Create a changelog section

James

4 years ago
updated 4 years ago
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Hi,

I was using a news section for a changelog much like userecho was https://support.teslafi.com/communities/1/topics/8-changelog.

It would be nice to a few features to make an actual changelog that a few other companies are charging for. Most things are already in place like subscribing to the forum but I eventually had to switch the changelog due missing two things:

1. Automatically sort by newest first in the forum so first time visitors don't start with the oldest first.

2. Implement some sort of widget with a badge of new unread posts in the changelog forum so users know there has been a new fix or feature when they visit the main site. This was mainly the reason I looked at changelog software so that users were aware of the constant development on the site. Even just an api call to check the unread post count for a user would work as well and we could script the badge of unread ourselves.

Thanks,

James

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Sergey Stukov co-founder

4 years ago
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Hello James,

Awesome solution!

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4 years ago

I found a way to get things working!

Using the API I am pulling https://teslafi.userecho.com/api/v2/topics/8.json?access_token= which provides me with a comment count in data:comment_count.

I am now storing the last viewed comment count in a database and when clicking the link to view the changelog it updates to latest comment count.

Also displays the badge as I wanted using some CSS.

Hopefully this can help someone else in the future.

https://support.teslafi.com/communities/1/topics/8-changelog

I found the way to set the sorting preference and I'm looking at the API again and not sure if there's a way to somehow script something to display new posts in the forum from it.