Site Change Log

Below is the change log for Tabletop Sentinel. As we push improvements and new features they will be listed below by date pushed.

Legend:

RoC - River of Content. These are the feeds that contain all the contents. So the home page, the categories and tags views, Partner pages and Gamers pages all have their own RoCs

August 26th 2024

• Social posts now have slugs

August 25th 2024

• A new editor which should be easier to use, has a few new features like tables - there's also no limits on what you need to add - e.g. you can post an image with no text, text with no image - videos on their own! go crazy (but not too crazy mind)

• If you paste a link to youtube in a post, we now grab the screenshot and use that instead of trying to wrangle a video

• The edit links are now on the content page (click on the teaser version)

• Image captions are now in use - you'll see these dotted around the place

• Images are now re-orderable, when you're in the edit screen you can drag and drop them into the correct order - we're still working on making it awesome on mobile. It sort of works right now...

• Hashtags should be working if you type a 'hash' then some characters it should auto populate, and if it's a new tag, then it should create a new one #wargaming #bolt thrower etc
  If you have a partner account (more on that next month) you can choose the drop down at the top of the compose post screen now. 

• Full content now has the author and all the other bits that were missing

• Face detection in images should be working a lot better now so your images are auto cropped for various form factors

July 13th 2024

• Adds social links and legal to left sidebar
• Updates privacy policy to add:
  • "We may email you from time to time about updates to the service and new content"

July 11th 2024

• New Landing pages - we're testing landing pages for competitions and product launches here: https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/l/win-a-copy-of-skaventide. This functionality will be made available to partners in the coming weeks.
• If you browse to the login via the embedded facebook or Instagram browser, you now only have the option of using email with instructions to use a full-blown browser instead

June 24th 2024

• The earlier fix for videos restarting on axe click didn't work. This is now fixed
• Right-clicking an item in the roc now correctly opens in a new window (hat tip Le Zonion)

June 22nd 2024

• Feature flags - beta testing will become an opt-in
• Cookies notice reinstated - This is only for the feature flags and hopefully only temporary
• Privacy policy updated - Lists the cookies we use, no big changes
• Youtube embeds now use 'nocookie' mode for a bit more privacy

June 16th 2024

• SEO improvements

June 15th 2024

• Better message if your feed is empty
• Login pages look nicer

June 12th 2024

• Makes /u/home the frontpage
• Improves sitemaps
• Improves some calls to action for anonymous users

June 7th 2024

• InMemoryPersistence for firebase user sessions (improves yt privacy and fixes login bug)
• Bugfix: Axing posts when directly linking to them doesn't work
• Bugfix: html in social metadata
• Bugfix: axing posts no longer stops the video playing (hat tip Le Zonion)

June 3rd 2024

• Bugfix - sidebar scrolling (hat tip Le Zonion)
• Bugfix - menu in mobile web behaving oddly

June 2nd 2024

"Referral Encounters of the User Kind"

• Left and right-hand menus have been rejigged
  • left menu - all the links to everything
  • right menu - links to relevant content (not used on mobile)
  • new - header menu - quick access to the key parts of the site
• new page - /u/following - now lists the partners, gamers and genres you're following with options to manage them
• User onboarding - new users go through an onboarding route now that enables them to select the genres and partners they are interested in to populate /u/myfeed
• Referral links are now available for users. If you go to /u/signups you will see a link you can copy and share with friends. When your friend signs up they will automatically follow you and in the future this will be linked to a rewards program.
• /u/followed is now u/myfeed
• /u/myfeed is now the default location instead of /u/home
• Empty genre pages no longer return a 500 error
• You can now follow genres
• Moving back and forth between full content and the roc now returns you to the correct place
• All pages should now use the 3 column layout for desktop and 2 column for mobile
• various menu bugs fixed
• fixes google crawler errors
  
  
  
  

May 15th 2024

Bugfix

• Fixes - partner users with admin privileges  cannot edit partner profiles

May 14th 2024

Improvements

• Adds edit link when user is viewing their own profile page (hat tip Le Zonion)
• Tooltip options for cms to condense forms a bit

Bugfixes

• Only show partner signup link if you don't have a partner account

May 13th 2024

Updates and new features

• Youtube videos: fixed and with a new format! if you post a youtube video without also posting an image, the post will grab the thumbnail from youtube e.g.:
  

Bugfixes

• Gamers can't create new tags -fixed (hat tip Le Zonion)
• The follower visibility option was removed (it needs more testing - it will be back soon!)
• Members can't see public connect via share URLs - fixed
• Content fixes
• URLs - more visible
• Quoted text not appropriately styled
• Visibility (e.g. public and members posts)
• View tooltips (hat tip Le Zonion)
• Partner signup flow
• Youtube visibility

May 3rd 2024

• Content permissions: Content now has a visibility setting.  The followers setting will make more sense in the coming weeks, for now, being able to set content to Public or members is a useful feature. All the gamer posts have been marked as members only, and any Partner posts and Articles have been marked as public. So now when someone visits your profile page, a tag or genre page, or your partner page they will see various cuts of the content:
  • Public - available to the world
  • Members - available to logged-in users
  • Followers - available to your followers only (currently only available on the /u/following view)
• Content classification:  Any content classified as NSFW, Spoiler or AI will never be displayed to the public
• Multiuser: is now in private beta - if you have a partner account, you can manage permissions for editors and moderators etc
• Profile page title cards: /u/profile now has a title card - we'll be improving these pages in the next few weeks
• Accessibility: Spent some time working on ARIA tags for screen readers. It's still not a great experience so we're still working on this
• New images: The home page now shows some new artwork from some great artists (you may need to log out to see it)
• Sidebar links: We've fixed a bunch of issues, but there will be more fixes coming in the next week
• Small changes: 
  • Changes some field labels in the cms
  • The site is a little bit faster
  • /partners page now lists every Partner by date of joining - we'll be adding various options for the display. Previously it was randomised which made it difficult to test
  • 403 experience is better, you now get told you don't have access
  • Speeds up the submission of content
  • Fixes the cancel button behaviour in various places

