For domain name and hosting: should it be a production domain name on a production host?
On Friday, January 22, 2016, Julien Girault <[email protected]> wrote: > The Discovery Portal team has been thinking about a Portal Labs page. > > The idea is that we can implement some revolutionary ideas for our portal > page, things that are completely different than what the current portal > page looks like, and deploy it on this site for real users to use. But > without imposing a disruptive user experience to our users. We can put a > link to this page on the production portal page (in the bottom?), and users > can have an option to bookmark the page, and maybe make one of the > experiments their default. > > > > We would have two trains: > > - Slow train: running regular A/B tests (like the one we just ran) on the > official portal page and deploying small improvements as we learn. > > - Faster train: "Revolutionary" prototypes in Labs where we also collect > traffic and clickthrough rate to measure user satisfaction. We can also > implement a "Send a Feedback" feature (or have a link on the prototype page > that points to a Phab ticket where community can add comments/feedback). > > To give you an example of what we mean by revolutionary ideas, I uploaded > some of my research time work: > https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/ > > Pay closer attention to: > Trending Showing top 9 articles (grid) > <https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/react-top9-cards/>Trending Showing > top 10 articles (full screen) > <https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/react-top10-fs/> > > > This would allow us to think outside the box and test different > layouts/features, with real users who chose to. > > > > This is kind of a crazy idea, and we want to know what you all think about > it. Also we would need some naming ideas for it. Portal labs, or beta > portal, or something else. > > Please let us know what you think about this, how you think we can go > towards making this happen and what we should name it. > > Thanks! > Julien >
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