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From: FStone@medium.com
To: ReleaseNotesTeam@medium.com
Hello team.
Well, it looks like “popular demand” wants the “humorous” release notes back.
I acknowledge the tensions we had around that approach to updates, and it takes a big man to admit where he’s wrong.
So in the spirit of moving forward, and in being organizationally bound to oversee this…thing, I’d like to start fresh and deliver scalably funny release notes that really move the needle.
I just got the list of updates from product. As I mentioned, I’m not coming at this cold. Two years in my college’s improv troupe “Schticks and Stones” has prepared me pretty, pretty well:
** Fixed a crash that was affecting some users when on a publication page, the home page, or a profile page
I think we can somehow work a reference to the Dave Matthews song “Crash Into Me” here - “DMB might like to crash, but we don’t want you to. So take that helmet off…” Something in there feels good.
** Fixed an issue where you would not be able to open a story embed that was in a response below a post
Not sure what this fix is, but there’s something to the concept “embed” - “strange bugs make for strange embed-fellows?”
Actually, go with “embed-persons.”
** Fixed an issue where you would not be able to login with email directly after logging out
Logs make me think of trees and trees make me think of lumberjacks. “TIMBER! No more logging problems, so put away your axes” lol
** Added iOS support bot
Did you see “I, Robot” with Will Smith? Great film. Pound for pound, that guy matches up with anyone out there, and might even be better than Cruise. Anyway, there’s something in there.
** Fixed an issue where you could not recommend a response from your email if you had the app installed
For this I’m feeling “mailer-daemon” works. Like “Fire your exorcist! Those nasty mailer-daemons won’t be stealing your email recommends any longer!”
** Added ability to clear disk caches to free up space on your device
This has gotta be “cache rules everything around me” WU TANG!
** Highlights no longer go beyond the bounds of the text on headers
I’m out of time, so I’ll just let you riff on this one. I trust you got it.
Oh and if you could get me your OKRs and KPIs by EOW that would be great.
Frank Stone
Vice Head of Global Outreach and Strategic Enablement
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- Category: News
- Updated: Aug 16, 2016
- Version: 2.27.3874
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