Changelog

[Latest]

Added

Monetization & Advertising

• Added advertising system allowing posts to be sponsored with ad revenue sharing for communities
• Added ad revenue tracking section to community dashboard
• Added country-level analytics for tracking user demographics and ad performance
• Added improved impression tracking that only counts views when promoted posts are at least 50% visible for 1 second

User Functionalities

• Added Karat system - Earn karats for participating on OddsRabbit and use your karats for swag, donating to charity, and more coming soon
• Added Ambassasdor program for users who want to become an ambassador for OddsRabbit

Community Management

• Added granular moderator permissions (dashboard, settings, newsletter, etc.)
• Added community favoriting system enabling users to mark and quickly access preferred communities
• Added activity indicator to the 'Your Communities' list that highlights communities with recent activity
• Added options to sort community feed by Hot, Top, Fresh, and Rising
• Users who create a general community now automatically receive moderator permissions
• Added community payout settings for community creators to be able to cash out

Posts & Content

• Added post saving functionality allowing users to bookmark posts for later viewing
• Added ability for logged-out users to create posts
• Added Create Post button in the header and new post bar to all community pages
• Added compact thumbnail view for posts with small images
• Added improved post styling with better spacing, readability, and visual hierarchy
• Posts now automatically generate dynamic OpenGraph images when no images or embeds are present

User Experience & Navigation

• Added new hydration system to improve initial page load and dynamic content loading performance
• Added enhanced loading states with additional skeleton placeholders during content hydration
• Added history tracking to allow users to revisit previously viewed communities, user profiles, and posts
• Added intermittent loading screens to improve user experience on slow connections
• Unified mobile and desktop navigation into a single responsive sidebar

Search & Discovery

• Added improved search bar in the header
• Updated search page to match new layout of OddsRabbit
• Redesigned explore page with improved layout and navigation for discovering communities

Notifications & Reporting

• Added notification system that alerts users when new comments are made on their posts
• Added user reporting system to flag accounts that violate platform guidelines
• Added reporting functionality in user profiles

Performance & Accessibility

• Added native lazy-loading for YouTube embeds to improve page load performance
• Added ARIA labels, improved keyboard navigation, and enhanced color contrast for better accessibility
• Added new algorithms to handle posts shown on the homepage for better user experience

Other Features

• Added new API docs at /docs/api
• Added new and improved thumbnails for OpenGraph on all posts
• Added new maintenance page for better user experience
• Added "For Creators" and "Learn More" buttons to homepage navigation for logged-out users
• Added new authentication system for better security

Changed

User Interface & Design

• Improved homepage layout by adding Create Post bar and removing old header
• Improved homepage experience for logged-out users
• Updated newsletter styles for a cleaner, more modern look with footer previews
• Improved page header sizes for all devices
• Converted corporate pages (About, For Creators, etc.) to full-width layout
• Removed icons from action buttons to improve visual consistency
• Improved community button styles with enhanced accessibility and visual contrast
• Removed floating community buttons in left navigation to improve UI consistency
• Reduced spacing on mobile for better readability

Content & Posts

• Enhanced post creation UX and animation
• Enhanced social media previews with optimized OpenGraph image selection and dimensions
• Improved post meta descriptions with enhanced content summarization prioritizing text
• Changed how and when GIFs are added to post descriptions
• Changed "Leave a comment" to new editor UI

Community Features

• Improved draft community creation process with clearer setup steps and progress tracking
• Community slugs are now unique and serve as the primary identifier (e.g., /Web Development instead of /c/webdev)

Technical Improvements

• Improved subscription checkout UI/UX
• Enhanced contact page with streamlined UI and improved user experience
• Added social links to the footer for improved UX
• Changed referrer tracking to track only external domains
• Updated rate limits to account for prefetch and duplicate IPs

Fixed

Community & Posts

• Fixed and re-enabled draft mode for general-type communities
• Fixed posts not showing up for community moderators when community is in draft mode
• Fixed infinite scroll post loading for logged-out users
• Fixed back button returning to the wrong URL
• Fixed post description showing images twice when post consists of only an image
• Fixed broken template when visiting communities that do no exist

