CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[1.21.2] - 2024-07-17

Fixed

• Fixed bookmarks not being loaded properly.

[1.21.1] - 2024-07-17

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that would cause recent posts to not be reversed.

[1.21.0] - 2024-07-15

Added

• Added new font size x-small to the font size options.
• Added ToggleSwitch component.
• Added MenuCheckbox component.
• The post form now includes an options menu.

Changed

• [tex] tags are now being rendered using katex.

Fixed

• [m] tags now wrap text properly.
• Fixed an issue where attempting to view a board without the required permission would not result in an error notification being displayed.
• Modal dialogs now have desktop-friendly widths in desktop mode.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the recent posts that are shown below the post form to display wrong timestamps.

[1.20.1] - 2024-04-28

Fixed

• [mod] tags are now displayed properly again.
• Fixed the avatar in the private message view not being clickable.
• A couple of smaller fixes affecting desktop mode.

Chores

• Maintenance update.

[1.20.0] - 2024-04-15

Changed

• In the desktop view, posts are now displayed similarly to how they are display in the original forum.

Fixed

• Fixed a visual issue in the post/quote view.
• Fixed an issue affecting the content padding in desktop view.
• Fixed a bug that would cause layout issues on vertical desktop screens.
• Fixed an issue that would cause [video play] tags to play the video in fullscreen on iOS.
• Fixed an issue that would render the post form almost unusable on iOS.
• Fixed an issue with the [m] monospace tag. (Thanks to SBI!)
• Fixed an issue that would long thread titles without whitespaces not to be wrapped properly.

[1.19.0] - 2024-04-05

Added

• Added a couple of new themes.
• Threads that contain unread posts from a bookmark are now highlighted.
• The [m] BBCode-Tag is now supported.
• Users can now create new private messages, forward private messages and respond to private messages.
• Users can now create threads.

Changed

• Many components in the application now use their own color variables. That makes it much easier for themes to create unique distinct visuals for different components.
• Existing themes received an overhaul.
• The post form has been improved in terms of usability.

Fixed

• [video play] tags are now played in a loop.
• Fixed various visual issues.

Chores

• Moved all styles out of ember's legacy CSS pipeline. This should prevent issues caused by cached old styles after updates.

[1.18.2] - 2024-02-26

Changed

• Videos on autoplay are now muted by default.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where copying a direct link to a post would not return the link in the proper format.
• Fixed an issue that would break the styles of ember-cli-notifications.
• Fixed an issue that would make scrolling to anchors after page changes very imprecise.

Chores

• Bumped @types/ember__service from 4.0.2 to 4.0.9.
• Bumped ember-cli-notifications from 8.0.0 to 9.0.0.

[1.18.1] - 2024-01-31

Fixed

• The refresh button in the sidebar should no longer cause visual artifacts while the sidebar is collapsed.

[1.18.0] - 2024-01-29

Added

• Added an option to hide global and announcement threads.
• Added dynamic transitions. They can be enabled via the 'Transitions' setting.
• Added warning notifications in case certain requests take longer than expected.
• ApiService now offers internal status handling as well as silent requests.

Changed

• Improved how deleted users are being displayed.
• /threads route data is now being loaded lazily. A skeleton thread page will be rendered during load.
• If automatic refreshing of the newsfeed is enabled, the newsfeed will now also be refreshed when browsing and on a regular interval.
• Avatars are now enabled by default.
• Clicking on a an avatar now shows the user profile.

Fixed

• The post form's submit button now shows whether the post has been submitted (both in desktop and mobile view).
• Fixed an issue that would lead to the kebap menu being cut off if the option 'Darken read posts' was enabled.
• Fixed a couple of styling inconsistencies.

Chores

• Migrated build system to embroider.
• Introduced postcss and other modern css tools.
• Migrated several components to .gts and the css module pattern.
• Added /metrics route to the NGINX server.
• Staging and production builds no longer use different build pipelines. Environment-specific values are now being injected through injected-config.js served by NGINX.

[1.17.5] - 2023-12-23

Fixed

• Fixed the unbearable situation of potber not using christmas icons.

[1.17.4] - 2023-12-21

Fixed

• In Safari, the preview and submit buttons of the post form have now also been moved to the footer to prevent the buttons not being visible.

[1.17.3] - 2023-12-21

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that would prevent scroll position to update properly after certain route changes.

[1.17.2] - 2023-12-21

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that would cause post order to be reversed after navigating from the post form view to the thread view.

[1.17.1] - 2023-12-21

Fixed

• Improved backwards compatibility regarding login routes.

[1.17.0] - 2023-12-21

Added

• Bookmarks now indicate whether the corresponding thread has been closed.
• Added the option to delete bookmarks via the kebap menu within the thread view.
• The in-app changelog now includes a chores section.