March 11th 2024

• Fix offsite avatar size in mobile
• Fix missing/oversized titles in mobile
• Gamer posts now use the global tag vocabulary
• Fixed issue where Gamers connected with partners were using the wrong tag vocabulary
• Tag's now link to the correct places
• Genres now link to the correct content
• Partner pages and content is now available publicly
• Related articles should be 'more' related
• Indented list formatting for content should now work
• Cancelling during onboarding should take users to the homepage
• Mobile formatting for tags fixed
• '...Read more' is no longer displayed on the full article
• Support message added to facebook login until we work out what the issue is
• All genre, tags and following pages should be working with the correct combinations of followed content
  
  

March 8th 2024

• Add facebook login
•  Use facebook avatar during onboarding
• Fix video size for mobiles
• Add header navigation to most pages
• Fixes when a user cancels onboarding they are given a json response
• Update body display to support 8 levels of list indentation
• Reformat the content cards in the roc for desktop and mobile
• Conditionally render 'mood' if there is space
• Add message to login for facebook app users to use regular browser instead
• Tags and Genre index pages now list all content in a roc and have headers
• Redirect users to main roc instead of content page on save
• Add links in left hand sidebar to better differentiate gamer and partner posts
• Add gamer and partner lozenges to rocTop to help identify content source
• Move Genre to top right, and highlight tags in bottom left
• Make genre roc available publicly with partner content
  
  

March 3rd 2024

• Publish date shows in articles
• Lightened text in comment replies

March 1st 2024

• Comment replies now get counted in the comments

February 28th 2024

• Fix for Tags not being shared between social posts (older posts will have missing tags that need to be re-added)

February 27th 2024

• Update  to support video in the roc
• Removes bold from login page font
• Applies roc image filtering for 16:9 and stops large images taking over the roc
• Content classification enabled for articles and social posts
• User preferences for content to show - nsfw, spoilers, AI generated

February 20th 2024

• Change anonymous user handling
• Update error handling
• Fix roc spinning when there is no more content
• Fix user profile avatar upload
• Refactor sidebars on /u/home
• Redirect to / on logout
• Refactor partner logos on home page

February 15th 2024 - Open beta

• Update base frameworks and CMS
• Improve frontpage accessibility
• Add tooltips to front page partner logos
• Add Tom to 'about-us'
• Fix article share links
• Fix browser shift in roc
• Fix line breaks in the roc
• Update signin libraries
• Fix dupe tags in the cms
• Adds follow users, partners
• Adds follower count
• Fix email login
• Improve roc performance
• Fix partner urls
• Improve likes performance
• Adds partner label to RocContent
• Partner avatars now shown in Roc
• Adds feed for followed users/partners
• Split out roc bottom components
• Add notifications options for content
• Fix default values for content
• Show editor link in roc
• Fix article URL generation
• Fix share URLs
• Remove 'save draft' from social post
• Adds CTA to various pages
• Adds mood to user profiles
• Move sharesocial to rhs column
• Make youtube videos responsive
• Update partner signup link
• Removes onboarding tour until it works on mobile

January 30th 2024

• Fix partner post external URLs
• Refactor likes and add count to the roc cards

January 26th 2024

• Update field hint in partner overview
• Fix partner authorisation

January 25th 2024

• Change text editor to Quill
• Fix missing character count for social post fields
• Fixes partner social links
• adds related articles and featured partner to /u/home
• fixes roc avatar sizing
• adds edit profile link to /u/home
• standardise colours for accessibility
• improve roc loading speed
• deliver comments
• fix user rocs to show only their content, not related partners
• add sidebar notes for devlog

January 15th 2024

• Various small bug fixes
• Various UX changes
• Social posts now have styling options and it keeps your paragraphs. No more wall of text!!
• Categories added to Social Posts (Posts not showing in category feeds yet, that will come soon)
• Edited content does not appear at the top of the RoC
• Incomplete Partner Accounts (no logo or haven't posted yet) not shown on the Partner list page. 
• Open Graph Tags added to content so sharing on Social Media is a better experience.

January 9th 2024

• Released commenting for Social posts and Articles
  • Users can now post comments on each others content
  • Comments can be liked and shared
  • Comments can be moderated
  • Add youtube videos, spoiler text and basic formatting to comments
  • Comments are only available to logged in users.

January 6th 2024 - Closed Beta

• Updated 'Founders preview' box in left hand column to include link to Change Log
• Adding new functionality so Articles open with in the post feed instead of a separate page
• Improved the Social post view. Images handling improved
• Various UX changes to reorder links in the left hand column to make it clearer for Partners
• Improvements to the 'like' mechanic to ensure they are recored
• Share links for social media added to Social and Article posts on the post feed
• Date display improved
• When viewing a post that requires scrolling the side bars do not scroll
• More intelligent display of images in post feed 
  • If just one image - make big
  • If multiple images - make masonry
• Label added to items in post feed to distinguish between social and article posts 
• Edit link added to content in the post feed to enable content editing
• User profiles now editable properly