[xaedes]

Pretty amazing! Is there an option to display the articles in "year - title" instead of "author, year" format?

Imho this would give a much better overview over the topics and research itself.

With "author, year" format it feels like a tool to analyse citation networks and how people cite each other; more about the social aspect than about the content of the articles.

[axtonpitt]

That's a great suggestion, there isn't an option currently but that is reasonably easy to add. One issue is trying to fit enough labels on nodes to make it useful which we have grappled with.

[mncharity]

When exploring a seed article, mousing over a node highlights its filtered graph. Perhaps show its title then as well?

And I'd ideally like to also see the abstract then, somewhere. Rather than that requiring a click. Currently, "surfing", orienting exploration, seems regrettably high friction. Click, wait-for-load, look, click, load, look, "hmm, did I click on that one already? yes, drat.", ... "have I clicked on all of them yet? I don't know, maybe I've missed something nifty, but I'm done.". Having faded pink nodes that no longer respond to mouse adds a "ok, to see that node, I currently need to first click on other node".

For node labels, perhaps have some kind of title digest? To visually aid the "remind me again which paper that node is?". Perhaps the title in an unreadably small font?

When "Run Explore" on a map yields "No results", perhaps add an onboarding hint of what needs to be different in order to have results?

Sigh. When using HN, after logging out in a different window, continuing to edit a comment, and clicking "update"... apparently unrecoverably discards the edit?!? :/

Briefly, on the map list of papers, the scrollbar vanishes after a second or two (on desktop firefox), so you lose the visual indication of how far down the list you are. Have to jiggle the list to briefly get that back.

On the map list of papers, clicking on a paper popovers the paper info. To go back, there's a close-X, and history-back works. But ESC doesn't, and perhaps should.

Off topic but for fun, when using a shallow-3D display (eg AR glasses), it seems information might be segregated/decluttered using depth. So for silly example, there might be lots of title clutter, but if it was on a layer raised above the node graph, one might "look through" the clutter to the graph. And then attentionally shift to the title layer, without that depth step being so large as to trigger refocus eye strain. ... Maybe. Just something I've played with. And it's less than pretty.

[axtonpitt]

Just deployed an update to give you an option to change the label to a truncated title. (It's under the top right 'cog' menu on the map).