Figuring out what unread topics a user has is a very expensive
operation over time.
Users can easily accumulate 10s of thousands of tracking state rows
(1 for every topic they ever visit)
When figuring out what a user has that is unread we need to join
the tracking state records to the topic table. This can very quickly
lead to cases where you need to scan through the entire topic table.
This commit optimises it so we always keep track of the "first" date
a user has unread topics. Then we can easily filter out all earlier
topics from the join.
We use pg functions, instead of nested queries here to assist the
planner.
This feature introduces the concept of themes. Themes are an evolution
of site customizations.
Themes introduce two very big conceptual changes:
- A theme may include other "child themes", children can include grand
children and so on.
- A theme may specify a color scheme
The change does away with the idea of "enabled" color schemes.
It also adds a bunch of big niceties like
- You can source a theme from a git repo
- History for themes is much improved
- You can only have a single enabled theme. Themes can be selected by
users, if you opt for it.
On a technical level this change comes with a whole bunch of goodies
- All CSS is now compiled using a custom pipeline that uses libsass
see /lib/stylesheet
- There is a single pipeline for css compilation (in the past we used
one for customizations and another one for the rest of the app
- The stylesheet pipeline is now divorced of sprockets, there is no
reliance on sprockets for CSS bundling
- CSS is generated with source maps everywhere (including themes) this
makes debugging much easier
- Our "live reloader" is smarter and avoid a flash of unstyled content
we run a file watcher in "puma" in dev so you no longer need to run
rake autospec to watch for CSS changes
- avoid access denied on bad cookie, instead just nuke it
- avoid marking a token unseen for first minute post rotation
- log path in user auth token logs
Revamped system for managing authentication tokens.
- Every user has 1 token per client (web browser)
- Tokens are rotated every 10 minutes
New system migrates the old tokens to "legacy" tokens,
so users still remain logged on.
Also introduces weekly job to expire old auth tokens.
- Regular users are not notified of whispers
- Regular users no longer have "stuck" topics in unread
- Additional tracking for staff highest post number
- Remove a bunch of unused columns in topics table
previously we supported blanket read and write for user API, this
change amends it so we can define more limited scopes. A scope only
covers a few routes. You can not grant access to part of the site and
leave a large amount of the information hidden to API consumer.
FIX: warning about popup dimensions when using facebook login
Rules are:
- On account creation we always import
- If you already have an avatar uploaded, nothing is changed
- If you have no avatar uploaded, we upload from facebook on login
- If you have no avatar uploaded, we select facebook unless gravatar already selected
This also fixes SSO issues where on account creation accounts had missing avatar uploads
This feature ensures session cookie lifespan is extended
when user is online.
Also decreases session timeout from 90 to 60 days.
Ensures all users (including logged on ones) get expiring sessions.
Users can no longer opt-in for "public" edit history
if site owner disables it.
This feature adds cost and complexity to post rendering since
user options need to be premeptively loaded for every user in the
stream. It is also confusing to explain to communities with private edit
history.
- All unsubscribes go to the exact same page
- You may unsubscribe from watching a category on that page
- You no longer need to be logged in to unsubscribe from a topic
- Simplified footer on emails
* Rearrange frontend to account for mailing list mode
* Allow update of user preference for mailing list frequency
* Add mailing list frequency estimate
* Simplify frequency estimate; disable activity summary for mailing list mode
* Remove combined updates
* Add specs for enqueue mailing list mode job
* Write mailing list method for mailer
* Fix linting error
* Account for stale topics
* Add translations for default mailing list setting
* One query for mailing list topics
* Fix failing spec
* WIP
* Flesh out html template
* First pass at text-based mailing list summary
* Add user avatar
* Properly format posts for mailing list
* Move make_all_links_absolute into Email::Styles
* Apply first_seen_at to user
* Send mailing list email summary hourly based on first_seen_at
* Branch and test cleanup
* Use existing mailing list mode estimate
* Fix failing specs
We now optionally add a Variable Email Return Path to every email we send.
This allows us to cleanly handle email bounces, which in turn will improve
deliverability.
