0.11 we hardly knew ya, but it’s already time for version 0.12! This release is heavily influenced by Patreon and the Future of Kanka.

New Features

• Public Campaign: A new Public Campaign page has been added to the frontend, also accessible once logged in from “Other” menu in the sidebar. A new “Featured Campaigns” has been added which will allow us to highlight some awesome worlds that our community creates. #202
• Patreon Linking: Users who support Kanka on Patreon can now link their accounts in the “Settings>Patreon” page. This unlocks higher upload file limits. #200
• Patreon Hall Of Fame: a new section on the “About” page listing the amazing people who support Kanka on Patreon. #200

Improvements

• Exploration Mode: Improved the various “Exploration View” modes (locations, categories) to include a helper text explaining what the feature does, and adding some more enticing visual clues on what can be clicked. #203
• Locations: Added an “Organisations” menu when viewing locations to view all orgs located in that location. #218
• Images in rich text editor: Allow max-width and max-height to be set for responsive-sizes images.
• Forms: It is now possible to “tab” to the rich select fields, allowing faster creation when on a computer.
• Changed the field “sex” to “gender” on characters.
• Pagination: Patrons can set their max pagination to 100. #200
• Location Map: Patrons can now upload 10 MB maps to locations. #200

Bug Fixes

• Fixed problems with deleting pre-generated locations.
• Fixed various UI issues.
• Fixed errors on calendars with no week days causing errors.
• Fixed the character and location count on quests not taking into account the permissions of the user.
• Fixed character race filtering not working.
• Fixed errors when deleting several races at the same time.
• Fixed hiding location points in the “full view” not working.
• Fixed an bug and error when deleting several entities at a time which deleted nested entities.
• Fixed the “starter” entries now properly showing their foreign ids (locations, characters).
• Fixed form issues when creating a “foreign entity” (for example a character’s family) blocking the whole page if the foreign entity had an error while creating it. #215
• Fixed problems with moving location map points losing the label or location link. #216
• Fixed a problem with characters not loading if: the user is non-admin and had access to just one conversation (but not all) + that there was a conversation for characters + the conversation had no characters. #234

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