Your Priorities Version 8.15
Release notes 26.9.2022
New features
- Plausible is now the primary analytics solution for Your Priorities with built-in new Analytics and Promotion App
- Each Domain, Community, Group, and Idea can access real-time and historical analytics for their projects.
- Regular citizens wanting to promote their idea get full Plausible analytics support
- New Promoter Role for Communities and Groups that can be added and removed for any registered users
- Gives the users full access to the Analytics and Promotion app
- Promoters can upload a new share image for each internally created campaign that will work when sharing on Facebook and other social media
- This is the first step to merging analytics with marketing campaign tools in Your Priorities
- We've ported the Plausible Dashboard from React to Lit, which allows it to be a fully integrated part of the Your Priorities Lit-based App SDK
- New BOT management solution
- Blacklist known bad BOTS in the robots.txt file
- As some bad BOTS don't respect robots.txt, subject those to significant rate limiting
- Support for pre-reloading font CSS files so custom fonts appear right away
- More theming options through more supported custom CSS properties
- Support for asking registration questions for anonymous users
- Integration and support for using Ziggeo. It can optionally be used alongside the built-in Your Priorities video solution and offers similar features.
- Allow easy deletion of header images
- Options to hide the top boxes for admins and to disable the shadow on the logo box
- New Thai translation and updated Slovakian translation
Improvements
- Usability upgrade for the built-in video and audio recording system, making it easier and more obvious how you can both upload and record videos on phones and computers (via WebRTC)
- Cleanup of client-side analytics activity events
- Send all relevant tracking data to Plausible for maximum usefulness
- Fixes for video uploads for anonymous users
- Upgrade to Node 16.17.0
- Fixes for the membership button (the heart)
- Improvements to OG and Twitter sharing tags
- Cleanup of some errors reported as 500 errors.
- F.e., wrongly formatted ids for collections now result in 404 or 401 errors.
- SQL performance tuning resulting in significant improvements in loading some API paths
Version 9.0 is almost there (before the end of this year)
New Lit, Material Design 3 & Typescript-based client app is almost there; check out some code here: https://github.com/CitizensFoundation/your-priorities-app/tree/polymer3-upgrade/apps/client_app/src
The release is more or less ready, but we depend on the new open source Material Design 3 Web Components that are still in development at Google here: https://github.com/material-components/material-web/