Release Notes
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v0.11: 01 Jun 2023 Rule changes due to QSO Locator accuracy keyboard_arrow_right
As outlined in the youtube video here locators are inaccurate - I expected there to be a customer complaint after tens of thousands of contacts, not to find one in the first thousand. We discussed many options on how to handle these and instead decided that each achievement needs to indicate how the rules work for that achievement.
So for the 'countries worked' this is done on callsign - if you have contacted someone with a callsign marked as that country, that is the country worked. For the 'geographic' areas, its done on locator, which means contacts very near the borders or coasts may not count (depending where the centre of the highest precision locator value is). For others, they may use their own mechanisms, but this will be outlined in the rules section of each achievement.
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v0.10: 07 May 2023 Work All Geo Location - USA, Canada, UK keyboard_arrow_right
Utilising the new achievement framework, we can now deploy regional work-all based upon geo data. Just keep uploading your logs with valid locators and they will be converted into achievements. If you have a particular country or geo set you would love to see, you can submit a request for that. This framework also means that we can do data-patches to release new geo maps, that do not require a full release of the code.
Work all USA, Canada and U.K.
Back office functionality to help with account management
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v0.9: 10 Apr 2023 New Achievement Framework Release keyboard_arrow_right
Following feedback from the previous release, some tweaks on the achievements including locked achievements (i.e. staged levels), as well as privacy controls on the profile. The profile pages have also been recoded to being per account, rather then confusingly per callsign (as they all used account info).
Profile pages and Social media links, major changes.
View Log function changes.
Achievement homepage release.
Out of sight functionality change on generic achieve and map support.
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v0.8: 15 Mar 2023 New Achievement Framework keyboard_arrow_right
A new achievement framework is added behind the scene and released to a subset of customers.
Work and achieve and social links
Minor profile page updates
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v0.7: 22 Feb 2023 Optimising caching of images keyboard_arrow_right
Another incremental release where there are backend changes to allow offline drawing of some of the images and a re-release of the caching system. There has been noted significant delays in loading some of the maps, which we hope this will address - once the image has been rendered once, it will cache for everyone.
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v0.6: 08 Feb 2023 Profile pages (for premium) update & administration tools keyboard_arrow_right
This release is being slowly released to contain incrementals on the MVP, especially the profile pages and a new bach of achievements. The majority of the release are backend improvements and administration tools for the support team - whilst these are not visible improvements, they allow us to service requests, features and monitor performance better, providing a better quality service.
Profile update to show a radar plot of most-used bands
Async map drawing (maps drawn offline) to speed up loading individual QSO's
Some staff-only tools to help with processing queries
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v0.5: 24 Jan 2023 Map changes, Power and Distance / Power monitoring keyboard_arrow_right
This release is the MVP - a set of basic tooling, QSO links and share functions as well as the first set of achievements (work all the world).
Billing panel & subscription controls
Ability to Alias callsigns (see FAQ)
Quality of life features on navigations & cross linking
Now tracking power & mode in logs for achievements
Change password functionality
Log reprocessing functionality for adding new features to old logs
Changing to better images for close up maps (using open community maps)
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v0.4: 03 Jan 2023 User Icons and QSL Cards! keyboard_arrow_right
We're finally getting to work on the profile pages, which means adding all the user functions to upload QSL cards and user avatars. This release lets you set two images, in the settings page (here), and these will start appearing on log views.
They've also been optimised with caching, which should help performance. This is only doable now because of the 0.3 release with privacy and reporting process, so if anyone finds content which is inappropriate, use the report function to report it.
There is also a fix to the 'short range log' view - short distances (anything under 5,000km) where the line goes over the 180/-180 longitude mark, would render the map incorrectly, and this has now been fixed.
Profile upload of images for QSL and Avatar
Map (on log view) now corrected for views over the dateline. Also now rendered as a square always.
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v0.3: 31 Dec 2022 Quality of life & Privacy features keyboard_arrow_right
Callsign claim process + preferences now mandated.
Logs and log files are now data-tables which makes them sortable and searchable
Informational pages: Release notes & responsible disclosure pages released.
Report process (for UGC, Responsible Disclosure, Bugs etc. added
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v0.2: 27 Dec 2022 Work All Countries keyboard_arrow_right
This release comes with improved image caching, server configuration for production running, as well as FIVE NEW achievements - work all continents in any mode, any band. I'm very proud that we're trying to build a service which is not just US / EU focused but has achievements that work for anyone, anywhere in the world.
Changes to the achievements overview page to see a 'short form', and dashboard to keep 'long form'
Work-All-Countries are a 'generic' form, so can be made into new achievements quickly by providing lists of countries
Separation of 'Radio' Countries to 'Map' Countries to help difference in database formats and naming conventions.
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v0.1: 24 Dec 2022 Initial Release keyboard_arrow_right
The initial release, featuring ability to upload ADIF files, take part in the winter 2022 competition, as well as the basic framework for holding logs and data. This has some changes since the original release version in that you can view the log uploads to review whether logs are available or not. The system is designed to run either inline or async. Inline is better for the users as long as it doesn't impact performance, but we'll review the server performance as more people begin to use it.
Log Processing now also calculates basic information of callsigns observed
Optimisations of processing removing some bugs around re-loading lookup tables
Account register & login features at bare MVP for launch