Changelog

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This page details the changes that have been made to the site, task runner, and Discord bot over time. You don't need to know the information on this page, but it's provided as a record of those changes.

2026-04-22
  • Increase amount of new feedback text posted to Sr Staff channel.
2026-04-17
  • Event creation now in UTC/Zulu rather than the user's browser's timezone.
2026-04-04
  • Added table sortting to the event page.
2026-04-01
  • Slight design changes to activity report page.
  • Activity report now cached for 3 hours instead of 6.
2026-03-11
  • Show unpublished event tag on event listing page for event staff.
2026-03-10
  • Fix visiting controller form.
2026-03-09
  • Remove ZLC MVAP visitor bypass.
2026-03-06
  • Add ability for the Events team to upload a banner image when creating or editing events.
2026-03-03
  • Update mentions of "OTS" to "RCE".
2026-03-02
  • Badge on event registrations to show total count.
2026-01-12
  • Use session storage for training note textarea in case of submission issue.
2026-01-11
  • VATUSA title in Discord for VATUSA# members.
2026-01-01
  • Added simple terms of use.
2025-12-02
  • Added support for ATA role.
2025-11-26
  • Students can see their RCE training notes.
2025-11-22
  • Update to training notes form to allow training staff to record recommending students for RCEs.
2025-11-16
  • Little note added to the form to create new training notes to explain the restrictions of the position field.
2025-10-26
  • Reminder emails will be sent to controllers who have not met currency requirements 1 month and 2 weeks before the end of the quarter
2025-10-20
  • Feedback page takes a "cid" querystring param to auto-select the controller dropdown
2025-09-15
  • Update controller URL on admin page for visitor applications
2025-09-15
  • Certs being removed for controller roster removal will be logged first
2025-09-14
  • Added INS tag for appropriate Discord members
2025-08-04
  • Fix feedback for unknown controllers not showing for admin review
  • Restore the homepage banner; it seemed to have disappeared
2025-07-30
  • New banner above the navbar added on the homepage
2025-07-25
  • Discord bot now assigns controllers for Denver Ground, Tower, and Approach
2025-07-19
  • New controls on activity audit page for Sr Staff
2025-07-14
  • New roster stats visualizations
2025-07-11
  • Fixed issue with not being able to delete events after people have signed up
2025-07-02
  • Activity report updates for links and table sorting
2025-06-18
  • Certs are stripped from controllers when they leave the roster
2025-06-09
  • SOP initialling requires opening the document beforehand
  • Home controllers not longer see a menu option to submit a visitor application
  • Slight improvement to homepage online controller list for mobile
2025-06-08
  • Feedback rating text is capitalized on its admin page
2025-05-30
  • Adding back the ability to add no-show records for events
2025-06-31
  • Add feature to initial resources
2025-05-23
  • New /resources command in Discord
  • Event position dropdown is now sorted
2025-05-13
  • Allow submitting feedback when you don't know the controller
2025-05-12
  • Added more meta tags for link embed improvements
2025-05-07
  • New page for KDEN information
  • Start receiving vATIS POST updates
2025-04-25
  • Minor improvement to admin feedback management page
2025-04-19
  • Improvement to no-show emails to the TA
  • S3 Mentors can now grant solo certs that are reported to VATUSA
2025-03-29
  • Fix transfer checklist VATUSA API call
2025-03-22
  • Add link to controller page from event registrations
  • Text change for button on controller page
2025-03-19
  • Clean up of staff buttons on the controller page
  • Controllers can be updated from VATUSA on demand by staff
2025-03-14
  • Fix sorting of the activity table
2025-03-12
  • New 'back' button on controller pages for easier navigating
2025-03-11
  • Fixed some CSS classes on the feedback page
2025-03-08
  • Updates to the visitor application flow for improved logging
2025-03-07
  • Removed EGE from certifications from the roster, controller pages, and training site
2025-02-24
  • Fixed alias reference page not showing the user as logged in
2025-02-22
  • Staff can now more easily update resources
2025-02-21
  • Fixed some issues with button clicks not doing what they're supposed to
  • Training staff can overwrite solo cert end dates (i.e. for extending them) easier
  • New solo certs are for 45 days instead of 1 month
2025-02-16
  • Event registrations without position assignments are now longer deleted when a position in that event is deleted
2025-02-07
  • Training staff who select "no show" in a training note also automatically create a no-show entry on our site
2025-02-07
  • Mentors can grant position solo certs on the website (i.e. not solos that need to be reported to VATUSA)
2025-02-05
  • Fixed the link to the training site in emails
2025-02-01
  • Don't show un-primed controllers in online list
2025-01-31
  • Update training link to hosted Scheddy
  • Fix spot-updating activity for first-of-the-month controlling session
2025-01-29
  • Fix homepage controller listing for Delivery
2025-01-24
  • Activity page "totals" row
2025-01-22
  • More homepage styling changes
2025-01-21
  • Homepage styling changes
2025-01-19
  • Online controllers card on homepage moved and expanded
2025-01-17
  • Improve resilience of deleting solo certs from this website
2025-01-15
  • Hide the FAA weather map on mobile viewports
2025-01-10