Changed

• The application now uses potber-auth for authentication.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that would cause tables not being displayed properly on Chrome.
• Fixed an issue where direct links to a thread (without providing a post id) would cause an error.
• Ordered lists are now being parsed properly.
• Various smaller fixes.

Chores

• Added support for nvm.
• Started the migration from ember-data to a custom solution for data fetching and handling. The reasoning behind this change can be read here.

[1.16.0] - 2023-11-13

Added

• Users can now navigate to the top or bottom of a thread's page via the kebap menu.
• Implemented InfoButton component. Dropdown can now has an optional InfoButton block.
• Users can now control whether the app should jump to the bottom of the page when navigating to a thread from a board.

Changed

• Gestures can now also be enabled for only the sidebar.
• Desktop layout was slightly improved.

Fixed

• Minor improvements to overscrolling behavior.
• Various smaller fixes.

[1.15.0] - 2023-11-02

Added

• Implemented basic support for gestures. It can be enabled in the settings.
• Implemented a togglable debug mode. It can be enabled in the settings.

[1.14.0] - 2023-10-27

Added

• Author names now show whether the user account has been locked.

Changed

• App received a new branding again (hopefully for the last time). Thanks to user Sir Maximilion for the great animation!

Fixed

• Account for another possible syntax when replacing forum URLs with potber URLs.
• Specific combinations of the [url] and [img] tags are now being parsed proeprly.
• Large tables are now readable.
• Various smaller fixes.

[1.13.0] - 2023-10-20

Added

• It is now possible to report posts via the kebap menu in the post header.
• It is now possible to mark private messages as unread.
• It is now possible to move private messages to another folder.
• It is now possible to delete private messages.
• Introduced ember-intl for easier maintenance of texts.

[1.12.0] - 2023-10-19

Added

• The application now supports customized color themes.

Changed

• The bookmarks route has been slightly redesigned.
• Grouping and categories within the settings have been redesigned.
• Avatars are now on by default.

Fixed

• Fixed a couple of issues affecting menu buttons.
• Fixed an issue where words would not wrap properly across line breaks.

[1.11.1] - 2023-10-18

Fixed

• [mod] tags are now not being parsed when used by a user without moderation privileges.

[1.11.0] - 2023-10-18

Changed

• PWA received a new branding.
• On mobile devices, nav buttons are now being hidden when the sidebar is expanded.
• Updated robots.txt to prevent search bots from indexing the page.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that prevented the loading indicator from being visible.
• Fixed an issue that prevented certain forum.mods.de links to be parsed properly.
• Fixed an issue that prevented navigating to the full user profile.
• Fixed an issue that prevented URLs from being parsed properly if they contained emoji patterns.

[1.10.2] - 2023-10-14

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that prevented posts from navigating to the original forum version of a post.
• Fixed an issue that caused original forum urls to not be replaced with the corresponding potber urls in some cases.

[1.10.1] - 2023-10-13

Changed

• Reenabled darkening posts that have already been read as an optional behavior.
• Slight visual changes to tables.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that prevented video tags from being parsed if they contained the play parameter.
• Fixed an issue that affected parsing lists.

[1.10.0] - 2023-10-12

Added

• The project now uses glint for typechecking. Temporarily, the linting job is no longer required to succeed for pipelines to finish.
• The project now includes support for gjs/gts template syntax (meaning first class component templates).
• When embedding images, users may now provide a second URL that will be used as the thumbnail.

Changed

• The nav button that returns the user the parent layer (e.g. the board if the user is currently in a thread) now uses an upwards arrow to better stand out from similar functions.
• When navigating to a thread via a bookmark, read posts will now be marked via a separator instead of decreased opacity.
• Copying a post url now uses the origianal forum's url.
• Specific forum.mods.de urls will now point to the corresponding potber urls. The behavior can be disabled in the settings.
• Several parts of the app have been refactored.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with the sidebar not closing in mobile devices when navigating to an unread private message.
• Fixed an issue with long words not properly being broken into a new line.
• HTML and emojis in private messages are now being parsed properly.

[1.9.1] - 2023-09-07

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where submitting a post was not possible.

[1.9.0] - 2023-09-07

Added

• Videos are now embedded into containers that include a hyperlink to the video source.

Fixed

• Embedded youtube videos no allow switching to fullscreen.
• Fixed an issue with the menu button of a saved post in the bookmarks menu expanding outside the viewport.
• Improved user experience within the post form for mobile Chrome and Firefox. In particular, the visual keyboard no longer hides the submit button.
• Fixed a couple of issues caused by the customizable font size.
• Fixed various minor visual bugs.

[1.8.0] - 2023-09-06

Added

• Users may now customize the font size.

