Version 1.9.5 : QRcodes and tag refinements

mer. 19 août 2026 - Journal - fr

v1.9.5.1 fix a bug in the precision of /direct content/ sources

After long months of patient maintenance and background dev, Meta-Press.es reached a new level thanks to Adjiri Ayemou and Samuel Combari, two interns from the BTS SIO Cybersecurity of Bressuire.

Student nowadays learn how to prompt before they learn how to code, so everything got seriously proofread in time. But they managed to produce working code, despite not being able to really explain how it works. It’s a bit like the view configuration of Drupal that allows to do pretty much everything by the mouse, without writing code… it’s an old dream of entrepreneurs : doing things without the technical complications of reality. Softwares like Windev bore this promise earlier but they were not that good.

The rest of Meta-Press.es will continue to be coded by humans, there no future for tools officially wrong nearly half of the time, consuming the planet to contaminate every source of data they need. They will inexorably get debilitated by there own slop soon.

1. Sources

Like every interns, Samuel and Adjiri started adding new sources. They failed to do it via AI, but they made an extensive use of the no-code form that currently only supports RSS compatible sources. Nearly 200 sources were added, reinforcing the african Francophony proportion of Meta-Press.es sources.

They managed to add sources of 16 new countries.

Another good news regarding sources is that LeMonde.fr drop its contract with Qwant and is now indexing its content itself again. It was added to this release of Meta-Press.es.

2. New features

2.1. export / import of scheduled search definition

If you use Meta-Press.es on a computer and also on a smartphone you might define a lot of automated searches on your computer, and would like to copy them on your phone, or send them to a friend by email. Its now possible ! You can export your scheduled search definitions, and import them later or on another device. Two buttons appeared in the settings for that.

2.2. Article QRCodes

To share article links between a computer and a smartphone, it’s now possible to display a QRcode for each article. There a small QRcode icon on the articles, and it is automatically displayed for non-illustrated articles.

2.3. Tag refinements

The tech tag category was containing too much options. Groups of tags have been extracted and promoted in new independent categories :

precision related tags (reflecting what each sources are capable of) : many words one word approx …
children related tags
content access related tags : access content (if there is no paywall on the source) and direct content (if you can read the article directly from Meta-Press.es because it is pushed to you in the result RSS feed)

This change might affect the precision of some automated searches that will need to be updated to get the usage of those migrated tags back.

3. Ergonomics

In order to improve readability of Meta-Press.es pages, smaller font are now used for secondary info like the footer or the sided sub-search widgets.

The last sources to respond are now listed using a List.js instance. It’s faster and allows to get rid of one more "dangerous" .innerHTML usage in Meta-Press.es code (using the one in List.js…).

Then the pagination of respondent sources have been improved with a regular although rounded look and fill, while it was previously a not obvious series of dots.

And to finish the last ergonomic improvement is the addition of "get back" buttons to navigate back from the settings to the main interface.

4. Bugs

A bunch of bugs were fixed :

#91 Fix deadend behavior if all the sources are in the removed list
#92 Forbid any writing in search field when search is ongoing
#98 Can’t remove a pickup added source when editing scheduled searchs
#99 Prevent results from future to be displayed

So this version 1.9.5 is fitted to be a great version !

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