New Year's update on Habré

New tariff plans :

• Company card. Quite often, companies turn to us that say: " we want to get your company’s card, but we don’t plan to maintain a blog yet ." Especially for them, we made a tariff plan that, for a modest fee, allows any IT company to create its own profile on Habré: in it you can talk about the field of activity, development stages, employees, vacancies, and so on. In the future, such a card will be easy to supplement with a blog - just change the tariff plan.
  
  Additionally, you can configure widgets: social (Vkontakte, Facebook and Twitter) and information (links and a block for broadcasting an arbitrary RSS feed).

• Appstorro. Tariff plan for those who develop applications or often write about them (reviews, digests, and so on). If earlier publications of an advertising nature could be placed (according to the rules of the site) only in the “ I PR ” hub , now owners of blogs with this tariff plan can maintain a full blog where they can talk about their (or not about their) products in a more free form . But we draw attention to the fact that posting any other information on such a blog (event announcement, drill review, etc.) is unacceptable - only with regard to applications.
  
  A feature of this tariff plan is the presence of the Application widget, in which you can beautifully design the necessary applications (for almost any platform).

Initially, there was another tariff plan for legalizing the black market , “ Obzorro ” - so that the authors of the hardware reviews did not write “by the way, this friend’s friend honestly bought this fifth tablet for my mother-in-law here ”, and with a clear conscience they could indicate the store or company that provided the device for tests. But after the influx of Chinese stores, which could not connect in Russian and offers, they decided to abandon this venture.

New widgets
Another innovation regarding companies. Firstly, we redesigned the interface for adding widgets - now this process has become even simpler. Secondly, the existing solutions for social networks Vkontakte and Facebook were finalized. Recently, Twitter support has appeared - for broadcasting the necessary feed in the right column of the blog.

New is the " Applications " widget mentioned above.". Given that almost every company or project has at least one mobile (or even stationary) application, we decided to give the opportunity to talk about it in a visible place, that is, in the right column of the corporate blog. For the appearance of a new block, it is enough to add at least one application - write the name and description of the program, upload the image and add direct links for various platforms (mobile, stationary and web-platforms are supported) - everything is ready.



In the tariff plans, the permissible number of applications varies, but be that as it may, we advise all companies to fill out this block. Well, users, respectively, begin to pay attention to them;) An example of a widget can be seen, for example, in the Evernote company blog .

There are also innovations for users - there are few of them, but they are sure that you will like them.

Surveys in posts
From today, the opportunity to create a type of publication such as “Survey” (which was often neglected, because of which there were few votes for statistics) has disappeared - now the survey can only be created as an addition to the publication, as in this post.



There can be several polls in an article, each can be with the possibility of choosing either one answer option or several; by default, all polls are not limited by voting time (to increase the number of votes over time), but the time limit function is provided. If the publication uses the Habrakat tag, then the poll will only be inside the post, but if the post itself is small (without a kat), then the poll will be right in the feed.

Editing in Q&A
More recently, we made it possible to edit our comments (within 3 minutes after sending) - looking at your reaction, we decided to make editing in the Q&A section too: users can edit both responses and comments.



Author exchange
Some companies often have difficulty finding authors for their blog. Those who would know all the intricacies of writing and designing publications on Habré. But at the same time, there are quite a lot of users on the site who are ready to come to the rescue in the name of the common good.

Authors exchange - a place for interaction of enthusiastic authors and companies. The principle of operation is as simple as the world: a user (ready to write articles for corporate blogs on certain conditions) nominates himself, and company representatives choose the appropriate author at their discretion (all users are sorted by rating). All this can lead to mutually beneficial cooperation (both one-time and on an ongoing basis) - all the nuances of the parties are negotiated independently in a way convenient for them. Therefore, it is recommended that all interested users activate the corresponding setting on the post creation page. The page with users is available only to companies (inside the administration panel of their corporate blog).


Error correction
We fixed many errors that you reported to us through the feedback form .

All the best and Happy New Year!

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