¶ Summary
The UGX-Mods Forum Beta is now open to everyone! What are you waiting for?! Visit https://beta.ugx-mods.com and give us some great feedback ❤️
We also implemented technical solutions for the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
¶ Important highlights from this release
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We are ready for GDPR -
sort of
- Frist of all - everyone will benefit from these improvements and changes!
- We put a lot of effort and work in a short amount of time to do the (what we believe) right steps
- We offer you a new Privacy Settings page, available here: https://beta.ugx-mods.com/forum/privacy
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In your Profile under Privacy, a new Export Tool was developed
- you can now export your personal data (even your forum messages!)
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We reviewed the Forum code and on account deletion we will anonymize
forum users now.
- Once your account deletion was removed, no one can identify you anymore
- We reworked our Privacy Policy which will be available on May 25th 2018.
- We anonymize your IP for Google Analytics tracking now and won't track you before you haven't given your consent. (more about this on our Privacy Policy )
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New Development Roadmap - we want to show more information on what we are
working ❤️
- head over to https://beta.ugx-mods.com/ roadmap and get insight into upcoming updates.
- This is a representation of ourJIRA Version list which is unfortunately no longer available to the public
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Manage your newsletter subscriptions (Account > Newsletter)
- this is incomplete and only visually working but not functional yet!
- We will announce it once it's ready in an upcoming update
- The UGX Blog code has been improved and the whole system has been refined a bit.
- Usability improvements
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Bugfixes
- the new introduced mobile menu has been refined and the popout bug should be gone
¶ All tickets for this release
| Key | Summary | T | Created | Updated | Assignee | Reporter | P | Status | Resolution |
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| UGXSMF-306 | GDPR complience |
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May 20, 2018 | May 24, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-300 | Roadmap / Versions page in forum |
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Feb 27, 2018 | May 23, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-251 | Redirect to registration beta and remove donor only access |
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Jun 15, 2017 | May 23, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-249 | Manage upcoming newsletter in profile settings |
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Jun 09, 2017 | May 24, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-157 | Improve UGX-Mods Blog & Archive Block |
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Sept 29, 2016 | May 23, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-156 | blog post "nice url" |
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Sept 29, 2016 | May 16, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-32 | Open Beta preparations (settings and such) |
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Jun 13, 2016 | May 23, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Andy King |
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Done | Done |
¶ Known issues
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Supported Browsers / Devices
- Currently only Firefox & Chrome has been heavily test.
- Internet Explorer 11 & Edge has been partially tested.
- There was no extensive testing on mobile devices yet
- We need your feedback if something isn't working on your device
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HTML Emails:
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WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK IF SOMETHING IS COMPLETELY MESSED UP!
- there were many tests to ensure it works well for the majority of users
- Outlook has some quirks (odd spacing around the email) - Blame the developers of it for using the Word HTML rendering engine
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WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK IF SOMETHING IS COMPLETELY MESSED UP!
¶ Whats next?
We await (your) community feedback now ❤️ While working on additional improvements and features, the feedback from the community will be put together into more frequent updates.
Next release(v0.7.1-open-beta) will include a few improvements and features, mostly based on community feedback 👍
We also refine and check if our GDPR complience changes do work properly and if we can improve some parts based on input.
To get a complete overview, visit https://beta.ugx-mods.com/ roadmap .