A "what's new" page + notifications

[MartinKolarik]

Right now it's very hard to discover changes/new features on our website. I think we should:

• add a new page for this purpose, which would contain a brief description of any change we make and a link to a page with more info when applicable (basically a change log)
• design and add some kind of a notification system, which would let you know there were some recent changes right after opening the website

Currently we have this but it can only contain 1 message:

Suggestions and/or PRs welcome.

[jimaek]

Maybe we can create a standard CHANGELOG.md in the main repo and then link there from that message

[MartinKolarik]

That would definitely work for the first point, and could be easily displayed on the website too - we already have the code for fetching MD from GitHub and rendering it on the website for the privacy policy.

[BirkhoffLee]

Maybe we can create a standard CHANGELOG.md in the main repo and then link there from that message

Can you create the said CHANGELOG.md on the repo so I can work on this?

[jimaek]

I believe this discussion is about the backend code, so creating the file wont do much since nobody knows what was changed and cant update it

[BirkhoffLee]

Not sure what did you mean - in src/views/components/notification.html I believe if there's a CHANGELOG.md for public access then this can be implemented

[MartinKolarik]

I created a changelog file. As a first step, we can include it on the website under /changelog similarly to the privacy policy pages. Later we can discuss if the notification need any updates or we just use the current blue stripe at the top.

[BirkhoffLee]

If we want to associate a change to a specific page we need to include the route in the CHANGELOG. Something like:

@/network Added network map.

then we can show something like this in the top blue bar:

Recent change on this page - Added a network map @ 2020-01-01

But IMO having /changelog is more than enough.