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This update brings live the big changes announced during the previous announcement, Two Years of Kanka and Future Goals. This includes Boosted Campaigns, Mentions v3.1, and many other improvements and bug fixes. New Features Boosted Campaigns Patreons at the $3 tier and above now have boosters available in their Settings > Boost page and can assign…

Dear Patrons and users, Kanka is about to turn two years old, meaning the time is right to look back at what started as a small project for my wife and I to track our D&D world together evolve into a massive tool uses by thousands of users and supported by hundreds of kind souls.…

A month ago the new mentions were published, which included a script that went into each entry and replaced links to the new [entry:123] syntax. While at first only a few edge cases of problems were reported, more and more people are coming forward with entities that have missing text. At first I would go into the…

With Kanka now two years old, it’s time to look at some stats again. The last stats were for the 18 months of the project. Let’s start off with some raw numbers. Numbers 18k accounts created 96 accounts deleted 5’530 accounts logged in at least twice during the last 3 months. (30%) 2’510 accounts older than three…

The long awaited improved mentions are here! New Features Mentions v3 Instead of injecting links when mentioning an entity with ‘@’, a shorthand is now injected instead which allows users to control the text on the link, as well as which tab or subpage the link goes to. This new tooltip engine avoids issues with…

Bug Fixes Permissions: fixed a bug preventing unchecked permissions to be properly removed when editing entities. Default Entity Visibility: fixed a bug when creating an entity using the “+” sign next to dropdowns where the entity was visible even when the campaign’s default setting was to set entities to private. Calendars: The Calendar Date tab…

New Features Bulk Permission Edit When selecting entities in the entities list, a new button appears at the bottom of the list next to the “Delete” and other buttons called “Permissions”. This will allow editing permissions for several entities at the same time. Copy to Campaign When viewing an entity, a new action “Copy to…

Improvements Entity: Calendar reminders can be added between Entities and Calendars in the Entity’s Calendar tab. The reminder’s date now contains a link to go to the calendar on the year and month of the reminder. Conversations: Messages can be deleted by the creator of a message up to 1h after it was posted. Tags:…