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= Overview = | |||
Activity Stream is a Firefox about:newtab and about:home replacement that aims to help users return quickly and easily to contextually relevant stuff on the web. It is currently implemented as an Add-on SDK/Jetpack add-on, and has been running as a TestPilot experiment for some months. | |||
Activity Stream is implemented in JS, and uses the React (https://facebook.github.io/react/) UI library. The add-on reports UI telemetry pings back to Mozilla servers using ping-centre (https://github.com/mozilla/ping-centre). There is a brief overview of it’s architecture on our Github page (https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/wiki). | |||
Activity Stream has been developed using a series of A/B test based experiments, both on an opt-in Test Pilot and an opt-out production Shield audience. Our methodology is to continue optimizing the user experience along the user engagement and user retention dimensions. The about:newtab and about:home pages that land in Firefox will be measurably more engaging than the existing experience. | |||
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Not yet. We did some testing around recommendations in Test Pilot, and had mixed results. It was clear that we needed additional personalization for them to be useful. We believe this is one of those features that will be much easier to build in front of our release audience. | Not yet. We did some testing around recommendations in Test Pilot, and had mixed results. It was clear that we needed additional personalization for them to be useful. We believe this is one of those features that will be much easier to build in front of our release audience. | ||
== Where can I learn more? == | |||
Here are some interesting links if you're interested in diving into the details: | |||
* Meta Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338514 | |||
* Tracking Project: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/projects/11 | |||
* Repo: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream | |||
* Engineering OKRs: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream-okrs/projects | |||
* Activity Stream Dashboard: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/dashboard/activity-stream-metrics-summary | |||
* Activity Stream Desktop Trello: https://trello.com/b/KX3hV8XS/activity-stream-desktop | |||