Major improvements to the UI on mobile. Including:
Lading page
List of events
Event page
Community page
A lot more can and will be done across these and other pages but the experience on mobile should now be vastly improved.
28th June 2020
🎉 Major feature - TIL
TIL stands for Today I Learned... it's a place to share knowledge, tips and tricks with other members in your community. Snippets are up to 700 characters.
TIL posts are written in Markdown with full syntax-highlighting.
🎉 Major feature - Discussions
TIL stands for Today I Learned... it's a place to share knowledge, tips and tricks with other members in your community. Snippets are up to 700 characters.
Discussions are written in Markdown with full syntax-highlighting, they also have their own dedicated page for commenting.
12th June 2020
Features
🎉 - When creating talks as an organise you can now select a member of your community as the talk owner.
🚀 - Event calendar feature has been released for everybody
🚀 - Call for paper functionality has been released for everybody
Bug fixes
🐛 - Fix issue where updating an existing event wouldn't set the remote URL.
9th June 2020
Work in progress
👨💻 - Started work on billing
8th June 2020
Features
🎉 - Email notifications are now sent when comments are posted on talk submissions
Tweaks
🛠 - Notifications are have a "read" status that is triggered when the notification popup is opened.
7th June 2020
BETA feature - Call for papers
TechTalks now supports call-for-papers functionality.
This feature is availible in BETA to anybody who is a member of the TechTalks community.
The initial version supports:
🤫 Private submission fields
💬 Chat between organisers <> speaker
➡️ Progress through steps (draft, submitted, accepted, rejected & revoked)
Soon the following will also be supported:
🕵️♀️ Anonymous submissions📩 Invite a specific talk from a speaker
📅 Tools to help you find a date that works for you
❓ Custom questions for communities
Tweaks
🛠 Changed automagical event slides to support upcomign events
5th June 2020
Features
BETA feature - Calendar Subscriptions
You can now subscribe to events with iCal.
This feature is availible in BETA to anybody who is a member of the TechTalks community.
4th June 2020
Work in progress
👨💻 - Started work on call-for-papers functionality. ETA ~ 1 week.
Bug fixes
🐛 - Fix issue where a community slug had a case-sensitive uniqueness validation on it.
🐛 - Fixed an issue where the events calendar may highlight the day before in some browsers.
3rd June 2020
Tweaks
🛠 - Various UI consistency improvements
🛠 - When new views are added to the site they are merged into the queue to be tweeted out.
2nd June 2020
Tweaks
🛠 - Titles on events now link through to the event page
🛠 - A more convenient "Add a talk" button has been added tot he organiser tools dropdown on events.
1st June 2020
Features
🎉 - Talks can now be edited
Talk owners: Can edit any talk, changes will be reflected on any events they are used on.
Community organisers: Can edit any 'guest talks' that they have created themselves.
Tweaks
🛠 - Improved test coverage + weeded out a couple of very minor bugs.
31st May 2020
Features
🎉 - Community sponsors now support links and blurbs
Tweaks
🛠 - Tweets of content videos now use the Twitter handle of the community.
30th May 2020
Features
🎉 - When adding talks for events that occurred in the past you can now provide a video URL at the same time.
28th May 2020
Features
🎉 Major feature
Added event announcement emails.
🎉 - Talk Videos now show featured upcoming events.
28th May 2020
Features
🎉 Major feature
Added BETA of 🧙♀️automagically 🧙♂️ generated event slides. As an organiser you can find this under the organiser tools on your event.
🎉 - When creating talks for a "guest" you can now supply an avatar yourself.
Tweaks
🛠 - Communities now show organisers by order they were added.
Bug fixes
🐛 - Fix issue where the previous events tab on communities would give an error if no events existed.
27th May 2020
Features
🎉 - TalkVideos will now be automagically shared to our Twitter account
Bug fixes
🐛 - Fix issue where a user accounts wouldn't create via Google or GitHub if the user had no surname set.
26th May 2020
Features
🎉 Major feature
Talk Videos are now tweeted out automatically by TechTalks.
25th May 2020
Tweaks
🛠 - Communities with active events are now shown at the top of the list
23rd May 2020
Features
🎉 - Added "Your communities" into the header for organisers to improve navigation
🎉 - You can now join or leave a community directly from the community page. Previously you would only join a community by RSVPing to an event.
Tweaks
🛠 - Combined organiser actions into a dropdown on the community page
🛠 - Fixed issue where talk videos were not showing controls
🛠 - Minor UI consistency fixes
22nd May 2020
Features
🎉 Major feature
Implemented reminder emails that are triggered 4 hours before the event.
🎉 - Add slides tab onto profile pages
Tweaks
🛠 - Change gravatar avatars to use HTTPS
🛠 - Copy tweaks that refer to a page that hasn't yet been built
🛠 - Improve stying of form fields
🛠 - Add edit profile page on own profile
🛠 - Disable bell badge showing "0" when there are no notifications
🛠 - Remove RSVP button for events that have ended
🛠 - Add create an event button on the community page for organisers
Bug fixes
🐛 - Fix issue where YouTube channels wouldn't save to social links on profiles
🐛 - Fix issue where social links on the profiles wouldn't link
🐛 - Fix issue with login link on the mobile navigation
21st May 2020
Tweaks
🛠 - Improve timezone support
Security
🔒 - Fix minor issues raised by bundle-audit
20th May 2020
Features
🎉 - Community organisers can now invite co-organisers
Tweaks
🛠 - Added product hunt badge in footer
🛠 - Improve validation when adding slideshows
🛠 - Improve validation when registering for a user account
Bug fixes
🐛 - Fix issue where a profile couldn't be viewed for users with a . in it.
🐛 - Fix issue where a community couldn't be viewed for users with a . in it.
19th May 2020
Tweaks
🛠 - Add better validation messages when creating a community
🛠 - Some UI consistency fixes
🛠 - Users without an avatar now use initials
18th May 2020
Features
🎉 - Add ability to edit community profile
Tweaks
🛠 - Avatars now link to profiles
🛠 - Mobile UI improvements
🛠 - Increase avatar resolution for high DPI screens
Bug fixes
🐛 - Fix countdown timer showing NaN in some browsers🐛 - Various other minor bug fixes
🐛 - Various other minor bug fixes