¶ Summary
Finally a new update. This one took a long time, especially because of performance testing and fixing.
Better performance, new Avatar Editor and other great improvements + fixes.
You can now finally upload (or use an URL) and modify the image (crop & filters) before uploading it. Try it out now .
¶ Important highlights from this release
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New Features
- Avatar Editor with Crop, Filters & stickers ❤️
- Better code highlight with line options, Scripting Syntax support and more options
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Added OpenSearch support. (You can now add the UGX-Mods Forum search to
your browser search)
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Improvements
- Only show reply button on forum posts if not logged in
- Hide quote button if reply / quote is not possible and not authenticated
- Show reply as disabled if reply is not possible and authenticated
- If user can't post and receives fatal error, offer option to view the topic again (instead of Back button which fails if just logged in)
- Made quote button even less obvious and not as highlighted as before
- (Change) Remove "Sent topic" feature and replaced it with "Share topic"
- Some styling related changes for nicer visuals & better mobile experience
- Replaced legacy css grid framework with modern CSS ❤️
- Added emoji v15 (if available) and optimized image (smaller size (10%) -> faster loading)
- Nicer progress bars with options in forum posts
- Add toggle password visibility to password inputs
- Optimized image slider & gallery (updated version, smaller size, style tweaks, cleanup)
- Better forum message attachment style
- Improved Discord linking experience
- Performance improvements for faster page loads
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Fixes
- Fixed topic icons
- Fixed "very hot" topic badge (was wrongly labed as "hot" only)
- Fixed emoji picker categories (scrolling) and skin tones
- Fixed spoilers without a title issue
- Fix solved answer date to be correct
- Fix issues with linking social profiles (like Discord)
- Fixed errors which were found during testing
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Development Improvements
- (For moderators): unapproved posts are displayed next to the approved post count of an user and some more small improvements
- Better internal logging and tracing
- Updated and improved development pipeline and QA tooling
¶ All tickets for this release
| Key | Summary | T | Created | Updated | Assignee | Reporter | P | Status | Resolution |
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| UGXSMF-416 | Add Kanban to Roadmap page |
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Jun 10, 2023 | Sept 14, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-415 | Use latest lightGallery + license |
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Jun 05, 2023 | Sept 10, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-414 | Migrate away from susy2 framework |
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May 28, 2023 | Jun 10, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-411 | Own ugx code snippet impelemtation (highlightjs) |
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May 27, 2023 | Jun 10, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-410 | PHP upgrade |
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May 13, 2023 | Sept 05, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-409 | Upgrade dependencies 2023 |
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May 13, 2023 | Jun 10, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-408 | Upgrade sentry |
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May 13, 2023 | Sept 05, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-407 | Add "eye" reveal icon / button to password fields |
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May 05, 2023 | May 13, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-404 | UGX Reactions moderation & ban/freeze handling bug |
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Apr 16, 2023 | May 27, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-398 | Upgrade SMF 2.x version |
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Apr 04, 2023 | Sept 05, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-394 | Add link to activity on the Recent Activity Widget |
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Mar 29, 2023 | Apr 30, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-393 | Fix profile page social links |
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Mar 29, 2023 | May 27, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-385 | MapManager FAQ improvements with common errors |
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Mar 28, 2023 | May 27, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-381 | fix unlink / link issue with Discord |
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Mar 28, 2023 | May 13, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-380 | if sentry relay is down, the whole website is going into stop |
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Mar 28, 2023 | May 27, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-377 | Fix Sentry errors found in latest release |
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Sept 25, 2021 | May 27, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-376 | Minor moderator view improvements (especially with new AntiSpam from v0.8.8-beta) |
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Sept 24, 2021 | May 27, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-375 | Database performance (first iteration) |
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Sept 24, 2021 | Sept 06, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-374 | Forum Topic / Message usability changes |
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Sept 23, 2021 | May 27, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-373 | Remove "Sent Topic" and replace it with "Share topic" |
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Sept 23, 2021 | May 27, 2023 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
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(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.
- 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
¶ Special Thanks
Special thanks to our Community Memberscpt_johnson1 & Gympie5 for reporting bugs. ❤️
¶ Did you know...?
- A lot of time went into the Avatar Editor → Please give it a try and report issues, especially if you have issues on your mobile phone.
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Performance fixing and monitoring took a lot of time. Setup of logging,
tracing and debugging and then going through step by step took an insane
amount of work.
- Page loading times could be reduced from 3s to under 1s ❤️
¶ Development Statistics
First commit was September 22, 2021 (so roughly two years to this version!)
Code Changes (commit count / lines of code added / lines of code removed / total lines of code)
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ugx_smf (Forum)
¶ Whats next?
We will share soon news about UGX-Mods and the future roadmap
To get a complete overview of our development plans, visit https://www.ugx-mods.com/ roadmap
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