Feb 8th 2024: Development Update

Highlights

• Improved articles functionality and interface

• Onboarding encouragement

• Push notifications when a creator you have added has posted content

• Improved Web App UI

Improved articles functionality and interface

We have listened to feedback in our beta testing about how our "Ideas" articles feature needed an upgrade. It needed more flexibility and functionality - plain text and one image was not enough. In this release we have included the ability to format text in bold, italics, and underline, as well as the ability to embed images within content.

There's plenty more we plan to achieve, but for now, we believe this is the bare minimum to be competitive - and we have built it in a way that keeps us aligned to our principle of simplicity in design and functionality. We can't wait to go out with this release for further testing.

Onboarding encouragement

Following a user's sign up and onboarding, they'll be shown their profile - and currently it doesn't do anything to encourage them to try posting photos or adding urls to their profile. Our new look for empty profiles does just that:

By doing so, we hope to encourage more consumers to take the leap into the world of creating and posting content themselves.

Push notifications when a creator you have added has posted content

When you add someone on Libry, you will now receive push notifications when they have added new content.

Improved Web App UI

We have made the Libry web app look consistent, as well as added a fresh new UI and functionality to the homepage.

The homepage will show the most popular posts of the day, week, and month - as well as give you easy access to content from people you have added.

The interfaces involved in editing an article, video, or image were all different. We have made them look and feel the same so that you spend less time figuring out how to use Libry, and more time making your content available to the world.

Previously, your settings were only available in our mobile apps, but with this release you'll be able to update your settings on web too.

Once Libry's beta goes live to the public, we'll be posting our development updates there!

- The Libry Team