Update History

May 1, 2022

• Added 'Ukraine/Russia' as news feed
• Updates to default news navigation menu topics. Go to 'Customize' and delete your cookies if your default news navigation menu is not updated.
• Updates to sites:
  Removed: Arabian Business, Courthouse News, Iol, Montreal Gazzette , Rio Times
  Added:
  

  https://www.thecanary.co/
  https://theweek.com/
  https://oilprice.com/
  https://jezebel.com/
  https://www.rfa.org/english/
  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/
  https://www.dailysabah.com/
  https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/
  https://www.tampabay.com/

April 2021

• Added 'coronavirus' as news feed
• Updates to default news navigation menu topics. Go to 'Customize' and delete your cookies if your default news navigation menu is not updated.

January 2020

• When pregenerated feed and search term set for same custom feed, will search the pregenerated feed
• Logins are auto-renewed for up to 30 days after session cookie expires

December 2019

• Two new feed menu designer forms
• Members settings database

October 2019

• Backend update for feed customization

September 2019

• Final 'bootstrap' style updates
• Fixed a search issue

August 2019

• Added form to customize top feed menu
• CSS revised to Bootstrap for mobile and desktop sites

July 2019

• Fixed handling of corrupted images so they are ignored in display instead of broken link
• Added 5 sites Spanish

June 2019

• Update of backend custom CMS
• Added 6 sites English

May 2019

• Update of backend custom CMS

April 2019

• Backend preparation for a new tier of customizable sub menus
• Added feeds to second menu

March 2019

• Improvements to the "More headlines" topic pages

Feb 2019

• Added 10 news source websites
• Photos added to right column on desktop
• Improvements to how custom pages are generated when excluding sites
• Update design of customization page

Jan 2019

• Backend preparation for expansion of customization features
• Fixes to search functionality

Dec 2018

• User can exclude news sources from pages
• User-customization of categories
• Fixes to search functionality
• Added 12 news source websites (Spanish)

Nov 2018

• Prepare CMS for user-customization
• Fixes to search functionality

Oct 2018

• New ZAQS Spanish Website!
• Added 12 news source websites

Sep 2018

• Added search functionality

Aug 2018

• Each main article now shows number of related articles
• Added catched rendered HTML canonical pages for main articles
• Launch of separate mobile m.zaqs.org domain

July 2018

• Server migration

June 2018

• Server architecture improvments
• update to how images are thumbnailed

May 2018

• Begin transition to multi-server architecture
• Launch of Science News Feed on Facebook

April 2018

• Finished main parser conversion project
• Improvements to social bots
• CSS Improvements

March 2018

• Main parser conversion project

Feb 2018

• Begin conversion of main parser from c# to python
• Launched more Twitter bots: ZAQS Sports, Entertainment, Business

Jan 2018

• Launch of the ZAQS 'Desktop' Website
• Launch of the ZAQS World Twitter Feed