Update History
May 1, 2022
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
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