Browse, notes and profiles, rebuilt on the web

The browse page had three problems that had been there long enough to stop being noticed. Two of its filters did nothing at all when clicked. There was no search box on the page whose entire job was finding something. And every card was rendered twice, so the library looked twice as large as it was, which is a lie about the most important number on the site. All three are fixed, and the page now lets you choose how dense you want the results.

Note pages were rewritten around what a visitor actually needs: the description is readable rather than truncated at forty characters, the student who wrote it is credited by name and linked to, and the page tells the truth about the file. It had previously been describing every attachment as a PDF regardless of what it was.

The web account-deletion page is worth calling out on its own, because it was the most serious thing on this list. There is a page on this site for deleting your account, linked from the app stores, which existed because both stores require one. It took an email address and a password, validated them, and showed a confirmation. It did not delete the account. Anybody who used that page and walked away believing their data was gone was wrong. It deletes the account now.

The rest of the release was structural: contributor profiles, community groups and posts were added to the crawl index — none of them had been reachable from any crawlable path, which meant every profile on the site was invisible to search — questions in the community are marked up as questions, and the leaderboard stopped disagreeing with the ranking the app was showing for the same people.