Restarters.net software updates (changelog)

[neil]

Through December to April, we’ve made some minor tweaks, improvements and bug fixes to Restarters.net - plus we’ve added one new major feature: a new way to sharing your environmental impact statistics.

December 2023 to April 2024

New impact equivalences, now easily shareable to to social media

Restarters enables you to track the impact of your group’s efforts. We provide equivalences to help people understand the amount of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) saved by repairs, and we’ve now moved from negative comparisons to positive comparisons.

At the same time, we’ve added a brand new infographic with these impact stats. We’ve made this easily shareable to social media and embeddable on your own website.

Find out more in the topic below:

Introducing a new way to share your impact!

Hi everyone. Today we’re excited to announce a new way to share the environmental benefits of your group’s repairs! We’ve launched two new features: 1. New equivalencies Previously, we used negative comparisons to help people understand the amount of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) saved by repairs, for example: we’ve saved x kg of CO2e, the equivalent of driving y km. But we’ve now switched to a positive comparison, i.e. an activity that reduce emissions: growing trees. I posted about this idea in more detail last year here: How can we help you communicate your climate impact? …

Minor tweaks and improvements

• We made it easier to customise the banners displayable at the top of the site - and we’re thinking about how to make this editable per repair network
• We’ve updated the French translation of for events data downloads (requested by @Christophe_Goddon)

Behind-the-scenes

• We’ve added more automated tests, taking test coverage to over 80% of the application
• We’ve removed the API endpoint for changing the group of an event
• We’ve improved the amount of time it takes to approve an event - and turned on automatic event approval for some more networks

Bug fixes

We’ve:

• made some minor fixes to the text and stats in the ‘Share your stats’ modal (thanks for the suggestions @Monique)
• blocked the ability to use an invalid email address when inviting people to an event
• fixed a glitch where users who aren’t a host of any groups could still see an ‘add’ event button on the dashboard (thanks for the report @Florine_Paquay )
• made sure that past events now appear in list of events awaiting moderation
• fixed the styling of private messaging in Talk
• added back some missing text for the ‘Follow’ button on the dashboard (thanks @Florine_Paquay)
• fixed the rendering of sharable stats on older browsers (thanks @Keith_Brady)
• fixed an issue where discussion threads for newly created events weren’t being created in Talk
• fixed an issue when trying to add multiple devices with a barrier to repair (thanks @Monique)

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