We’re starting something new at daily.dev called Hug a User.
The idea is simple: Every week, each engineer gets up to half a day to fix a bug or ship a small feature that came directly from you. No tickets. No sprints. No begging for approvals (unless it’s the homepage, then yes, still sacred ground).
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Basically, it’s your chance to have an engineer swoop in, cape and all, and make that one annoying thing disappear.
<h3>What counts?</h3>
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<li>Fixing a bug that’s been haunting you</li>
<li>Polishing rough edges that slow you down</li>
<li>Small features that would make your daily.dev experience smoother</li>
</ul>
<h3>What doesn’t count?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Asking us to build GitHub 2.0 in half a day</li>
<li>Secret plots to sneak your pet feature onto the homepage</li>
</ul>
So, tell us what’s the one bug, frustration, or small improvement you’d love to see us tackle in Hug a User?
Drop it in the comments, and who knows, next week you might log in and it’ll just be fixed.
(And yes, if you’ve ever cursed at daily.dev under your breath, now’s the time to turn that energy into a feature request.)

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Daily.dev launches 'Hug a User' program where engineers dedicate up to half a day weekly to fix user-reported bugs and implement small features directly from community feedback. The initiative bypasses traditional development processes like tickets and sprints, focusing on quick fixes for annoying issues and small improvements that enhance user experience.

Hug a user is here! Tell us what’s broken, we’ll fix it

This is so cool. I am a user, I wanna fix something, I go fix it now.
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TL;Dr section of the article card as a tooltip when you are hovering the mouse over the article widget

Not sure, if this is “small”, but being able to use emoji shortcodes, based on those from Github, in posts &amp; comments would be a huge improvement. For example, <code>:slightly_smiling_face:</code> would be one of those.

That’s great initiative, first small bug that comes to my is that sometimes on a post it say “read post”, you click it and it is a youtube video

Presidential Briefing has a couple of possible improvements:
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Redundant and outdated news: sometimes the briefing has outdated (-2/3 days) news or redundant news already covered in the past days [I suppose is due to the whole post fetching]
</li>
<li>
Lack of real customization: would be nice to direct the AI generating the briefing to focus on specific topics (hashtags?)
</li>
</ul>