2.8.0 - Rails 5 Upgrade

Added

• Users can now link the "deity" field on Religions to Deity pages.
• Billing amounts are now explicitly referred to as USD on billing pages.
• Added a hidden forum_moderator flag to users for use on the forums.

Fixed

• Fixed a few Materialize CSS issues that hid or made some elements look strange.
• Fixed a few bugs with the forum upgrade.

Changed

• Rails has been upgraded from 4.2 to 5.2.
• Thredded has been upgraded to 0.15.3.
• Cleaned up old Rails 3 config with rails:update.
• Bundler and several gems have been updated.
• Minor UI/UX changes around the site.
• Cleared out all the unused partial overrides on the forums.
• Updated the Dockerfile and setup instructions.

2.7.0 - Smart Suggestions

Added

• Re-enabled image uploads as previews on the dashboard
• Redesigned content list cards on dashboard and universe pages
• Added support for autocomplete on fields
• Added autocomplete suggestions for most Character fields

Changed

• Upgraded Ruby to 2.5.1
• Upgraded a ton of gems
• Upgraded materializecss to v1.0 beta
  • This has noticeably much faster animations
• Changed the default site font
• Having more than 100 of a page type no longer says "100+" and now says the actual number
• Redesigned the search UI/UX
• Increased the min-height of the scratchpad
• Added the new content types to the privacy policy

Removed

• Removed some unnecessary assets
• Content page text is no longer enlarged when under 140 characters. All fields now have the same font size.

2.6.0 - Subscriptions rework

Changed

• Rewrote/refactored much of how subscriptions are handled
• Forum threads are always marked unread for users not logged in

Added

• Added a SubscriptionService for managing subscriptions
• Added AdSense analytics code for evaluating potential ad-based plans

Fixed

• Fixed a bug in OneBox for some links on the forums
• Fixed a bug preventing some users from subscribing again after unsubscribing
• Fixed a bug that let some users drift out of sync from Stripe

2.5.1 - Social redesigns

Added

• Added race link to deities
• Added unread counts and notification bells to the forums

Changed

• Unified the design between the forums and the rest of Notebook.ai
• Upgraded the thredded gem and its dependencies
• Redesigned user profile pages

Removed

• No longer reporting new signups to Slack
• Removed the new badge from the sidenav

2.5.0 - Sci-fi lovin' page types

Added

• Deity page type
• Technology page type
• Planet page type
• Government page type
• Added new fields and relations to several other page types
• Added a rake task to assist in creating additional page types
• Added a link to forum preferences from the user preferences page

Changed

• Changed landing page to include new page types
• Content linking dropdowns now scope to that content's universe, if any
• Reworked the context card logic to dynamically work for any page type
• Changed verbiage on content link buttons
• Refactored several pieces of code
• Cleaned up other pieces of code
• Updated the universe icon
• Sidebar and dashboard links are now sorted deterministically
• Changed onChange handler on customization page to see if it fixes ajax calls on IE

Fixed

• Fixed a bug preventing some users from accessing the forums

2.4.3 - Optimization pass 2

Fixed

• Collaborator emails (invite and notice) are now sent properly to invitees
• universe_id is now cleared properly from related content when a universe is deleted
• Towns, Countries, and Landmarks CSV exporters now export the correct file (instead of exporting groups)
• Fixed several errors that could be thrown when a user attempts to delete their account

Optimizations

• Disabled prepared statements for the database
• Lowered main process worker count from 2 to 0
• Decreased rack timeout from 30 seconds to 20 seconds

Infrastructure

• Added worker to the Procfile

Added

• Added emergency controller for redirecting users when parts of the site need closed
• Added database indices for all content models
• Added database indices for ContentChangeEvents
• Added a .tool-versions
• Enabled starttls_auto for sendgrid and upgraded config
• Sprinkled todos around the code for things to do

Changed

• Minor code cleanup around the project
• Refactored more of the code to use the content_types application config

Removed

• Removed the deleted_at hack methods in each content model
• Removed some dead code that is no longer used anymore

2.4.2 - Optimization pass

Optimizations

• Recent content list in navbar
• Dashboard
• Caching on content-related queries
• content#index
• Sidebar navigation

Temporary improvements

• disabled image lookups in in_universe_content_lists

Removed

• Removed some files and directories that were no longer being used
• Removed queries related to parts of the UI that are no longer being used
• Temporarily removed image uploads from in_universe_content_list partials

Infrastructure

• Upgraded the DB on Heroku

2.4.1 - Admin panel rework

Fixed

• Custom attributes are now properly shown to other users visiting your notebook pages, instead of showing their own custom attributes instead
• Blank-named custom categories/fields now show up with the name (blank) instead of actually being blank
• Fixed a 500 that could occur when logging out
• Other minor code fixes

Added

• Added genre lounges to the forums for 6 genres
• Added webhook handling for Stripe

Changed

• Reworked the admin stats panel to provide better analytics on activity and features being used
• Admin stats panel now requires a site_administrator flag to access
• Updated the 503 static page copy
• Reorganized some models into their proper directories
• Changed the Patreon link to instead link to the page type customization page

Removed

• Removed redundant privacy scopes on many models

2.4.0 - Expanded Location Pages

Added

• Added a Country page type
• Added a Town page type
• Added a Landmark page type
• Added dev documentation on how to add additional page types
• Added a form to the page types customization page for users to request additional page types
• Added profile pages, universe pages, export pages, etc for Countries, Towns, and Landmarks

Changed

• Changed dashboard and quick-add FAB to only show activated page types

Ops

• Integrated several staging environments for pre-production testing
• Cleaned up a lot of repetitive, brittle code

Fixed

• Fixed an error that could be thrown on the dashboard for users with multiple Universes
• Fixed an error that could be thrown after logging out
• Fixed an error introduced with soft deletion in the previous release
• Fixed an error that could be thrown when redirecting a user when they didn't have permission to see something
• Fixed a few other minor errors
• Fixed the wrong image being included in SEO data on some pages
• Fixed some redundancies in page type scopes

2.3.9 - Christmas week hackathon day 2

Fixed

• Fixed notification emails not going out for watched forum thread responses

Added

• Added the ability for users to toggle page types on/off for their account
  • Also added logic to default-on core page types, but let users disable them if they'd like

Changed

• No longer displaying which users are following a thread on the forums
• Updated rake
• Changed how account deletions are reported to Slack