Roadmap


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Replace Google search with an in-house built search

In order to launch quickly, we ended up using Google Custom Search for v1.This is going to be changed to an in-house search. Google's contextual matching is obviously...

Submitted 10 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Planned


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Collapse comments if there are more than 5

Some questions or answers will always have a ton of comments and it requires a lot of scrolling to get to the next answer.Show at most 5 comments and collapse the rest with...

Submitted 10 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Planned


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Subscribe to questions to get updated by email

This was suggested by Chris-at on HN.Ability to subscribe to a question and get updates to it via email.

Submitted 10 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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Sorting on topics pages

I think the sorting was missed on the individual topic pages. Like the questions page has "active, new, top, unanswered".

Submitted 10 years ago by Joel J.  |  1 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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New message alert in browser header

I tend to keep my browser tabs open all the time, which means I have to actively refresh the BrightJourney page to see if there has been an update to Questions I have...

Submitted 10 years ago by Nick Stevens  |  3 comments

STAGE: Planned


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Spam / low quality answer handling

From the burst in traffic from HN (this question was #1 on HN for a few), it's apparent we need to quickly roll out basic spam filtering features.Adapted from @JayNeely's...

Submitted 10 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  4 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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Q&A + Hacker News hybrid?

Q&A is a great platform in itself but one of the things that limits a pure Q&A model is sharing something interesting you found with the community.Hacker News /...

Submitted 10 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  1 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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Can you give us some insight on what we might expect with the future of this site?

This site seems to have sort of... died... a few months back. I haven't seen any of the "originals" around here with the exception of Alain in quite some time. There seems...

Submitted 9 years ago by rbwhitaker  |  4 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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"Top Experts" should not include people with negative reputation.

With the influx of spam recently, there are a few users who have gained quite a bit of negative reputation. Yet somehow, these people are showing up on the list of Top...

Submitted 9 years ago by rbwhitaker  |  0 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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Get a better spam filter

Because we don't get that many real questions at the moment, when we get spam, it's painfully obvious. Let's get a better spam filter to help address this. Maybe you need 5...

Submitted 9 years ago by rbwhitaker  |  3 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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Topics: organization, synonyms, and short descriptions

Each of the topics should have a 1-3 sentence description associated with it. Right now only a few have descriptions. We'll need to add it in for the rest.

Submitted 10 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Discussing


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Add missing pages from SE data dump

After some analysis, StackExchange's data dump did not have all the questions from the old Answers.OnStartups. Here is an...

Submitted 10 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Planned


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CC by-sa 3.0 license for all of Bright Journey

Reference: http://www.brightjourney.com/q/licence-user-generated-content-bright-journeyWe need to figure out a proper way to implement this with an API as well (no point of...

Submitted 10 years ago by Nishank Khanna  |  0 comments

STAGE: Planned


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Should we show attribution for UP votes?

Maybe we should show who upvoted a question or answer (similar to Quora).Why we should: Extra way for people to be visible on the site. Even if someone isn't asking or...

Submitted 10 years ago by Chrissie Gray  |  3 comments

STAGE: Discussing