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Upgrading Substack’s recommendation network

Substack • 897 implied HN points • 22 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Improvements
  1. Recommendations feature on Substack drives significant subscriber growth, with 50% of new subscriptions and 25% of new paid subscriptions coming from it.
  2. Substack is enhancing the Recommendations feature to allow writers to curate scenes for readers, expanding the reach and enabling a peer-to-peer system of trusted endorsements.
  3. Writers can customize and recommend more publications and profiles to readers, fostering a symbiotic media ecosystem and helping each other grow their audiences on Substack.

Release Notes — 18th January 2024

tldraw • 117 implied HN points • 18 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Improvements
  1. Arrow scooting allows moving arrows without disconnecting them.
  2. Edge scrolling by dragging shapes to the screen edge nudges the camera.
  3. New features include a looser font, dark mode theme, faster image uploads, and community translations.

Card Insights

Pine • 19 implied HN points • 18 Jun 24
🕹 Technology Improvements
  1. Pine now has cool analytics tools to help you understand your data better. You can break down and show your information in different ways.
  2. They've made some neat improvements, like showing summary insights and helping you create better connections between cards. This makes using the app more user-friendly.
  3. You can now open links in new tabs easily and get notifications for actions you take. These small updates improve the overall experience when using the app.
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Release Notes — February 17th 2023

tldraw • 58 implied HN points • 17 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Improvements
  1. You can now link to a chosen location of a multiplayer project.
  2. Improvements include a smoother eraser tool appearance and better scribble-selecting features.
  3. Several fixes were made, including properly filling X Box shapes and adjusting the appearance of error screens.

Release Notes — May 26th 2023

tldraw • 58 implied HN points • 26 May 23
🕹 Technology Improvements
  1. Enhanced presence features like cursor names, viewport following, snapshot links, and a laser pointer added
  2. Introduction of people menu for changing name and color, zooming to other users, and following users
  3. New tools like Laser Tool, snapshot links, text label alignment, text pasting, checkbox shape introduced

Release Notes — March 2nd 2023

tldraw • 39 implied HN points • 03 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Improvements
  1. The update brings a new design interface with improved performance.
  2. An open source release of the Signia library is available for developers.
  3. Various tweaks, fixes, and improvements were implemented, including better app performance and enhanced drawing quality.

2023 - Year in Review

trydeepwork • 2 implied HN points • 01 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Improvements
  1. In 2023, over 2,000 users completed 17,000 sessions totaling 17,100 deep work hours.
  2. Highlights of 2023 for trydeepwork included new features like sign-in with Google and Twitter, weekly challenges, and more.
  3. For 2024, plans include improving platform features, growing the community, and adding social features for support in achieving personal goals.

Release Notes — March 24th 2023

tldraw • 0 implied HN points • 24 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Improvements
  1. Thousands of new translations were added to the app in various languages.
  2. Performance improvements were made for multiplayer projects by fixing a data hose issue.
  3. Various fixes were implemented such as alignment of shapes and preventing merging of space characters.