Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I've just added a new feature to the Friends page. You can now set a filter to allow you to view only one type of item at a time. This way you can look at just photos or just messages. By changing the selection, you'll be changing what types of ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
All of the different types of searches that you can do at ReadPath have now been updated.
On the News story search results we've added snippets to the results listing. The search engine does a quick scan of the content of the story to find the best snippet that is relevant ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
We've updated the way that the "My News" section works so that when you get to the end of your unread stories is displays links to the archive pages of all of the subscriptions for that set. If you're viewing a single subscription it'll just show that subscription's archive page, ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Put a lot of work into updating how the subscription search works. Results now take into consideration several more variables to determine how to rank subscriptions. Let us know what you think.
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
I've updated the related links functionality to pull a better, more relevant list of items. Testing is still ongoing to determine how this function can be improved even further.
The current list is capped at 10 items, so a feature that will be coming shortly is a link at the bottom ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
The first pass of the related items feature has been implemented so that when you read a story you'll see items that are related on the right hand side. I'll be working on the sorting of these items over time to provide the best stories possible. Currently it's just a ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Forgot password is one of those little things that always seemed to get put off till later. Well I'm happy to announce that it's back. Should be fully functional, but let me know if you see any issues.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I've just updated the site to add the ability to save items and to view your saved items. Been making huge numbers of updates to the site in the last few days. Getting much closer to being feature complete.
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
So after letting the latest experiment run for awhile it's become apparent that while the new duplicate detection is better than the last setup, we're still not where we need to be.
Originally ReadPath used a duplicate detection system based on shingle comparisons of the stories. This system was incredibly effective ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
This weekend I also loosened the requirements for duplicate detection. It seems that we were being a bit too agressive. I'll let the new rules run for awhile and see how it compares.
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