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Changelog: Bookmarks!

This has been in high demand and it's now available.

You can now bookmark posts. If you see something you like, tap the bookmark icon and it will be sent to Your reading list.

We also modified the left-hand tag navigation on the home page. It now shows all the tags you follow first and you can scroll down to see more. This is a change that puts the content you are interested in closer to the top. It also includes a bit of a redesign.

We'll follow this up with some polish and additional features here and there once we get a feel for the new features in production . One follow-along feature will likely be to have posts from your reading list periodically cycle in to your main feed so you get caught up with stuff you meant to read in the past.

Happy coding ❤️

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Ben Halpern

Oh, also removed the 🤔 and 🙌 as they were a bit redundant and/or confusing at the moment. But additional changes could be forthcoming in that realm.

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Paula

Glad you guys kept the unicorn tho. That's a must.

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João Antunes

Awesome! When on the desktop one could get away with Pocket or something like that, but when using the PWA on the phone, this is a must.

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Ben Halpern

The link is on your home page sidebar. Perhaps elsewhere in the future. The feature needs some fresh air before w get it just right.

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Sergio Daniel Xalambrí

🤔 when I click the bookmark icon it's visually marked as clicked (blue background and black borders) but it takes a second to update the number, you may be updating the number after the server reply for the AJAX request I suppose, you may first update the number, then send the request and revert if there's an error.

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Ryota Murakami

cool, that's "optimistic updates" pattern, right?

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Ryota Murakami

incredible killer feature!!

actually I've keeping specific discussion page with chrome bookmark.
therefore a bit struggle when i was read iPhone,iPad safari...

but never mind that all clear now╰(´︶`)╯♡

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Carles Mata

Great addition! It could be nice to have a link in the user menu too, next to "Dashboard" and "Write a post". That way I could finish reading an article, and with only one click I could go to my reading list. Now I have to go to dashboard and then to the list.

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rhymes

I always thought this icon 🤔 meant "I'm not very convinced about the point you're making" :-D

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faultables

Finally! Love it

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Pierre Bouillon

Wonderful !

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Christian Vasquez

Any input on the design decision for taking away the 🙌🏻 and 🤔 reactions?

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, I just wrote a follow up comment. We have some plans to make the reactions have a bit more purpose. e.g. the bookmark "reaction" sending to your reading list, but perhaps a bit more whimsical in unicorn land.