New Personalized Feed, More Preprint Coverage, and Save to Lists

Redesigned Feed with Social Metrics for Better Recommendations

We’ve redesigned the main feeds to focus on discovery of new preprints.

For better ranking, we use X mentions of new preprints to deliver highly relevant and trending preprints into your feeds.

Improved Preprint Coverage

We’re working towards 100% coverage of preprints with PDF’s, and already have this established for all new preprints moving forward

bioRxiv preprints with the appropriate license are now visible in the main feeds

We’re continuing to increase coverage by backfilling older preprints, with 100% coverage of most servers through Jan. 2025.

Lists: Save Preprints for Later

When scrolling the feed, you can now save preprints to lists so you can read them later.

Up next:

Over the next 2 weeks, we’ll be focusing on polishing the feed design, finalizing social metrics behind the scenes, fixing some critical UX flows, and pushing to deliver a revamped search experience.

Specific items we’re working on:

Getting to 100% coverage (papers and PDFs)
- Continue backfill of arxiv papers
Feed improvements
- Remove orange color on tips in list view
- Add “Lists” to the left sidebar nav
  - Consider renaming “lists” - maybe “reference manager” or “library”
  - Could create another section for “Tools” in the sidebar
- Ensure each card has a “journal” logo
  - Ensure paper page also has the same journal logo (make it consistent with list view)
- Add downvotes to the main feed
- Paper page
  - Show the topics in the same order as the list view
- Every paper in the feed should have an underlying PDF
- Fully launch the for you feed as the default/first tab when signed in
- Make the signed out experience still show the tabs
  - Signed out: Popular, For You, Following
    - Clicking For You or Following prompts you to sign up
  - Signed in: For You, Following, Popular
Social metric alternatives
- Focus on X integration for social signals
Ship new feed card redesign
Critical search fixes and UI/UX
- Focus ranking on similar signals to what we use in the feed (votes, comments, reviews, page views - excluding bots) ideally citations in the future but fine to to skip for now if we don’t have it
- Use keywords less
Upgraded search and new search results page (releasing soon)

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