Changelog

Improvements & Fixes

• Global milestones and searches in the Decks tab are now only showing cards of the projects you’ve selected in the mission control.

• The activity feed now also includes deck creations and movements from project to another.

• You can dismiss a conversation notification via a button below the conversation itself.

• Mark a seen release as actually seen. (Also some minor improvements on the release page itself like pagination).

• Calendar moved from the Decks tab to the Milestones tab. (Check the “Expand” Icon at the top right.)

• Fixed search being unresponsive sometimes when typing more than two characters.

• Comments weren’t reliably updated in real-time. This should now be fixed.

• Fixed issue when closing or reopening conversations.

• Fixed pasting card urls into a card’s content. It’s now correctly pasted as a $reference.

• You now can open cards in the conversations overview page again.

• Conversation notification mails sometimes displayed comments in a wrong order. Also fixed.

Several Fixes

• Fixed removing cards from your hand.
• Clicking on notifications from hidden projects now also works in the deck view.
• Fixed some more exceptions.

Mastering Multiple Projects in Parallel

So much has been improved in this release! To give a you good overview we created a blog post outlining the most important changes.

For you convienience, here’s a quick summary:

• Don’t treat projects as silos. Instead, allow to select and deselect the project you’d like to work on via the new Mission Control.
• Deck-less cards now are also project-less and are now fully private to the creator of the card.
• Activity Feed can now be found as a button next to the deck library, deck inspector and milestone inspector. You may now also view the full activity history.
• The Mission Control now contains all non-project specific links as well as an overview and warning for your account status
• you can now order and search cards by their project
• Lots of UI Changes, like e.g. a new design for the tabs.
• Personal tags moved from Project settings to your profile
• Reminders and hints went to different locations (most notably the “new release” announcement is now much less intrusive)
• lots of performance improvements
• Source Control Integrations like e.g. Github don’t require to specify a project anymore. Referencing cards now works across all projects.
• Warn if you’re about to discard cards from your hand that are not in any deck
• You can now use search within the conversation panel

Database Refactoring

This release serves mostly as a preparation for the next release: instead of using sequentual numbers for database ids, we’re now relying on globally unique uuids. This helps us for moving certain accounts to different databases for e.g. alpha testing purposes.

If you’ve been using the codecks api directly, make sure to now accept strings as ids.

Search Improvements - Full Text Search!

Phew. Quite a bit has happened here. First, you’ll probably notice that the design has changed. Making it look like an input will hopefully make it more approachable. We also decided to forgo the real-time search as you type. This became a big bottleneck for larger projects. We also moved currently active filters into the search component since they make a lot more sense in here! Makes it also quite easy to delete via backspace.

The most important addition probably is Full Text Search. I don’t think there’s much to explain. Just type whatever you’re looking for and it’ll show the relevant cards. You still are able to search by title though as well.

Big performance improvements for metrics view

For some teams the metrics view has become unbearably slow, so a few fixes were made that had a very big impact on performance. One important change was to not consider the full history of a deck or milestone but only look at the past 3 months.

Slack Integration is approved

It took a bit longer than expected. But it’s finally there!

Last but not least

You now have access to your notifications from the milestone tab.

Lots of quality-of-life improvements this time:

• Replacing this weird !D no-deck icon with a much more pleasant to look at icon. 👻
• The milestone preview on the top-left now has a helpful mouse-over info box.
• Said milestone info box now also shows your effort progress and visualises it with a bar.
• Adding zoom controls to the attachment viewer.
• Clicking on a #tag within a mini-card simply opens the card rather than filtering for all cards with this tag.
• Fix creating cards from presets.
• The metrics screen now won’t crash if there’s only a single card.

Improved Slack integration

Due to new permissions you need to head to the slack integration settings to (re-)activate it. (Depending on the approval process of Slack it might take a few hours until it’s available).

• Allows you to pick which project sends notifications to what Slack channel.
• Support for Slack Actions.
• Allows to connect one Slack team to more than one Codecks account.

Smaller Fixes

• Search by card creator. (Type a team member’s name to see the corresponding search option)
• Trello importer didn’t work for attachments. This is fixed now.

Improved stability of text editor

You might have noticed that especially large texts behaved funky sometimes while editing them. This release refactored most of the editor logic. While it pretty much looks like before (with some subtle improvements though), it should now be considerably more stable.

And more

• Slight performance optimizations for mini-cards that might be noticeable with lots of cards on your screen.
• New look and feel for the three tabs (Hand, Deck, Milestones). They never looked like Micha designed them since trapezoid shapes with borders are surprisingly hard to do with HTML and CSS. Daniel eventually found some time to tackle those using inline-svgs.
• Your uploaded images will be shown as webp if your browser supports them. This tends to reduce file size by 20% - 50% so you should see them sooner.

This release is quite packed. Let’s get it started:

Trello importer

Go to your account settings to find it. It allows you to import any Trello board you have access to including its cards, attachments and check lists. You can chose to either import it into a new Codecks project or add the cards into an existing projects.

Attachment viewer

Rather than opening the original file in a new tab, you can now view and browse attachments in an overlay.

Smaller fixes

• There’s now an effort overview next to the swimlane labels telling you the total effort of a swimlane and how many cards have no effort assigned yet.
• New engine for extracing colors from deck and project cover images. Faster and with support for webp and svg images. (Although svgs are not really recommended for deck images as they messes with blur effect.)
• The Dashboard now features real falling cards in the header. ✨
• Hitting Esc should now close the most sensible (i.e. most recently opened) thing.
• You can now paste cover images from your clipboard when creating a deck or project.
• When viewing a global milestone, you only see cards of the current project rather than cards from all projects you have access to.
• Draft indicator on the “create card” button now also present when creating (and not saving) a card in decks and milestones.
• Many more subtle fixes.