Contributor Dashboard: Shaping a More Community-Centred Workflow

Order and creativity go hand in hand, so we created a proper tool for the job. Here’s a short walkthrough.

We heard you like putting things in order, so we put in order a tool that puts in order all the order-making data you put in. OK, forget the attempts at jokes: we are seriously extatic to announce the launch of our new contributor dashboard.

In the last couple of months, we listened to a lot of constructive feedback from the community. You guys told us how much you care about tracking your progress, getting to know other contributors, and getting fresh ideas on how you can help more, and do more.

Thus, the dashboard was created.

From now on, you and anyone in the community can simply click on “My Contribution” on their Viberate profile, and access a single point of reference for all your contribution-related work. It’s designed to help you track your progress in a clean, visual fashion, assist you in getting better as you go, and connect you to the everyday goings-on in the community.

Let’s go through the highlights:

Clear onboarding with focused tasks

When you click on “My Contribution”, you’ll immediately access your dashboard and see your current stats. First-time contributors will be offered introductory tasks to help them take their first contribution steps more confidently. They will learn the ropes by adding links and media to existing entities in our database, and adding entirely new entities, such as events nearby, or new artists on the block.

Focused tasks will also be there for more experienced editors, along with other useful features.

Tasks, tips, and resources

Putting the entire music industry’s info in order is not an easy job. Since we don’t want you to feel lost or out of ideas while doing it, your dashboard includes tasks and daily tips. By learning those, your chances of denied entries will be way lower.

Simple tasks such as adding missing media, links or other important details to our existing entities will improve our database further, and bring you points. Don’t worry — task supply never runs out, so go ahead and click “Get tasks” to get new ones once you’re done, or simply if you want different ones.

Oh and p.s.: tasks will also keep growing in variety and complexity. You can expect festivals to appear in them soon — and hopefully, in real life, too! #fingerscrossed

If tasks help you get the hang of things, and tips help you get better, the articles will help you get inspired. We’ll take special care to always display most relevant content, ranging from contributors’ stories to how-tos. For all the technical stuff, there’s always the Contribution Guide.

New & redesigned badges: streak, accuracy, insights

You can show off your achievements and learn more about other contributors just by looking at their badges. Those were redesigned to be even more simple, fun, and visually engaging.

The new badges display your monthly accuracy instead of overall performance, so don’t worry if your stats seem lower than usual. To keep an easier overview of your stats, streak badges were also introduced: now, you can measure your daily/weekly/monthly success, and proudly showcase your hard work.

Community and personal overview

By overseeing chart positions, and latest entries from all over the world, you’ll easily be on top of what’s going on in the community, and get new ideas from other people’s adds and edits. Having all your own stats neatly sorted is just the cherry on top.

Updated points system

When you were checking out your own contribution log and achievements, you probably noticed the point records, and prompts. You should know that with the latest upgrade, the same type of data will result in same amount of points. That’s good news for you, since you’ll get more points for same kind of entries.

There you have it! Hope you’ll have a great time exploring the dashboard yourself, and get as much new insights as needed. We’ll be happy to hear what you think, so hit us up on our community Discord channel and let’s see what more this baby can do.

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