Patch Notes

Overview

Welcome to the realm of past internet traveler!

Here you can find past changes to your favorite movie & TV show recommendation platform. As the website is in pretty dynamic development, I made a place where you can check, what epic update has been implemented since your last visit

Miscellaneous

• Renamed Bogo model to RNG model to better fit the average user
• Upon adding rating, date of the rating will now be saved too
• Fixed a bug where clicking links generated by RNG model would not work
• Grammar and spelling fixes in patch notes page
• Fixed favicon not being displayed properly

Feedback II

• Added cancel button to the feedback form
• Fixed a bug which prevented translation of movie page

Visuals

• Added basic mobile layout, so the page won't look broken & will be possible to control on all devices up to 375px width
• Fixed many present visual bugs such as text not being in the same height in the footer or flag not being centered in it's padding

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Bogo model's links not working Czech
• Enhanced patch notes page by adding new title
• Fixed header's visuals
• Added text to movie page which alerts about not being able to add ratings if you are not logged in, it disappears once when you log in
• Fixed log out in movie page not working
• Fixed missing parameters, missed translations & misspells in the movie database
• Slightly simplified the database for performance boost
• Fixed a bug where if there were 2 movies with the same title, the latter in the database would not be accessible through searching & rating it would also be impossible

Database

• Added about 1000 new movies to the database
• Deleted duplicate movies & TV shows from the database
• Deleted unwanted notes in parenthesis after names of the crew members

Czech translation II

• Translated User, Signup & Login pages
• Fixed visual bugs caused by translation
• Language now sticks even if you browse through multiple pages
• Fixed a bug which resulted in weird long URLs

SEO optimization

• Changed form of patch notes text to make it more readable for people
• Changed some HTML tags & added HTML meta tags for SEO
• Fixed grammar errors

Patch notes

Patch notes page does not have much functionality to keep the website as fast as possible, so if you want to send feedback or rate movies, you will have to go to one of the main pages of the website

• Added patch notes page

Czech translation

As many users suggested this feature, I decided to add Czech translation to the website

• Translated Main & Movie pages
• Added button so you can switch through the languages
• Fixed bugs which resulted in not working search bar
• Fixed visual bugs associated with translation

Performance

• Improved performance by optimizing code

Footer

• Fixed a bug where footer was not were it was supposed to be - under all of the other content

Bug Fixes

A lot of bugs in the update was discovered by users. Thank you for your feeback! As you see it really helps with development of the website

• Fixed a bug where the ratings were not being saved for new users
• Fixed a bug where if movie was missing certain parameters, the movie page would crash

Focus by tab

• Added abbility to tab around on the website

Feedback

• Added feedback button and feedback form to footer and connected it with database

Bogo Model

The "funny model" is going to be replaced by a real recommender model when website hits version 1.0. This is the first beta version which means website should be mostly functional

• Added Bogo recommendation which recommends you a movie based on random chance

Created the website

The whole process was radical and even though the website did not look much better than ones from the dawn of the internet at the beggining, I'm glad that we were able to come so far and I'm sure that if you are seeing the website now, it looks much better. Thank you for sticking around ❤️

• Added basic backbone of the page - HTML
• Added basic styling of the page - CSS
• Added search bar
• Created backend - server database
• Added login/signup system and pages
• Added basic database with around 2000 movies & TV shows
• Added a movie page, where search bar takes you, it shows you some information about the movie
• Added abbility to rate movies