# October 2019

## Table Of Contents

- About
- Feedback
- Highlights
  - GitHub Sponsors
  - Layout Changes
  - Scheduled Recurring Topics
  - Upgraded Search
  - Open Source Contributions
- Statistics
- Notable Official Topics
- Issue Table
  - Opened
  - Closed

## About

The Tildes Issue Log is a monthly recurring post about the changes and progression that Tildes has made. Highlighting some of the newest additions and changes, as well as a complete table of every issue opened and closed in that month, along with some interesting statistics so you can get a look into the development process and a quick grasp of anything you may have missed.

## Feedback

If anything is incorrect or you have anything that you'd like to see changed or added please open an issue, PM me or comment on the posted topic on Tildes.

If you'd like to write a highlight section or want to contribute in any other way, feel free to do so. Like Tildes, this will remain entirely open-source.

## Highlights

### GitHub Sponsors

Back in May of 2019, GitHub announced "GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source", allowing people to donate to open-source projects directly via GitHub. And recently on the 28th, Deimos was accepted into the program. The main interesting parts about it for Tildes though are: for the first 12 months of the program 100% of any donations will go to the developer (no transaction fees or GitHub taking a cut) and, GitHub will match up to $5000 during the project's first year in the program (note: there have been some people that didn't get their donations matched, see this comment chain for more info). So knowing all that, if you can, please consider donating (preferably through GitHub Sponsors)! Thank you!

Details

Author: Bauke

Written Date: 2019-10-31

### Layout Changes

At the start of October, some changes were made to the layout of topics and tags to rearrange them and display them in a better way:

- You can now hide tags in the topic listing, available as a setting in your profile.
- Certain "important tags" will always be shown regardless of the setting, such as "nsfw" and "spoiler", as well as any group-specific ones. The ability to add those was also added, although there's no interface for it yet.
- Tags are now displayed below the topic title when in a topic's comments page, these used to be in the sidebar.
- When posting a new topic, the "add tags" section is now collapsed by default. If you express interest in adding tags when posting or editing an existing topic's tags this section will be visible by default.
- Content metadata such as word count, published date, video length, etc. is now displayed next to the group name.
- Favicons for link topics were moved to the "topic source" section where you usually see the link's domain, Youtube channel, or similar.
- A "content type" was also added to the topic listing used to identify topics like articles, "ask" topics, videos, etc.

Details

Author: Bauke

Written Date: 2019-10-31

### Scheduled Recurring Topics

On the 10th, a new feature was added for automatic posting of recurring topics. Previously several members of Tildes would post these recurring topics themselves, but now there's support for these to be posted automatically through a "system" account.

Details

Author: Bauke

Written Date: 2019-10-31

### Upgraded Search

On October 14th, search was added to user's profiles. For now you can only search through your own topics and comments.

On October 21st, PostgreSQL (the database system Tildes uses) was upgraded to version 12 that introduced a whole variety of search features, check out the official announcement topic to get some examples of the new features. It includes stuff like quoted searches, excluding terms, and more.

Details

Author: Bauke

Written Date: 2019-10-31

### Open Source Contributions

- Jason Schwarzenberger added the ability to click on your filtered tags in the sidebar.
- @Deing added theme previews to easily see the differences and test out themes, available here.

Details

Author: Bauke

Written Date: 2019-10-31

## Statistics

In the month of October, 45 commits were made by 3 contributors, changing a total of 974 (+1806|-832) lines. 18 issues were opened and 9 issues were closed.

An average of 0.60 issues were opened and 0.30 issues were closed each day.

The average time to close issues was 150.74 days or 3617.75 hours.

Top 3 issue creators:

1. Bauke with 7 issues created.
2. Deimorz with 5 issues created.
3. deing with 1 issues created.

Amount of labels assigned to currently open issues:

- Blocked:1 time.
- Feature Request:11 times.
- Investigate:3 times.
- Stage::Accepted:6 times.
- Stage::Unconfirmed:7 times.
- • Dev:1 time.
- • UX:1 time.
- ◦ HTML:2 times.
- ◦ JavaScript:2 times.
- ◦ Python:3 times.
- ◦ SCSS:4 times.
- ◦ SaltStack:1 time.
- 🚀 Beginner-Friendly:1 time.

