v16.0.0 (January 29, 2018)

Enhancements

• General Changes
  • Improved the user interface to better focus on the forum, research studies
    and surveys, and articles/blog
  • The landing page has been simplified to create a better starting point for
    future updates
  • The help center has been added which integrates site FAQs and site-wide
    search
  • Registration and signing in now makes better use of friendly forwarding
  • The dashboard now shows user replies from the blog and from the forum
  • The research page has been redesigned to support multiple research studies
    and also highlights recent research articles
• Profile Changes
  • Updated design of member profiles
  • A user's "Top" and "Recent" topics are now listed on the member profile
  • A user can provide a optional bio and location that displays on the member
    profile
  • Simplified the registration process
    • Users are now asked to provide their own username as opposed to an
      automatically generated one
    • Users are no longer asked for age and full name on registration, this
      has been moved to the research portal of the site when a user goes through
      the consent process for a research study
    • This allows users to more easily sign up and get started on the forum
• Admin Changes
  • Major revamp of the administrative interface
  • Admin image pages list replies and broadcasts that reference the image
  • Added a report manager role
  • Admins can manage projects that link to Slice research studies
• Blog Changes
  • Added content manager role to streamline creation of articles for
    "Education", "FAQs", and other static pages
  • FAQs now exist as blog pages, however the "FAQs" category does not show up
    on the blog roll, and is styled differently than regular blog posts
  • FAQs can be rated and ranked in terms of helpfulness
  • FAQs will also show up in search results on the help center
• Forum Changes
  • Adjusted how the forum index displays on mobile devices
  • Forum usernames are now set at sign up by the user, however a pre-generated
    username is provided as an example to the user
  • Improved the display of images in posts on the forum
  • Users can now subscribe to forum topics
    • Creating a new topic automatically subscribes the author to the topic
    • Replying to a topic automatically subscribes a user to the topic, unless
      the user has previously unsubscribed from the topic
    • In-app notifications are sent to topic subscribers
  • Users can now auto-subscribe to new forum topics in their settings
• Projects Added
  • A project represents a research study in MyApnea, and provides a link to
    the associated Slice project surveys and database records
  • Sets of surveys are now grouped by project, the initial set of surveys on
    MyApnea are going into the MyApnea Core project
  • Users now have to go through the consent process for each research study
    they wish to join
• Survey Changes
  • Surveys now leverage the Slice API
  • The internal survey data model for MyApnea has been removed and replaced
    with the more robust Slice data model
  • The Slice API provides study event timelines, conditional surveys, survey
    completion, branching logic, data validation, and a number of other
    features: https://tryslice.io/docs
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to ruby 2.5.0
  • Updated to rails 5.2.0.beta2
  • Updated to bootstrap 4.0.0
  • Updated to carrierwave 1.2.2
  • Updated to devise 4.4.1
  • Updated to hashids 1.0.4
  • Updated to pg_search 2.1.2

Tests

• Added tests to assure user passwords can be reset
• Added system tests to track changes to user interface

Bug Fix

• Welcome email should no longer be sent twice

Refactoring

• Removed typeahead library
• Combined blog post replies and forum topic replies into one model
• Renamed internal forum chapters to topics