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🤖 InTheNews_Bot

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"On this Day in Ethereum" workflow

You may have read one of my "On this Day" posts about Ethereum, in the daily discussions on popular subreddit /r/ethfinance, or via twitter user @ETH_HistoryBob. In this blog post I explain how I create these OtDs. 🤖 The Bot Part: pwr.newsThe first part is automated: I use

High loads, slow charts

Charts may load slowly due to very high traffic. We are working on it. Update: optimisations optimised, things should run smoothly again 👍

Ethereum in 2020, in 30 minutes

This video shows the top news items for Ethereum, appearing and scrolling by as time passes. Visit https://pwr.news/blog/behind-the-charts/ to see how items are fetched, ranked and selected. Please select HD quality to make the news items readable, and select a slower playback speed if you desire.

@ETH_HistoryBob: Ethereum #OTD's on Twitter

Follow @ETH_HistoryBob on Twitter to read what happened to Ethereum on this day in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. On 5 Dec 2019, (1/2) - Etherscan launches https://t.co/G3vqWgOeX8 - Matterlabs introduces zkSync: "missing link to mass adoption of #Ethereum" - EY batches transactions

Behind the Charts

If you wonder how pwr.news collects and selects news for our crypto charts, read on.

Losing weight in the library

Your favourite app just lost half of its weight, mainly by better code packaging and dropping dependencies on old libraries. In other words: faster page loads! The numbers:Fresh page load: 1,9MB → 0.9MB Asset data updates (every 5 minutes): 19kB → 3,8kB The full list of changes:Defer

Those are the dates

Use the recently added calendar to jump to specific days, months or years.

MNPI

They're here, the MNPI: Much Needed Performance Improvements, or, what some Englishmen like to pronounce as "the speeeeeeeeed". by Bubble Punk While developing pwr.news, I have noticed the app is susceptible to a plucky portion of induced demand: every time I'm proud to say the interface has just become

Taking over reddit

Little experiment: putting realtime* charts on reddit.com/r/ethtrader, paying for it in ERC-20 based Donuts 😎 * Banner is updated ~every hour.

Rocking Responsiveness

Our React-based App rewrite continues with a big overhaul of the chart components. Say Yay! toFully zoomable chartsPage resize responsivenessMore intuitive buttonsA loading bar, which you hopefully won't see to often.Pinch to zoom on mobile devices (experimental). simplification eludication In our quest to simplify chartscandlestick charts were dropped in

Frivolous Fixes

Switch to coinmarketcap's official price feedReset page title after closing news items.Fix opacity of charts upon opening and closing news itemsSuppress some irrelevant non-news popping up high in the charts

"On this day", on my mind

For two months, I've been creating small "On this day in Ethereum" posts: small snippets listing the most relevant events in Ethereum for a specific day in 2016, '17 and '18, like the one for today.

Deploy them small updates already

Sign in with redditAll you redditeers are now one click away from the full charts: Login with reddit Tip jar addressesFeel free to buy me a beer! Some say it maight improve my coding. Tweaks and fixesContent from crypto news sites is now scanned to improve relevance checks.More shortened

On this day in Ethereum...

I started a little experiment, listing Ethereum news that happened "On this day" in previous years. You can find them in the Daily Discussion threads on reddit.com/r/ethtrader, like this one or this one. And of course the one for today here. Enjoy!

Tweet storms unrolled

As you may have noticed, tweet storms are now "unrolled" (term coined by Thread reader).

Improved news selections - part II

To follow up on the last blog post, changes were made to increase news relevance per coin. The main change is how relevance is calculated per post: previously this was done by looking at how we got it (ie. post was received by following a subreddit or a certain Twitter

Improved news selections

Time to improve the selection of news events.

Updated list of preferred sources

Our list of preferred news sources was recently updated. It now looks like this (in no particular order): coindesk.comcointelegraph.comcoinspectator.comreuters.comcnbc.comgithub.combtcmanager.comtrustnodes.comtheguardian.combitcoin.combitcoin.orgbitcoinmagazine.comforbes.comcryptobible.iobloomberg.comcsnews.ioweekinethereumnews.comwsj.comtheblockcrypto.comdecryptmedia.combreakermag.comtokendaily.codiar.cotokeneconomy.cogetrevue.co

A fistful of fixes

Events are now linkable. Click! Fix broken emoji's in tweetsFix lost clicks in some parts of bubbleFix plain html in settings pageBetter handling of ESC keyFix images in "top discussions"Fix some mobile icons

Towards an intuitive UI

From speed improvements over to some visible changes that came along with the UI rewrite. "Bubbles": see concise info on news itemsInstead of being immediately redirected to the original article, post or tweet upon clicking items in the chart, you will now be presented with what we internally refer to

Towards a responsive UI

pwr.news lacks snappiness. It is slow to load, slow to use and slow to respond. This has been the most common comment about the app over the last months. Up until now! Read on for a little more background and speed improvements.

Coin prices in BTC and ETH

photo by Nick Hillier You scrolled past a big, beautiful, useless image, just to be told that the title says it all: select BTC or ETH as base pairs in the dropdown on the left in the app. Oh, title doesn't say all... VET added!

pwr.news @ P2PGent

Tonight I will be presenting pwr.news at P2PGent Bitcoin meetup.

Oktoberfixes

Show sources for news itemsReduce traffic on page load and on tabletsSend secure transactional mail via ProtonMailBetter admin tools to remove irrelevant news manuallyBetter historical data (< 2018) from CoinMarketCapPrevent vertical scrollingFix jittery or misplaced crosshairsFix vertical placement of price and news itemsFix some nightmode colors