💎 Premium Status Indicator, 🙈Auto Hide/Show NavBar & 🎥 Live Cams

Scrolller Monthly Update July 2nd, 2022

Intro

Hello and Welcome to our monthly update. This month’s main highlight is the premium status indicator, ability to report the whole collection, Auto-hide/show navbar, the launch of live cams, and many performance updates.

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User Highlight

This week's user highlight goes to "Warzoneafroo". The summary of user feedback is as follows:

I got a new credit card and scrolller was the only thing I used it for at that point. A week or so later I'm getting random 100-dollar charges from Los Angeles. I can't think of who else could have gotten my info at any point. I'm not 100% it was a scroller employee but I wouldn't recommend giving these guys your personal info.

Scrolller's Action

Warzoneafroo, We understand your concern and we assure you that Scrolller takes the privacy of its user and protection of their personal data as its number one priority and responsibility.  We would like to explain, how Scrolller Premium Subscription Works. Scrolller uses the most trusted payment gateway available on the market that is "Stripe." It is a PCI DSS Level 1 payment gateway. This specific payment provider is trusted by big names i.e Google, Amazon, Shopify, Notion, Twilio, and many more.

At no point in time, any user's Credit Card information or banking information is saved on the Scrolller server and is directly processed by Stripe. No one at the company by any means can have access to this sensitive information. Even if we want to get that information, no one can export this information out of Stripe. So, Scrolller is using the exact standards for payment information handling as all the big names in the market are.

User Accounts Growth

459859 → 482261 (4.9%)

New Features Launched:

Premium Profile Indicator

Scrolller is a website that is constantly innovating in order to provide the best possible experience for its users. The latest change was the addition of a navbar that handles all of the navigation on the site. This update required the removal of the sidebar, which also removed the obvious indicators that let users know when they were on the premium plan. To avoid any confusion for our users, we have now added a new premium indicator on top of the homepage. Our logo switches to display premium status if the user has an active subscription on Scrolller. By making these changes, we are ensuring that our users have the best possible experience on our website.

Auto Hide/Show the Navbar

We’ve all been there-you're scrolling through a page on your phone and you accidentally hit the navigation bar at the top or bottom of the screen. This can be annoying, especially if you’re trying to view a gallery of images. We’ve listened to your feedback and we’ve made a change so that the navbar and any other controls will automatically disappear while you are scrolling through any page with a gallery. The navbar and controls will come back up when you scroll up a bit. We hope that this change will improve your experience using our site.

Reporting Now at the Collection Level

There's a new way to report content on Scrolller, and it's a game-changer.

Now, instead of just reporting individual pieces of content, users can report the entire collection of content on Scrolller. And there are various options for reporting, including “Copyright”, "underage," "non-consensual," and "hateful."

Our team of professionals reviews every report very seriously and upon verifying that specific content or collection does not meet our community standards, it is removed from our servers.

This is a huge step forward in making Scrolller a safe and welcoming space for everyone. It will also help to ensure that the content that is posted on Scrolller is high-quality and in line with our community standards.

So if you see something on Scrolller that you think violates our standards, please report it using this new tool. Together, we can make Scrolller the best it can be.

Addition of New Content on Scrolller

The Scrolller team has been diligently working to add fresh content to the website daily. We have restarted the scrapper and are adding approximately ~8Gb of content each day. The new content is a great addition to the website and is sure to keep visitors coming back for more.

The additional content has allowed us to expand our coverage of categories and increase the frequency of new posts in our collections.

Advertising

Tiered Ads to Help Logged-in Users See Fewer Ads

Tiered Ads System is now live on Scrolller. That means logged-in users will see 30% fewer ads as compared to non-logged-in users. This is a wonderful opportunity for users to get something in return for their time and effort, and it is also a great way for Scrolller to show its appreciation for its users.

This is not just for users that will create a new account on Scrolller. It also applies to all of our current user accounts. As soon as they will log in the frequency of the ads will be dropped by 30%.

We believe that this is just the beginning of our efforts to give back to our users, and we will continue to look for ways to show our appreciation for our users. Thank you for being a part of Scrolller, and we hope that you enjoy our new incentive program!

Live Cams

Traditional content usually only offers “a rough approximation of what you want,” because producers and performers created it to appeal to a general audience, not your specific **desires. This is where the new live cam feature of Scrolller comes in. It allows users to directly interact with performers, giving them a more personalized experience. The team behind it is working to make sure that the feature is properly integrated into the website so that it can provide users with the best possible experience.

Featured Spot Ads

To boost the revenue of Scrolller without ruining the user experience, Scrolller has created a featured Advertisement spot. The space will be utilized for unobtrusive banner ads and the user will be able to see what the ad is for before they click on it. This way, we can still offer a great user experience while also generating revenue to keep Scrolller running. This featured Ad spot will only be visible to free users. Premium users will not see any kind of advertisement.

