Where
Are
We?

Q2/Q3

• Succesfully migrated Tribe backend to Rails
• Added post release features
• tons of bug fixing

Q3

• Internationalized into 5 languages
• Added theming capabilities
• Launched Google Clusters
    - feedback has been pretty positive
    - app usage has been kind of slow but it seems to be growing
    - did ask that we consider redesigning the weekly digest emails
• More Bug Fixing

Q4

• Cross app features:
  • Share exceed activity to tribe
  • Exceed activity/path posting on tribe
• https://intellum.exceedlms.com/student/path/311710
  

Where
do we
go?

UI/UX

• Quite messy Stylesheets: several types of buttons, different patterns, lack of fine detail
• Nick is working on a UI cleanup:
  • http://tribe-961edd.webflow.io/
• Live link preview loading (similar to facebook, similar to adding photo or video to tribe posting)
• Improvement of the sorting algorithm.

New Features

• User badges: Organizer, Owner, Top contributor
• Adding more types of posts:
  • Poll
  • Question and Answer (with the ability to vote up and down the answers)
• Improving comments (bumping, link preview, images)
• Cross app features:
  • Level Badges
  • Curate/Categorize Links posted on Tribe (connect to the intelligence api)
• Code cleanup (mongoids, old dead code, billing)

Architecture

• User Sync with exceed:
  • no proper way to clean up or deactivate users in tribe
  • Async solution (message queuing system?)
•  We had talked about rewritting the frontend also.
  • I believe this effort should be justified (need for new features, performance improvement, etc)
  • We can get along with backbone/statecharts for the time being
• API V1 has not the greatest design:
    - we have an acceptable performance thanks to cache
    - Writing a V2 makes sense, in my opinion, once we can justify the effort.