Dev Diary: Beta 13

luceos

This is a placeholder, usually you would see some information about our kick off meeting. That meeting is planned for coming Friday, so there's nothing to say to you right now except that Beta 12 just got released.

Feel free to use the Follow button to get notified whenever we talk about development of the upcoming Beta 13 release.

Seeing how well we did with our last release, let's be naughty again by mentioning we target the release of beta 13 for early May 2020 🥳

xiasummer001

luceos Hi, how long will it be a formal version. I've waited for flarum for 2 years, but you are still in beta developing step...

ccsol

luceos omg still beta 13 we are waiting for stable ver since 2017.

yhuchs

Support for flarum!

agCharon7

Already broke rule #1: do not use Flarum in production 🤣

luceos

In case you have a stack overflow/exchange account, please vote our banner up. This will show the banner on the stack exchange network:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/394438/717181

rob006

luceos Can you fix background to remove this weird noise/grain? IMO it looks bad and it makes png compression extremely inefficient.

MikeJones

luceos just voted!

therealsujitk

luceos Upvoted! I fell the font style could be changed to something more attractive.

luceos

rob006 size is limited to 150kb, which isn't much if using the orange gradient..

I might try a white version 🤔

tankerkiller125

luceos I would also try using a High DPI version maybe (if it can be done in that size limit)

rob006

luceos I was talking about this grain:

You have comparison with other banner with smooth gradient without grain - it has 600x500px but it takes only 42 KB (30% of the limit). PNG is just really bad with compressing background with noise/grain - if you remove it, there should be no problem with size limit even for HDPI version.

luceos

rob006 Yeah I just changed the image, at 600x500 it now is even smaller than before 😄

rob006

luceos BTW: it has 600x501px.

luceos

rob006 you just edited the image that I already correct 🙈 Thanks though 👍️

rob006

luceos I've only recompressed it - cut half of its size.

jordanjay29

luceos good thing you're a coder, not a graphic designer. 😂

luceos

We just kicked off our beta 13 release! Aside from continuing work on the task laid out for the next release and as such stable, we also welcomed @askvortsov as the trainee for this cycle 👏 His enthusiasm to deliver PR's to Flarum wasn't left unnoticed, we decided to give more direction to his efforts by bringing him into the traineeship. We're glad he accepted, accelerating our progress to stable even further.

Kylo

luceos give my man @askvortsov some badge

tankerkiller125

This past weekend I worked on fixing some bugs/issues regarding the new spoilers. Namely that emoji still show through and links would show through on hover. PRs to resolve the issues in their respective core extensions have been made.

luceos

tankerkiller125 👏 thanks for the update!

I've been handling some organizational tasks, our planned consultation/hackaton trip to giffgaff was cancelled due to Corona. This means cancelling bookings, requesting refunds and talking about a possibility to use the freed time slot with something else - possibly virtual. Will keep you in the loop about this.

For core I've redone some work related to the user preferences and user notification preferences logic. I feel the changes are now far more transparent by moving deprecated code to its own trait and the remaining user preferences code for the User class to its own permanent trait. A PR will soon follow.