What’s new

What has changed on the map, and what we are working on next. Releases are dated rather than numbered: the date is the part that tells you whether you have seen it.

Pick a date

Writing on the site looks like writing, and the map stays where you put it.

  • Improved

    Description and evidence fields show the formatting itself as you type, rather than the marks around it. They are taller, and the buttons work on whatever you have selected.

  • Fixed

    Bold and italic now show wherever that text is read, a connection’s evidence included. Double-clicking a word selects the space after it, and that space was landing inside the formatting marks, which left the marks visible to everyone.

  • Fixed

    The bullet list button did nothing visible. It was making a list all along, drawn without its bullets or its indent.

  • Fixed

    Editing a connection from the map updates the panel straight away, instead of needing a refresh that lost whatever you had selected. Comments appear as soon as you post them, and the thread catches up when you come back to the tab.

  • Fixed

    The map keeps its arrangement when you change a filter. An approved work now appears next to what it connects to instead of at the far edge, and the authors view opens spread out and framed rather than as a pile of names.

  • Fixed

    On the timeline, dragging a work only moves it sideways. It could be pulled off its own year, which is the one thing that view is for.

  • Fixed

    A patch in the bottom-left of the map quietly swallowed clicks and drags.

  • Fixed

    Adding a work no longer offers it to a series it has nothing to do with. "The Black Swan" was being proposed as part of "The Chronicles of the Black Company" on the strength of one shared word. The authors have to agree before a partial title match counts.

  • Fixed

    Grouping a work into a series carries its Goodreads, IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes links over, as it already did for Open Library.

  • Improved

    My library opens faster, and the How-to guide now covers it.

What’s coming

What we intend to build next, in rough order. No dates, because this is a small project and a promised date would be a guess.

  • Sharing: send a piece of the map, a comparison or a suggestion to someone in a way that links back here.

  • Pages built around the connections themselves, so a well-evidenced influence can be found from a search engine and not only from the map.

  • A faster map as it grows, so tens of thousands of works stay as quick to move around as a few hundred.

  • More works. Coverage is the honest limit on everything else here.

Missing something, or hit a problem not listed here? Tell us on the support page. It genuinely shapes this list.