Hello! Nat here, with the latest news from StoryTime. If you’re reading this, you signed up to get monthly updates about our development process.

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This month was mostly spent dealing with Nat & Jesse’s move to Minnesota, but in between trips to Menards and turkey dinners we completed a few things for StoryTime:

• stories moved to the top of the active backlog should not be moved above hidden stories

• We replaced links to /live_backlogs with links to /rooms (old links should redirect to the new page)

• a bunch of improvements to marker acceptance and statement management — markers are now “accepted” if they move into a location in the backlog where all the stories above them have been accepted, and are unaccepted if they move out of that position

• URLs should wrap correctly inside of story descriptions

The main thing on deck for this upcoming month is some performance monitoring and possibly improvements, and some improvements to the /accounts page, to make it easier to handle more users.

If I’m able to make a lot of progress, we’ve got some improvements we want to make to the process of creating new rooms and selecting a room — this isn’t a workflow we use ourselves much but it’s very important to onboarding.

More soon,

Nat, Coby, & Jesse