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Kanka 1.20 – Multiple races for characters, gallery permissions, new copy options
Dear Kanka users, let’s start 2022 with a big release! Characters can now have multiple races, members of an organisation can have a direct superior, entries can have a dynamic table of contents, and so much more. Multiple races for characters Our first big change of the year is allowing characters to have multiple races.…
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Kanka 1.19 – Pin organisation members, membership status, and more
Dear Kanka users, our last release of the year is here. With this release, we are adding a way to pin organisation members to both characters and organisations. Pin organisation members We’ve added a new way to pin organisation members. When creating or editing an organisation member, you can select in which entity the membership…
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Kanka 1.18 – Bringing back profile information to the forefront
Dear Kanka users, you’ve been wanting this update for a long time and it’s finally here. Profile information is back on the entity’s story overview page! These changes are based on the feedback we got from our latest surveys of the community. Profile information back in focus Firstly, we’ve renamed the main view of an…
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Infrastructure setup (end of 2021)
Let’s look at the infrastructure that helps Kanka run. We’re publishing this article in tandem with Jay’s Setup article. Hardware running our servers First things first. Kanka runs primarily on five servers, all located in Germany (Nuremberg). Thumbor Frontend1 Frontend2 Backend1 Backend2 All our servers have 2 vCPUs, 4GB of RAM, and plenty of disk.…
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Jay’s setup (end of 2021)
Jumping on a popular type of blog article amongst developers, I thought it would be interesting for people to have an insight into my setup and how I work on Kanka. This includes all the hardware and software that helps me work every day. A tandem article describes the Kanka Infrastructure. Hardware Before I can…
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Kanka 1.17 – A gift to the eyes
Dear Kanka users, we’re excited to release this latest version of Kanka. Jay lost many neurons with this one, but in exchange, creating themes will be substantially easier! But don’t worry, themes isn’t the only change coming with this release. Themes overhaul As explained above, we’ve reworked theming to the core. Gone are the days…
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Anniversary – Four years of Kanka – A celebration
In the chaos that is life in 2021, we forgot our biannual review. So instead, we are turning it into a yearly anniversary of all that is Kanka. Before we get to the traditional stats, we wanted to highlight some things that we did this year. Take a look back with us at what we…
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Kanka 1.16 – Bulk transform, edit warning, api filters & more
Dear users, this month Kanka is turning 4 and so we want to celebrate with a big update. We’re excited to release what seems like our biggest release to date! We’ve incorporate two items from the latest community vote, where our subscribers voted for what they want to see added to Kanka. Being able to…
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Kanka 1.15 – Relations management, @ mentions in attributes, marketplace improvements
Dear users, we’re excited to release not one, not two but three new big features! Our biggest new feature is a relations management interface for campaigns. These changes are thanks to our latest community vote, where our subscribers voted for what they want to see added to Kanka. Campaign relations management Our first new release…
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Styling entity mentions based on their tags
In many cases, you might want to style mentions (when an entity is mentioned in text) based on that entity’s tags. This is possible with a premium campaign and some custom CSS. All mentions include a special data-entity-tags property that will include the entity’s tags. This is present in both tag-{id} and the tag’s name…
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