Category: Dev Blogs

  • 2.5 Year Review

    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…

  • Roadmap March-April 2020

    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…

  • Roadmap Early 2020

    The first Patreon vote of 2020 is now closed, so it’s time for the roadmap for the beginning of the new year. The amazing patrons were once again split between two features, with more features for the calendar taking a slight lead. Calendars More moon phases shown. Resetting each month on the first day of the week. Aliases for…

  • Roadmap End of 2019

    With the new every two month Patreon vote now closed, it’s time for the roadmap for the end of the year 2019. The amazing patrons have clearly voted for Bulk Editing and Batch Tagging to become a reality. Bulk Editing & Batch Tagging Allow campaign admins to quickly edit fields of several entities at a time on the entities…

  • Roadmap September 2019

    With the September Patreon vote now closed, it’s time for a new monthly roadmap. The amazing patrons have voted for attributes to get more love! Attributes Adding a way to group attributes together into sections. A “delete all attributes” button to save time. A button to quickly toggle the visibility of all attributes. General tweaks to the interface to…

  • Roadmap August 2019

    With the August Patreon vote now closed, it’s time for a (late) new monthly roadmap. The amazing patrons have voted for the ability to bulk-edit permissions. Bulk-Edit Permissions Add a new button in the lists of entities to edit the permissions of several entities at a time. Misc The following are some other features and improvements I want to…

  • Roadmap July 2019

    With the July Patreon vote now closed, it’s time for a new monthly roadmap. The amazing patrons have voted for Relations to be improved. Relations Add a visibility field à la entity notes to relation, to better control who can see relations. Add an Attitude field from -100 to 100 to track how entities feel towards each other. Add the option for a…

  • Roadmap June 2019

    With the June Patreon vote now closed, it’s time for a new monthly roadmap. The amazing patrons were split between Tags and Permissions with each getting 22 weighted votes. A last minute dramatic reveal by Mitsu pulled the balance towards Permissions! However since it was so close, I’ll try and get both of these features done to the best…

  • Roadmap May 2019

    With the May Patreon vote now closed, it’s time for a new monthly roadmap. The amazing patrons have voted for the Entity Forms to get a new design based on tabs, allowing the UI to breath a bit more. Forms Change the current “one page” forms to “tabbed” forms, allowing related blocks to be grouped together (for example the…

  • 18 Month Status Report

    With Kanka now one and a half years old, it’s time to look at some stats again. Quite a lot has changed since the previous one, so buckle up! Let’s start off with some raw numbers. Numbers 11’050 accounts created 53 accounts deleted 5’356 accounts logged in at least a second time (48%, up from 45%)…