Changelog

🚀 Wednesday, December 11, 2024 2:53 AM UTC

• Add pie chart to Bill votes.

🚀 Tuesday, December 10, 2024 2:32 AM UTC

• Initial implementation of votes on Bill pages.

🚀 Sunday, December 8, 2024 11:47 PM UTC

• Add (currently under construction) Votes section to Bill pages.

🚀 Saturday, December 7, 2024 11:53 PM UTC

• Fix issue where Keywords section may disply on a Bill page even when there are no keywords.
• Fix issue where votes on congress member pages which do not have bill information yet may display null values, and mae be clickable to an empty page.

🚀 Saturday, December 7, 2024 11:17 PM UTC

• Do not display sections on bill pages that are empty, which greatly cleans up the view on bill pages.

🚀 Friday, December 6, 2024 11:19 PM UTC

• Improvements to styling of full U.S. Congression Bill texts.

🚀 Friday, December 6, 2024 10:38 PM UTC

• Improvements to styling of full U.S. Congression Bill texts.

🚀 Friday, December 6, 2024 7:43 PM UTC

• Improvements to formatting of full U.S. Congression Bill texts.

🚀 Friday, December 6, 2024 3:53 PM UTC

• Update heading on U.S. Congressional Bills page.
• Update About page.

🚀 Thursday, December 5, 2024 6:59 PM UTC

• Fix issue where congress member profile pages did not render.
• Fix issue where the menu sidebar did not open correctly on Firefox.
• Fix some styling issues on Firefox.

🚀 Thursday, December 5, 2024 12:01 AM UTC

• Update Congress state lists to use new chamber filters.

🚀 Wednesday, December 4, 2024 11:37 PM UTC

• Add chamber filter to Congress page.

🚀 Wednesday, December 4, 2024 10:28 PM UTC

• Combine House of Representative and Senate pages into a single Congress page.

🚀 Wednesday, December 4, 2024 8:24 PM UTC

• Fix issue where Tommy Tuberville shows up twice in Senate list.

🚀 Tuesday, December 3, 2024 9:05 PM UTC

• Update congress member metadata. This is the first major update regarding which congress members are currently in office, and the logic behind this will allow us to continually update who is and isn't in office at a much faster pace.
• Add all missing congress member profile images.

🚀 Sunday, December 1, 2024 1:09 AM UTC

• Add pie chart to U.S. Congressional Bills Page.

🚀 Saturday, November 30, 2024 4:11 PM UTC

• Show a loading spinner when loading items on U.S. Congressional Bills Page.
• Fix issues where not all items would properly return from query results on U.S. Congressional Bills Page.

🚀 Saturday, November 30, 2024 12:09 AM UTC

• Improvements to rendering when updating filters on U.S. Congressional Bills Page.

🚀 Friday, November 29, 2024 5:08 PM UTC

• Add counts to status files on U.S. Congressional Bills Page.

🚀 Friday, November 29, 2024 2:57 AM UTC

• Add count of all bill types on U.S. Congressional Bills Page.

🚀 Friday, November 29, 2024 1:45 AM UTC

• Add count of all bills in Topics section on U.S. Congressional Bills Page.

🚀 Thursday, November 28, 2024 7:34 PM UTC

• Add bill counts for topics on U.S. Congressional Bills page.

🚀 Thursday, November 28, 2024 1:09 AM UTC

• Make topic filters on U.S. Congressional Bills page dynamic.

🚀 Sunday, November 24, 2024 9:15 PM UTC

• Fix issue where clicking the "All" filter on the congressional bills page can cause the UI to lock up for a few seconds if the user has already srolled further down the page.
• Scroll to the top of the page when user updates the filters on the congressional bills page.

🚀 Saturday, November 23, 2024 12:19 PM UTC

• Update hero on home page.

🚀 Thursday, November 21, 2024 3:07 AM UTC

• Small styling tweaks.

🚀 Thursday, November 21, 2024 12:57 AM UTC

• Make sidebar menu collapsible.

🚀 Wednesday, November 20, 2024 4:32 AM UTC

• Improve layout of footer on mobile.

🚀 Wednesday, November 20, 2024 4:05 AM UTC

• Improve filter stylings within filter drawer.

• Improve style of mobile filter icon.

🚀 Wednesday, November 20, 2024 3:19 AM UTC

• Fix issue where filters on Bills page did not work on mobile.

• Improve style of mobile filter icon.

🚀 Wednesday, November 20, 2024 2:03 AM UTC

• Update About page.

🚀 Thursday, November 14, 2024 11:31 PM UTC

• Redesign hero of profile pages.

