Timeline
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The Idea
8/27/2018
This is where the whole idea began. We wrote a Google Document to sketch the idea and see the big picture forming.
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The First Commit
Every journey starts with a first step.
A simple README file added to start the repository.
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September 2018
A month full of tasks
September 2018 was a busy month for us. We setup our CI/CD pipeline and also:
- Archtecture defined
- Menu defined
- Basic Register and Login working
- Profile page prototyped
- Tag Cloud
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October 2018
Security first
October was a month to work on the security system. Several improvements were made on the Register and Login workflows.
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November 2018
A really busy month!
November was awesome for LUDUSTACK. We manage to implement several core systems that are used across the whole platform.
- Forgot password, password reset, email verification
- Front page improvements
- Facebook, Google and Microsoft Authentication
- Game page prototyped
- Terms of Use and Privacy Policy added
- Image Upload
- Use user image when registering with Facebook
- AJAX front page
- Latest games component
- Counters component
- Favicons and Manifest
- Basic localization system implemented with Portuguese (by Daniel Gomes) and Russian by Denis Mokhin)
- Dynamic taglist on the front page
- Basic staff roles defined
- Translation project integration
- OpenGraph implementated
- Like/Unlike system
- Comment system
- Progressive Web App implemented
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December 2018
To close the year.
In December we implemented a few things needed for the launch day.
- Language selection
- Game activity feed
- Content view and edit
- Image cropping
- GDPR cookies warning
- Facebook sharing
- Structured data from schema.org
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January 2019
Happy new year! Let's work!
We started the year by optimizing the whole platform.
- Page speed improvements
- Search Engine Optimization (title, description, sitemap, etc
- Added Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian languages added by Kamal Tufekčić
- German language started by Thorben
- Featured article system implemented (staff only)
- Username validation
- Cache management
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February 2019
Some tweaks
LuduStack is for everyone!
- Image size descriptions
- Accessibility improvements
- Images on CDN
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March 2019
Democracy
The voting system! Users can now:
- Suggest ideas
- Vote on other people's ideas
- Comment on ideas
- Create your own brainstorm sessions
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April 2019
Fast posting
Like a good social network you can now:
- Post directly from the front page
- Add a image to post
- Post from within your game
- Game like
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May 2019
Game On!
Climb the LuduStack Ranks to the glory
- Ranking System
- Experience Points
- Badges
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June 2019
Social Interaction
Follow games and users and connect to users to increase your social network!
- Notifications!
- Game Follow
- User Follow
- User Connection System
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July 2019
This or that?
Polls, preferences and more!
- Basic Polls - Get opinions from your fellow devs!
- Better preferences - Now you can change your email, set your phone and more!
- Two Factor Authentication - Be more safe with this security feature
- Content post language selection
- Ranking Page
- Post new suggestions right from the sidebar
- Basic search results
- QR code generation
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August 2019
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September 2019
You got the power!
Must have features!
- You can now delete your own posts
- Share your game!
- Rank Levels page
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October 2019
Team up!
Join forces to make games.
- Team Management
- Points Earned notification
- Brainstorm Ideas status control
- External Links working on profiles and games
- Teams can be linked to games
- Recruitin Teams!
- #hashtagging
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December 2019
Optimizations!
Now the whole web rendering is blazing fast!
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March 2020
Thank you all!
We reached the mark of 300 users and 100 games. Thank you all for your love!
- A Special Thanks page
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April 2020
Localize your games!
The localization tool has arrived!
- Ask for translation from the community
- Help others, translating terms to your own language
- Import and export files
- Review translations
- Post game content directly from home
- Set Game Characteristics
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June 2020
New name!
Now we are called LUDUSTACK! The one stop place for game developers.
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July 2020
It is time for sweepstakes!
You can now run your own giveaways!
- GDPR compliant
- Email confirmation
- Tracked link sharing for more chances to win
- Daily entries
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August 2020
New Ideas!
Random Game Idea added to the front page to overcome your creative block!
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September 2020
Calculations!
The Rate Calculator will help you charge correctly for jobs with your skillset!
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March 2021
Back to basics
We decided to take a step back and redesign some architectural aspects of our software.
- CQRS migration started
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April 2021
How much?
Now that most of the platform migration to CQRS is done, we are releasing a new tool and several improvements to the platform.
- Cost Calculator
- Bill Rate management
- Users handlers
- Speed improvement on several pages
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June 2021
A must have!
We finally have a forum system!
- Organized in groups, categories and topics
- Forum Icons and Open Graph Images
- Rich Text posts
- Multi-language
- Voting System
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July 2021
C'mon and slam!
And welcome to the Jam!
- Game Jam system with many options
- With or without Judges
- Community vote
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Soon
Open Beta
At this point, we hope to have a consistent beta tester base so we can polish the platform and fix every possible bug that shows up.
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Near Future
Launch day!
This is the launch day. On this day, all the core features will be implemented.