3/6/2020 Release

Home Page

• The Active Projects section is now in a carousel that shows up to 6 projects total

Fixes

• Unapproved projects no longer show up in Active Projects section

Link Validation

Create Project Page/User Profile Page

• When users enter invalid urls in any field that accepts urls, they will be alerted and unable to proceed

Sign Up Page

• New users now have the option to sign up for the DemocracyLab newsletter when signing up

OAuth

• OAuth sign in links are now oriented vertically and spelled out explicitly

Misc Fixes

• Navigating to different page sections always scrolls page to the top now

2/27/2020 Release

Sign Up Page

• User is no longer required to read Volunteering Terms before checking that they accept

Bug Fixes

• Project Cards: Project title text again breaks on spaces

2/21/2020 Release

Home Page

• Creates a new landing page for DemocracyLab, aka 'homepage' for the organization; giving an overview of who we are, what we do, and how to get involved.
• Find Projects splash view is removed, and navigating to bare domain will now send users to Home page

Sign Up Page

• There is now a Volunteer agreement that new users must read and accept before signing up for an account.

About Us Page

• Added clickable link support for Board of Director biographies
• Team volunteers are now shown in the order they joined the platform

Bug Fixes

• Removed non-working top-right ‘X’ close buttons from notification modals

2/8/2020 Release

About Us Page

• Added Board of Directors to About Us Page, that can be configured via environment variable.
• In the Team section, DemocracyLab volunteers are now sorted by application date

Sign Up/Sign In

• Sign Up Page: Add Social Media signup
• Sign in Page: Increase Forgot Password and Don't have an account link font size

1/24/2020 Release

SEO

• Implemented robots.txt, which can be set to allow or disallow all crawling via the environment variable: DISALLOW_CRAWLING

Prerender

• Only pages that are present on the sitemap will now show prerendered content
• Added environment variable toggle for showing prerendered content: SEO_JS_ENABLED

1/9/2020 Release

Github Updates

• Latest commit summaries from repositories covered by project's github link will be stored in the database
• Latest 5 commits shown on project profile page. More can be loaded by clicking 'Show more activity'
• If the latest git commit is more recent than a project's updated date, date is updated to match commit date

Sponsor Section

• Footer: Reformat sponsors into separate tiers, with sponsors on their own line
• Partner With Us Page: Separate sponsors into different tiers

UI Changes

• Project and User thumbnails are no longer locked to being cropped to a 1:1 aspect ratio

12/20/2019 Release

Prerender

• Setting window.prerenderReady to true when sitemap pages are finished loading, which signals to prerender.io that it is safe to cache the page.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed race condition with loading facebook api, which was causing the Project Profile pages to occasionally fail to render.
• Project urls are now displayed cut off with ellipses, to keep them from distorting the project profile page and search page project cards.
• Project Profile: Solution and Actions fields correctly show newlines.

12/9/2019 Release

Prerender

• When search engine agents view a page, they will receive a prerendered page cached by a 3rd party service (currently prerender.io)

Bug Fixes

• Portraits on About Us page are now consistently spaced at every screen resolution
• Find Projects: Full-text search now searches the Short Description, Solutions, and Actions fields

Upgrades

• Bootstrap libraries upgraded
• Misc libraries upgraded to address security concerns

11/17/2019 Release

OAuth Authentication

• Users can now sign in or sign up with Github, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn

Bug Fixes

• Co-owners can now renew or conclude their volunteer commitments

10/25/2019 Release

Events

• Renamed Search Page Organization filter to ‘Events & Groups’
• Added Hack to Give Thanks 2019 Event
• Rename 2018 events to clearly signal they are 2018 events

About Us Page

• Updated Mission Statement

Press Page

• Temporarily Removed Stats Section

Supported Locations

• Add Bay area to locations