User Interface

• Fixed user avatar not updating immediately after uploading new profile picture
• Fixed option popups z-index issues
• Fixed page background color from #222 to white to prevent black flash during page transitions
• Fixed slight layout shift of top nav bar when drawer is opened
• Improved performance of post drawer on mobile

Dashboard & Analytics

• Fixed error displaying pending earnings as $0
• Fixed mobile dashboard exit button not working properly
• Fixed broken link on Ads dashboard linking to subscribers
• Fixed analytics script firing off some impressions twice
• Removed impression counting on draft communities

User Profiles & Navigation

• Fixed user profile page to return 404 error when user does not exist
• Removed private posts and communities from showing up in user profiles
• Fixed issue where community navigation cache wasn't properly clearing when switching between accounts

Performance & Caching

• Improved caching on post creation process
• Improved cache page rendering issues where users would see cached logged-out state pages upon first login
• Fixed issue where inline preload script could get stuck when managing page state before JavaScript loads

Technical

SEO & Performance

• Added support for custom OpenGraph images on posts
• Added robots.txt for better crawler control and custom XML sitemaps for improved search engine discoverability
• Fixed canonical URL issues on all pages and removed HTML encoding from meta descriptions
• Improved meta description generator for better search engine optimization
• Added lazy-loading to mobile navigation icons
• Added minification for ES6 module imports to improve load times and reduce bundle size
• Added async or defer to relevant JavaScript files to improve page load performance

Architecture & Code Quality

• Refactored REST API endpoints to a controller-based architecture for improved organization and maintainability
• Refactored component 'fancy-list' into 'or-pretty-list' for consistency
• Moved comment helper functions to appropriate helpers file
• Migrated script event listeners to use event delegation for better compatibility with infinite scroll

Admin & Monitoring

• Added new user, comment, post, and community notifications to Slack for admin purposes
• Implemented platform-wide schema enhancements to improve ranking of communities and posts
• Lowered page cache to 5 minutes (down from 10 minutes)

SEO Improvements

• Added nofollow to promoted links
• Fixed alt tags for community icons
• Updated robots.txt to include sitemaps and refine disallow rules

Removed

• Removed unused JavaScript from homepage
• Removed the /post page and moved all post submissions to modal for better UX
• Removed post creation drawer from mobile for UX reasons

[0.9.1] - 2025-04-28

Added

Performance & Hydration

• Added new dynamic content hydration system to the platform, resulting in significantly faster page loads and resolving persistent cache issues
• Added improved page load times with optimized resource loading

Analytics & Tracking

• Added new impressions and view count tracker for posts
• Impressions are now shown publicly in posts

Posts & Content

• Added warning before closing a post mid-edit
• Added email verification requirement for post creation to reduce spam and improve content quality
• Added support for Streamable video embeds in posts and comments

Community Features

• Added enhanced community sidebar with sticky positioning
• Added email verification requirement for community creation to reduce spam and improve community quality
• Added demo community dashboard accessible to all users at https://www.oddsrabbit.com/c/test/dashboard

User Experience

• Added new user profile pages with activity feed and improved layout
• Added ability for users to resend email verification from account settings
• Added enhanced pagination to the members list with customizable page size, navigation controls, and JavaScript utilities

Comments & Discussions

• Added new view for nested comments higher than level 5

Admin & Monitoring

• Added more internal admin emails

Changed

Email System

• Newsletter lists now filter out unverified emails
• Community newsletter opt-in count now counts only verified emails
• New email templates with improved responsive design and branding

User Interface & Design

• Brand new community template and style
• Modernized comment appearance with improved spacing, borders, and nesting indicators
• Improved styling for posts with better spacing and readability
• Decreased YouTube embed sizes slightly on community pages
• Improved styling for code blocks in post descriptions
• Improved style of user profiles
• Updated OpenGraph image to https://images.oddsrabbit.com/oddsrabbit-opengraph.png

Fixed

Comments System

• Fixed issue where comments could be lost during simultaneous login/signup
• Fixed comment voting system by migrating to UUID-based identifiers
• Fixed issue where dynamically loaded posts and comments couldn't be voted on
• Fixed vote score calculation for nested comments to use their own upvotes/downvotes
• Fixed CSS selector for removing margin from the last element in comment body
• Fixed missing commas in SQL query causing comments retrieval to fail

