Sorry, there was a technical glitch. It's fixed now.

No, this does not happen frequently and I'm working on reducing outages like this to zero.

OK, done. You can now use the new special field "bibbase_note" for this purpose.

Thanks for reporting. This is fixed now. You may need to update your cache for it to show up (using the &nocache=1 link you got when creating your bibbase page, or by making a small change to your library and then reloading your bibbase page).

Sorry for the delayed response. Yes, a very similar idea crossed my mind, too. I haven't seen much demand for it yet, so I may not be able to get to this very soon. But I'll keep it on my list.

I was also wondering whether people would like to have the ability to mark a small set of papers as "recommended". Often, when someone we know wants to read some of our work, the first thing they ask is: which of your papers on topic X should I read first? For that it might be good to add a start or something to the papers we personally think are the best ones to read.

What do you think of that?

Hi Maximilian,

Thanks for these links. The second one didn't work for me (I couldn't get the .bib), but the first one was very helpful for hardening BibBase. It turns out that the file had some issues, e.g., the use of invalid bibtex entry types (e.g., @conference and @url). While that is a problem with the input, I still want BibBase to be robust enough to handle that, and debugging with this file helped me accomplish that.

So now your file renders just fine---after a while ;-), it is pretty big.
http://bibbase.org/show?bib=https://raw.githubus...

Thanks for the praise :-)

Regarding the feature you are requesting: I have been thinking about something like that. As you know it is possible to mark papers as read, and I was considering storing the date when that happens and then enabling sorting by that. That should definitely be possible.

Regarding that 4MB file: I never thought about large collections like that. I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't work. Could you send me that file or give me a link to it so I can see where it might be failing?

Regarding donations: that's very kind of you. But what I need more than money right now is a way to get more users, usage, and overall traction. So perhaps rather than accepting your offer, would you mind if I added you to my list of "power users" who I can run ideas by every once in a while? There are some possible future directions I'm contemplating, and there is nothing more valuable than feedback from your users to see what they would find valuable.

The link you provided is not the URL of a bibtex file. It's a regular html page that has a download link. But it's not the .bib itself. Here is what I see when I open the link.



You need to use the download link with BibBase, since that download link is the actual URL of your bibtex file. That's what I did in the following link and it seems to work just fine:

http://bibbase.org/show?bib=https://dl.dropboxuser...

Levente,

Thanks for the bug report. I found a different bug and fixed it. The link now seems to work.

Mendeley is not well supported at this point (as you can tell), but I'm working on a new implementation right now that should be more robust.

-- Christian