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Showcase #1
Back in our 3.8 release notes, we announced a new showcase page to replace the old featured campaigns system (which, if we’re being honest, was last touched in 2022). The idea is simple: each month, we go through the applications, pick a handful of worlds that caught our eye, and give them a proper spotlight…
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Monthly Worldbuilding Challenge #2
February’s challenge had Indoril Mora dive deep into a fallen Dwarven civilisation, the Daruz-Khalär, and the Oathkeeper: a sentient weapon carrying the souls of a Dwarf, a Drow, and a High Elf whose peoples once intersected around those ruins. Interconnected entities, a historian narrator, political revisionism baked into an artefact. Chef’s kiss. Thank you Indoril…
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Developer Log #6
1. What we shipped Nothing exciting yet. We fixed a bunch of bug fixes to campaign imports, and api validations. We’ve also been testing a new starter kit for new acounts that hopefully better showcases some of Kanka’s cool features. We’ll share stats about that once we have enough data! 2. What we’re working on…
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Developer Log #5
1. What we shipped Following last week’s release of 3.8, this week we focused on fixing bugs that went undetected in our testing. On a personal note, I have family visiting which also means that I couldn’t comfortably ship a bunch of new toys for you all to worldbuild with. As a reminder, you can…
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Version 3.8 – Collabroative whiteboards & Referrals
Please join us in welcome our first release of 2026! Collaborative whiteboards When we introduced whiteboards, we mentioned that a collaborative aspect would take a while. And boy did it take a while, but it’s here! Whiteboards no longer have a “save” button but each action, move, rotation, colour change, etc gets sent directly to…
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A security update and a lesson in permissions
At Kanka, we believe in being transparent. Not just about our roadmaps, but about the challenges we face behind the scenes, which is why we recently introduced our developer logs. Today, we’re sharing the details of a security incident we recently identified and resolved which warrants it’s own article. The “what” and the “when” On…
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Monthly Worldbuilding Challenge #1
We’re bringing back our monthly worldbuilding challenges with a new structure, new goals, and a format that actually fits how our community works today. These challenges are simple: one theme each month, everyone builds something short, and anyone can participate at any skill level. No pressure, no judging, no competition. Just shared creativity. The goal…
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Quarterly Objectives – Q1 2026
We recently mentioned that we are changing the way we work and think about work at Kanka. Today we’ll go into detail about why the change, how it’s changing, and what we’re committing to ship in Q1 2026. Our goal is to announce these at the beginning of every quarter, along with a video where…
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Developer Log #4
1. What we shipped I’ve been yapping on about collaborative whiteboards for what feels like forever, but this week I finished the new code. While we didn’t ship anything to Kanka itself, I did install and set up the new “websocket” servers which will power the whole collaborative part of whiteboards and allow live-updates. Spitfire/Itza…
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Developer Log #3
The whole team is back at work and the first thing we decided to do was to think really hard about how we work. Instead of focusing on shiny new features, we went about fixing how we decide what actually deserves our time. As Kanka grows, the biggest risk isn’t technical debt, it’s attention debt.…
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