Changelog

🚀 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.