February 2023 - Progress Report 🎉 Completed

Wednesday, Feb 1st 2023

• Fixed JWT verification issue in Next.js and updated docs in the Next.js guide (didn't require any admin package updates, it was a Next.js update)
• Updated Auth0 SSO docs
• Re-did the article for sites with free and paid plans (new video + article)
• Worked on the new onboarding tour/checklist (25% done)
• Worked more on the error/success translation feature (50% done)
• Released the new getting started page + metrics
• Started dev on a feature to manually verify members' emails in the dashboard
• Started dev on a feature to create multiple custom fields at once

Thursday, Feb 2nd and Friday, Feb 3rd 2023

• Create unstyled components for the checkboxes, radio buttons, select, and text areas. All with the proper data attributes.
• Finished the error/success message translation feature!!!  
• well kinda… still need to do ALOT of testing to ensure everything is still working properly
• Iterating on Member metrics on the Members page.
• Designing ‘Plan not found’ state.
• Built out Verify members email feature
• Fixed (Hide Prebuilt UI Bug)
• Fixed plans page scroll bug
• Reviewed react bug and attempted reproduction
• Debugged and fixed an email verification edge case bug

Monday, Feb 6th

• Setup a status page (https://status.memberstack.com/)
• Thoroughly tested the translation feature.
• Debugged an issue that was causing the paid-plans attribute to sometimes not work.
• Fixed and pending release released
• Added planId to the member.plan.canceled webhook data.
• Pending release
• Worked on the Translations page in the dashboard
• Worked on the ability to add multiple custom fields in the dashboard
• Reworking the Auto Open Checkout custom code
• Added a global redirect for the old circle community domain to see if anyone notices 
• More new documentation

Tuesday, Feb 7th 2023

• Deployed translation feature #announcements
• Deployed feature for creating Multiple Custom fields at once
• Started working on the backend for a Webflow app
• Reworked Auto Open Checkout feature
• Studied Zapier platform docs for making templates
• Refactored some previously published code snippets that had errors & re-recorded looms
• Finishing touches on the first Job Board Template

Wednesday, Feb 8th and Thursday, Feb 9th 2023

• Launched a new Job Board UI Kit!
• Codebase clean up
• Started working on dev for new pricing page
• Intro to 2.0 API & fetching currently logged-in member
• Nearly finished code for bulk update member custom fields, JSON and metadata
• Webflow app dev
• 3 new help center articles
• Uploaded 9 new components
• Pretty much finished up the backend for the webflow app
• Fixed a bug with email verification redirects
• Recording new videos for help center articles and code snippets
• Codebase clean up (improving icon imports and removing unused SVGs)
• Updated/released 5 new help center articles

Friday, Feb 10th 2023

• Progress on the Member Event Log feature (behind-the-scenes demo video)
• More codebase clean up
• Custom code for Block Access After x Seconds
• Custom code for Block Access After x Page Views
• Custom code for displaying elements based on Metadata values
• Custom code for Open Modals with a Link
• We’ve created or updated nearly 100 help center articles in the last 30 days

Monday, Feb 13th 2023

• Made updates to the webflow app
• More progress on the member event log
• Worked on Building out UI for Pricing page
• Follow up with Make to see if they can review the app
• Ask Zapier to change the app name to Memberstack 2.0 (so it’s easier to find)
• Working on adding a 2.0 link to every 1.0 help center article (Example)
• Migrating the most popular forum posts into the new Zendesk community
• Recorded a new video for the Job Board UI Kit

Tuesday, Feb 14th 2023

• Added more test cases for member events (in total we’re up to 387 test cases )
• Looked into ways to change stripe’s default proration behaviour (it’s more user-friendly now)
• Fixed the bug that was causing forms to act like one big button
• Added the ability for users to add data-ms-price:add and update directly to the form
• Updated admin docs to reflect the latest changes to the list all members return payload
• Worked on the initial scope for an image upload tutorial (using 3rd party tools)
• Use Chatgpt to pull keywords and summaries from the Dev docs to improve search in ZD (here)
• Finished and released new cloneables
  • https://webflow.com/made-in-webflow/website/webflow-popup-form
  • https://webflow.com/made-in-webflow/website/webflow-job-post-page-template
  • https://webflow.com/made-in-webflow/website/cloneable-webflow-dashboard-template
  • https://webflow.com/made-in-webflow/website/free-modern-webflow-signup-login-form
  • https://webflow.com/made-in-webflow/website/free-webflow-signup-login-forms

