May 28, 2018 at 12:49 Geektimes return to Habr
This is true, and it has already happened. Giktayms returned to Habr.
In a recent publication, we announced the move of Habr to the habr.com domain and talked about the upcoming internationalization of the resource. After 24 hours, this publication became the best in a year , and we have never received so many comments, letters of support and offers of cooperation. It became clear that the audience supports our chosen motion vector; it's time to tell what will happen next.
Since its inception, Habr has been a ramified resource that, in addition to its basic value - content placement - has offered other opportunities. This is a job search, a service of questions and answers, a calendar of events. Habr grew, internal sections grew along with it.
Over time, it became clear that if you separate the subsections into a separate project and give independence, having untied the Habr system, which is complex and closed from the outside world, they can get a new breath. And so it happened. Section with vacancies after a few relocations donkey on My circle, user questions - on the Toaster . Then we launched a separate project - Freelansim , but this is a different story.
What Habr looked like 10 years ago, in the lower right corner is the larva of My Circle.
In general, the separation helped. The toaster is now lively and peppy, growing well in all respects. My circle helps to find work for an increasing number of people, knows even more about salaries in the market, and very soon it will show how employees evaluate their work experience in the companies where they worked. Freelansim will also be updated and will soon restart, become older and offer a long-awaited deal without risk.
Giktayms also stood out from Habr and over the past time from 2014, the time has formed in an independent community. This division had several motivations.
First of all, we wanted to bring to a separate project content that could conditionally be called “entertaining,” or broadening our horizons so that the user could, among other things, follow the current news agenda. Secondly, we wanted only professional content to remain on Habré, practically useful, explaining and explaining, bearing value for IT specialists. That Habr was not perceived as an entertainment project and did not treat him accordingly. This perception often created all sorts of problems, including with Roskomnadzor, which, at the request of the FSB, added our Russian company Habr LLC to the register of information disseminators according to 97-FZ .
We thought for a long time what to do with Giktayms, which did not quite fit into our plan to focus on one brand and grow a global multi-service project - Habr, focused only on IT specialists and providing a wide range of services. We considered the idea of separating Giktayms into a separate company in order to leave the project independent, so that it would be on its own, as an independent player in the local market, but we saw difficulties with management. And even after the announcement of the transfer of part of the hubs from Giktayms to Habr and comments, we felt that the time had come to do as prompted by intuition and feedback from users. We return Giktayms back to Habr, before starting the big return of all previously allocated projects back to Habr.
Such an association, in addition to the joy of a large part of users, will have many more consequences, which can also be regarded as a fair wind:
- Increased development and testing speed;
- Simplification of administration;
- Simplification of workflow;
- Users and companies will no longer be torn between projects;
- There will be less unnecessary movements with RSS feeds and subscriptions;
- The mobile application will lose weight, be updated and become more understandable and integral;
- We do not have to write two publications with results at the end of the year;
- It’s easy to get a lot more points, but more on that in future announcements.
A few nuances about the transfer:
- For now, all the hubs who returned from emigration to the Gytayms will be in a separate flow -Gictimes ;
- Earlier profile hubs on Gytayms will remain profile on the Habré, but changes will follow in the future;
- If on two projects you had accounts with different rights, then on Habr there will be the highest rights. For example, if you had Read & Comment authority on Habré , and Giktimes had a full account, then after gluing, the Habré account will become full-fledged (if it is not under sanctions for violation of community rules, otherwise it will remain readonly until the expiration date sanctions);
- If on two projects you had different karma, after the transfer it will have the greatest of values;
- If your company had two blogs, then the validity periods are summed up.
Okay, you thought, all this looks like a good plan, but why aren't you afraid of the difficulties that you wanted to avoid by sharing projects? After all, now everything is returning back to Habr.
First, the unification of projects under the wing of Habr is now possible, since we have learned to work with a multi-level system of accounts with different user rights. Not only karma and rating govern the user's capabilities, but also the types of accounts. This system is somewhat reminiscent of the system of obtaining citizenship in a particular country. We are able to differentiate user rights, which gives us flexibility in decision making.
Secondly, we focused on internationalization and plan to make multilingual not only Habr, but also other projects that will become part of one brand. My circle will move to career.habr.com, Toaster will be located on qa.habr.com, and Freelansim on deals.habr.com. Developing one project is easier than several. We understood this through blood, sweat and tears.
And thirdly, the association will allow us to refresh the stack used in projects and the development of technologies and approaches. This is also one of the motivations of the association. For a long time we wanted to rewrite many things, but for various reasons it was not possible to do as we would like.
***
This summer there will be many releases and announcements. Sit back, stock up on popcorn, we are starting a new big story. Very soon, we will offer to test the new mobile version of Habr, and a little later we will show and tell in more detail how internationalization will work. We have already translated the interfaces and documentation, but there is still work to do before the feature becomes available for beta testing .
And this Saturday, Habr was 12 years old - on May 26, 2006 the first user habrahabr was registered . For any Internet project, 12 years of life is a pretty solid age ("Yes, it's more than a third of my life!" - approx. Buruma ), but Habr is still young and full of energy, so all the most interesting is ahead.
Stay tuned for updates soon.
