dev.to Repo Recap of the Past Week
Tags: changelog, meta, opensource
Published: 2018-11-29 20:54:32

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title: dev.to Repo Recap of the Past Week
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description: A new weekly post recapping what's happened in our repo.
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tags: changelog, meta, opensource
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Hope you all had a good holiday last week for those who celebrated! This edition will be covering November 20 to November 27.

# Features
- [@rhymes](https://dev.to/rhymes) added the option to export your dev.to posts! It comes as a JSON file via email. Check out the changelog post for more details:
{% link https://dev.to/rhymes/changelog-export-posts-1kdm %}

- [@glebec](https://dev.to/glebec), [@bennypowers](https://dev.to/bennypowers) and I worked on this PR together and added anchor links to headers in posts! Check out the changelog post for more details:
{% link https://dev.to/devteam/markdown-headers-are-now-anchored-18bg %}

- [@philnash](https://dev.to/philnash) added the HTML attribute `rel='me'` to profile links. If you're not sure what this is, check out the PR for more details. Thanks, Phil!
  - [Link to PR](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/1183)

# Bug Fixes / Other Contributions

- [@moriczgergo](https://dev.to/moriczgergo) updated our documentation with how to add series to your front matter. Thanks @moriczgergo!
  - [Link to PR](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/1152)

- [@lightalloy](https://dev.to/lightalloy) removed database.yml and added it to our .gitignore. If you've previously contributed, you might need to copy over the new `config/database.yml.sample` into a new `config/database.yml`. Thanks Anna!
  - [Link to PR](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/1162)

- [@ben](https://dev.to/ben) added some beginnings of pagination functionality to the notifications page. This pattern will let us add true pagination later on.
  - [Link to PR](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/1175)

- [@lightalloy](https://dev.to/lightalloy) refactored how our comments rendered, and there are now less SQL queries being called. Thanks again, Anna!
  - [Link to PR](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/1197)

- [@jess](https://dev.to/jess) refactored one of the ways we handle spam accounts. The PR has a great service object name 👌
  - [Link to PR](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/1168)

- [@mariocsee](https://dev.to/mariocsee) updated some documentation regarding our API keys. You no longer need to set up Stream API keys for basic development. Thanks, Mario!
  - [Link to PR](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/1199)

# New Issues / Discussions

- We have a small bug where the left end of the navbar is shortened a bit. Thanks [@tristan957](https://dev.to/tristan957)!
{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/1160 %}

- The Runkit tag has a bug where it doesn't render in the comment preview. Thanks [@antogarand](https://dev.to/antogarand)!
{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/1163 %}

- We have service workers that show a cool [offline page](https://dev.to/offline.html), but we could brush up on caching pages.
{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/1171 %}

- Sometimes duplicate posts are made. Perhaps we could add a buffer to prevent that? More details in the issue. Thanks, [@rdumais](https://dev.to/rdumais)!
{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/1170 %}

- It'd be great to have a history on dev.to of all the posts you've read on dev.to. Feel free to add the discussion in the issue. Thanks, [@yafkari](https://dev.to/yafkari)!
{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/1173 %} 

- It would also be cool to be able to subscribe to a series of posts and receive notifications when a new post of that series is released. Thanks, [@sturzl](https://dev.to/sturzl)!
{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/1172 %}

- We have a bit of an edge case where we show text in a post's sidebar that probably doesn't make much sense. More details in the issue. Thanks, [@david_j_eddy](https://dev.to/david_j_eddy)!
{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/1202 %}

- Andrew wrote up a great issue on how the save buttons could have better contrast. Check it out below. Thanks [@link2twenty](https://dev.to/link2twenty/)!
{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/1204 %}

That's it for this edition. Feel free to share your thoughts on any of the issues.