We are finally out of the initial Mindsite soft launch! Matt Kenison, Director of Engineering, flipped the switch over this last weekend and took us live with some substantial improvements to our platform. We've incorporated quite a bit of feedback from friends of Mindsite over the last 2 months and we hope that this new version of the site solves a number of problems associated with our prior release. In addition to ditching our previously pouty stock photography on the homepage, noteworthy updates include:

• New diagnostic surveys. We've added diagnostics surveys for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Alcohol abuse and dependence, and a number of substance abuse surveys (see the full list). PTSD was a particularly difficult survey to implement and lead product manager Joshua Walker made a heroic effort wrestling with the complicated algorithms necessary to support this diagnosis. We hope that the PTSD feature will be helpful to anyone, worldwide, wondering if they meet the criteria for this increasingly common mental health condition given the chaotic state of the world. In time we hope to support more than just an English version of the survey…
• Question and Answer. With little effort you can now ask a quick question to the Mindsite community as well as help other Mindsite users by answering their questions. We’ll be improving this feature in the future so please pipe up with any further recommendations.
• New information architecture and design. Navigation and interaction on Mindsite is now based around specific mental health conditions. In our prior release, users liked our diagnostic surveys but found the site very confusing in terms of community participation. Hopefully, the new format will make interacting with Mindsite easier, leading to better information about strategies for treating and coping with various mental health issues. Moreover, we have a cleaner user interface and design in place now.

We are moving to a more frequent release schedule now that we have shipped our v2. If you have any ideas for how we can improve the site, please let us know in the comments, or send us a note at feedback AT mindsite.com. Thanks.