Wednesday, Feb 15th 2023

• Test cases & package improvements
• Finish and release the onboarding checklist - showcase link
• Released new subclone for job board UI - Webflow Rich Text to CMS
• Started custom code for “saving member email field when navigating between auth forms”
• Finished research + pseudo code for image uploads w/ firebase
• Create some custom code to “block” certain email domains during signup article
• Coordinate with team to get more support hours in the 2.0 slack (getting behind )
• Implement plan to add keywords to labels in ZD articles to improve search results
• Started adding Signups chart to Getting Started page
• Updating Event Log designs based on feedback
• Worked on the dribbble clone version of the job board UI kit

Thursday, Feb 16th + Friday, Feb 17th + Monday, Feb 20th 2023

• Added the new cancel subscriptions immediately setting to the dashboard
• Added the “connected with” section to the dashboard #announcements 
• Released script for Bulk Updating Members with the Admin API. 
• Created initial designs for Plan Logic (see image) 
• Released new dashboard cloneable 
• Released several other cloneables  
• Setup team ChatGPT account
• Worked on / released backend functionality for member events. 

• Did one final scaleability test. We plan to retain data for 1 year (exactly what Stripe does)
• Will go live when the front-end is ready
• Created a member event testing script that created 11 million random events.
  • used it to determine what the best postgres indexes are. Wanted to figure that out before it became a problem
    • We can now query 11 million events in about 30 milliseconds  And that’s on the slow testing DB too.
• Created a script that can “backfill” member signups into the event log.
  • This means all members, even those created in the past, will have a “member.created” event in the event log

• Submitted several Zapier templates for review
• Working on code to block access after x page views (w/ member plans) 
• Working on code to block access after x seconds (with member plans) 
• Working on code to auto open checkout w/ loom (for review)
• Improved deploy time and performance 
• Redid error handling logic to include better data in bugsnag 
• Fixed a bug where logging out via the profile modal would break

Tuesday, Feb 21st 2023

• Worked on the disable concurrent login feature (Will most likely push live Wednesday) 
• Worked on a free trial improvement so that a member can only have 1 free trial (will push live Thursday) 
• Updated billing portal to display payment history for one time payments 
• More work done on the webflow app 
• Sprint 4 Roadmapping call 
• 40 more forum redirects (up to 150 total)
• Added 30 more 2.0 links in 1.0 articles. 
• Completed the UI for Pricing page (pending backend updates before it can be released)
• Fixed a bug which was causing the Report overview to break for new users 
• Released new cloneable dashboard 
• Released new subcloneable

Wednesday, Feb 22nd 2023

• Release Disable Concurrent logins feature 
• Release an improvement to the way free trials are handled 
• Released code snippet & loom for prefilling a user's email from a link 
• Work on code for limiting # of form submissions / button clicks 
• Started work on webflow app front-end  
• Design spec call for passwordless logins, plan logic, the event log, and file uploads. 
• 38 more 2.0 links in 1.0 articles (down to 100 left).

• Worked on Webflow app
• Some folks on vacation  
• Made some progress on “plans logic” feature
• Made text changes and small bug fixes
• Added more components to Memberstack - https://www.memberstack.com/freebies
• New signup component

• Plan logic prototypes 
• Worked on Webflow app 
• Code Snippet - Save Email Between Login, Signup, and Password Reset Forms 
• Code Snippet - Block Access After x Page Views 
• Started limited form submissions snippet 
• Re-spec’ed image upload feature using IPFS 
• Updating Plan Logic designs based on feedback 
• Nearly finished migrating/closing the 1.0 forum and 1.0 product wishlist 
• New project management dashboard 

• Working on the Webflow app 
• Finished code snippet for limiting form submissions 
• Finished core logic for image uploads 
• Finished adding links to 1.0 articles. If you find a 1.0 article there is a link to the equivalent 2.0 article 
• Uploaded job board speedrun to Youtube 
• Shared new dashboard cloneable