See index.html for the background about User-Visible Improvements (UVIs).

Hosted at changelog.beeminder.com.

Interface / protocol for adding a new UVI to the changelog:

1. Add the JSON for it to pub/uvis2026.js (following a bunch of conventions only dreev knows, ahem)
2. Include a link to the relevant gissue
3. Tweet it at twitter.com/beemuvi
4. Paste in the URL of the tweet to the JSON
5. Manually update the beeminder.com/meta/uvi graph
6. Double check that the total number of UVIs at beeminder.com/changelog matches the total in the stats tab at beeminder.com/meta/uvi
7. Paste the canonical UVI link (like beeminder.com/changelog#123) into the relevant gissue

Adding more automation to the above is easier said than done. For example, Twitter's UI with expanding @-mentions and stuff wouldn't work as well outside of Twitter. And I even kinda like manually updating the Beeminder meta graph because I characterize the UVI with a short phrase there that makes it easier to refer to.

Early UVIs adhered to Twitter's original 140-character limit. When Twitter doubled its character limit we decided to self-impose 160 characters as the max length for a UVI.

Note to self: See /lab/tweetimporter for how to import your Twitter archive into a progress log like this.

Data structure for UVIs

OLD:

f: featured                              [bool: default false]
s: sub-UVI                               [bool: default false]
n: new number                            [bool: default true]
x: text of UVI                           [string]
u: list of links (urls)                  [list of strings]
d: date deployed                         [YYYY-MM-DD string]
t: date tweeted/logged/announced/entered [YYYY-MM-DD string]
c: comment / note to selves              [string]

NEW:

f: Featured / bolded / highlighted       [bool: default false]
i: sub-UVI / Indented                    [bool: default false]
c: Continuation / no new number          [bool: default false]
x: teXt of UVI / log entry               [string]
l: list of Links / urls                  [list of strings]
d: date Deployed                         [YYYY-MM-DD string]
e: date tweeted/logged/announced/Entered [YYYY-MM-DD string]
s: comment / note to Selves              [string]

TODO LIST

1. Show tweet times in Pacific (Central before 2012 Feb?) instead of UTC
2. Codemod .*bug.* -> append '#bugfix' (or in the note-to-selves field if it doesn't fit in the UVI text)
3. Pick featured UVIs through June 2013 when we started doing that
4. Filtering options like only showing bugfixes, non-bugfixes, featured, etc
5. Top-post! https://github.com/beeminder/beeminder/issues/1530
6. Refactor #regression to #zombie

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Roman Kuzmichev for contributing the code to highlight UVIs when linked to as hyperlinks.