Product Hunt 2.0 - Discover and geek out about your next favorite thing

I think this will take some getting used to - just hope it doesn't take away the simplicity of the original versions.

@rrhoover Just set my default to PH 2.0. I love hunting new books and podcasts, so having all the channels on the homepage is a nice experience. I don't have to click around to different pages to find what I'm looking for. The larger images also makes everything more scannable. I can get a better sense of what the product is about without having to read dozens of headlines. Will be interesting to see how much more important high quality visuals become in determining which products get upvoted or not. The upvote button/profile picture below each profile picture kind of threw me off though. Something about the left-alignment makes the symmetry of the screen seem "off." But tbh I'll probably get used to it and stop noticing in a few days. P.S. Any plans for releasing a new home screen layout for the mobile app?

@rrhoover Awesome Stuff !!! Congrats - PH has come a long way since that early design! Can't believe its 2 years already! Keep up the good work!

@rrhoover Congrats really impressive since the start two years ago

Congrats! Nice upgrade with enhanced content discovery capability! No more secret?

woo hoo! New PH 2.0 launch coincides with my ability to finally comment on PH!Congrats on new design, love the carousel and the invitation to discover.

I love the structure of the new design and layout. Love that each channel is a first class citizen on the homepage. Couple of issues: 1. Navigation to view a channel (i.e. Books, Tech, etc) - at the moment you have to click on the channel header (i.e. Today in Games) OR click on the non-prominent See All. 2. Navigation back to the homepage. This is not very obvious that one must click back on the P in the center of the page to get back.

YESS!!!!

Here is a new target area for PH, which I think will help this amazing platform we all are addicted to... be more friendly to folks who are not necessarily "tech nerds". At work ($2.5B high tech firm that was founded in 2002), hardly anyone (there are 150+ of us in marketing and product management) knows or contributes to PH. Simply because it is not part of their day to day professional life. One idea popped to my head as I was reading through Cisco's (our competitor) user guides... explained below... take it for what it's worth, hope it is useful in some shape or form! Why Product Hunt should replace “configuration & user guides” for high tech giants? 1. User guides are static and boring. Here are many from Cisco. https://www.google.com/webhp?ion... 2. Other high tech giants are no different. https://www.google.com/webhp?ion... https://www.google.com/webhp?ion... 3. The nature of "reading" and "finding information" has changed since the 1990s. First it needs to be mobile friendly. These PDFs are not mobile friendly. 4. There is absolutely zero feedback loop between the customer and the folks who contributed to the creation of these user guides. They do not even know who is reading about the great features they have designed for their great high tech products. What a shame. 5. Worse... there is absolutely no way for product managers or marketers to measure "pulse" among their customers as to which hardware / software features are most popular, which they can use to double down on their competitive advantage. 6. These companies spend tons every year to write, edit, post these documents to their websites, community pages and support portals. And people spend countless hours searching through these 300 page documents. 7. Writing (tech pubs team), posting (web team) and sharing (community team) need to be in perfect alignment for customers to reach the necessary information they need at the right time. And it is always tricky when software does not automate the process. Don't even mention the countless hours wasted on "meetings" to get this stuff ready for publication. 8. And then... 90% of the time everyone complains "no one reads the user guide"... which eventually results in poor customer satisfaction. If we cast a wider net and look at the US businesses, apparently in aggregate we are losing $41B to bad customer service. http://rockconnections.com/2015/... While SaaS products and companies are breaking some barriers here, and are better at delivering timely, useful information to their customers (e.g. Slack and Intercom for obvious reasons)... I think there is way more to be done to significantly reduce the time it takes to bring valuable information to the purchaser of an enterprise product in the B2B space. ps. Happy Thanksgiving!