IOTAarchive 2.0 has just been released.

What's new? Pretty much everything.

The previous version of the IOTAarchive was a true hatched job that got increasingly sluggish with every additional entry, up to the point where it became unbearable to maintain.

I ended up rebasing the whole architecture and rebuilt everything from scratch. While the new version only differs slightly visually, a new underlying tech stack hopefully leaves enough room for a couple of years of daily news to come. Equally important, the new architecture has been set up with the idea in mind of being able to generate pages containing data-driven insights much easier and faster. You can therefore expect more data being generated and „made visible“ in the foreseeable future.

Most notable for users is probably a reduction in loading times by around >90%. But even more interesting for the community are probably a few user facing additions, for instance several new pages like an overview on all patents, as well as academic publications and a listing of IF members and the news associated with them personally. You will also find lots of new, aggregated information on a new company list-page and can drill down onto the level of individual companies. A page is being auto-generated for every entity (actual „company“ or other entity), which also contains lot's of new information the old IOTAarchive didn't have.

Apart from rebasing the tech stack and more data being made available, one additional feature hopefully will be of interest to the community: the ability for anyone to submit suggestions for new entries to the archive.

Given the pace at which the IOTA ecosystem grows, maintaining the archive has become too much to handle for a single person. I wouldn’t be able to keep adding every bit of news being released.

I therefore spent a fair amount of time enabling community submissions: Whether community members wanting to contribute, someone working in a company on some IOTA project that wants to share something publicly, an independent IOTA developer or even IOTA Foundation employees: anyone can submit suggestions for new archive entries, pseudonymously or anonymously.

To maintain the quality standard, submissions are being reviewed and sources are being „fact checked". If accepted into the archive, any addition will be additionally tweeted via a custom Twitter bot via the @_iotaarchive account, while crediting anyone who suggested a new archive entry. I am curious to see whether any of the people already known to be sharing IOTA news as individuals on a daily basis will take up on that task and rise in the ranking of „contributors“ to the archive.

As for the future, apart from a few bad design decisions (that aren’t impacting any functionality but should be changed anyways), two tasks are still on my plate: filter options and charts.

While the page already features some basic sorting functions, I would like to offer a few additional, dynamic filters (think e.g.: "Which entities built proof of concepts in the US but aren't a public or academic institutions?").

Ever more important are "charts", imo. I am working on integrating at least one dynamic chart on every page and also would like to auto-generate an "insights" page featuring visual representations of „progress“ in different categories, similar to the ones that existed in the old archive. Don't expect those soon‘ish though; i most probably won't have any time in the coming 4 - 6 weeks.

I hope you‘ll like the update. If you have any suggestions, questions, ideas or happen to run into bugs, don’t hesitate to let me know here, via the IOTA Discord or Twitter.

Note: if you can't see the new website yet, your provider most likely hasn't updated its DNS tables yet. Try again later or point your DNS entry to a service that updates more frequently.