Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
What is changing?
We are excited to share that we have shipped a new UI for users who read through our changelogs on the GitHub blog webpage! This is meant to make your reading journey a lot more seamless by providing necessary contextual elements around each post.
What exactly are the changes?
- The overall look and feel of the UI now closely mirrors the experience that you get when you log into github.com.
- You’ll see that new posts are categorized into one of three categories: New Release, Improvement, or Deprecation.
- There is a new set of 12 curated categories that you can filter on to see changes by that product area.
- We have introduced a new summarization feature to help assist quick consumption of content so you don’t have to read through each individual post (unless you want to!).
- Posts are now grouped into months for easy viewing and archived into years for last referencing.
Why is it important?
We heard your feedback that it can be hard to read through the latest changes and understand what changes are new features releases versus what are slight improvements to existing feature sets. We hope that this will make it clearer, and you will be able to filter on the curated, new feature categories that are most relevant for you. This will also enable you to catch up on all the changes of that category quicker, supported by our new summarization feature.
When is it changing?
The aforementioned changes will be in effect starting April 23, 2025. You may have already experienced this in its newest form!