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github.com/ourbigbook/ourbig… OurBigBook email sending, required for new signups, has been restored. We've had to migrate to AWS SES after SendGrid killed their free plan without adding a cheap/pay as you go to replace it.
docs.ourbigbook.com/news/fil… It is now possible to upload files such as images and source code to OurBigBook.com. Example: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/… This was previously only possible on static websites. Now the it works for both OurBigBook Web and static websites.
docs.ourbigbook.com/news/llm… We've used gpt-4o-mini to populate the 100k+ wikibot pages for only $3 e.g. ourbigbook.com/wikibot#mathe… or: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/qiju… It does add a bit of value by filling in some definitions for quick checking, and resolving some soft 404 from Google index.
docs.ourbigbook.com/news/aut… With Automatic topic linking, regular text gets automatically converted to links to topics if part of the text matches an existing topic.
docs.ourbigbook.com/news/sig… for the last two months OurBigBook.com has been SPAMmed and recently the spammer even had the patience to do a bit of vote fraud and upvote a post to the top from 13 other accounts! We have now taken measures to prevent their evil doing.
docs.ourbigbook.com/news/web… searches on OurBigBook.com now match any word inside the title, not just from the start of the title
docs.ourbigbook.com/news/art… You can now click a button to send an email to all your followers with a link to your best articles on OurBigBook.com
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/web… we've cleaned up OurBigBook Web tab navigation to have two levels. Much cleaner and better looking than the previous one level scheme.
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/sco… Scopes now show clearly as a prefix when viewing descendants at toplevel on static and dynamic sites. This makes it clearer what pages are about. Static demo: cirosantilli.com/x86-paging/…
Dynamic demo: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/…
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/top… The topic ID with a link to the topic now shows up on the Web editor. This helps users decide if the topic is suitable for their article.
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/cre… You can now create new child or sibling articles from the table of contents
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/pro… You can now update your profile picture on OurBigBook Web by uploading an image from your computer to the website. Previously, we only supported linking to an external image URL.
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/dis… The {disambiguate} header argument now shows on most navigation such as incoming links and breadcrumbs. This makes it easier to identify the link subject.
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/tag… you can now view tagged, incoming links and child articles of any article including their bodies in OurBigBook Web. We now also show a clear message if some articles were not loaded because the table of contents was too long.
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/art… You can now search for articles and topics by title prefix. We are looking into extending this to also finding internal words with full text search.
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/tag… Headers tagged by the current header now show under every rendered header, even if it is not the first header of a page.
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docs.ourbigbook.com/news/our… OurBigBook CLI now forces you to write a consistent tree of headers by default, including e.g.:
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- rename README.bigb to index.bigb. Much cleaner, and we already have a conflict on the baseneme index.html, so why create another conflict with README
- rename out to _out which is a reserved ID. Otherwise it was impossible to have a directory called out with ourbigbook files
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