Amount of labels assigned to closed issues:

- Duplicate:1 time.
- Feature Request:3 times.
- In Progress:1 time.
- Priority::High:1 time.
- Stage::Accepted:8 times.
- • Refactor:1 time.
- • UX:1 time.
- ◦ HTML:5 times.
- ◦ Python:4 times.
- ◦ SCSS:1 time.
- 🚀 Beginner-Friendly:3 times.

## Notable Official Topics

Date | Title | URL
2019-10-28 | I've been accepted into GitHub Sponsors - if you have a Patreon pledge or other recurring donation to Tildes, I'd really appreciate it if you could move it over | Click
2019-10-21 | New search capabilities available: phrases, excluding terms, alternatives ("or") | Click
2019-10-15 | You can now search your own topics and comments, and a theme preview page is available | Click
2019-10-10 | More about scheduled topics, some group rearranging, and input needed on "content types" | Click
2019-10-04 | Adding native scheduled/recurring topics, let's figure out which ones we want to have | Click
2019-10-01 | Some layout adjustments and de-emphasizing topic tags a little | Click

## Issue Table

### Opened

Issue | Title | Author | Opened | Closed
577 | Allow defining "important tags" for individual ... | Deimorz | 2019/10/01 23:58:43 | 2019/10/26 04:56:09
578 | Add a poll feature | Deimorz | 2019/10/02 00:04:30 |
579 | Use an "inline diff" style view in topic log fo... | Deimorz | 2019/10/05 01:47:39 |
580 | New comment texts don't use standard FG colors | deing | 2019/10/06 14:14:37 |
581 | Save draft posts and restore when the browser p... | skybrian | 2019/10/08 20:45:46 |
582 | Show tags regardless of user setting when in fi... | Bauke | 2019/10/12 19:34:12 |
583 | Allow Jinja templating of scheduled topics (if ... | Deimorz | 2019/10/16 06:51:53 |
584 | Update Python to 3.8 | Deimorz | 2019/10/18 00:48:30 |
585 | Colours mixing when quoting code | ainar-g | 2019/10/19 13:36:38 |
586 | Automatically submit linked URLs to archive.org | jleclanche | 2019/10/19 21:39:58 |
587 | Add topic option to override group setting for ... | Bauke | 2019/10/22 16:19:11 |
588 | Remove (or replace) quotes from search view query | Bauke | 2019/10/23 17:46:55 | 2019/10/24 02:52:35
589 | Allow people to request an invite directly on t... | Bauke | 2019/10/28 11:11:52 |
590 | Allow (trusted) people to accept new users with... | Bauke | 2019/10/28 11:14:38 |
591 | Allow users to fill out more details on the sub... | cfabbro | 2019/10/29 20:57:55 |
592 | Display group's important tags somewhere | Bauke | 2019/10/29 21:00:48 |
593 | What about adding Nord theme? | LukasDrsman | 2019/10/30 18:08:08 | 2019/10/30 18:12:17
594 | Display all recurring scheduled topics somewhere | Bauke | 2019/10/31 22:28:33 |

### Closed

Issue | Title | Author | Opened | Closed
258 | Automatically collapse removed comment threads | Crestwave | 2018/09/15 10:55:27 | 2019/10/11 03:08:05
292 | Hide topic-comments section when there's no com... | Bauke | 2018/10/10 23:22:39 | 2019/10/02 01:21:53
302 | Upgrade PostgreSQL to 12 | Deimorz | 2018/10/19 00:49:56 | 2019/10/20 21:07:40
501 | Link "Filtered topic tags" in user's sidebar to... | cfabbro | 2019/06/20 17:55:58 | 2019/10/04 23:04:42
542 | Add a "demo" page for themes | Deimorz | 2019/08/15 21:04:39 | 2019/10/15 21:35:17
562 | Include/exclude operators for search | Bauke | 2019/08/31 15:28:19 | 2019/10/21 20:55:04
577 | Allow defining "important tags" for individual ... | Deimorz | 2019/10/01 23:58:43 | 2019/10/26 04:56:09
588 | Remove (or replace) quotes from search view query | Bauke | 2019/10/23 17:46:55 | 2019/10/24 02:52:35
593 | What about adding Nord theme? | LukasDrsman | 2019/10/30 18:08:08 | 2019/10/30 18:12:17