Changelog

This is a log of interesting user-facing changes to Feep! Search. There are also lots of changes going on under the hood; you can read about some of those on the blog.

• 2023-10-23 Added https://langdev.stackexchange.com and https://genai.stackexchange.com/
• 2023-05-05 Add changelog

  Also added backdated entries for older changes.

• 2023-04-25 Hacker News datasource now updates weekly
• 2023-03-26 Added RSS feed to blog
• 2022-11-05 Add new StackExchange sites
  • https://bioacoustics.stackexchange.com
  • https://solana.stackexchange.com
• 2022-09-15 Remove date-fns documentation from index due to data problem

  The documentation on devdocs.io is missing an attribution link on the index page, which is causing indexing problems since Feep! can’t tell which URL to use. As a workaround, I have removed this docset and made a note to follow up on this.

• 2022-08-20 Favicon serving improvements
  • Favicons are now per-origin rather than per-hostname
  • Filename hashes are truncated to reduce transfer overhead slightly
• 2022-07-23 Improve mobile styling
• 2022-06-25 Display helpful advice when no results are found
• 2022-06-25 Cache example results

  This way new users can still see what things should look like even if the server has crashed.

• 2022-06-25 Implement load shedding

  See also the blog post

• 2022-06-21 Add Arch Wiki to datasources
• 2022-06-13 Write some help pages
  • About Feep!
  • Data sources
  • Query help
• 2022-06-08 Enable additional StackExchange sites
  • https://civicrm.stackexchange.com
  • https://emacs.stackexchange.com

  (Emacs in particular was omitted by some great oversight, and I apologize for fanning the flames of the editor wars.)

• 2022-06-08 Re-enable Reverse Engineering StackExchange

  This was temporarily disabled due to the data being unavailable.

• 2022-06-08 Add new StackExchange sites
  • https://proofassistants.stackexchange.com
  • https://substrate.stackexchange.com
• 2022-05-28 Add Hacker News to datasources
• 2022-05-25 Add unindexed links as data source

  Now there are a lot more pages to show in search results, even if we don’t know their contents yet.

• 2022-05-22 Devdocs: disable docsets that don’t have URLs

  Some pages are missing attribution, so we can’t know what their canonical URL is. As a workaround, I’ve temporarily disabled these docsets and made a note to follow up.

• 2022-05-19 Temporarily disable Reverse Engineering StackExchange

  This dump is currently unavailable due to an overzealous virus scanner, but should hopefully be back next quarter.

• 2022-05-18 Devdocs is now updating again

  I noticed a suspicious lack of updates; when I investigated, I discovered that the old update URL was still returning a file, but it hadn't been changed for over a year. I have switched to the new path and things are updating again.

• 2022-05-18 Start writing a blog
• 2022-01-15 Add links to alternate search engines at bottom of results page
• 2022-01-14 Add opensearch.xml
• 2022-01-14 Display favicons next to links on result pages
• 2021-09-26 New datasource: Wikipedia
• 2021-09-19 Include PageRank in ranking calculation
• 2021-09-19 New datasource: devdocs.io
• 2021-09-19 Add ElasticSearch; now usable as a rudimentary search engine
• 2021-09-04 First commit!