Weekly Rugela Bake for November 6th through November 12th, 2026

It's nearly Shabbat and that means it's time again for a Rugela bake! For those of you who are new, this is something I do every week to talk about the changes to the site.

One of the developers is on vacation this week so it's been a bit of a light week, but I still have some exciting changes to talk about.

Stories and Comments

Seeing who Starred a Post- You can now see who starred a post on the post. It's right on the context bar!
Seeing who Starred a Comment- You can now see who starred a comment by clicking on the number of stars on the comment.
More Stories by- If you're on a story and the author has written other posts, you can see a selection of them on the side
Improved Display of Deep Threads- We found in testing that if replies became very deep, they could go further than a phone screen. That can't happen anymore, and similarly we've improved deep replies on wider screens too.
The Edited Line- On a story or Post we show the time the it was made. We now show an * and if you hover it, you can see when the last edit was made.
Colors- We tweaked the color of the context bar so it's a bit easier on the eyes.

Markup and Composing

Hidden text- On posts, you can add a content label so people who don't want to see something potentially upsetting won't see it but we didn't have a solution to comments. Now we do! You can use the new || syntax in Markdown to hide text. And better yet, if you put something in brackets after that, like ||[warning] Some hidden text||, then the warning will show up for the person. That covers everything from upsetting content to spoilers and more. And this syntax is covered in the formatting sidebar when you write a post.
Previews- It used to be that when you wrote a post or comment, you'd have to submit it to see how it would look, which meant that if you wanted to change how it looked, you'd have to edit it. Now we have a Preview tab next to the Write tab, so you can preview how your post or comment will look before it goes up.

Search

Spelling Suggestions- If your search doesn't find anything, the search now suggests similar spellings, eg Hanukkah for Hanukah
Search and Content Filters- We now apply your content filters by default, and you can turn that off with a checkbox
Look and Feel- We made some small tweaks to the look and feel of the search bar and search results.

Link previews

More Images- We had some trouble with some site's images getting into previews. We've fixed that where we can.
More sites- We've improved Rugela's ability to get link previews generally.

Misc

Filters - We renamed the "Content preferences" settings tab to "Filters". We think that's easier to find/read.
Legal Document Versioning- We'll occasionally need to update our legal documents with new versions. For example, this week we updated the privacy notice about search. We offer each version of our legal documents for transparency.
Speed Improvements- We've made a few speed improvements across the site.

What do you think?

What's your favorite new feature? Do you like the new preview system? Do you like the hidden text feature?

What's something you wish was a little different?

Reply below with your thoughts! Or as always, you can send your feedback to suggestions@rugela.com!