This is a monthly update where I share what I’ve been working on recently. For the previous installment, check out my September 2023 Update.

October was great! I onboarded a couple more teams, and am starting to get a decent amount of real usage. As a result, I ended up throwing out my plans for the month and focusing on UX improvements and bugs.

It’s honestly embarrassing the issues I found as folks started using the app more. Stuff like incorrectly linking URLs in a comment or not validating usernames. Also so much low-hanging fruit in terms of UX improvements, like auto-resizing comment inputs as you type, or adding breadcrumbs to the different pages, or highlighting the link to the current page in the settings navigation.

Fixes & Improvements

Here’s the full list of bug fixes and improvements I shipped:

• Fix display bug in reminder emails where pokers and refines were being rendered incorrectly
• Fix comment sorting bug so comments are sorted by date, not ID
• Fix bug in comments where links would only be added to the domain, not the full URL
• Fix bug where GitHub integration errored on repos with a dot in their name
• Fix text-wrapping bug in the to-do pane on the main page
• In password reset email, add copy explaining the link expires in 90 minutes
• Add username validation, since making @usernames clickable was broken by an invalid username
• Add word wrapping to comments so long URLs and similar will wrap to the next line
• Put notification preferences in their own card under account settings
• Make the link to the current page in the settings navigation bold
• Don’t send you to the top of the page when you update team settings
• Match styling of button in team and user settings to the rest of the app
• Allow multi-line comments in standup, retro, and planning poker, and don’t scroll the text input as you type
• Don’t error when you hit enter in an empty comment field
• Collapse comment thread for closed pokers and refines
• Add breadcrumbs to get back to the home page from statuses, refines, and pokers

And that’s not even everything I wanted to do! So November is shaping up to be more of the same, with a focus on fixing up notifications, working on the Slack integration, and a handful of other nagging issues.

Update: The November 2023 Update is the next post in this series.