Keyword Targeting

keyword ad targeting is an extremely effective way to reach and connect with end-users. On Scrolller, we want to make sure our free users are not seeing any unrelated ads that might break their user experience. Scrolller captures user interest by analyzing their favorites. This allows us to serve ads that might fit users’ interests. For example, if a user favorites a car image, Scrolller might target ads for cars in the same category.

Bug Fixes

• Fix for Infinite loading for Gallery

  Scrolller on the first load kept on showing the loading symbol infinitely until refreshed. This is now fixed.

• Fix for Breaking Videos (Failed to Load Video) on full screen

  Videos were failing to load on Fullscreen view as two of our servers had SSL certificates expired. Secondly, on fullscreen, there was a bug that was causing the video to load but didn’t play it, giving an impression as the video is stuck or infinitely loading. Both of these issues have now been fixed and deployed on production.

• Fix for Black Content Tiles on the homepage

  On the homepage, Several Black content tiles started to appear instead of videos. This was an issue with bad video thumbnails. The team has regenerated all of those thumbnails and this issue is fixed.

• Fix for Cancel Membership Issue for Premium Users

  A lot of users were complaining that once they cancel their subscription it doesn’t get canceled. The team investigated and found that it was a front-end issue whereas on the backend the membership actually cancels. This is now fixed and any users that cancel the subscription will see as such on their subscription page.

• Fix for Delete Account Error

  On account deletion, some users were facing errors. The team has resolved these errors and added better communication in case the user still faces some issues with account deletion.

• Fix for Empty Categories

  Some of our categories failed to load as some of the sub-categories contained no data. The team has fixed this issue. Now users can enjoy every category they would like to access without any errors.

Upcoming features:

Filters on “More like this” Page

When it comes to finding the content that interests you on Scrolller, the "More like this" page on full-screen content is the best feature. However, there are a few things that could be improved upon in order to make the page even more user-friendly. Right now, users cannot easily filter the content on this page, which makes it difficult to find the content that is most relevant to user interest. In the next release, we will enable filtering on this page right from the navbar to keep the user experience consistent. This way, users will be able to quickly and easily find the content that they are looking for.

Saving Filters for User Account

Currently, if users use some filters they are not retained globally and reset as soon as a user leaves the website. This can be frustrating for users, who have to constantly reset their filters every time they visit the site.

With this new implementation, Scrolller will save the filters for its users so that they can always have the same experience as they prefer. This will make Scrolller more user-friendly and improve the overall experience for users.

Saving filters will improve the user experience on Scrolller by making it more convenient for users. Instead of having to reset their filters every time they visit the site, their preferences will be saved so they can have a consistent experience. This will make Scrolller more user-friendly and improve the overall experience for users.

User Experience Roadmap

• Making Scrolller Resilient to Failure (In Progress)

• Scrapper Updates (In Progress)

• New Categories (In Progress)

• Tiered Advertisement (Done)

• Premium Account Indicator (Done)

• Scrolller APP (Back Log)

Performance Updates:

New Sitemaps

Scrolller is working on improving the platform by all means. We found very outdated sitemaps for our website that no longer worked. It was causing a loss of traffic on Scrolller as the website was not ranking well on global search engines. Recently, the platform has been working on updating its sitemaps to ensure a better online presence. Now our content is open to be indexed by crawlers. By this update, we hope to see better rankings and a good inflow of traffic. The team is also getting in contact with SEO experts to make sure we don’t make any moves that will hurt our ranking and traffic from search engines.

Scrapper Updates

Scroller is a content platform that focuses on providing users with fresh content, a better user experience, and building a community of content enthusiasts. With new and fresh content, Scrolller is able to attract more users and increase the reach of its content. The team is working on new scrappers that will get content from various new sources. This will increase the inflow of fresh content and will allow the platform to appeal to a wider audience. It will provide more opportunities for users to find content that interests them.

Roadmap for Growth in Revenue

• New Caching System for Faster Video Loading (In Progress)

• Exclusive Features for Premium User (In Progress)

• Advertisements Revamp (In Progress)

• Implementing new modes of Payments (Backlog)

Team Highlights

Team Updates

Scrolller Team Highlights for the week!

Karol — Leading all development teams by example.

Valentin — Taking full control of customer support.

Emmanuel — Designing Ui/Ux for new features on Scrolller.

Ai — Improving Scrolller Premium Community.

Pedro — Taking full charge of Collection redesign.

Ali — Working Tirelessly to deliver new features for our users.

Sergiu — Working on Scrapper updates and improving site performance.

Mannan — Researching on improving the product traffic and market reach.

Chris — Working with the management team to keep everything organized.

Road Map

You can share feedback with us about any of the new features below. Using this Airtable Form. Looking forward to your comments

This Month

• Making Scrolller Resilient to Failure (In Progress)

• Scrapper Updates (In Progress)

• New Categories (In Progress)

• New Caching System for Faster Video Loading (In Progress)

• Advertisements Revamp (In Progress)

• Tiered Advertisement (Done)

• Premium Account Indicator (Done)

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Until next time, happy Scrolling!