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The next major feature for Histropedia is on its way, Priority Display will make a huge difference to the site and bring us a step closer to the timeline of everything. What does Priority Display do? Priority Display will limit the number of events you see on the screen at one time by only showing the most important events […]
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We have recently switched Histropedia’s primary source for event dates from Wikipedia to Wikidata. We are still using Wikipedia as a date source and all the events remain linked to a Wikipedia article, but now whenever possible we are trying to use dates from Wikidata. This is a major improvement for us because Wikidata stores dates in a very different […]
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We are excited to announce some major changes to the event editing system and an increase in the available zoom levels. The new editing options allow events to be pinned to the exact dates they occurred and the extra zoom levels let you view days and months on the timeline. These changes drastically increase the number of timelines we can […]
Read moreHello Everyone, We’re still waiting for the latest deployment to go live and expect to have the ‘Zooming in Further’ feature ready for testing sometime during the week. With not much else to talk about this week I felt it was a good time to share with you our current roadmap of feature development. The features listed here will most […]
Read moreHello Everyone, Last week I promised some details on a new major feature that will be deployed soon, the feature is ‘Zooming in Further’ and should be live before the end of the month. Finally we will be able to assign dates more accurate than a single year to each event. This will allow the exact month and day of […]
Read moreHistropedia BETA v1.0!! The big news this month is the launch of our first official public beta version. There is still a long way to go till we get a product that is ready for the mass market, but for anyone with a little patience we now have a real look at what the end vision will look like. The […]
Read moreThe final stages of development are under way and the beta version of Histropedia will be launching soon, hopefully in the summer of 2013. So now seems like a good time to take a look at some of the latest designs for the website.The Timeline The site has been designed to have a clean, elegant look. The events on the Timeline will be […]
Read moreWe have a new logo!!! and we love it, but I wanted to take a minute to show you what we had, what we didn’t go for and the final result.Our First Logo The first logo we made ourselves, and with only amateur design experience I think we did quite well!The idea behind the logo was to represent the colourful […]
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