  • Add FAA weather map to top of weather page
2025-01-09
  • Added LOA form for Sr Staff to use for controllers
2025-01-03
  • Fixed reply-to header in sent emails
  • Improved text in staffing request Discord notification
2025-01-03
  • Controller feedback form default controller fixed
  • Controller feedback form position made into a simplified dropdown, and some other textual changes
  • Visitors removed from the roster now receive emails direct from ZDV
2025-01-01
  • Update the admin activity report for improved accuracy
2024-12-29
  • Minor text improvement to solo certs page
  • Minor text improvement to controller page
  • Changed role assignments by the TA
2024-12-20
  • New static file routing to allow content-type header overrides
2024-12-18
  • Add new facility page for showing the CRC aliases available to controllers
2024-12-13
  • ACE controllers online in ZDV airspace won't trigger Discord notifications to Sr Staff of off-roster controlling
  • Integrated my vatsim_pilot_glance_online tool into the site
  • Fix events disappearing from home and events page too quickly
2024-12-11
  • Fixed some not-logged-in wording
  • Fixed spot-update activity counting other facility controlling and observers (true-up activity for CoTM/etc. not affected)
2024-11-21
  • API page for flight data for ZTL
2024-11-20
  • Styling improvements for modals on mobile
  • Improvements for Discord no-show notifications
  • Showing more info on user's own training notes page
2024-11-19
  • Add new audit log page for Sr. Staff
2024-11-18
  • Modifications to the Discord no-show integration
  • No-shows now automatically expire
2024-11-16
  • Some refactoring; no user impact
  • Visitors are immediately shown as on-roster after their application is accepted
  • Restore "solo" option in controller certification dropdown for training staff
  • "Solo" controller certifications are reset to "training" if a solo cert expires
  • New page for training event and training no-shows
  • No-show page is now permissions filtered to differentiate between event and training staff
  • Users are notified by Discord DM if they are added to the no-show list
2024-11-15
  • New staff page for all solo certs
  • Discord alerts for training staff of expiring solo certs
2024-11-11
  • Allow setting solo certs on the website with optional reporting to VATUSA
2024-11-10
  • Allow users to leave an email address in feedback to be contacted later
2024-11-08
  • Capitalized first letter of feedback rating posted to Discord
  • Fixed from/to/within flights on homepage
2024-11-06
  • Removal of 'K' from airport codes
  • Airport links on weather page to metar-taf.com
2024-11-05
  • Splitting of airports and weather stations for their respective pages
2024-11-04
  • Added a Sr Staff Discord webhook notification for new visitor requests
2024-11-04
  • Highlighting added to event registrations for assigned controllers, minor styling changes to the table
  • Fix permissions on adding new resources
  • Added controller history lookup for Sr staff
2024-11-03
  • Slight color change to silver activity rank on activity page
2024-11-01
  • Unregistering from an event now removes the controller from any assigned positions
2024-10-30
  • Controller page CSS improvements for mobile
  • Visitor application form URL fix
  • Visitor application bypass for ZLC home controllers added
2024-10-28
  • Homepage event loading change
2024-10-27
  • Slight homepage panel loading change
  • Slight event page styling change
2024-10-26
  • Fix error when deleting an event position that controllers have already registered for.
  • Small homepage CSS tweaks for mobile devices
  • Fix error page
  • Add 2 more controllers to the COTM panel on the homepage
2024-10-24
  • Privacy policy page added.
  • Small changes to activity report.
2024-10-23
  • Sr Staff activity report feature.
2024-10-22
  • Sr Staff can edit controller feedback before posting (mostly to remove PII).
  • Controller training notes are a bit more lively-looking.
2024-10-21
  • Login sessions will last much longer.
  • Audit reporting for some events to another Discord webhook.
  • Approved feedback from the ADH site imported here.
  • Controllers can see their own feedback on their controller page.
  • Sr Staff notifications of new controller feedback.
2024-10-20
  • The right-side cards on the homepage auto-refresh every so often
2024-10-19
  • Faster activity updating for active controllers
  • Sr Staff can silently approve controller feedback (i.e. not send it to Discord)
  • Many of the tables on the site are sortable by clicking on the table headers
  • When a new Discord member joins, the bot attempts to update them immediately
  • Sr Staff can remove controllers (home and visiting) from the roster
2024-10-16
  • Fix top-nav not showing on changelog page
2024-10-14
  • Add flights not starting or ending in facility airports but physically located in its airspace to home and flights pages
  • Add this changelog page
2024-10-14
  • Fix for adding OIs to new roster controllers
  • Restrict event notes to 500 characters
  • Fix position matching for off-roster controllers
  • Create editable email templates for Sr. Staff
  • Fix manual-email-send post-form-submission redirect destination
2024-10-13
  • Improved the online controllers message in Discord
  • Code cleanup
  • Fix roster page showing 'none' certificates as certified
  • Added 'bot-ignore' support for Discord nicknames
  • Reduce activity task delay to 6 hours
  • Reduce roster task delay to 2 hours
2024-10-12

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