diff --git a/content/news/244-isaac.md b/content/news/244-isaac.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6ce90b625 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/news/244-isaac.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +author: samuel-lbryian +title: 'LBRY Isaac Gravitates to a Browser Near You' +date: '2019-12-20 10:00:00' +cover: '.png' +category: update +--- +## LBRY Isaac, New Search, New Rewards + + +Today, LBRY releases LBRY Isaac. This new release integrates an updated search service, new rewards and a ton of interface and performance improvements for lbry.tv and LBRY desktop. + +[Download Isaac for desktop](https://lbry.com/get) [Use LBRY in your browser](https://lbry.tv) + +Search improvements and new rewards are live for everyone, regardless of how you use LBRY. They are described in more detail below. + +Isaac improves decentralization through wallet server settings, enables YouTube partners to claim wallets, updates text and audio playback, and much more. + +![Isaac](https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.lbry.io/lbry-isaac.gif) + +### New Rewards + +- Creators now earn rewards for views and subscribers. This was announced yesterday and is covered in more detail here. +- Rewards for YouTube publishers are now issued more frequently. +- Additional tiers for some existing rewards for using LBRY, like views. + +### Search Improvements + +- Search document framework and query completely overhauled +- Large bugs fixed for certain words, particularly short words +- Additional weights added to prevent invalid and inaccurate results +- Vastly improved channel search +- Vastly improved title matches +- Search engine codebase ported to Go (contribute here) +- More search results show the winning LBRY URL at the top of results (help improve search by publishing!) + +### More about LBRY Isaac + +- Automatic text file rendering and improved text and HTML rendering. +Ability to set your own wallet server in settings. More on this feature in the FAQ. +- Dedicated Channel creation option from Channels page +- Overall design improvements, especially for dark mode. Also includes channel thumbnails next to comments. +- - Adds language support for: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Gujarati, Hindi, Malay, Marathi, Panjabi, and Swedish +- Fixes bugs related to pagination and mature content. +- Enables background launch to help boost network participation. This can be disabled in Settings. +- Adds a search box to your Downloads area. +- No longer warns about external links. +- Updated to [LBRY SDK 0.50.1](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk/releases/tag/v0.50.1) for improved stability, performance, and security. +- A number of bug fixes, with the broadest ones being issues related to wallet unlocking and preference syncing. + +For the full release notes, visit [GitHub](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/releases/tag/v0.38.0). Note that this news announcement includes changes that were also in [0.37.2](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/releases/tag/v0.37.2) and [0.37.1](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/releases/tag/v0.37.1), which were relatively substantial and not previously announced. + + +### Extra Special We’re Smarter Than Physicists Bonus Code +- The first 200 users to upgrade can use the code below for a 50LBC reward - so hurry up and start upgrading! + +`smarterthaneinstein`