A complete rewrite of the Public Lab website on a new platform, with a whole new look. Rails, Bootstrap; intended to:
- boast more usable, friendly, but also more powerful interfaces
- simplify and refine common tasks like posting research notes and filtering spam
- enable faster development (based on Ruby on Rails and Twitter's Bootstrap frameworks)
- completely revise and streamline "following" other contributors or specific keywords, with email alerts work on tablets, smartphones, and in recent versions of Internet Explorer
###Key new features:
- new simpler/faster note posting form
- vastly improved advanced search
- fast and easy auto-complete search
- faster, nicer wiki revision interface
- revamped integrated subscriptions interface
- events and mailing list info for place wiki pages
- recent notes, wiki pages, and active contributors per topic in page sidebar
- easy tag-based pages
- "follow" and "star" for each page
- new simplified/improved wiki editing form
- sorting and prioritization of notes and pages by popularity metric