In a recent publication, we announced the move of Habr to the habr.com domain and talked about the upcoming internationalization of the resource. After 24 hours, this publication became the best in a year , and we have never received so many comments, letters of support and offers of cooperation. It became clear that the audience supports our chosen motion vector; it's time to tell what will happen next.
Since its inception, Habr has been a ramified resource that, in addition to its basic value - content placement - has offered other opportunities. This is a job search, a service of questions and answers, a calendar of events. Habr grew, internal sections grew along with it.
Over time, it became clear that if you separate the subsections into a separate project and give independence, having untied the Habr system, which is complex and closed from the outside world, they can get a new breath. And so it happened. Section with vacancies after a few relocations donkey on My circle, user questions - on the Toaster . Then we launched a separate project - Freelansim , but this is a different story.
What Habr looked like 10 years ago, in the lower right corner is the larva of My Circle.
In general, the separation helped. The toaster is now lively and peppy, growing well in all respects. My circle helps to find work for an increasing number of people, knows even more about salaries in the market, and very soon it will show how employees evaluate their work experience in the companies where they worked. Freelansim will also be updated and will soon restart, become older and offer a long-awaited deal without risk.
Giktayms also stood out from Habr and over the past time from 2014, the time has formed in an independent community. This division had several motivations.
First of all, we wanted to bring to a separate project content that could conditionally be called “entertaining,” or broadening our horizons so that the user could, among other things, follow the current news agenda. Secondly, we wanted only professional content to remain on Habré, practically useful, explaining and explaining, bearing value for IT specialists. That Habr was not perceived as an entertainment project and did not treat him accordingly. This perception often created all sorts of problems, including with Roskomnadzor, which, at the request of the FSB, added our Russian company Habr LLC to the register of information disseminators according to 97-FZ .
We thought for a long time what to do with Giktayms, which did not quite fit into our plan to focus on one brand and grow a global multi-service project - Habr, focused only on IT specialists and providing a wide range of services. We considered the idea of separating Giktayms into a separate company in order to leave the project independent, so that it would be on its own, as an independent player in the local market, but we saw difficulties with management. And even after the announcement of the transfer of part of the hubs from Giktayms to Habr and comments, we felt that the time had come to do as prompted by intuition and feedback from users. We return Giktayms back to Habr, before starting the big return of all previously allocated projects back to Habr.
Such an association, in addition to the joy of a large part of users, will have many more consequences, which can also be regarded as a fair wind:
- Increased development and testing speed;
- Simplification of administration;
- Simplification of workflow;
- Users and companies will no longer be torn between projects;
- There will be less unnecessary movements with RSS feeds and subscriptions;
- The mobile application will lose weight, be updated and become more understandable and integral;
- We do not have to write two publications with results at the end of the year;
- It’s easy to get a lot more points, but more on that in future announcements.
A few nuances about the transfer:
- For now, all the hubs who returned from emigration to the Gytayms will be in a separate flow -Gictimes ;
- Earlier profile hubs on Gytayms will remain profile on the Habré, but changes will follow in the future;
- If on two projects you had accounts with different rights, then on Habr there will be the highest rights. For example, if you had Read & Comment authority on Habré , and Giktimes had a full account, then after gluing, the Habré account will become full-fledged (if it is not under sanctions for violation of community rules, otherwise it will remain readonly until the expiration date sanctions);
- If on two projects you had different karma, after the transfer it will have the greatest of values;
- If your company had two blogs, then the validity periods are summed up.
Okay, you thought, all this looks like a good plan, but why aren't you afraid of the difficulties that you wanted to avoid by sharing projects? After all, now everything is returning back to Habr.
First, the unification of projects under the wing of Habr is now possible, since we have learned to work with a multi-level system of accounts with different user rights. Not only karma and rating govern the user's capabilities, but also the types of accounts. This system is somewhat reminiscent of the system of obtaining citizenship in a particular country. We are able to differentiate user rights, which gives us flexibility in decision making.
Secondly, we focused on internationalization and plan to make multilingual not only Habr, but also other projects that will become part of one brand. My circle will move to career.habr.com, Toaster will be located on qa.habr.com, and Freelansim on deals.habr.com. Developing one project is easier than several. We understood this through blood, sweat and tears.
And thirdly, the association will allow us to refresh the stack used in projects and the development of technologies and approaches. This is also one of the motivations of the association. For a long time we wanted to rewrite many things, but for various reasons it was not possible to do as we would like.
***
This summer there will be many releases and announcements. Sit back, stock up on popcorn, we are starting a new big story. Very soon, we will offer to test the new mobile version of Habr, and a little later we will show and tell in more detail how internationalization will work. We have already translated the interfaces and documentation, but there is still work to do before the feature becomes available for beta testing .
And this Saturday, Habr was 12 years old - on May 26, 2006 the first user habrahabr was registered . For any Internet project, 12 years of life is a pretty solid age ("Yes, it's more than a third of my life!" - approx. Buruma ), but Habr is still young and full of energy, so all the most interesting is ahead.
Stay tuned for updates soon.
Technical work on the integration (postponement of publications, recalculation of all indicators) began yesterday afternoon and will end today in the late afternoon. Please be patient.