Verge Product Updates

Shipped over the last couple of weeks:

After years of requests, comments, mentions, and the occasional all-caps plea, Dark Mode has arrived. So has Light Mode. The Verge now follows your system preferences across the site, or you can switch anytime from the menu.

Shipped over the last couple of weeks:

Signed-in commenting users can now keep track of replies and recs through the new notifications bell in the header. Click through to jump back into conversations. The goal is simple: help you get back to the discussions you care about without having to hunt through comment threads.

We’re thinking about giving Verge merch a refresh. Not just “put a logo on a hoodie” merch (though a little of that too), but things you’d genuinely use, wear, or proudly confuse strangers with. Our marketing and product teams want your input, including ideas that could inform future store drops or user research thank yous.

It’s been a minute since our last release notes. Not because nothing was happening. Quite the opposite. We’ve been a little busy rethinking a pretty big part of the site.

Hi Verge humans - quick update. It’s been a minute since our last post, but rest assured, our human, and the whole Verge Product team, have been hard at work on some very exciting new features. That said, a recent incident involving a full water bottle, a brief unsupervised moment, and an unnamed curious kitty did result in a dramatic spill across the work laptop. We found it uninteresting; our human did not. Progress continues (now with more fan-drying), and all the fun, cool things are still very much on the way.

I’m Ryan, longtime designer at The Verge and Vox Media. You may see more in the coming weeks as we roll out new site changes. But for now, perhaps you can help me with some anecdotal research! If you care to sound off in the comments, I have two questions:

You might notice Quick Posts looking a little bit different. We said goodbye to the metaballs (meatballs as we affectionately know them here at The Verge) and shuffled a few things around as a small step toward what’s coming next. Stay tuned!

What we’ve shipped over the last few weeks:

Gift links dropped a couple months ago. Have you shared one, opened one, ignored them or are wondering what the heck we’re even talking about? Answer a few Qs and tell us how they’re working for you.

Maybe not the flashiest update for readers, but it’s a big one for us: Verge writers can now publish the quippier stuff directly from Slack (like I’m doing right now!). The result should be more quick hits from your favorite Verge voices.

What we’ve shipped over the last several weeks:

We’re putting together a roster of readers interested in testing new experiences and features, or just chatting about what makes your tech heart flutter. Join the list and we’ll reach out when a study is a good fit for you.

In case you missed it, we launched gift articles on The Verge earlier this month. Subscribers can share up to five paywalled articles each month with friends, enemies, strangers or anyone in between. With February on the horizon, that means five fresh links to give away. Tell us how it’s working in the comments.