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Welcome to the wikiHaus Lab update! Here’s what new for July 29th:

:rocket: You may have noticed:We are finally testing a long-requested feature! You may see the option to ​​favorite, bookmark, or save an article for later. It has just been released on 20% of all article pages. Right now it’s just a test so it doesn’t do anything, but the more clicks the feature gets, the more likely it will be implemented…:slight_smile:

Here’s one I spotted in the wild:

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and Puchumoni spotted some that are posted here .

:star: Coming up:The liking/favoriting feature for list articles is going to return. This has been a little while coming, but we really are going to build it out as a working feature! All going well, we should see it live in the next couple of weeks. Let me know if you spot it!

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Lovely. I am guessing that you just added all the ingredients to the cake, but are still yet to bake them:joy:

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Nice!!

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Possibly a silly question, but if the bookmarking/saving feature gains traction, will users have to to sign up to use it? (I’m assuming it’d be a free feature, rather than something bundled with Pro.)

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This feature’s going to be really helpful, I know!:+1:I mean, sometimes we do want to read articles later… and currently, the only way to do that I know of is to bookmark the article. But things then get mixed up with personal and “will read later” wikiHow bookmarks… (at least, with me!)

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@anon74718567 Yeah, readers will need to sign in to use the feature.

(I would also assume that - though I think that side of things is still being worked through, so I’ll be sure to let the team know our preference:wink:)

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@JayneG , I too, am assuming it’ll be free. At least, I’d prefer it to be free.:slight_smile:

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Ooh, neat. Maybe this will prompt more users to sign up, which could result in more of them exploring and contributing to the site, and we can then indoctrinate welcome them into the wikiHow community.:slight_smile:

Actually, that sounds like a pretty good reason to make it a free feature…

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I agree. It’d make it much easier to locate articles you want to revisit later on without having to search them up again. Also, since it’s a part of the site, I’m assuming you’d be able to access it no matter which device you’re on, meaning you wouldn’t have to worry about browser bookmarks not carrying over.

That being said, I’m not sure how it could be a free feature; I could be wrong, but wouldn’t the program be unable to tell whose bookmarks are whose if they’re not signed in?

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A free feature can still require signing in. (Most of the Dashboard tools require an account.) But Pro content isn’t immediately available to signed-in users, so the software is able to tell between a logged-in ordinary user and a logged-in Pro user:slight_smile:

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Question for curiosity: If the “bookmark” feature does get traction, will the button add pages to the “watchlist”? Will it add it to some other page? What?

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Oh, thx for clarifying. I thought free meant no account for some reason (despite the fact that account creation is free)…:sweat:

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@Awesome_Aasim I expect it would be a different page, one that probably hasn’t even been created yet!

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So this is completely different from the watchlist feature.

Thanks for the info.