ANNOUNCEMENT
ANNOUNCEMENT
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
.
Post bug reports and suggestions on Google Forms or Github!
Site changelog
You can help with the site development by joining us on Github!
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
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