Things that didn't work well in the old Scirate

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Dave Bacon

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Oct 15, 2011, 4:40:21 PM10/15/11
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1. That damn calendar was rarely used.
2. The UI was about a fugly as you can get. I spent way too much time
getting rounded corners to work. Now I say don't support piece of
shit browsers that don't give you easy rounded corners using CSS :)
3. I don't think the recommendation engine was used much. It also
wasn't very sophisticated.

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breic

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Oct 18, 2011, 12:56:28 AM10/18/11
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Scirate worked really well. But:

Only showed two days at a time. Instead, could by default list and
sort all papers since last visit.
Should also sort papers that are not scited yet, in some simple way.
There's a lot of noise on the arXiv.
Difficult to follow multiple arXiv subjects simultaneously. Can
multiple subject classes be shown and sorted together?
Not sure what the calendar was for.
Recommendation engine was too slow to use.
Hard to export list of scited papers.
UI: Too much scrolling, would rather fit more into less space.
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