The year may be drawing to an end, but we’re not done working on Restarters yet! Here are the main changes we’ve made over the last few months…
August to November 2023
A new way to download your impact stats
We want it to be as easy as possible for you to access your own data. So we’ve added a new way to download summary stats about your events including the impact stats generated on Restarters. More details here:
New features
- You can now publicly list an email address for your group. Simply edit your group to add one.
- We added a powered/unpowered column to the repair data export for events and groups (as requested by @Julie_Evans)
- Network coordinators can now edit custom network fields on events (as well as groups)
Improvements to entering repair data
(thanks for most of these suggestions @Monique)
- We swapped the age and weight fields when adding items to make sure ‘age’ is in a consistent position when entering data
- Pressing the ‘add new item’ button now auto-scrolls the page to the position of the new item form
- We now auto-focus the ‘item type’ field when adding a new item, so you can start typing without needing to click/tap on it first
- Adding new data from the Fixometer page when there are no selectable events now encourages you to create an event first (rather than choose an event from an empty list)
Minor improvements
- We updated and reworked the Workbench page
- You can now click through to someone’s profile by pressing their name in group/event lists
- Event pages should now load much more quickly
- We ditched Google Analytics in favour of Matomo
Back end improvements
- We added more automatic tests to catch bugs
Bug fixes
We caught at least 16 bugs in humane traps and removed them from the system, including:
- Fixed an inconsistency between event chat members and event attendees
- Fixed some issues with item type suggestions
- Fixed incorrect figures when searching for brands in the Fixo
- Fixed missing translation for the month of the first event in lists
- Fixed duplicate event feature not saving modified fields
- Fixed some issues with adding repair data on mobile
- Fixed an issue with new events missing a time zone
- Fixed the squashed/cropped logo on Talk
- Fixed having both ‘none of the above’ and ‘misc’ options for unpowered items
- Fixed changes to network data on groups not saving properly
- Fixed an issue with group stats displaying percentages greater than 100%
- Fixed an issue preventing changes to a group’s location from saving
Help us maintain & improve this site
We’re working hard to make Restarters․net a useful tool and welcoming home for everyone involved in community repair. If you haven’t already, please consider making a donation to help fund this work. Until the end of the year, all donations will be doubled by Aviva, so now is the perfect time to support us! Thank you
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