The Average Learner 
New Features
- Options to toggle (for Explore) :
- Shorts in search result
- Search history text
- Comments
- Add to watch later directly from Explore tab
- Hides the search suggestions when tapping on search bar
Log & Lesson
Spent a whole day working on ZenTube. It has been awhile, but I’m glad I did.
I can also see there are 2 more 1-star review for ZenTube. My gut feeling told me that’s because I didn’t update the app as I said I will be working on those features? Or there are just some angry users. I have no clue, as they don’t leave a review at all.
Anyway, lesson learned. User won’t care about how busy your personal life is while they are just having theirs. It doesn’t hurt them to leave a bad review, it’s an easy thing to do. They expected the best quality with the cheapest price, with no waits. And roughly, they have a month or two of patience.
But these experiences are good to me because I know more about the cycle now. And, how should I improve my workflow to meet customer expectations.
ZenTube new release should be ready in a few days, then I need to work on the grand picture of ZenTube again, before I go to, well, travel for a bit. Haha.
About Giscus
I’ve installed it on my website here, as you can see when you drag to the bottom of this page. It is a plugin to use GitHub discussion to store the comments to implement it on any website.
How-To
It is actually pretty easy to use. ELI5 version is to:
- Create a public empty repo
- Turn on Discussion for that repo
- Install Giscus app and allow it to access your created repo.
- Go to giscus.app to set up the looks and settings.
- Copy the generated code block
- Paste it where you want it to be shown
- Done.
However…
Giscus is good because it provides GitHub auth by default. So, only users with GitHub account can comment. I’d think it’s only good for tech people, as we have GitHub accounts for sure. Although it is limited to that, it is very suitable for this kind of tech or programming posts.