Posts & Content

• Fixed double encoding of HTML entities in posts
• Fixed post description generator when an embed is present
• Fixed custom community icons not displaying properly on posts
• Fixed bug where GIFs could not be edited
• Fixed URL slug extraction to correctly handle URLs with query parameters

User Management

• Fixed custom user profile icons not displaying properly across OddsRabbit
• Fixed avatar preview to accurately reflect server-side avatar processing and cropping
• Fixed server-side avatar processing to correctly center-crop images
• Fixed email_verified status for users who create accounts with social login
• Added feedback message when attempting to save account settings with no changes

User Interface

• Fixed animation smoothness on post creation drawer first open
• Fixed slight content shift when post creation drawer is closed
• Fixed scroll to close functionality
• Fixed border radius on body when drawer is open
• Fixed console errors when no lightbox images are present on a page
• Fixed occasional bug with infinite scroll on subscription popups

Email & Communications

• Added YouTube links to replace embeds in emails (embeds are stripped in email clients)
• Fixed pathing issues for CRON tasks

Technical Issues

• Fixed browser back/forward button functionality in dashboard navigation
• Fixed infinite loop prevention in user state fetching
• Enhanced search page styling for improved user experience
• Stripped HTML tags and   entities from og:description

Technical

Database & Architecture

• Added UUID for posts
• Refactored database tables to use UUID identifiers for better consistency
• Refactored community dashboard code to use configuration arrays and loops
• Refactored post and comment class names and structure
• Refactored comment display into multiple template files for better maintainability

Performance Improvements

• Improved comment structure and sorting for better performance
• Improved post rendering by trimming whitespace and removing extra spaces
• Added support for dynamically loaded vote buttons with new bindNewVoteButtons method

Code Quality

• Moved all AJAX handlers to REST route API
• Refactored emails to use composer lazyload
• Moved community header options logic into dedicated template file
• Refactored several CSS files for better organization
• Removed redundant sanitization calls in block processors

Security

• Added directory browsing protection to prevent unauthorized access to server directories
• Migrated script event listeners to use event delegation for better compatibility with infinite scroll

[0.9.0] - 2025-04-03

Added

User Onboarding

• Added username creation to onboarding flow
• Added community recommendations to onboarding flow
• Added user type selection to onboarding flow

Content & Media

• Added lightbox effect to images within posts and comments
• Added new OddsRabbit logo

Analytics & Tracking

• Added new attribution tracking system for affiliates and referrals

Email System

• Added new "What's next" section in Welcome email

Changed

Email System

• Refactored and rebuilt email system for maximum compatibility and future-proofing
• Optimized Welcome email template for dark mode compatibility
• Added inline-styles for all outbound emails to improve consistent styling when forwarding
• Removed username references in Welcome email due to username creation moving to onboarding

User Experience

• Enhanced mobile checkout experience with better layout and controls
• Updated "no results" message with clearer guidance and suggestions
• Added new "Learn more" button on subscription popups
• Optimized field inputs for mobile
• Added more padding to post comments on mobile

Community Management

• Minor tweaks to copy within community dashboard
• Updated estimated monthly subscription revenue

Content & Posts

• Images in posts now have a max height
• Updated column values for billing intervals

User Management

• Removed ability to change username in profile settings (moved to onboarding)
• Removed username input on sign-up modal (moved to onboarding)

File Organization

• Reorganized additional file and folder structures for better organization

Fixed

Authentication & Security

• Added authentication for retrieval of subscription plan details
• Fixed login modal error handling when invalid credentials are entered
• Fixed password reset functionality in login modal
• Fixed user authentication popup to always display unless JavaScript is disabled

Community Management

• Fixed subscription fetching UX in dashboard
• Fixed comment management within dashboard
• Fixed charts loading properly on mobile
• Fixed 'Exit dashboard' button on mobile
• Fixed charts display when no data is available

User Interface

• Limited maximum height of comment images to prevent oversized displays
• Fixed child comments sometimes appearing as top-level comments
• Updated z-index of post options to not layer over post footer
• Fixed improper font size and spacing of tables on devices under 480px
• Fixed badges vertical alignment
• Fixed subscription badges updating properly
• Fixed learn more links updating properly when switching subscriptions

