issues that came to the forefront, which we’ve addressed. And there were some well-articulated thoughts and questions about etiquette, such as how to seek a blog’s “permission” to be included in a Collection – that’s something we care a lot about, to help prevent this kind of feature from being a source of abuse.

Another piece of feedback we heard repeatedly is the desire for Collections of posts. This is not really what we intended with what we built, but it’s not too far afield either. We totally agree that having better, easier ways of collecting and curating individual posts would be useful, so we’re going to investigate that as a separate project.

With all of this in mind, we’ve split the work on Collections into two separate tracks:

Shaping this feature as a “customizable feeds” solution, away from an “invite others” tool.

Building a new thing for saving and curating static posts.

Stay tuned here on the Labs blog for updates on when/if we’ll be moving these Collections tracks of work to more people on Tumblr. (If you are one of the volunteers who helped us with Collections, you’ll still have access to it for the time being!)

Thanks for reading! And please reach out to us via Support, the replies here, or your reblogs, if you have any more feedback, as always.

[bewilderbark]

day 31 - unfortunate development

This was a gift from a close friend.

its over................................ dyes

[thoughtsroamguy]

Meet Eve, another core cast member and a top tier mage that bends weather to her will. Being such a powerhouse leaves her a woman of little words, hard to approach, but difficult not to look at. I can't wait for y'all to meet her in Tears of Xivo!

A link to her character sheet

[fishluring]

heyy im bored does anyone have questions about or for my iterators

these are the three i have shown here before but i do have more

Sings Of Tides, has/had an above average control of its regions water management

Winding Pathways, a living labyrinth and art statement

and Set In Stone/ Written In Stars/ As Sure As The Sky, an iterator focused on meteoritics

[ditzyblues]

i couldnt be hyperfixated on a CANON ship bc how else would i be able to have 300 ways they first kissed or confessed or met each other even. what would i do then

[charmwasjess]

you know the drill

💔&🖤

Ohh, Boli, my love, you got me comin' in hot here:

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

Honestly? It’s Dooku. 

The films fail him as a character. He’s there to kill time between villains, foreshadow Anakin's fall, and because Lucas wanted a respected film icon in his prequels the way he had Cushing and Guinness in the OT.

"But Jess, he's your fav and you're uncomfortably horny about him on main?!" you might ask. Yes, Dooku has an incredible backstory, a huge amount of narrative and emotional complexity, and a burning pile of potential, but it is never addressed or expanded on in the films. He has no arc or dynamic development - even his political scenes with Padme hit the cutting room floor. His motives for leaving the Order or joining the Sith are confused at best, shunted to supplemental canon, and the fake war plot is arguably one of the weakest and most confusing aspects of the prequels. He isn’t even given last words; fitting in the scene, also a perfect summary for how the character is used in the narrative. 

Imagining him gone is also an interesting possible fix-it recipe. So: lil' baby Doo gets turned into a spinewolf snackpack back in bby 101 or whatever and never exists. Okay, without Dooku there to save his life, teenaged Sifo-Dyas is either a. smashed by a falling city, b. drowned in hospital basement bacta flood, or c. tortured to death by Evil Moss (holy shit Dooku rescues him a LOT in that damn book). Between the two of them, that means the clone army is out. And if Qui-Gon had a different Master, one who actually put their foot down about the prophecy holocron instead of codependently indulging him, would he still have gotten obsessed with it to the point that it built into his obsession with the Chosen One and actions with Anakin? Maybe, maybe.

