Paul Swartz’s PCF Devblog

I’ve spent the last week working on redoing the moderation system in Miro. It’s almost there, so hopefully that will be out by next week. I also spent two days trying to track down a strange bug with the Guide in Miro on OS X. I finally figured out a fix today; I still don’t know what caused it.

Other than some small things with the 1.1.1 release and cobranding, I’ve been spending most of my time with a couple of Guide features. One is the language switcher; the other is a redesign of the editing/moderation parts of the guide. Neither one has outward-facing progress, but I hope to have the editing/moderation stuff done by this time next week.

This week I:

• added a quick Audio flag so that podcast can be added for hosted guides but not show up anywhere else
• finished up the new details page
• started working on a language switcher

Next week:

• continuing with the language switcher
• making cobranded builds using the new 1.1.1 release
• working on personalized recommendations (unlikely I’ll get to this this week)

I’m starting to work on #9505 which allows a user to view the guide in a different language. This probably involves a couple things:

• translating the Guide
• only showing channels in the specified language
• choosing the default language based on what language Miro is in

But I don’t really know what people want from this feature. So I’m opening the floor up to you. What would you like a language switcher to do? How would you like to interact with it? Either add a comment to the bug or to this post, and you can help direct this feature!

I spent the last week:

• fixing some bugs on the Guide
• some documentation work with Dean. We’re working on a simpler document to help cobranding partners make their guides
• RSS Feeds
• started again with the details page redesign, fixing stylistic issues that I’d left when I stopped working on it before

Next week:

• making cobranded builds of Miro once 1.1 is out
• hopefully finishing up the details redesign
• creating a user-visible interface for personalized recommendations

I hacked together a quick feature that I’ve been wanting for a while: RSS feeds for the guide. Right now, there are three of them:

https://www.miroguide.com/feeds/features/
https://www.miroguide.com/feeds/new/
]https://www.miroguide.com/feeds/categories/[category name

Let me know what you think!