Changes to the website

Site Feedback
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  • Mods get an email for every new user, take, and abuse notification
  • Mods get a daily summary of views, stars, and drafts
  • Fixed the “likes” dropdown (renamed to stars)
  • Account creation now requires accepting the TOS
  • Fixed draft titles with apostrophes
  • Made the login text less confusing

Known bugs that’ll be fixed soon

  • Sometimes can’t delete a draft
  • Hard to insert a video clip
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  • Added “New Draft” button to list of drafts
  • Fixed draft deletion issue
  • Fixed some mobile styling issues
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  • Can now email drafts and published takes to yourself, so that you can forward them to friends and colleagues.
  • As you select excerpts from the foundation, the URL will change. This is a permanent URL that we will commit to supporting forever.
  • When loading a saved draft, only the first paragraph of the block was being loaded. Now fixed.
  • Now easier to select text ranges of a video transcript.
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  • Lots of improvements to the video timelines.
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  • Redesigned the header and page navigation
  • Mock up of the foundation search feature
  • Several video improvements, especially a new, faster transcript format
  • New logo
  • Added favicons
  • You can now “follow” an author
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  • Improved the login / account menu.
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  • Updated all videos to point to our own youtube channel.
  • New videos now have future proof naming scheme “kind - last names alphabetic (1 of n)”
  • This means that all our old permalinks are broken, but nobody was using them anyway :slight_smile: From here on out, we’re maintaining backward compatibility, for realz.
  • We now have a bunch of new transcript tooling, but it requires reworking the transcripts we had. Even though some transcripts are gone now, they’ll automatically come back to the articles and permalinks once the new transcripts get merged back in.
  • We had an incorrect date on one debate. We had listed “Presidential Debate - Clinton, Trump (3 of 3)” as Oct 16 2016, but it was really Oct 19 2016.
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  • Added full transcript (using new tooling) for the first Kennedy-Nixon debate.
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  • The videos in the foundation are now searchable. Only the very first debate has transcripts for now - some interesting terms from that debate are “Soviet Union”, “farm”, and “social security”.
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  • Several under-the-hood improvements
  • Now much easier to share a clip of a source - no need to write a take
  • Clips and screenshares should now embed nicely in facebook
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Added searchable transcript for:

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Fix social embed images.

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Search no longer returns the same results in multiple places.

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  • search now sorts results from oldest (at top) to most recent (at bottom)
  • changed default search context to “sentences before and after”
  • all transcripts are now available and searchable
    • The remaining transcripts were synced automatically, so it’s not the same quality bar that we have achieved in other transcripts (see here).
    • We still need help to bring all transcripts to max quality.
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  • removed several half-built features
  • added the ability to search for multiple terms
  • added bar chart for viewing and navigating search results
  • removed YouTube thumbnails from social embed previews
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  • improvements to the homepage
  • (under-the-hood) updated the hash of all fact files
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  • new header and improved search / share experience
  • improved social headers and thumbnails