Scirate Blog

I’ve messed around with the menus a bit so that there is now a “User” menu instead of an “Options” menu.  Note that you can use this to go your user page.  On the user page I’ve added a statistics tab as well as a “similar users” tab which displays your overlap in SciTing with other users.

Okay, I’m beginning to think about a search function now and RSS feeds which would post, say, the top SciTed papers for a day (after a day or so) or for a week (with a gap again).  Any other ideas for new features?

You can now set the default archive page to open to by updating going to display in the options menu.

You can now edit and delete the comments you have posted on a paper.  Also I’ve added a lot of tabed pages to the paper display page and to the user display page. 

 As always, let me know if anything is broken.

Nature has a new website call Precedings which is supposed to act like an arxiv for the biological sciences.  Oh, and look you can vote for papers

Anyone got some good ideas for a Scirate.com logo?  As is apparent form the website, my graphic desing skills are pretty horrible

Yep, it’s a feature a day, this week   I’ve added a listing of previous comments onto the sidebar and compressed the sidebar a bit. 

I’ve also added a recent vote listing on the sidebar, displaying the last ten scitations.

 Update: I’ve also now added an RSS feed for comments.  The link is on the sidebar: it’s http://scirate.com/comments.xml

I’ve just added the ability to view multiple days across Scirate.com.  The defaults are by day (standard view), by week, and by month, but for either by week or by month you can adjust the number of days.  Hopefully I’ve tweeked my date code correctly to deal with these different views, but if you notice something awful going on, let me know.

Okay so I’ll admit it is a grand experiment, but I’ve just installed a comment system for each paper listed on Scirate.com.  You have to be registered to comment.  As always if you notice anything broken, please let me know.

In preparation for some changes I’ve got planned I’ve restructued the databases I use for scirate.com.  This should fix some of the problems that had arisen with the recommendation engine.  Let me know if anyone sees anything broken.

Also look for new features soon!