Content & Posts

• Fixed post descriptions that sometimes appended extra whitespace

Technical Issues

• Fixed redirect links loading properly
• Fixed query for member count when users join or leave communities
• Aligned payments creation time to server time
• Fixed last commented date updating properly in post table

Removed

• Removed mention of Supporter badge in subscription popup feature lists

[0.8.0] - 2025-03-22

Added

Community Management Dashboard

• Added "Subscribers list" section to community dashboard
• Added subscription analytics visualizations to dashboard
• Added "Payments" section with transaction history to community dashboard
• Enhanced community dashboard with responsive layouts and touch-optimized interactions

Subscription System

• Added automated subscription emails for new subscriptions and renewals
• Added subscription management capabilities to user account settings
• Added payment history view to user account settings
• Added subscription thank you page preview for community owners
• Added subscription cancellation API endpoint
• Enhanced subscription popup to handle multiple subscription options

User Features

• Added badge system across users, posts, and comments
• Added new user onboarding flow at /onboarding/

Changed

User Interface & Design

• Improved subscription popup UX and design
• General UI polish and refinements
• Standardized font sizes across pages
• Enhanced table responsiveness for mobile devices

Fixed

Authentication & Cache

• Resolved cache-busting issue on login page
• Eliminated false error messages during successful sign-ups

Community Features

• Resolved mobile display issues in community information sections

Technical Issues

• Eliminated console errors and warnings
• Updated paths to reference new constants file
• Corrected Stripe webhook path references
• Eliminated trailing whitespace issues in post descriptions
• Enhanced webhook reliability with invoice ID tracking
• Implemented accurate net amount tracking after fee deductions

Technical

Performance & Architecture

• Implemented UUID collision handling
• Restructured file and folder organization
• Added database tables for payout and revenue sharing functionality
• Cleaned up unused JavaScript code

[0.7.5] - 2025-02-04

Added

User Experience

• Added new UI/UX for creating posts
• Added new report system for flagging communities, posts, or users who break rules
• Added new mobile experience for viewing community information

Changed

Performance & Interface

• Improved user activity page performance
• Minor mobile UI improvements

[0.7.3] - 2024-01-14

Added

Community Features

• Added community disclaimers for certain communities
• Added visual feedback for successful image uploads

Changed

User Interface & Design

• Optimized community banner with responsive height (120px desktop, 60px mobile)
• Updated legal documentation (Terms of Service and Privacy Policy)

Fixed

Technical Issues

• Prevented JavaScript errors by validating publish button existence

Technical

Performance Improvements

• Enhanced performance of homepage community discovery
• Implemented skeleton loading states for community icons

[0.7.2] - 2025-01-13

Added

File Management

• Added image upload validation and error messaging
• Clarified image upload size and dimension requirements in user documentation

Changed

User Interface & Design

• Improved site responsiveness with new breakpoints
• New and improved post feed design
• Improved community sidebar styling
• Set standardized community banner height (100px)

Fixed

Content Management

• Removed /c/test posts from all feeds

Technical

Performance & Code Quality

• Standardized user and community avatar code
• Improved infinite scroll for post loading
• Prevented quality loss from unnecessary image upscaling
• Enhanced CSS organization

[0.7.1] - 2025-01-12

Changed

Code Architecture

• Split post content processing into separate block processor classes
• Created dedicated LinkProcessor class
• Improved code organization in PostView class
• Removed redundant script localization
• Standardized REST authentication to use wp_rest nonce

User Interface & Design

• Updated media query breakpoints
• Enhanced container transitions and responsive widths

Fixed

Technical Issues

• Added missing namespace imports in PostView class
• Fixed paragraph combination logic in DescriptionBlockProcessor
• Added null check for scrollable-left-nav element
• Prevented image upscaling and improved crop calculations
• Added minimum dimension requirements for uploaded images

[0.7.0] - 2025-01-11

Added

Content Management

• Added sticky post functionality for community posts with admin controls
• Added mobile parameter support to oddsrabbit_search shortcode
• Added meta description generation for community posts

