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The Vanishing Customer
Agnes Cobham heaved a deep sigh as she trudged downstairs. She dragged her weary feet to the front of the tavern and unbolted the entrance. As she cracked the door open, to indicate the Skinny Eel Inn was officially open for business this Thursday afternoon, a sharp blade of sunlight slammed against her narrow beady…
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Release 0.36 – A smaller update
Following our massive 0.35 update, this one brings a few quality of life improvements. New Features Bulk Copy To: a new bulk “copy to campaign” action was added on entity datagrids. Campaign Dashboard Widget: a conversation preview widget will display the last 3 messages. Improvements Quick Creator: added the option to quickly create an Ability. Quick…
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Roadmap May 2020
The first community vote hosted directly on Kanka is over, which means it’s time for this month’s roadmap! As mentionned in the community vote, this is my last month still working for my current employer, and I am switching to working full time for Kanka in June. Boosted Campaign Features Almost a majority of voters voted for…
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3rd of May 2020 Incident & Data Loss
Dear users, We had a pretty big incident today which resulted in the app being down for 4 hours, and some data being lost. I want to go over what happened, what was recovered, and what was sadly lost for good. The Culprit A month ago, we introduced entity recovery for boosted campaigns. This means…
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Release 0.35 – Subscriptions, Newsletters, Community Votes
Dear users, With today’s release, we are changing quite a few things with the way Kanka runs in order to streamline certain processes, engage our users more fully, and continue this wild journey that we are all taking together. To begin with, over the past few months we’ve occasionally teased the idea of moving away…
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2.5 Year Review
With Kanka now two and a half years old, it’s now time to look at some stats again. The last stats were for the 2 Year Review of the project. A lot has changed since the previous review. I quit my job to work full time on Kanka, my best friend joined Kanka as a business manager to help…
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Release 0.34.1
Improvements Campaign Roles: added a small warning in the campaign roles page for the public role if the role has permissions but the campaign isn’t set to public. Attributes: re-did the entity attributes saving mechanism to result in less errors and loss of data. This also means new attributes can now also be “dragged” around when editing…
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Release 0.34 – Entity Recovery
Dear users, We are proud to release Kanka 0.34 which includes Entity Recovery as requested by the previous community vote by our amazing Patrons! New Features Entity Recovery When deleting an entity in a boosted campaign, the entity is kept in the system for 30 days before it is permanently removed. This allows boosted campaign to recover entities using…
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Release 0.33 – Abilities
Dear users, We are proud to release Kanka 0.33 which includes Abilities as requested by the previous community vote by our amazing Patrons! New Features Abilities beta A new entity type called Abilities has been added to the app. This is currently a beta and available to all boosted campaigns (it is automatically enabled). This adds a…
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Roadmap March-April 2020
The second Community vote of 2020 is now closed. The amazing patrons couldn’t make up their minds on what features they most wanted implemented, with all three options being neck and neck for most of the vote’s duration. With weighted votes tallied, we have a winner. Magic & Powers Last month’s runner-up got the most support this month. This…
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