Happy new year, dear Codecks users! We’re excited to see the games and projects you’ll be releasing in 2023. To help you with that, we have a biiig update ready for you to use.
Organize cards with Zones
When you have a lot of cards inside a milestone or deck, it can be hard to maintain a clear overview, even with the various sorting options that are already available. In this release, we’re adding “Zones”: they are custom card groups that you can add when you’re in the “Manual” sorting order. Zones are shared across the whole team.
A couple of example uses:
- Separate the cards inside your milestone by work area or teams (e.g. Feature Team 1, Feature Team 2)
- Separate the cards inside your knowledge deck by type without resorting to tags (e.g. Engine Docs, Business Info)
- Separate cards by additional priority levels (e.g. Do first, Must Have, Regular, Nice to have, Cut Candidate, Postponed)
There are lots of other possible applications for this, and we’re curious to see what you’ll come up with. Let us know your favorite use case on our Discord server!
Zones can be managed by Owner, Admin, Producers and Staff users with Full permissions.
Quicker access to your Milestone
The new Pinned Milestone section in the Hand tab shows all cards assigned to you in the currently pinned milestone. This allows to see your upcoming milestone work without having to leave the Hand.
You can also easily drag’n’drop cards directly into the Your Hand area or reorder the cards as needed. Zones are supported here as well. The order will also be mirrored in the full Milestone view.
Streaks
We plan to make Codecks even more playful in the future. In this update, we’re adding a new streak system to your done pile in the Your Hand area. Mark any of your cards as done during a week, and your streak counter will increase by one.
If you’re on the Plus or Pro plan, we automatically freeze your streak for you, and it is never reset to zero.
Hover over the flame to see your previous best streak. The counter will also be featured on your Open Decks page.
Decky Karma
Submitting good feedback via our Discord Decky integration will now award you with Karma points and additional roles. Gain 1 point for each upvote reaction to your feedback, and 10 points for each feedback that gets marked as “done” by the developer.
Your karma is displayed next to your submitted feedback and can also be shown with new /karma slash-command. As a reward, server admins may auto-assign custom roles to contributors that reach a certain Karma threshold.
Additionally, we’re adding the following features to Decky:
- Decky can now auto-add members of a specified role to newly created threads. You can find the setting for this in the
Workflow state updatessection of a command. Use this to auto-add your server moderators to new feedback threads. - Users reacting to a Decky feedback will automatically be added to the thread. This means that they will also be notified of follow-up information about the feedback that they are interested in.
Further improvements
- Huge performance improvements for screens with a lot of decks or cards. Previously, opening a deck with hundreds of cards could result in up to 3 seconds delay. They now open in a fraction of time through our new smart loading technique.
- Hand section area now auto-collapses to be more readable on narrow window sizes.
- Admins and Producers may change the time tracking entries of other members.
- Fixed an issue that starting a card would sometimes not add it to Your Hand.
- Fixed an issue when setting user access within the project’s user access settings.
- Fixed issue with searching sometimes resulting in internal server error.
- Doc cards get a different color in the Deuter-enhanced color palette.
- Set maximum notification count to 10 per category to accommodate for smaller screens.
- The Codecks Manual received a face lift (and now contains a choose-your-own-adventure, where you try to defeat the mighty card witch).
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