Another week and another update to Tacswap. Since our last update on June 3rd we’ve been able to greatly reduce scam accounts. Overall we’ve seen >90% reduction site wide of scam posts, comments and new accounts. Please continue to use caution and go through best practices with sellers while we roll out some additional scam reduction features in the near future (more on that in a minute).
What’s New
Progressive Web App – this is what Joe has been working on for months now and is giving us the ability to really move the application forward with new features. Here’s a few things you will notice immediately:
- Goodbye “Load More” button- you will now have “infinite scroll”. You may notice some delay as items are loaded if you are scrolling fast but overall this is a greatly improved feature.
- New Icons – we have removed the message and comment text and replaced them with icons. These should be straightforward but go ahead and click around.
- In Feed Comments – reducing the need to move to new pages we’ve added the ability to pop-up comments.
- Image Ratios – we’re now displaying images at the same ratio you upload them at. This should give buyers a better view in their feed of items.
- Item Description – we’ve limited the item description on the feed for a better scrolling experience.
- Scroll position – one of my pet peeves was a user would lose their position in the feed if you went to leave a message or comment. In most cases you should return to your last position in the feed by using browser gestures and/or the browsers back button.
What’s Next
We know the biggest question is going to be why didn't Tacswap add a user feedback system so let’s get this addressed:
We have a User profile page currently in design and it is the absolute next item to be released. This is not a full-blown user feedback scoring system but will leverage users’ verification date, # of posts, # of comments, and other verifiable data that a seller would want to share with a potential buyer.
Why not a full-blown user feedback system – It’s expensive to design, it takes a long time to build, it’s very intrusive to our user experience, etc, etc. Doesn’t mean we won’t introduce one sometime in the future but we think there are ways we can address some concerns through other features that can be done more quickly.
Our normal reminder… there are only 2 guys running Tacswap and only 1 of those guys can sling code. We are doing everything we can to get some much needed improvements added to the site. We hope you’ve seen some great improvements over the last few months and hope you’ll stick around for some even better stuff coming up.