Welcome to the Alakajam! nightly (reset and updated every night). Look around and try the latest features as we code them! You can log in as administrator/administrator or entrant/entrant.

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Site changelog

You can help with the site development by joining us on Github!

July 5th

• Like system on blog posts

June 30th

• Entry links can be reorder using drag'n'drop

June 29th

• Game search: Own entry is now hidden if "rated or commented" is selected
• Game voting: Rated and commented entries are now hidden from the front page suggestions

June 28th

• Users can browse all personal scores from the dashboard

June 22th

• Game importer for ldjam.com

June 19th

• Rename "Feedback Score" concept to "Karma"

June 16th

• Implement automatic saving for entry ratings

June 15th

• Comment/Post editor now has better mobile compatibility

June 11th

• Make Google Analytics no longer use cookies, in order to fit GDPR better

June 10th

• Better support of older browsers

May 30th

• Let users delete their accounts
• Add a Privacy policy page
• Add CSRF protection on all forms

May 1st: 1st AKJ Tournament launch

April 29th

• Make entry submission work with JavaScript-free browsers

April 24th

• Support for buttons and styling them in posts and comments

April 18th

• Support for enabling high scores on any game (using pictures as proofs)
• Support for organizing tournaments where users have to beat high scores on a selection of games
• Event banners can be set by admins as backgrounds on various pages

April 4th

• Game importer for itch.io

March 27th

• Large client-side code refactoring

March 14th

• Slightly reorganize the Events page (now more mobile-friendly)

March 5th

• Let users subscribe to comment threads
• Let admins view and moderate all tags

March 2nd

• Make the header shrink with a nice animation when scrolling down

February 27th

• Game importer for ludumdare.com
• Upgrade the dropdown library, impacting the styling of various forms

February 22nd

• Add post pagination to user profile, event announcements list
• Improvements on the Games page

February 21st

• Expose theme shortlist info in the JSON API

February 20th

• Support eliminating shortlist themes one by one in the moments before the jam starts
• Support setting tags to games, and searching games by tags
• Front page layout improvements

February 5th

• Front page got several little layout changes

2017

November 24nd

• Non-visible work on back end: rework CSS/JS build toolchain (switching to webpack)

November 22nd

• Mods can now manage events just like admins

October 19th

• Added lazy loading for most pictures to make pages load faster

October 18th

• Events page displays the winners of the past events

October 14th

• Imgur GIFV embeds are allowed in posts

October 13th: 1st Kajam! launch

October 13th

• Admins can customize the divisions per-event
• Voting results page display the number of games per division

October 11th

• Reorganized the front page, adding the schedule for the next events

October 9th

• Reworked logo
• Expose ratings & rankings in the REST API

October 8th

• Let people filter out the games they rated/commented on

October 6th

• Reworked competition results page, with pretty trophy pictures

October 3th

• Final rankings and ratings have been added to the entry page

October 2nd

• Support closing theme voting without revealing the winner
• Game rescue block added
• Ratings management: team & solo entries are split into two columns
• Non-visible work on back end: tweak asset URLs to support CloudFlare

September 29th

• Custom Markdown guide added (click "?" in the editor toolbar)
• User names now appear next to display names if they differ, to aid mentions
• Posts and comments can now be much longer than before

September 26th

• Non-visible work on back end: reorganize client-side JS to make development easier
• Games page features pagination

September 25th

• Reorganized entry sidebar
• Games page displays entries from the current event by default, sorted by Feedback Score
• Non-visible work on back end: form parsing library replaced to fix various major bugs

September 24th

• Feedback Score takes votes in account
• Support for Unranked division
• Users can see the voting count progress on their own entry

September 23th

• Articles now fetch their Markdown directly from Github, so they can update without re-reploying the server

September 22th

• Rewritten article system with Markdown files as the backend, to let anyone contribute
• Theme results page: people can see again how they ranked their shortlist

September 22th: 1st Alakajam! launch

September 21th

• Add support for featured links & hidden posts (to be used temporarily for wallpapers, streamers etc.)

September 17th

• Support for anonymous comments
• Entries can opt-out of graphics/audio

September 15th

• Raw URLs put inside posts are now converted to links automatically
• Eliminated themes can now see how successful they were %-wise

September 14th

• Better display of the event navbar on thin mobile screens

September 13th

• Make logging in redirect to the previous page

September 11th

• Platform management is now distinct from links

September 9th

• Reworked theme submission UI
• Added support for allowing more than 3 themes ideas

September 7th

• Markdown editor has new formatting options (text/images alignment)

September 6th

• People page now has a search form
• Pagination added to various pages
• Changes are no longer lost when there's a validation error upon saving an entry
• Some pages like the game browser & the user dashboard are now full-width
• Posts styling and layout have been tweaked
• Changelog & JSON API pages now integrate the Help sidebar

September 4th

• Game browser added as a global tab

September 3rd

• Theme voting system is completed (stats, theme elimination, appearance to anonymous users)
• Theme voting supports a "shortlist ranking" phase
• Admins can enable an event-related "call to action" block on the home page

September 1st

• Adding people to a team now sends them an invite, that they have to accept or decline
• Browsers now make you confirm before closing the tab if you have pending changes in a post
• Alakajam! links now look pretty when shared on Facebook

August 29th

• Entry voting system, with the ability to view past votes
• Event results page
• Users can now add games made in external jams
• Team members can now leave the entry

August 27th

• Team support: users can add other people to their games, granting access rights and listing those people as team members

August 24th

• JSON API: new "latestEntry" endpoint

August 18th

• JSON API
• HTTP calls are now throttled to 1 per second (except static resources)

August 15th

• Basic theme voting system

August 11th

• The help section now has a sidebar (configurable through an admin setting)
• Entry links now let you choose platforms

August 3rd

• Site header now looks better on mobile & tablets

July 27th

• Multiple SEO improvements

July 19th

• Notification system
• Small performance improvements through caching

July 17th

• Revamped home page

June 11th: 1st Feedback Fortnight launch

July 11th

• Feedback Score system for sorting entries
• Reorganized personal dashboard
• Alakajam! links now look pretty when shared on Twitter

June 25th

• Added support for embeds & tables in Markdown
• Let the users set to which event a post should be attached
• Added pagination to blog posts
• Theme looks better on mobile

June 22th: Site launch

June 20th

• New event countdown (can be tweaked by editing the event)
• Entries can now have multiple links
• Disabled key-based invite system
• Various theme changes and bugfixes

June 16th

• New "People" page in the header
• Changes to the user registration process
• Post drafts & articles now work better

June 15th

• Article system (see the new "Feedback" header link)
• Events can now have theme voting and game results tabs. While the features are missing, admins can display blog posts in it instead.

June 14th

• User dashboards now have a cool home page with a comment feed (not unlike Feedback Friends…)

June 11th

• Admins can manage events and create new ones
• Admins can edit other users, and promote them to mods/admins
• Announcements tweaks

June 7th

• Comments now work (both on blog posts and games)

June 3rd

• Support for making posts (including announcements for moderators)
• Creating a new account now requires a shiny invite key (can be generated and shared by any user)
• Mods can edit any post or any game thanks to a special toolbar
• Form data is now sanitized
• URLs are now pretty

June 3rd: Nightly site launch