Last night at Disqus HQ, we hosted our fifth Game Night event. For those unfamiliar, Game Night is our quarterly board game event where we welcome folks for a night of board games, food, and drink. While we host an internal event for Disqussers every month, it’s the public events with the local community that I look forward to the most.

Two weeks ago we made some major improvements to the Disqus admin navigation. It’s cleaner, more consistent across different pages and user roles, and has a more intuitive organization of pages, tools, and settings. You’ll find more about this update here. This first wave of changes wasn’t necessarily focused on mobile, but it’s important to us that the Disqus admin works great on phones and tablets. We know there’s a lot of you out there who love to get things done on your mobile devices. That’s why we’re excited to tell you about a few more updates we’ve released over the past few weeks that aim to improve the Disqus admin experience on mobile.

Hello site founders, admins, and moderators!

Starting today, all Disqus customers will see an updated navigation in our publisher admin that better organizes commonly used features to better support the modern digital publisher.

At Disqus, we understand that publishers are constantly under pressure to produce content, attract readers, and find ways to make money–all of which takes a lot of time and is increasingly expected to be done with fewer and fewer resources. To make it easier for publishers to measure whether their efforts are working, in the coming weeks, select publishers will start receiving a weekly reporting email from Disqus.

A little more info about Startups Give Back…

As we mentioned last week, we’ve been in the process of updating Reveal revenue analytics. Well, today, we delivered!

At Disqus, we use data intensively to optimize Engage and Reveal for maximum impact. We believe it’s important to not just look at how numbers change day-to-day but also to understand how to make decisions based on data.

Earlier in 2015, we updated the Disqus homepage to focus more on notifications—one of the most used features by publishers commenters alike—and to highlight content from across the Disqus network. With these changes, we heard from publishers that the publisher tools got buried and were harder to find.

Today, we’re letting the world know about two important changes to the products publishers enjoy.

Here at Disqus, one of our values is being colorful. Our product is designed to let all sorts of people from all over the internet find each other to have great discussions. We’ve often said that Disqus is the web’s “community of communities” - an environment where all sorts of communities can gather and thrive. We believe that colorful characters are what make the internet a special place...and the same goes for our company! Employees are encouraged to share their whole selves with us, whether that means bringing their expertise from previous workplaces to their projects or teaching us how to juggle (seriously, we’ve had Disqusser-led workshops in everything from bike maintenance to ballet to brewing...and things that don’t start with “b” too). A diversity of opinions and experiences makes us a stronger team, and sharing our passions with each other helps us remember that we’re all humans :)