newsic 0.3 (OML)

newsic 0.3 (OML)

Release: 2018-02-01

New features

• Mix function: finds new playlist based on current video or video url input
• Autocomplete (beta, YouTube only)
• Improved Vimeo support (now in beta status)
• Custom playlists (beta): support for cross-provider playlists (in combination with soon to be released playlist creator)
• Added support for caching, compressing and minification (installable via requirements-performance.txt)
• German and French translations for most parts of frontend
• Link to lyric search (very basic; powered by Genius)

Layout/Design/UI

• Simplified logo and favicon (ditched the shadow)
• Bye, "float": More and more Flexbox used
• So sassy: CSS code generated via SCSS files
• Using box-shadow instead of self-invented concept
• Less cluttered snippet info
• Increased width for start page (for bigger screens)
• Improved structure of header
• Linux: Input fields keep background color on dark GTK themes
• Moved control buttons into snippet info
• Increased font weight and made font sizes dynamic
• More dynamic margins and paddings ("vw" instead of "px")

UX

• Added countdown bar to currently selected snippet
• Introducing more keyboard shortcuts: "S" for play/pause, "X" for mix, "M" for mute, "L" for lyric search
• Using same opacity changes on hovering for all elements (buttons, thumbs etc.)
• Rearranged order of Plyr controls
• Added newsic buttons and Raleway as standard font for Plyr

Server/Deployment

• Improved subfolder deployment
• Began to implement CLI functions ("flask flushcache")
• Config file: Example local and server config now extend general config
• Support for environment variables with python-dotenv (optional)

For developers

• From now on all CSS and JavaScript files are minified (human readable versions still available)
• .editorconfig file
• JavaScript: put console.log messages in toggable debug function
• Included Plyr 3 files (videohandler.js contains version switch)

Et cetera

• Update to Plyr 2.0.18 (while preparing support for upcoming Plyr 3)
• Update to FontAwesome 5.0.2 (SVG and JavaScript instead of old approach with font files)
• Added playlist title to page title
• New calculation of snippet start time (currently testing, not in use yet)
• Switching to official Vimeo library ("PyVimeo" instead of "Vimeo")
• Improved YouTube regex
• Improved code layout: PEP-8 in every Python file (spaces instead of tabs, trimming lines, more and better function docs)
• Updated README and introduced CHANGES.md file
• Bundled FontAwesome and Plyr files into repository
• Shorter route URLs
• Eastereggs (part I)
• Completely removed GeoIP check and instead improved error handling
  • tests needed, country check might come back eventually
• Renamed and reorganized files
• Source code of HTML templates shows elapsed time for non-cached page requests
• Browser/JavaScript: moved to KeyboardEvent.key
• Seperate SCSS files (home page, responsive layout)
• Included humans.txt
• More Open Graph and Twitter card meta tags
• JavaScript and HTML: Began on replacing tabs with spaces
• Basic Progressive Web App support

newsic 0.2 (Fire)

newsic 0.2 (Fire)

Release: 2017-03-06

• Ciao VideoJS, welcome to the party Plyr (offers built-in support for YouTube and Vimeo, plugins are now a thing of the past)!
• First time with Vimeo support (alpha status, not really useable yet) for both albums and channels
• Improved start page, thumbnail presentation (now made with Flexbox) and more design tweaks
• Youtube playlists with day-long videos don't break newsic any longer :)
• Better analysis of playlist status (private/embeddable etc.)
• Updated readme file

newsic 0.1 (T=0)

newsic 0.1 (T=0)

Release: 2017-02-15

First pre-release.