🚀 Thursday, November 14, 2024 9:37 PM UTC

• Allow users to filter "Bills For" and "Bills Against" lists by topic on congress member profile pages.

🚀 Sunday, November 10, 2024 9:54 PM UTC

• Add Topic filters to congress member pages. These currently only work on the "Bills Created" tab.

🚀 Sunday, November 10, 2024 1:37 AM UTC

• Add improved summaries on bills on Bills Created, Bills For, and Bills Against sections on congress member profile pages.

🚀 Saturday, November 9, 2024 8:57 PM UTC

• Add improved summaries on bills on Recently Signed Bills section.

🚀 Saturday, November 9, 2024 6:43 PM UTC

• Add improved summaries on bills on congressional bills page.
• Improve formatting of citations on people descriptions on congress member profile pages.
• Fix issue where certain bills that contained legacy topic data would not render correctly.

🚀 Friday, November 8, 2024 5:14 PM UTC

• Add citations to congress member descriptions.

🚀 Friday, November 8, 2024 12:43 AM UTC

• Add item type filter on search page.

🚀 Thursday, November 7, 2024 11:26 PM UTC

• Add descriptions to all Congress profile pages.

🚀 Thursday, November 7, 2024 8:23 PM UTC

• Sort For and Against lists on congress member profile pages.

🚀 Thursday, November 7, 2024 11:50 AM UTC

• Update name and position of presidential race chat assistant.
• Increase width of search input in header.

🚀 Wednesday, November 6, 2024 7:50 PM UTC

• Remove Presidential Candidates page from menu.

🚀 Wednesday, November 6, 2024 12:52 AM UTC

• Sorted the Bills Created section on congress member profile pages.
• Add v2 topics to Bills Created, Bills For, and Bills Against sections of congress member profile pages.

🚀 Tuesday, November 5, 2024 8:04 PM UTC

• Fix issue where status color is incorrect on bills signed into law on bill lists.
• Add description to topic tooltips.

🚀 Tuesday, November 5, 2024 12:16 AM UTC

• Clean up mobile styles.

🚀 Monday, November 4, 2024 8:07 PM UTC

• Add Instagram and X links to footer.

🚀 Monday, November 4, 2024 6:55 PM UTC

• Improve mobile styles of footer.

🚀 Monday, November 4, 2024 3:26 AM UTC

• Add tooltips for topic pills.

🚀 Monday, November 4, 2024 2:27 AM UTC

• Add bill status filter on U.S. Congressional Bills Page.

🚀 Saturday, November 2, 2024 5:25 PM UTC

• Add tabs for filters on U.S. Congressional Bills Page.

🚀 Friday, November 1, 2024 2:29 PM UTC

• Allow for the majority of bills to now be tagged with topics.

🚀 Friday, November 1, 2024 12:44 AM UTC

• Improve filter user experience on U.S. Congressional Bills page.

🚀 Wednesday, October 30, 2024 6:27 PM UTC

• Publish new blog.

🚀 Wednesday, October 30, 2024 4:54 PM UTC

• Add topics filters to the U.S. Congressional Bills page.
• Add topic pills to bills in the "Bills Recently Signed Into Law" section on the home page.

🚀 Monday, October 28, 2024 10:13 PM UTC

• Add topics to bill items on U.S. Congressional Bills page.

🚀 Saturday, October 26, 2024 1:39 PM UTC

• Add new topic implementation to Bill pages.
• Many styling improvements to topics, keywords, goals, and quick summaries on bill pages.

🚀 Wednesday, October 24, 2024 2:11 PM UTC

• Migrate to use multiple sitemaps.

🚀 Tuesday, October 23, 2024 2:45 AM UTC

• Refactor Chat Assistant logic to make API calls from the data server rather than ferrying requests to a service outside of the cluster.

🚀 Monday, October 21, 2024 6:47 PM UTC

• Update sitemap.

🚀 Tuesday, October 16, 2024 6:06 PM UTC

• Fix issue where top-most heading in sidebar menu may be too close to header under certain conditions.

🚀 Tuesday, October 16, 2024 11:55 AM UTC

• Add sidebar menu to expose the full menu on the desktop.
• Reformat header now that the sidebar menu exists.

🚀 Tuesday, October 15, 2024 2:24 PM UTC

• Update Topics heading to be Keywords on individual Bill pages.

🚀 Monday, October 14, 2024 9:29 PM UTC

• Add Andrew Miller and Jim Pierson to About page.

🚀 Thursday, October 3, 2024 11:23 PM UTC

• Update Header to use Hamburger on desktop.
• Add Chat Policy to Header.

