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2024-11-12 Slack and search

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🗓️ Scheduler improvements​

We've revamped the process of creating a team, adding members, and setting up a schedule. This change is a big help when a team kicks Hotpot's tires.

We prompt for next steps instead of forcing them.

The Smart Scheduler takes a lot of work off your hands. It also communicates when something isn't quite right. For example, Hotpot maintains a month's schedule. When that's not possible, we now communicate why:

If there is only one person on the team we can't look very far ahead.

Assignments that exist because of coverage now show a helpful tag with a mouseover showing why they exist.

Osman is covering Janelle. This is a weird reason, but it's No-Effort November.

Lastly, we've made a number of improvements to coverage workflows, including removal.

📢 Slack improvements​

Slack is where the work happens. We've revamped the daily forecasts that update your team to be more informative!

It even includes information about any open pages!

We've also revamped the form for creating moments and added the new moment priority as an option!

Ruby can be confusing! That isn't relevant, though.

🕵️‍♀️ Triage improvements​

We've revamped the underlying search code for moment triage to unblock some future improvements. The first improvement is text search in triage!

Search for those pesky 4xx errors.

This change also yielded some graphical adjustments and text changes in triage, prepare, and handoff.

🔎 Moment search improvements​

While improving the search code, we also beefed up moment search graphically and technically. Behold!

What a lovely graphical overhaul. You can also search for tags and priority!

💼 Other changes​

  • General: Continued speed and efficiency improvements to our UI scheming system.
  • General: Various dependency upgrades.
  • UI: Add one of those snazzy confirmation boxes that require you to type a word. We'll use it soon!
  • UI: Badges are now more squarular.
  • UI: Dark mode continues to see improvements in contrast. Mwahahaha.
  • UI: Speaking of dark mode, did that underlined bit of extra space bother you? We fixed it.
  • UI: Handoff is now more responsive on smaller screens.
  • UI: If you missed handing off an old stint, the team summary page helps you find them.