New social images

Speed is a feature

Based on your feedback on the release of Himalayas 2.0, we’re planning to focus primarily on performance improvements and speed over the next few weeks. This work will make Himalayas even nicer to use and make it faster to find jobs that are relevant to you.

Speed is a feature, one that we consider core to Himalayas and will continue to treat it as a top priority as we scale.

The first investment we have made into this is lazy loading images on our home page and significantly improving the time it takes to build and deploy the site. Improving our build time will significantly reduce the time it takes to upload and test new features, so it’s an important first step.

Updated social image style

In case you’re not aware when you post a job on Himalayas, we automatically share it on our LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook pages, as well as in our community of remote workers. We wanted to make sharing any jobs or company profiles on social media as high-impact as possible so we’ve invested in automatically creating unique and beautiful images to go with each post. To see what they look like, check out our social media accounts or share a job with a friend or colleague!

New remote work articles

We've published a number of articles in the last week:

Other fixes and improvements

Updated Rails to the latest version
Fixed issue where URLs with trailing slashes weren’t redirected properly
Updated text copy in navigation dropdown
Updated headings on the company page
Increased size of text on pages
Fixed issue causing dropdowns to lose focus on initial load
Changed checkbox text weight to medium
Fixed caching issue where incorrect breadcrumb was shown on search pages
Reduced maximum container size from 1440px to 1280px
Improved clarity of small images
Fixed issue where canonical on page 1 was different to the base page
Improved transitions with modals
Added share link to company pages
Fixed issue where 404/500 pages were showing incorrect featured items