Hacker Noon - Paint us Red and Call us Santa!

Paint us Red and Call us Santa!

Our Devs Just Gifted You a Sleigh of New Features!

Hey there, Hackers 👋

It's been a busy couple of months for HackerNoon developers on all ends. From improving website performance and design to carrying out the constant task of page indexation (go, SEO!) to expanding the website's reach by breaking the language barrier, our devs did it all. And we're so excited to tell you all about notable updates made to the platform since our last product update on October 12th!

📌 Pin Your Best Work: Excellent news, Hackers! You can now pin your three favorite stories to the top of your story list, which means you can give whatever post on your profile the highlight whenever you choose to. This feature also helps you ensure your best work always shows first, representing you fairly on HackerNoon.

🌐 HackerNoon in 8 different languages: We've enabled Cloud Translation API to bring you HackerNoon's top stories in foreign languages. We have used machine learning to translate all top stories on our platform from English to Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin, Vietnamese, French, Portuguese, and Japanese. Click the flag button at the top of every article page to pick the language you’d like to read in or visit the homepage in your target language to enjoy the hundreds of stories already available!

🤑 Wallet Assets are 4 Show: You can now connect and log in with your Ethereum wallet on HackerNoon! If you have an existing account with us, you can simply edit your profile and connect your wallet! This will allow you to take full advantage of the future features that HackerNoon will offer, as well as being able to log in directly to your account via your wallet!

🎨 Stable Diffusion aka AI-Generated Images in app.hackernoon.com: Published writers can now generate images using Stable Diffusion directly in the HackerNoon editor! The new option at the bottom of the image upload modal allows users to create ten images an hour. You can also opt for the mid-journey diffusion option instead, which produces distinct results from Stable Diffusion, creating images with richer colors and slightly more surrealist. Have fun!

🖼️ NFTs on Your Profile Page: Let it be known that you can now upload Eth- or Matic-based NFTs to your HackerNoon profile as your avatar. What’s more? It shows up bordered by the notorious identity hexagon. All you have to do is link your wallet to HackerNoon and update your avatar!

🏆 Noonies 2022 Comes to an End: The results for the Noonies 2022 edition are in - congratulations 2022 Award Winners! More than 300 awards have been awarded to our nominees across categories, and your votes made a difference. With over 140K votes and 4K nominees, we couldn’t possibly have done it without the help of our marvelous community. A special thanks to our partners in crime, .TECH domains and BingX, who sponsor HackerNoon’s efforts to give back to the tech community 🖖