v3.3.3

Improvements overall to the front-end, answer checking, and performance, plus a year slider.

Frontend

• Added a year slider for random questions (#126)
• Added dedicated backup page
• Add bolding for power for all tossups
• Question cards on /db page can be collapsed
• Fix bug with ANSWER: ANSWER: showing in cards in multiplayer

Backend

• Add permanent multiplayer rooms
• Exceeding max payload size in websocket no longer crashes the server

Answer Checking

• Correctly parse mixed parentheses
• Account for more cases when hyphens are present
• Add special accept answers (e.g. 1984 and wavefunction)
• Account for presence of (s) at end of words
• Accept ordinals (1st, 2nd, etc.)
• Accept cm and mm for centimeters and millimeters

What's Changed

• add github action checks for linting and unit testing on commit and pr by @g3ner1c in #137
• Hide powermarks until the answer is revealed by @BLCRAFT210 in #139

Full Changelog: v3.3.2...v3.3.3

v3.3.2

Split the "questions" collection in the mongodb database into a "tossups" and a "bonuses" collection.

• More meaningful backups, which is especially pertinent for quizbowl software developers using the backup
• Allows me to build search indexes for improved searching
• Allows me to create schema validation
• Slightly reduced storage size due to smaller indexes and no need for "type" field
  • Note: performance differences were negligable based on testing

Note: no return types, API calls, or any other front-facing interfaces have changed. API users should notice no difference. The type field is still present on questions for now, although this may be removed later.

Other Changes

• Increased query speed by 3-5x using Promise.all
• Raised API rate limit to 20 requests / second
• Condensed question reporting options
• Added tests for database.js

Full Changelog: v3.3.1...v3.3.2

v3.3.1

Rate-limiting and IP blocking, plus some minor changes.

• Change default theme to dark mode
• Close #129

Full Changelog: v3.3.0...v3.3.1

v3.3.0

Changes the /api/check-answer endpoint to account for directed prompts. Also includes performance optimizations and small improvements to the front-end and back-end.

• Close #81

Front-End

• Remove most instances of console.log in client-side code
• Update about page, including difficulty explanations
• Optimize random question loading so the user should never have to wait for questions
• Add queryLock to all instances of querying
• Add keyboard shortcut to open last question #123

Back-End

• Use more reliable roman-numerals package
• Increase max query return length to 400
• Use GET instead of POST for query
  • Allows more detailed logs (IP data, categories, subcategories) for queries
• Reorganize colors -> bcolors
• Only use questions from 2010 onward when sampling random questions

Full Changelog: v3.2.2...v3.3.0

v3.2.2

Add type to answer for bonuses.

• Parse arabic numerals in answerline
• Parse roman numerals in answerline

Full Changelog: v3.2.1...v3.2.2

v3.2.1

Various bug fixes, especially in the database page.

• Prevent spacebar from scrolling page
• Correctly account for bonuses of arbitrary length (especially > 3)
• Small speed optimizations to answer checking
• Include '0' difficulty in query
• Add support for alternate_subcategory
• Update backup link

Full Changelog: v3.2.0...v3.2.1

v3.2.0

Added ability to type answers in singleplayer (#115), along with a new associated api endpoint, and some other small changes.

• Add /api/check-answer endpoint
• Fix answer checking when answer contains "dr" as a substring but not as a token
• Add python api wrapper module info to /about and /api-info pages
• Automatically disable submit button during submission and close report question modal after submission
• Remove sticky navbar from all pages that originally had it

Full Changelog: v3.1.4...v3.2.0

v3.1.4

Major improvements to the answer checking algorithm.

Backend

• Use Porter stemmer (see #88)
• Correctly parse answers that use round brackets () in place of square brackets []
• Fix [] or () in middle of main answer
• Accept abbreviated form of main answer
• Fix checking of four letter answers
• Accept dr. for doctor

Full Changelog: v3.1.3...v3.1.4

v3.1.3

Improvements

• Use separate toggleShowHistory setting for tossups and bonuses
• Changed /database layout to avoid horizontal scrolling
• Support italics in answerline

Backend

• Support commas as an answer separator (see 12517cd for an example of such an answerline)

Bug Fixes

• Fix missing space in bonuses between [10] and text in /database page
• Fix singleplayer bonus keyboard shortcuts

Full Changelog: v3.1.2...v3.1.3

v3.1.2

They haven't received much attention recently, so this release is focused on improvements to bonuses.

• Add ability to report bonuses
• Create question cards when new bonuses are read (in singleplayer)
• Add ability to show/hide question history in singleplayer

Backend and Bug Fixes

• Fix documentation for the searchType parameter of /api/query
• Check for null and undefined parameters in database methods, ensuring the server doesn't crash on those
• Use lowercase doctype as specified in https://codeguide.co

Full Changelog: v3.1.1...v3.1.2