Patch Notes

Overview

Welcome to the realm of the past internet traveler!

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

December 2024

• Temporarilly stopped tracking Patch Notes to provide you with faster development of the website fundamentals 🚀

November 2024

• Made prototype Prime model a neural network-based movie recommender (comming soon)
• Began testing the Prime model, and preparing it for deployment

September 2024

• Added a table with 10 popular movies, upon user's first login to the page. This is especially useful for people to aquire more movie ratings at the start, and so get better movie recommendations.
• Translated the newly added starting interface into Czech
• Rewritten some Patch notes to make them more concise, easier to understand, and written in a simmilair style
• Fixed translation errors
• Fixed visual bugs regarding the starting interface update
• Fixed a bug, which sometimes prevented users to save ratings

June 2024

• Changed the structure of the Patch notes page to show all changes made in a single month
• Fixed visual bugs assosiated with addition of the Prime model

May 2024

• Added a preview for a new recommender model - model Prime. Model does not work yet, but it is soon to come to live!
• Optimized the initial load time of the website
• Enhanced the resolution of the images throughout the web application
• Translated the part of the website added with the Prime model update into Czech
• Greatly enhanced accessibility, especially for keyboard users
• Enhanced visuals, mostly for keyboard users
• Added direct link to the Patch notes page at the bottom of the page, rather than version of the website leading to it
• Added links to better explain where or what changes were exactly made
• Fixed a critical bug on Movie page, which could stop the elements of the page from being interactive
• Fixed bugs associated with accessibility, mostly for only keyboard users
• Fixed visual bug which scattered words across the line in the Patch notes
• Fixed grammar and spelling mistakes, and clarified description of many prior patches in the Patch notes page

Miscellaneous

• Renamed Bogo model to RNG model to help users who are not programmers better understand the model's function. As the RNG implies Random Number Generators.
• Started saving dates along with the ratings
• Fixed a bug which would made clicking links generated by RNG model not work
• Fixed grammar and spelling mistakes in the Patch notes page
• Fixed favicon not being displayed in some browsers

Feedback II

• Added cancel button to the feedback form - no more being stuck :)
• Fixed a bug which prevented translation of the Movie page

Visuals

• Added basic responsivness for the website up until 375px screen width
• Fixed many present visual bugs. Such as the text in the footer having different height on each side or flag translation button not being centered in it's padding.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Bogo model's links not working Czech language
• Enhanced Patch notes page by adding the new title
• Fixed header's visuals
• Added alerts to the Movie page about not being able to add ratings if you are not logged in. It disappears once when you log in.
• Fixed logging out in the 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. The first one would always appear on behalf of it.

Database

• Added about 1000 new movies to the database
• Deleted duplicate movies & TV shows from the database. Also deleted unwanted information from the database.

Czech translation II

• Translated User, Signup and Login pages
• Fixed visual bugs caused by translation
• Made language not change if you swap through pages of the website
• Fixed a bug which resulted in weird long URLs

SEO optimization

• Transformed patch notes in the Patch notes page to list of bullet points to increase readability and reduce boilerplate
• Changed some HTML tags & added HTML meta tags in order to improve SEO
• Fixed grammar errors

Patch notes

Patch notes page does not have almost any functionality by design. In order to keep the website as fast as possible. So if you want to send feedback, translate the page or really do anything dynamic you will have to go to another page 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 and Movie pages
• Added button to the top right corner which gives you abbility to switch through the English and Czech languages
• Fixed bugs which resulted in search bar not working
• Fixed visual bugs associated with translation

Performance

• Improved performance by optimizing and reducing code

Footer

• Fixed a bug which prevented footer from staying on the bottom of the page

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 model which recommends you a movie based on a random chance. It's named after Bogo sorting algorithm.

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 their respective pages pages
• Added basic database with around 2000 movies & TV shows
• Added a Movie page, which you can access by using the search bar. It shows you some information about the movie.
• Added abbility to rate movies