Time for another update on what we’ve been improving behind the scenes! Here are the highlights from the last few months…
February to April 2023
Key Highlights
- We’ve updated how we calculate the number of hours volunteered at your events to make it more accurate. Find the full details here.
- Anyone with an account can now create a group on Restarters (you don’t need to have the ‘host’ role to do it any more, as this caused too much confusion.)
Features for networks
We’re delighted to welcome a new network to Restarters: Repair Café Aotearoa New Zealand 
- We set up network for Repair Café Aotearoa New Zealand and welcomed lots of groups to the platform. Welcome everybody!
- We added a calendar feed for networks - this means you can show your network’s events on an external calendar (like Google Agenda) and embed that in your own website.
- Network coordinators can now edit repair data for groups in their network
Small improvements
- We’ve changed how volunteers are referred to in the system. We no longer call all volunteers ‘repairers’, we call them ‘volunteers’ instead. We’ve also updated the icon on event pages. This should make it more obvious that we value all volunteers whether or not they fix stuff.
- We improved how group descriptions appear on your group page
- The number of your groups and events that appear on your dashboard should now not exceed 5
- The age of devices where no age has been entered is now displayed as ‘-’ (not ‘0’)
Back end upgrades
- We added some more automated testing to catch more bugs
- We set up an OpenAPI coverage tool to help ensure we’re documenting our API fully
Bug fixes
- ‘Hours of TV watched’ corrected to ‘Days of TV watched non-stop’ on environmental impact visualisations (Thanks Lea for spotting that!)
- Events now show the group’s logo again
- Corrected the order in which events appear on the Dashboard to include the soonest events not the events furthest in the future.
- Allowed for the use of “obsolete” time zones (that had prevented someone from creating a new group in Australia)
- We now sync username changes on Talk back to the rest of the site
- Fixed a design bug for collapsible sections on the wiki
- Fixed a design bug that hid certain headings when editing pages on the wiki
- Redirected empty /en pages on the wiki to the pages with content
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