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

It’s ironic that my man Qui-Gon has become the canon poster child for The Only Truest Goodest Jedi, the exception to the so-called arrogance of the late stage Order, when his actions in Phantom Menace are a laundry list of things people routinely blame the Jedi for doing. Now, I love Qui-Gon, he’s my first favorite character, but let me just give a quick bad faith summary of his actions in TPM just to prove my point before I round back around:

convinces an enslaved child to participate in a deadly race, then buys the child from profits gained from betting on the race’s outcome

blatantly ignores priorities of intergalactic crisis to pursue the goals of his own fringe spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theories

takes said untrained 9 year old child into active combat after being told expressly not to train him 

Of course, this is a bad faith summary: all those decisions have greater nuance and narrative context. (Tho, actually, why did Anakin come to Naboo... nevermind) This is not to say I think Qui-Gon is secretly bad or something.

But I think people reduce Qui-Gon down to:

Qui-Gon follows his instincts to commune with plants and rescue cute animals :3 

When the reality is (also!):

Qui-Gon follows his instincts to do some morally dubious bad optics shit that works out for him by the end, which is a thing he learned to do from watching Dooku break shit with no consequences btw, and not a uniquely different approach from all other Jedi

I've said it before, I'll say it a thousand times: let Qui-Gon be a beautiful problem, that is part of the joy of the character!  

[unforgivingchorus]

I’ve been deconstructing my ideas of Tim to separate fanon from canon for the purpose of my solo run idea. What do you mean Batman calling him Jason was a canon event. I understand fanon has a basis in canon but I thought that was a development of fanon maybe. Eye is twitching I’m bringing back all of my deconstructed emotional disconnected mentor Batman thoughts

[echosian]

hooray

group picture of thwse guys. kinda of all over the place but ive names them the deluge group

also theyre on artfight! all of them. https://artfight.net/~Echosian

[yippee-optimistically]

PERSONAL TURTLES ITERATION DUMP GO!!!!

these are my silly little animals. my babies. YAY!!!!!!! i have yet to come up with a proper sub-title but i think ill just call them tmnt homebrew as a place holder. biggest notes: transfem leo 4EVER!!! and theyre all different turtle species. of course :) though a little rougher i do have some shell concepts 2 add to this

Leo is an ornate diamondback terrapin !! Donnie is a black knobbed map turtle. raph and mikey are TWINS!!!!!! and painted turtles <333

APRIL ONEIL I LOVE YOUU shes my babygirl.. she has a tumblr blog where she posts photos of the abandoned buildings she explores. kisses her on the head

casey is def most vulnerable to design adjustments bc hes so close to 2012. but 2012 also just did really good on a fun teen casey design. hes so grimy i love him

also.. still a vigilante. and very transgender my tmnt is so transgender. and hes got a baby sister named mary !!!!

splinter concepts.. hes very underdeveloped in comparison to the others in terms of design. but he def learns more toward the fatherly splinter than teacher. i just want him to be nice </3 more tottmnt than tmnt 2012. also dont know what origin i want to go with? thinking human but idk. maybe hes been a rat. need 2 research him

ive got a STUPID amount of concepts ive thrown together but i think i will leave this post at this for now. i am very inspired by 2012 and tottmnt as those are the series ive seen most recently. but there is a lot of 87 and rise in other parts. yay!!!! posting about neutrinos next pls get excited i adore them. look up the 1987 neutrinos in the meantime if u havent seen themf

[kagoutiss]

*complaining for no reason again because i am bored* i need more ppl to know that these. are all the same person these are literally canonically all the exact same individual person im begging u

literally almost all the ganondorfs are the exact same individual and almost all the ganons are the exact same individual, almost all the ganondorfs & ganons are the same exact person just in different forms and circumstances. except for FSA and maybe whatever the fuck is going on with TotK ganondorf but i still think it’s weird that he still has golden eyes & rounded ears when even the gerudo in TotK’s ancient past dont, but anyway ashfjsbfjsn

[tongues--and--teeth]

Post-War Golden Cheese and Dark Cacao my beloveds <3

[thought-begone]

lady will be redeemed just trust

[the-jordas-trials]

FINALLY... the canon iterators now have solid designs and arnt being bullshitted on the fly by me and are also more inline with what they look like in game. bonus hastag Nakey:tm: ref under the hood