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This document is what is called a Change Log -- it is a round up of the important changes as represented by new features and bug fixes. It isn't exhaustive as it is created by a human and humans can and do miss things but it should be indicative of what has changed and when.
-- Dev
2025-09-12
- Added support for claiming events via phone call
2025-09-09
- Fixed badge validations to correspond with badges
- Added support for Font Awesome Pro badge icons
- Improved admin tool for PostType objects
- Added CountryNormalizer object to normalize US / USA
- Improved admin tool for GoogleSheetUrls that we crawl and extract events from
- Work done between 9/6 and 9/9: Continued work on event loading and data normalization; ugly, tedious work but utterly necessary
2025-09-06
- Added more tag lines
- Implemented display_activism_points which lists the correct point values for all activism types on the
- Moved AchievementType from hard coded enum to a db backed model allowing more achievement types to be created right down to the icon level
- Fixed BadgeNotificationService for handling ... everything
- Turned off ability to like your own social network posts (oops; Bad Engineer!)
- Improved CSV handling for loading large numbers of events from Google Sheets
- Moved the post to a database backed PostType allowing for a richer set of actions that reflect the nature of political activity
- Note: A lot of other things happened between 9/2 and 9/6 but they were not, alas, captured here. Things happen. Apologies.
2025-09-02
- Turned off image icon for news feed urls due to conflict on /events/page
- Add location filtering to /events/
- Harden display of events to avoid issues with missing data
- Change .upcoming_week to be from yesterday to 2 weeks from today
- Fix /events/
- Turn off My Government feature due to data issue
- Added a missing accept button for the privacy policy
- Added a Welcome page at the suggestion of Cynthia Stephens! Thank you Cynthia
- Fixed a data load issue where key event attributes weren't loaded preventing display in some states
- Improved event display including fall back to showing source data when key fields are missing
- Incorrect search feature in top bar turned off
- Filtering of events on home page by state and county added
- Pagination of events on home page
- Restored this change log
- GDPR support including privacy policy and acceptance logging
- GDPR support including data export requests
2025-08-20
- Got everything deployed
- Added political parties
- Added America's 428 congressional districts
- Added ability to sign up for an account and have a username
- Added author and news source name to internal structure for news feed items; News Source Name is visible
2025-08-20
- Moved to 50 items per news feed page to better highlight the ongoing scope of what's happening in America
- Added date on the display of news items at bottom right
- Added a change log, this file!