Owlet Weekly Update (Week of September 7)

Happy Wednesday folks! We had an extended holiday weekend off here at ReadMe due to Labor Day, so this week’s update is a tad on the shorter side. This week's release includes Search API improvements, new ways to apply for a job with us, and more. Read on for the details!

✨ New & Improved

• If you’ve read these release notes before, you know all too well that we overhauled our Search experience a couple months back! But some of you have rightfully pointed out that we’ve been neglecting the Search API. Because of this, the Search API has been returning outdated or misleading results due to it using an outdated index. Yikes. Well, good news—the massive Search improvements continue! Like the search experience in the docs, the Search API should now return better, more precise results. 🔍
• It’s an API-driven world, and we’re just living in it, folks. Did you know that you can apply for a job at ReadMe via API? Well, it should be a little bit more obvious now—we just moved our job application endpoints into the official ReadMe API. You can check out the docs here. (But seriously, come work with us!) 👋

🛠 Fixes & Updates

• This one is for my fellow KonMari stans! Previously, it was an ordeal to delete entire categories of pages in ReadMe. We didn’t want folks to accidentally delete categories, so we required them to delete every individual page within a category before they could delete the category itself. Now, when you attempt to delete a category, we give you a very clear warning that all pages within the category will also be deleted before moving forward. Thanks for tuning for this week’s episode of the Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Documentation Categories. 🧹

In (belated) Labor Day solidarity with workers everywhere,

—Kanad and the ReadMe Team ✊🏽

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What is the Owlet Weekly Update?

Thanks for tuning in to another edition of our Owlet Weekly Update—an owlet-sized update (posted every Tuesday to the ReadMe Changelog) where we provide an overview of the product updates that went out as part of our new Tuesday release cycle. As we refine our format and process for providing these updates, we'd love to hear what you think at [email protected]!