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Summary
Last minor release before going live! Added emoji support almost everywhere. We also added new emotes and exclusive emotes (donors only) to our reworked emote picker.
¶ Important highlights from this release
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Added emoji support
- You can start typing : for autocompletion
- Optimized autocomplete to handle large suggestion lists
- Native written emojis will be converted properly into the colon format / into an image so everyone can see them properly
- Emoji style can be changed in your Forum Settings under Look & Layout .
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Improved emote picker and added exclusive emotes to certain groups,
especially for donors
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Added new emotes and categories
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Added new emotes and categories
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Added newsletter subscriptions settings to the UGX-Mods profile
- manage your subscriptions and review settings within your UGX-Mods profile
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General Improvements
- Updated external libraries to their latest stable version (mostly bug fixes and performance improvements).
- Removed code of the originally planned usermenu and UGX Chat v2 from 2013 (topic: https://www.ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php?topic=1315 ) 😥
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The privacy / GDPR tools have been improved and extended (more data to
export from core systems and plugins)
- some external plugins won't store personal data after deletion anymore
- Many tiny improvements to enhance the quality of the forum
- We further refined our privacy documents and will make them public once we move to production
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System
- Added Sentry ( https://sentry.io) to monitor errors in the front- & backend. This will improve quality over time and let us react even faster to issues.
- Newsletter system (powered by phplist) has been implemented and customized to fit our new blue design.
- Connected phplist with the UGX-Mods forum to sync information between both instances.
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Bugfixes
- Fixed errors found in error log
- Fixed lots of tiny bugs and style issues
¶ All tickets for this release
| Key | Summary | T | Created | Updated | Assignee | Reporter | P | Status | Resolution |
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| UGXSMF-308 | Add Sentry (error monitoring) to front- & backend |
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Jul 24, 2018 | Sept 02, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-307 | Handle phplist subscription within your UGX-Mods Account |
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May 24, 2018 | Sept 02, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-231 | Add emoji support to forum and CKE |
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Apr 02, 2017 | Sept 02, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-228 | User / Group only emotes |
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Mar 28, 2017 | Sept 02, 2018 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
(Not all changes are listed here, always check the highlights above)
¶ 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 will listen to community feedback ❤️ .
The next version will move the beta state on our live domain. All beta links will redirect to the correct live domain then.
To get a complete overview, visit https://beta.ugx-mods.com/ roadmap .
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