How are you doing?

Dear Habrahabr! Writes you a regular reader from Moscow. How are you doing?

Over the past year you didn't show us anything new: no tuning interfaces you always manages to fame, and microchip, released on the wave of "twittermania", was not able to find its niche. What happened to you? It's all a crisis? The advertiser shall not be "Babos", and companies don't buy corporate packages? You're not going to disappear? Tell me, please, and then I worry.

If you need our help – just tell me! You have a huge army of fans – give us users the opportunity to help you. We do feel, when you feel bad. Mind you, this year was no great drama: "Habr is not the same", "attack of the clowns", "#Bali", "#Bali with my#Bali", etc. Users of Habra humbly love you and your advertisers, do not arrange hysterics and waiting for something new.

Maybe it's time to grow out smart "blozhik" into something more?

We fully realize itself in the epistolary genre. Yes, you can see for yourself what topics did you Habrahabr, drowned in a sea of blatant PR and angry surges to the telecoms, technical support, opsosy, search engines, etc. Give us, the users, to do something for you with his own hands. You're able to open the API of its core functions (authentication, posting, sampling, topics, tags, comments, users) and give us the opportunity to develop for your new application. In the ranks of your users a lot of technical experts, even the former. Many Directors and academics once was "geeks". To create a small app everyone can.

Make a sandbox developer where we could test our apps and introduce them to the people's court. Do the hosting of our applications, their isolation and the possibility of removal in the form of widgets at home in private profile, and then we will do it ourselves. We don't need diversity: if you give a stripped-down PHP, MySQL and restricted chrooted shell, we'll be happy! Well, if you can arrange the payment infrastructure with the API, we will help you to earn, creating a monetizing services.

And Yes, I write with a request about a gift for the New Year. I'm not asking you to give me an updated Habrahabr. I ask you to think about the issues raised in this letter about your mission and to talk about their plans.

Article based on information from habrahabr.ru