User Interface

• Added horizontal scrollbar styling to match vertical scrollbar
• Added overflow-x hidden to left nav header
• Added blur effect indicators for scrollable navigation

Changed

Performance & Features

• Improved post sorting to prioritize last commented date
• Reduced post creation success message delay to 0.5 seconds
• Enhanced text sanitization across post titles and comments
• Improved newsletter preview with dedicated template
• Removed redundant error messages in authentication flows
• Updated comment links to directly scroll to comments section
• Updated timezone handling to assume Pacific Time
• Split enqueue functions for better clarity
• Changed 'all' community slug to 'latest'
• Improved scroll indicators with dynamic fade effects

Fixed

User Interface

• Fixed mobile search container width styling

[0.6.1] - 2025-01-10

Changed

User Interface & Design

• Enhanced post meta header styling and community icon display
• Improved newsletter email template for Gmail compatibility
• Modified .show class to use initial display property
• Refined scrollbar styling for consistency

Technical

• Updated VSCode settings to ignore pro theme directory

[0.6.0] - 2025-01-10

Added

Subscription Management

• Added new subscription management interface
• Added community subscription confirmation workflow
• Added toggle functionality for subscriptions

Changed

User Interface & Architecture

• Restructured community subscription pages
• Enhanced dashboard UI styling
• Improved newsletter and subscription popup interfaces
• Updated community creator and info display
• Refined notification settings interface

Fixed

User Interface & Functionality

• Various CSS improvements across community pages
• Enhanced image upload handling in community settings
• Improved newsletter processing and popup behavior

Removed

• Removed legacy community subscription components

[0.5.5] - 2025-01-05

Fixed

Technical Issues

• Fixed file paths in require_once statements for community REST routes

[0.5.4] - 2025-01-05

Changed

Documentation & User Experience

• Updated wording in community creation page for general topic communities
• Improved newsletter leave confirmation message clarity
• Changed post and comment timestamps to use creation date

Fixed

Technical Issues

• Fixed vendor autoload paths in Mail and Stripe-related files
• Reorganized file loading order in Stripe webhook files

[0.5.3] - 2025-01-05

Fixed

User Interface

• Completely rebuilt changelog HTML structure for proper nesting

[0.5.2] - 2025-01-05

Fixed

User Interface

• Fixed HTML structure in changelog page for proper list nesting

[0.5.1] - 2025-01-05

Fixed

User Interface

• Fixed user avatar not displaying in header due to incorrect ID property case
• Added null check for community info in community template

Technical

• Added changelog.md to deployment workflow

[0.5.0] - 2025-01-05

Added

Documentation & User Experience

• Added public changelog page for viewing version history
• Added changelog management system with standardized rules
• Added new notifications management interface for account settings
• Added selectable list component for enhanced interactions

Changed

Performance & Architecture

• Optimized user notification settings updates
• Reorganized JavaScript library structure
• Enhanced community creation interface and workflow

Technical

• Updated composer dependencies
• Refined CSS styling for forms and core components

[0.4.1] - 2025-01-04

Fixed

Community Management

• Added null check for community membership status

[0.4.0] - 2025-01-04

Added

API Features

• Added REST endpoint for toggling community newsletter subscription

[0.3.0] - 2025-01-03

Added

Community Features

• Added newsletter subscription option for communities
• Added community type selection with three options
• Added status field with default 'pending' state
• Added auto-publish status for general communities

User Interface

• Added consistent icon sizing for community and user icons

Changed

Code Quality & Design

• Improved HTML structure in user feed items
• Refactored communities feed item template
• Standardized CSS styling for community icons

Fixed

Search & Queries

• Modified excerpt generation to prevent word truncation
• Improved community search for partial matches
• Changed INNER JOIN to LEFT JOIN for posts without avatars

[0.2.0] - 2025-01-03

Added

Community Features

• Added newsletter subscription option for communities
• Added community type selection system
• Added status field with auto-publish for general communities

Changed

Code Quality

• Improved HTML structure in feed items
• Enhanced communities feed item template

Fixed

Search & Database

• Improved excerpt generation and partial matches
• Fixed posts query to include all user posts

[0.1.0] - 2024-05-16

Added

• Initial project setup.