Changed

• Page content now uses a fair amount of bottom padding in desktop mode to make it easier to read the bottom-most posts.
• The app skeleton now uses a cute kitty as a busy indicator. 😻

Fixed

• The app no longer creates double line breaks in case of CRLF line endings.

[1.7.1] - 2023-08-18

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with the loading indicator not being visible.
• Fixed an issue where certain emojis would not be parsed properly.
• Fixed an issue where URL tags would not be parsed properly if they would cover multiple lines.
• Fixed an issue with the PWA header's color not maching the application's header color.

[1.7.0] - 2023-07-24

Added

• Private messages can now viewed inside the application.
• User profiles now include information about the account age.
• The application now has a loading skeleton that improves perceived responsiveness.

Changed

• The application now uses potber-api's new posts/:id/quote route when quoting messages.

Fixed

• <textarea> now inherits font settings.
• staging build process now properly fingerprints.
• Occasionally, the version check fails on cold starts of the PWA. If that happens, the application no longer breaks.

[1.6.2] - 2023-07-21

Changed

• Passwords may now contain up to 100 characters.

[1.6.1] - 2023-07-15

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where editing a post was not possible.

[1.6.0] - 2023-07-15

Added

• Custom <textarea> component added. The component may also be used via the input modal.

Changed

• [code], [quote] and [spoiler] tag buttons in the post form now use textarea modals.

Fixed

• Removed some console.log()s.

[1.5.3] - 2023-06-30

Fixed

• BBCode that is contained in [code] tags will no longer be parsed to HTML.

[1.5.2] - 2023-06-17

Fixed

• Post content is now being sanitized and all HTML is being escaped before parsing BBCode.

[1.5.1] - 2023-06-08

Fixed

• Video tags now use valid HTML and no longer prevent successive content from rendering.

Changed

• Some minor changes to session management in preparation for v6 of ember-simple-auth.

[1.5.0] - 2023-06-04

Added

• Added support for [trigger] tag.

Changed

• The BBCode parser has been rewritten from the ground up. BBCode parsing should now work much better.

[1.4.0] - 2023-06-04

Changed

• Significantly improved desktop experience.

Fixed

• Worked on fixing the BBCode parsing. Unfortunately, this is not noticable by the user yet.
• The PWA now respects both the device's orientation and rotation lock.
• Added missing 'FrogeLove' meme.
• Fixed some unit tests not being executed properly.

[1.3.0] - 2023-06-02

Added

• The newsfeed now displays and links to unread incoming private messages. A red indicator on top of sidebar toggle indicates unread messages.
• Froge memes are now available.
• The PWA now supports landscape orientation.
• You can now tap on a post author's name to see their profile.

Changed

• The application was moved to a kubernetes environment. By that, the application gained several beneficial features like high availability or rolling updates.
• Deployment is now handled via Flux GitOps pipelines. Prior environments have been replaced with a staging and a production environment. Deployment to staging is triggerd via commits to master. Deployment to production is triggered via releasing semantic versioning tags.

Fixed

• Fixed multiple mostly visual bugs.

[1.2.1] - 2023-04-02

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the scroll position would mess up when quoting posts.

[1.2.0] - 2023-04-01

Added

• The post form now includes a preview function.
• Added the ability to save posts locally.
• Added a dialog to post form for adding specific memes.
• The sidebar toggle now displays a small dot indicating whether there are any news.
• The board dropdown menu does now contain a button for navigating to the first page.

Changed

• When navigating to board and thread pages, the scroll position will no longer reset before the entire page has rendered.
• The loading indicator will now only be shown for slow transitions.

Fixed

• When opening bookmarks, the correct number of posts are now being faded out.
• Various improvements and fixes to the scroll behavior after page changes.
• When switching boards, the page is no longer being persisted.
• Spoiler button now uses the correct tags.
• Fixed multiple mostly visual bugs.

[1.1.1] - 2022-02-27

Fixed

• Fixed avatars not being displayed.

[1.1.0] - 2022-02-27

Added

• Sidebar layout and position is now customizable.
• Added function to navigate back to various pages.
• Added a new home page that displays the same quickstart menu as the sidebar does.
• Expanding the sidebar now also refreshes the newsfeed.

Changed

• Moves session view to settings route.
• Settings are now stored as a single localStorage property.

Removed

• Removed session route.

Fixed

• Fixed multiple mostly visual bugs.

[1.0.3] - 2023-02-23

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the post context menu was being clipped.

[1.0.2] - 2023-02-21

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where embedded videos would prevent the following post content from rendering properly.
• Fixed an issue where BBCode code blocks and tables were not scrollable horizontally.
• Fixed an issue where posts would not display properly in 'Hobelware' design mode.

[1.0.1] - 2023-02-19

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the bottom nav would occupy too much space on iOS.

[1.0.0] - 2023-02-19

Initial release.