Morcus Release (February 2025 #2)
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Features
Gaffiot
Outlines and Indentation
Gaffiot now has an outline and indentations for detailed senses of a word.
Inflections
Gaffiot now handles inflections, with some caveats. It will produce too many results in cases like occido where
there are multiple lemmata that differ only on vowel lengths, but other words should work correctly.
Misc
Landing page
In a (probably vain) attempt to alleviate user confusion, the landing page has now been updated to nudge users towards the search settings if they don’t see useful results.
Other
This release fixes several scroll bugs and several small UI bugs related to poor spacing and layout.
Performance
Page Loads
We migrated to a lighter framework for the site (from React to preact).
This lowers the base download (bundle) size of the site by around 40% (to less than 54 kB)
and should speed up page loads on slower connections. In additional, we made some performance optimzations that
should speed up page loads on the largest sites by an average of 30%.
Less Memory
We optimized memory usage across the board in a variety of ways,
and various pages should use 5-20% less memory than before.
Play Store
The app is no longer available on the Play Store due to compliance issues, and the site About
page has been updated to reflect this. It is unclear if or when we will be able to the our Play Store listing.