Meta-Press.es

Decentralized search engine & automatized press reviews

Release of Meta-Press.es v1.5

- Journal - fr

After a long summer break, here is the new version of Meta-Press.es.

This version fulfills a new development step of NLnet support: Better Firefox integration and fewer asked permissions.

This versions also add off-the-roadmap cool features, such as optional photo loading in results, or possible filter-out of results from a particular source once the search is done (to clear out garbage results from a broken source for instance).

Here is the detail of delivered improvements since v1.4 :

  • New links in the interface :

    • Add a local permalink for the searches (the link icon 🔗 at the end of the search stats). This link allows to create a bookmark to quickly perform the same search again (search terms, source selection) ;

    • Add an "arrow" (↗) link to the sources search-page, to browse results directly at the source, and get older results for instance ;

    • Add a "cross" (✘) link allowing to remove results of a particular source among the search results, to clean up results from a deceptive source ;

    • Add a "reload headlines" link (↻) ;

  • Behavior improvements :

    • Direct display of photos in results, and new "photo" result type (+ setting to only load the pictures on demand, clicking on them, and spare bandwidth) ;

    • Improved keyboard navigation for accessibility purpose ;

    • Dynamic update of the tab title according to search stats ;

  • Better Firefox integration :

    • Browser notification for long (>8s) searches [1] as per issue 20 ;

    • Ask for fewer permissions : ask for host permissions at search time and give control to user (drop them, request all, keep them or not) as per issue 33 ;

  • Technical improvements :

    • Remove unsafe-eval authorisation from manifest.json ;

    • Evolution of the source description format with field aggregation now possible via _tpl field suffix (which is a template combining other field values for this field) ;

  • 25 new sources :

    • Reference press (9) : Estadao, Folha de S.Paulo, El Mercurio, O Globo, Al-Ahram, Helsingin Sonomat, The Times, Irish Times…

    • French local press and magazines (16) : La Croix, TV5Monde, Bastamag, L’age de faire, Le Midi Libre, Le progrès, L’Alsace, Le Bien Public, DNA (Dernière nouvelles d’Alsace), L’est républicain, Le républicain lorrain, Vosges Matin…

    • Video sources : TV5Monde, Le Figaro Vidéos, Le Midi Libre ;

    • Photo sources : 11 sources have been marked with the "photo" result type as a first step.

PS: v1.5.1 fixes a bug about the default tags and adds 20 more Reference Press sources. It also adds an update notification mechanism that opens up this Meta-Press.es official website at each updates to allow finding out what’s new.

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