Hey Askvillers,
We've received a lot of feedback about our new homepage layout, both good and bad. As we mentioned in our last post, we will be tweaking the homepage with the long-term goal of allowing users to customize it so that the content that you want to see will show up, front and center, each time you visit Askville. That said, we've changed the homepage so that now you can toggle between Featured Answers and New Questions. Moreover, as soon as you log into Askville, the default setting is to see New Questions; the default setting for users who have not logged in is still the same, however, you now can toggle to New Questions on the slide show. We hope this will help users who are looking to answer new questions when they visit Askville versus newbie users who are looking to just browse some of the great answers from older questions.
We've also made some improvements to the narrow-results functionality on all topic pages so that the narrow-results filters are more accurate. Keep in mind that when you narrow results in a topic, you are only narrowing results on questions that were tagged with the main topic. If you want to narrow results on a different topic, click on the "browse popular topic" link on each topic page. Thanks for everyone's feedback and patience as we continue to make Askville a great place to ask... answer... meet... play!
Cheers,
The Askville Team