🚀 Thursday, October 3, 2024 9:39 PM UTC

• Add Texts heading to Texts section on Bill pages.

🚀 Saturday, September 28, 2024 8:23 PM UTC

• Update Congress List pages to use new Heading component.
• Fix issue where navigating to one of the U.S. Congressmember list pages will not show the person items from the beginning of the list.

🚀 Saturday, September 28, 2024 5:29 PM UTC

• Add Warning Popover when we don't have a page for a particular displayed item in a list.

🚀 Thursday, September 26, 2024 2:47 AM UTC

• Fix issue where J.D. Vance showed up twice in search results.

🚀 Wednesday, September 25, 2024 8:06 PM UTC

• Remove minor presidential candidates from search results.

🚀 Tuesday, September 24, 2024 3:15 PM UTC

• Small improvements to tab styling.

🚀 Tuesday, September 24, 2024 2:27 PM UTC

• Improved design on tabs so that it's more obvious that they're clickable and more indicative of which one is active.

🚀 Sunday, September 22, 2024 2:36 PM UTC

• Working implementation of Enter icon in text input on Chat Assistant pages.
• Add Question Cards to Assistant Pages. These can be clicked to automatically send the example question.

🚀 Friday, September 20, 2024 12:27 AM UTC

• Style and formatting improvements to Chat Assistant pages.

🚀 Thursday, September 19, 2024 9:03 PM UTC

• Style and formatting improvements to Chat Assistant pages.

🚀 Wednesday, September 18, 2024 6:56 PM UTC

• Hide Search Input on mobile Chat Assistant page to improve cleanliness.
• Various formatting and layout improvements on the Chat Assistant pages.

🚀 Sunday, September 15, 2024 3:10 AM UTC

• Reformat Chat Assistant pages so that the text input is fixed to the bottom of the page. This matches the common style of most popular LLMs.
• Other improved stylings to the Chat Assistant pages.
• Refactor and simplify people fetching logic on congress list pages.

🚀 Saturday, September 14, 2024 3:07 AM UTC

• Update preview text on Presidential Race Chat Assistant.

🚀 Saturday, September 14, 2024 12:58 AM UTC

• Add Presidential Race Chat Assistant.

🚀 Friday, September 13, 2024 5:50 PM UTC

• Update bill count in Congressional Bills Chat Assistant.

🚀 Friday, September 13, 2024 2:58 AM UTC

• Add more profile pics for congress members.

🚀 Thursday, September 12, 2024 5:54 PM UTC

• Add more profile pics for congress members.

🚀 Wednesday, September 11, 2024 4:52 PM UTC

• Add more profile pics for congress members.

🚀 Thursday, August 29, 2024 2:17 AM UTC

• Add Chat for Republican Party Platform.

🚀 Thursday, August 29, 2024 12:10 AM UTC

• Add Chat for Democratic Party Platform.

🚀 Tuesday, August 28, 2024 10:58 AM UTC

• Fix scrolling issue on U.S. Congressional Bills Page where navigating back to this page may cause the page to repeatedly fetch new bills.

🚀 Tuesday, August 27, 2024 1:39 AM UTC

• Add Project 2025 Chat.

🚀 Monday, August 26, 2024 8:24 PM UTC

• Improvements to Chat responses.

🚀 Monday, August 26, 2024 2:09 AM UTC

• Improve styles on Chat Portal Page.

🚀 Sunday, August 25, 2024 5:25 PM UTC

• Add Chat portal page where the user can pick a particular chatbot.

🚀 Sunday, August 25, 2024 3:46 PM UTC

• Fix issue where some presidential candidate links on the Presidential Candidates page went to the Not Found page.

🚀 Saturday, August 24, 2024 1:23 PM UTC

• Redesigned Presidential Candidates Page to add tabs and vice presidential candidates.

🚀 Thursday, August 22, 2024 3:23 AM UTC

• Add chamber filter to Bills page.

🚀 Thursday, August 22, 2024 12:24 AM UTC

• Fix issue where auto-pagination did not work quite right under certain conditions on the Bills page.

🚀 Wednesday, August 21, 2024 10:49 PM UTC

• Fixed some rendering issues on new Bills page.

🚀 Wednesday, August 21, 2024 7:58 PM UTC

• Update Bills page with new design that will contain lots and lots of filters (initial pass only has a bill type filter for now).

🚀 Wednesday, August 14, 2024 1:10 AM UTC

• Add new blog article.

🚀 Tuesday, August 13, 2024 3:27 PM UTC

• Add Grant Phillips to About page.

