Increase feature awareness by adding a "Did you know tooltip" or link to the blog web site in changelog

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
content, documentation

Research direction

Start by locating the current changelog and reviewing how changelog entries are presented to users. Clarify whether the intended scope is a blog link or a “Did you know” tooltip; done means the chosen awareness mechanism is implemented without leaving the two alternatives unresolved.

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Description

ai-triaged discussion enhancement ux

In our survey I'm finding lots of users unaware of our existing features such as getters/setters as well as code completion shortcuts such as psvm, etc.

I'm thinking of two things, adding something like a popup such as "Did you know you can ...." but this can be disruptive to the user.

In the meantime, we can add a link at the top of the changelog that links to our blog that hints to our users that highlights our features every month. I found our current changelog only contains technical details that won't be super helpful to end users.

WDYT @testforstephen @jdneo

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