A long awaited 2021 progress update!

@anderfernandes | Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 08:47:02 PM

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Hello everyone! What a year 2020 was: the most challenging year for our generation, and things were not different with me.

I finally graduated from school in May and started a full time job in a new city a few months after. Between finding a new place and getting new things for this place, a lot changed and it didn’t let me focus on Astral as much as I wanted to. Even with everything that happened (right in the middle of a global pandemic), bad or good, I never stopped working on ideas for Astral and the same goes for bug fixes and small improvements.

While all that was happening, I was keeping a close eye on the tools I use and wanted to use to build Astral. I was waiting for a list of new technologies to come out and for the most part they are all out, which will finally let me rewrite everything the way I want. I am very excited!

Here’s a few things that have been added and updated to Astral in 2020:

• Added support for nicely embedded YouTube and Vimeo show trailers
• Bulletin now shows when a post or reply was updated
• REST API now shows the amount of seats available per event
• Added tickets and show colums to payment transaction detail report
• Added timeout for staff announcements
• Added public announcements
• Shows PHP, DB and server info in Admin / Settings / Server
• Inactive members are hidden by default but the display can be toggled
• Alert is displayed if there’s a problem delivering emails that originate from Astral
• Visitors can now sign up to receive newsletters
• Staff can download a CSV of visitors and members who signed up for newsletters

Our vision for the beta going forward stays the same as described here. I plan on writing here more often and show you a little bit of how thing are turning out. Stay tuned