🚀 Saturday, August 10, 2024 6:44 PM UTC

• Prevent possibility of spamming chat while it's working.
• Further improvements to full bill text formatting.

🚀 Friday, August 9, 2024 5:48 PM UTC

• Move official summary and official full text into tabs on U.S. Congressional bill pages.
• Small styling adjustment on Chat page.

🚀 Friday, August 9, 2024 4:32 PM UTC

• Add user limits to chat usage per hour.

🚀 Friday, August 9, 2024 1:34 PM UTC

• Improved formatting to full bill text on U.S. Congressional bill pages.
• Formatting improvements to chat page.
• Formatting improvements to some summaries on U.S. Congressional bill pages.

🚀 Thursday, August 8, 2024 5:46 PM UTC

• Update document count on Chat page.

🚀 Thursday, August 8, 2024 5:11 PM UTC

• Add internal links to chat responses.

🚀 Thursday, August 8, 2024 2:44 AM UTC

• Add full bill text section to bill pages.

🚀 Wednesday, August 7, 2024 5:04 PM UTC

• Fix issue where chat did not work on Safari.

🚀 Wednesday, August 7, 2024 3:03 PM UTC

• Refactor search to use createResource rather than action (Solid Start).
• Fix issue where person links in search results may not go to the correct place.
• Add search term to Search results page.
• Improve style/formatting of headings on Topics pages and Search Results page.

🚀 Tuesday, August 6, 2024 8:13 PM UTC

• Add explanatory text to chat page, and other various improvements to the page.

🚀 Tuesday, August 6, 2024 2:27 PM UTC

• Add more U.S. congressmember profile images.

🚀 Monday, August 5, 2024 7:45 PM UTC

• Add more U.S. congressmember profile images.

🚀 Monday, August 5, 2024 5:52 PM UTC

• Add more U.S. congressmember profile images.

🚀 Monday, August 5, 2024 4:34 PM UTC

• Add more U.S. congressmember profile images.

🚀 Sunday, August 4, 2024 2:35 PM UTC

• Improved styles on mobile search results.
• Improved icons for search item types.

🚀 Sunday, August 4, 2024 11:40 AM UTC

• Allow multiple questions on chat.

🚀 Sunday, August 4, 2024 12:20 AM UTC

• Improve styling and formatting of content on chat page.

🚀 Saturday, August 3, 2024 2:30 PM UTC

• Fix issue where Kamala Harris appeared is "Not in office" in Search.
• Get assistants API working server-side.

🚀 Saturday, August 3, 2024 2:30 PM UTC

• Initial implementation of experimental assistant alpha.

🚀 Friday, August 2, 2024 3:34 PM UTC

• Make U.S. Congressional bill titles searchable.
• Interleave different types of search items in search results to provide some variety of item types in the results.

🚀 Thursday, August 1, 2024 3:45 PM UTC

• Simplify/improve paginated voting record fetches on new profile page.

🚀 Wednesday, July 31, 2024 5:05 PM UTC

• Get cursor fetching working on new profile pages. This allows more than 25 voting records to be displayed.
• Many small styling tweaks to voting records on new profile pages.
• Remove seconds from timestamps on voting records.

🚀 Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:23 PM UTC

• Implement dynamic filters that depend on the politician's roles and the data we've collected for them on new profile pages.

🚀 Monday, July 29, 2024 10:29 PM UTC

• Improved styles to new profile pages.
• Fix issue where role dropdown would not correctly populate on new profile pages.

🚀 Monday, July 29, 2024 8:50 PM UTC

• Initial support for roles on new profile page design.

🚀 Monday, July 29, 2024 5:25 PM UTC

• Fix issue where voting records might have escape sequences in their descriptions.
• Fix issue where "Click to view full bill" text on voting records is malformed.
• Add more U.S. congressional profile images.
• Update contents of About page.

🚀 Monday, July 29, 2024 1:34 AM UTC

• Implement new and improved profile page design (only for Kamala Harris for now).

🚀 Sunday, July 28, 2024 5:25 PM UTC

• Add profile images and descriptions to some U.S. congressmember profile pages.
• Add more U.S. congressional bill data.
• Improved styles on voting records.

🚀 Friday, July 26, 2024 3:50 PM UTC

• Remove Joe Biden and add Kamala Harris to presidential candidates page.
• Fix issue where presidential candidate data was not displaying.
• Fix issue where voting records may not display on senator pages.
• Update text on About page.

🚀 Thursday, July 25, 2024 1:14 AM UTC

• Fix issue where navigating backward and forward in browser history causes congressmember data to not render correctly across different congressmembers.

