Into The Forrst

Forrst v3, one week later.

Hard to believe that Forrst v3 launched a mere seven days ago. We’re extremely proud of the product and community we’ve built, and wanted to share a few updates since launch.

Fixes and Support

We’ve rolled out literally dozens of bugfixes and subtle tweaks since launch. You should rarely, if ever, come across our dear friend, Error Bear, but if you do, rest assured we’ll fix it in short order. By popular demand, we brought back a unified popular posts feed. Also, we know our Uservoice isn’t getting the attention it deserves, and we’re currently looking at ways to roll a support system into Forrst in a more integrated fashion, since many folks are sharing their support issues directly on the site. Ultimately, we’d love to figure out a way to leverage the site and community for such issues.

Promoted Posts

We’ve been amazed at the positive response to our new Promoted Posts system and our site credits, Acorns. To date, we’ve already seen dozens of awesome promoted posts, with some great response. The guys at Skills wrote a neat blog post about their experience so far. If you’re interested in reading more, check out the FAQ or head over to snag a few Acorns and give it a shot for yourself.

Introducing Reputation

Zack has been working extremely hard implementing a very robust reputation system for Forrst. While young, we feel that it’s already an excellent way to see who’s going above and beyond contributing to the community. Every single action you take on Forrst contributes to your reputation score (either positively or negatively). This includes, posting, liking posts and comments, flagging content that goes against the guidelines, and most importantly contributing thoughtful, helpful critique through commenting. While we can’t give away our secret sauce, it’s safe to say that “great work” type comments are worth substantially less than a well thought-out response. I’m looking forward to watching the system mature, and I’m confident it’s going to play a big role in Forrst.

What’s Next

Over the next month, we plan to roll out JSFiddle integration for code posts, premium user profiles/Forrst Pro, continue to iterate on the user experience, especially onboarding of new users, and so much more. We know there are some confusing aspects of the stream (comment vs. post liking, missing important context, etc.). The Snaps landing page could use some love, and we’re also aiming to make sharing code so much more useful.

As always, any questions or concerns please email hello AT forrst.com. Thanks for your continued support!