Rypple Gets Personal
Ok…first off on the personal front, a big congratulations to Austin Tam, one of our star developers, on getting engaged on his cruise vacation last week! Perhaps now that he’s officially taken, the onslaught of fan mail from his female admirers will slow down 
Now on to this long overdue post about some of the great features we’ve added to Rypple over the past few weeks, starting with one thing that our users have been asking about for a while. Something we call “personal visibility“!
“What topics are other people asking most about vs what I’m asking about?”
“How does the response rate I’m getting compare to others?
“What do people think of the feedback I give THEM? Is it helpful?”
Well, I’m happy to say that our old friends, “Karma” and “Zen” have officially been shelved in favor of much more “personal” user stats which you can see right from your Home page when you’re logged in. Check ‘em out!
In the coming weeks we’ll be providing even MORE statistics and visibility into how other people just like you are using Rypple to get the feedback they really want!
Until then though, here’s a list of some additional features we recently added based on your feedback:
| You Said… | Rypple Responded: |
| 100 characters sometimes isn’t enough when requesting feedback. I want more! | We’ve increased our character limit from 100 to 140 characters for feedback requests. (this is in addition to the personal message you can add to your request to give all the background context you like!) |
| Oops! I just sent a request for feedback but forgot to add someone to my list of advisers! Can I add them now? | Now you can add additional advisers to a previously submitted request! (click the “Add advisers” action in the Results view) |
| I want to be able to download my feedback. | Download your results in CSV format right from the Results view. |
| I’d like to be able to control which notifications and alerts I receive from Rypple | Choose which emails you want to receive from Rypple on your user profile page (click your name in the header) |
| I’ve had a request for feedback open for a while now, can I close it so I don’t receive any more feedback on it? | Now you can shut off the flow of feedback for a specific request (click the “Close request” action in the Results view) |
| I’d like to remind the advisers I haven’t heard from to respond to my request | In addition to the reminders that Rypple automatically sends out on your behalf, now you can manually remind your advisers to give you feedback if they haven’t done so (click the “Send reminder” action in the Results view) |
| I’d like to be able to remove old requests I don’t want to see anymore from my Results view | Now you can archive both requests you’ve made and those you’ve received from others |
| Do you have any tips for me on how to Get and Give good feedback? | Check out the new Rypple Etiquette guide (accessible from the quick links sections and in the footer) |
That’s it for now. Some awesome new features set to launch in the coming weeks…stay tuned!
P.S. – If you arrived at this post because the title led you to believe you’d be able to:
a) see photos from James Tam‘s recent trip to Vegas
b) get access to Daniel Debow‘s late night webcam exploits
c) read some excepts from Ryan Dewsbury‘s latest works of haiku poetry
…then I’m sorry to have disappointed you