🚀 Wednesday, July 24, 2024 4:49 PM UTC

• Fix issue where congress numbers were not formatted correctly on voting records.
• Add Presidential Nomination voting record types to U.S. congressional voting records.
• Add goals, quick summary, and topics to U.S. congressional bill Senate Bill No. 138 of the 118th Congress.
• Add more U.S. congressional bill data and voting records.

🚀 Wednesday, July 24, 2024 12:36 PM UTC

• Working implementation of new congressional voting record data pipeline. This means congressional voting records can now be pulled and populated on the site in near real time.

🚀 Monday, July 22, 2024 7:11 PM UTC

• Collapse About and Blog header buttons into an About sub menu.
• Add Support on Patreon button to menus.
• Improve styles on Blog page.
• Improve styles on mobile navigation menu.

🚀 Sunday, July 21, 2024 10:43 PM UTC

• Convert US Places page into a state list on mobile, which should improve the user experience.
• Implement custom meta tags on individual blog articles.

🚀 Sunday, July 21, 2024 4:59 PM UTC

• Add filters to State pages allowing users to toggle on and off each chamber when displaying the congressmember list for the state.

🚀 Sunday, July 21, 2024 2:23 PM UTC

• Improved user experience on desktop and mobile on US Places page.
• Add more U.S. congressional bill data.

🚀 Thursday, July 18, 2024 6:15 PM UTC

• Add more U.S. congressional bill data.
• Update content on About page.

🚀 Thursday, July 18, 2024 12:49 AM UTC

• Add more title/meta tags.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 11:55 PM UTC

• Turn off prerendering and try load functions to fix meta/title tag issues.
• Recreate sitemap, removing invalid symbols.
• Remove topics which contain invalida characters.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 8:41 PM UTC

• Increase number of U.S. congressional bills that are prerendered ten-fold.
• Update U.S. congressional bill data.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 8:13 PM UTC

• Add small number of U.S. congressional bill routes to prerendering as a test.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:20 PM UTC

• Add all U.S. state routes to prerendering.
• Prepare client Docker image without server data.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 6:40 PM UTC

• Add a few U.S. state routes to prerendering.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 5:48 PM UTC

• Add more routes to prerendering.
• About styling on Changelog items, and add the rocket icon.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 5:22 PM UTC

• Attempt to turn on prerendering for the home page, and hope that nothing explodes.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 4:24 PM UTC

• Use NotFound route when ErrorBoundary is hit.
• Attempt to build the site outside of Dockerfile. This is working toward more prerender logic.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 2:34 PM UTC

• Experimental deployment to test prerendering, which will help improve dynamic og:meta logic across the site.
• Improved topics, goals, and quick summary for 118-hr-4763.
• Improved topics, goals, and quick summary for 118-hr-8289.
• Improved topics, goals, and quick summary for 118-s-474.

🚀 Wednesday, July 17, 2024 3:26 AM UTC

• Improvements to dynamic meta tags.

🚀 Tuesday, July 16, 2024 4:49 PM UTC

• Fix issue where Congressmember profile page URLs could contain "." characters.
• Fix issue where Simplified timelines on bills could sometimes have repeated "Failed to Override Veto" points.
• Improve styling of Simplified Timelines on Bill pages.
• Fix issue where status dot on Bill pages is incorrect color when navigating to the Bill page.
• Improve accuracy of goals on bill 118-hjres-45.
• Add goals and quick summary to bill 118-hr-3935.

🚀 Tuesday, July 16, 2024 4:18 AM UTC

• Remove invalid topics that only are a single character long (like "e").
• Fix issue where Congressmembers with abbreviated first names (like "J.D.") would appear as "J-D".
• Fix issue where For and Against lists on Congressmember profile pages would sometimes not correctly group votes by bill.

🚀 Monday, July 15, 2024 11:00 PM UTC

• Improve styling on Topics pages. Previously, U.S. Congressional bills on Topics pages did not follow the same format as has been standardized across the rest of the app.
• Filter out invalid issues which contain "<" or ">" characters.
• Update U.S. Congressional bill data.

🚀 Monday, July 15, 2024 2:59 AM UTC

• Add Patreon link to the footer.
• Add latest update text to bill pages. This makes it easier to identify what the current status of the bill is.
• Improve styling on Changelog page.
• Update contents of the About page.

🚀 Sunday, July 14, 2024 10:49 PM UTC

• Fix sitemap logic, and upload new sitemap.

🚀 Sunday, July 14, 2024 10:08 PM UTC

• Added Changelog page. This page outlines when new deployments occur for the website, and what changes were made for the deployment.