Earlier this 12 months I shared a brand new imaginative and prescient for Lifehacker, together with a lofty private purpose: for our web site to supply a number of the most informative content material wherever on the web. On the time, Lifehacker was newly acquired by Ziff Davis from G/O Media, and I used to be each cautiously optimistic about our new enterprise residence and grateful for the modifications to come back. Eight months later, I am proud to share a few of these modifications, and reinvite you to affix our group of consultants, tinkerers, and lifelong learners.
Welcome to our new web site
Lifehacker has a brand new homepage design, emblem, and web site navigation, however we have additionally refocused our model. Longtime readers would possibly keep in mind Lifehacker’s evolution from a tech web site to a broader “way of life” hub, and in some ways, we have come full circle: You possibly can count on much more tech from Lifehacker going ahead, together with opinions overlaying computer systems, smartphones, good residence units, smartwatches, tablets, TVs, and equipment; in addition to how-to guides, explainers, and product suggestions. Our cooking, leisure, finance, and health content material aren’t going wherever, however you may count on a sharper deal with the tech and instruments you would possibly take into account shopping for, and easy methods to most successfully use them.
We even have a new, clear, easy mission: to supply dependable tech assist and credible, sensible, science-based recommendation. That assertion is our North Star for the matters we select to cowl and the way we method them, and you’ll count on every Lifehacker story to both provide options on one thing it is best to take into account making an attempt, or provide the knowledge it’s good to assist you to make your individual choice. We wish to transcend reporting the information to elucidate what you are able to do in response to evolving know-how, occasions, and traits.
It’s also possible to count on our crew to develop. Lifehacker is made up of full-time workers writers and a gaggle of skilled freelancers, and as our tech and product protection expands, so will our roster of contributors. Most of your favourite writers are nonetheless right here, although: Stephen Johnson is constant his Out-of-Contact Adults Information sequence, Beth Skwarecki remains to be debunking viral TikTok myths, Allie Chanthorn Reinmann remains to be cooking and baking, and Meghan Walbert nonetheless has probably the most considerate recommendation on parenting within the digital age. Lifehacker alumni are additionally doing superb issues after their expertise right here, and I hope you discover them too. (We’ll miss you Claire, and we’ll be cheering for you over at Milk Avenue.)
Lifehacker has at all times had some superb individuals on workers, and I encourage you to get to know them based mostly in your pursuits—or, even higher, allow them to encourage you to develop excited about one thing new. And as Lifehacker turns into extra of a group—one constructed on lifelong studying and shared data—there are 3 ways I wish to encourage you to be concerned.
First, make buddies within the feedback. Lifehacker is not on our outdated platform Kinja anymore, so if you wish to chat with writers or different readers, create an account with our new commenting platform OpenWeb. Take into account it a recent begin to your feedback historical past, in addition to a possibility to familiarize your self with our new pointers. The gist is easy: Have enjoyable. Be respectful. Be at liberty to criticize concepts, however not individuals. Deal with others as respectfully on-line as you hopefully do in individual. I hate bullies (learn my memoir, it is a doozy), and I’ve little interest in working an unmoderated discussion board that enables for jerk conduct, not to mention abuse or bigotry. Spam filters will in all probability be overzealous generally, so there could be a delay in seeing your phrases on-line, however a human will deal with moderation rapidly. It will make our feedback part a extra welcoming and helpful group for everybody.
Second, look out for our new newsletters. We at the moment have our fundamental day by day e-newsletter, however there are a number of extra topic-specific ones on their means. Look ahead to writers like Jake Peterson writing a e-newsletter about tech, Allie Chanthorn Reinmann writing about meals, Beth Skwarecki and Meredith Dietz writing about health, and me writing about life, Lifehacker, and self-improvement. The primary new e-newsletter, The Obtain, is concentrated on tech and launching quickly.
Should you made it this far, you are in all probability a longtime reader of Lifehacker. So, third: If in case you have any ideas or feedback, be happy to succeed in out to me instantly. I like this model greater than you may think about, and I spend numerous time desirous about easy methods to make it as useful a spot as potential. In fact, I’ve to do this inside a bigger context of enterprise, journalism, and digital media, however my crew and I work arduous to make this web site the most effective place it may be. You possibly can attain me through e mail at [email protected] or on Instagram or Threads. Outdoors of Lifehacker, I generally write about tradition for Black Nerd Issues or The Atlantic, and I get pleasure from responding to considerate readers who are sometimes shocked to obtain a response. I look ahead to doing extra of that right here. This can be a nice web site with unimaginable contributors and readers. I am thrilled to indicate it off, however much more excited in regards to the issues we’ll be taught collectively.
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