Category: News

  • 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…

  • Release 0.35 – Subscriptions, Newsletters, Community Votes

    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…

  • Release 0.34.1

    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…

  • Release 0.34 – Entity Recovery

    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…

  • Release 0.33 – Abilities

    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…

  • Release 0.32.1

    Release 0.32.1

    This small update introduces the new Entity Actions UI, which unifies various actions that can be performed on an entity into a coherent experience, as well as a quantity of bug fixes. Improvements Entity Action UI: replaced the “update/move/delete” buttons, the Entity Files buttons, and Permissions button with a new Action UI above each entity…

  • Release 0.32 – Soft Relaunch

    Release 0.32 – Soft Relaunch

    Dear Users, The past few weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind on my side, and I just wanted to take some time to discuss some of the changes that I teased on Facebook in more detail. As you might know, my goal with Kanka is to build a truely amazing tool for worldbuilders, story tellers,…

  • Release 0.31.1

    Bugs Menu Links: sorting by position now works. Menu Links: disabled bulk permissions as menu links aren’t entities linked to the permissions engine. Entity Move: it is no longer possible to move entities to the menu link type, as they aren’t entities. Calendar: fixes some css on the Future and Midnight Blue themes that made…

  • Release 0.31

    This first big update for 2020 tackles the Patrons’ favourite feature: Calendars! New Features Calendars: More moon phases (waning, new moon, and waxing) are displayed in the calendar. Moons can now have a colour to quickly differentiate them all. Option to reset the week at the start of every month or year. Named weeks, with…

  • Release 0.30.2

    With this first update for 2020 I’m fixing a bunch of bugs that were reported during the holidays and improving the experience for new users. Improvements Onboarding: the first campaign of a user will now include a Note with some help, as well as a default campaign dashboard with said note and the recently modified…