The 2 main visible updates are the access to the Revision history of all comparisons or elements to be compared. First, it will enable you to see what happened on each content and who has modified what… Later it will enable us to add a “restore button”  (like Wikipedia does).

Meanwhile the implementation of this functionality (not in our priority actually), you can contact us if you notice any issue with a specific comparison table. We could restore data “manually” on request.

You just need to click on “last update” date below the comparison title (or in “last update” date field if present inside the comparison table) in order to show the revision history:

Then the second visible update we made is the “Add content window”  (add button is located on top-left of any table) :

We have noticed that few members have inverted “elements to compare” and “comparison criteria“. We believe that it could be linked to the fact that we were putting in parenthesis ”columns” and “lines” to precise if elements were currently in columns or lines… members did not realize that they could change that later easily… (with the rotate button option). So they added content depending if they needed in columns or lines…

Therefore we have decided to clarify this window adding a more explicit sentence with a rotate button to be able to immediately invert columns and lines, and we have renamed “elements” and “criteria” by more explicit terms: “elements to compare” and “comparison criteria”, hope it will help :

Here is the window before the changes:

And now here is the new window, a bit more explicit :

Actually, we were a bit hesitating to launch the first version that you can see on the screencast in September, because we were not really satisfied about 3 main points that we try to improve before opening the website:

1. Web Design
2. Ergonomy & Technical architecture choices
3. Content / Data

1. Web Design
   Concerning the first point, I consider that we are ready. Of course, as we do bootstrapping, it could not be as perfect, as if we used a real and professional web designer, but this new version looks globally better than the first one. We have mainly changed header, footer and even homepage or other pages appearance. The best thing would be to get a web designer for future versions obviously.
2. Ergonomy & Technical architecture choices
   Second, when we started SocialCompare development, more than one year ago now, we tried to maintain 2 versions for editing comparisons, one with modern, dynamic ergonomy (using javascript technology) and another one using more static, old way to do things. But we changed our mind, we prefer to focus only on 1 version with javascript to have a nice ergonomy of the website and it will be really more easier for us to maintain on the long term basis…
   We profit to redesign a lot of things on technical and database architectures… Therefore as we impact a lot of things in our current version, we decided to wait the end of this redesign to communicate and launch directlty the second version…
   Maybe we will not finish to implement or migrate all the functionalities already available on the first version (such as the comparison basket)… when we will release directly “the second version”… but as soon as possible we will deliver every functionality that deserves to be added on the service, we hope that it will be a lot of improvements and innovations in perspective
3. Content / Data
   Finally concerning the last point that is not satisfying, we will not focus on that, at the beginning, because it is not our priority. We know that this point is really important to attract people to visit our website. We know that we need to add a lot of contents to have more valuable things to do on our service and incite users to spend time and enjoy our service. But we will do that in a second phase, later. Our first priority is to focus on the real new value that we add on the market, that differentiates us from so numerous comparisons websites on Internet :
   • freedom to create easily any comparison from scratch about everything, especially those that are not price comparisons,
   • possibility to reuse existing contents to create easily new comparisons,
   • users community to maintain collective and structured data,
   • possibility to suggest comparisons updates to a private maintainer,
   • …etc…