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Sep 30, 2026
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Sep 15, 2026
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  • Stored Object: paper:arxiv.2602.21371
    Open
    gh-store stored-object UID:paper:arxiv.2602.21371

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#15173 · 1 comment ·

  • Stored Object: interactions:url-misc.3DA5D6DC
    Open
    gh-store stored-object UID:interactions:url-misc.3DA5D6DC

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#15039 · 2 comments ·

  • Stored Object: paper:url-misc.6283FBA8
    Open
    gh-store stored-object UID:paper:url-misc.6283FBA8

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#13841 · 1 comment ·

  • Stored Object: interactions:arxiv.2311.04378
    Open
    gh-store stored-object UID:interactions:arxiv.2311.04378

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#13472 · 1 comment ·

  • Stored Object: paper:arxiv.2607.10430
    Open
    gh-store stored-object UID:paper:arxiv.2607.10430

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#13452 · 1 comment ·

  • Stored Object: paper:url.6418F936
    Open
    gh-store stored-object UID:paper:url.6418F936

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#13301 · 1 comment ·

  • Stored Object: interactions:url-misc.1659361B
    Open
    gh-store stored-object UID:interactions:url-misc.1659361B

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#13199 ·

  • [extension] hover-over giving article title for arxiv links
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#10883 ·

  • Deal with researchgate "are you human" stuff
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#5860 ·

  • timer not work on arxiv papers registered to PDF page, also manually logged pages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#4766 ·

  • add a data schema version to _meta
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#4503 ·

  • add URLs for "full text" and "pdf" to clarify download targets
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#4502 ·

  • use source as anchor for link to paper
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#4501 ·

  • something something canonical store
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#4500 ·

  • source that need their own plugins
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#4421 ·

  • facilitate user modification
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#4368 ·

  • repair old arxiv titles that have ID as title
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#4367 · 1 comment ·

  • close deprecated duplicates after deduplication
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#3654 ·

  • add an "enrichments" attribute to paper objects
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#2472 ·

  • track social retweets/shares
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#2377 ·

  • [Epic] Schema migrations
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1553 ·

  • Add link to issue associated with paper object on frontend paper details or annotation popup
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1534 ·

  • shareable links to paper details, specific features, etc.
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1474 ·

  • [feature] Crib sheet explaining ADR titles
    Open
    feature-node feature:adr-crib

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1310 ·

  • feature processing improvements
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1309 ·

  • [feature] ADR titles
    Open
    feature-node feature:adr-titles

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1308 ·

  • [feature] crib sheet
    Open
    feature-node feature:crib-sheet

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1297 · 2 comments ·

  • [Brainstorming] Potential LLM Enrichments
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1290 · 1 comment ·

  • figure extraction (for enriched markdown conversion)
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#1273 ·

  • citation rabbithole detection
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#257 ·

  • log source URL that resulted in visit to arxiv (when following a hyperlink)
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmarx/papers-feed#99 · 1 comment ·

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