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The Next Step
Joshua Rashtian
September 5, 2024
11:44 PM
Hello To All Of You! For the last few months, we have been spending a lot of time to smooth and polish the exprience as much as possible. But, we are officially going to do a showing of the website and all of the new features going on behind the scenes at MESA Valencia at 1 PM! We can not wait to showcase our app and we can not wait to see you all there!
In the meantime, we must stress that as the Private Beta is coming up, we must get a few things out of the way:
This website is releasing into the Beta State. It still is going to be an active work in progress. If there is any issues, feel free to contact us. We want to have all of the feedback to build the best platform for the students! Our end goal is to allow all of the schools to connect and allow us to communicate in a much broader way. As of right now, we only are going to be available to those at the College of the Canyons campus. We have a brief Beta Roadmap as well as some features to be coming up:
Beta Release 1 - Releasing Soon
Create your account, socialize to all of the students!
Still a WIP, we will continue to add new features and more reasons to join. We want to build a platform that not only lasts, but people actively love to use.
Mobile TestFlight Release
In the near future, we want to roll out our Mobile Companion App. Our goal is for this to be a simple, but clean and fast way to talk to other students, with a faster and smoother feel compared to most mobile apps.
Parts of the regular website may work on Mobile, but it is highly recommended to use the dedicated mobile app.
Communities
We want to roll out a communities feature before we officially hit 1.0. The Communities system could allow for other people from other clubs to communicate and build their own corner of MESA!
Communities Beta for release in Late Fall - Winter 2024.
Dark Mode
We can officially say the whole website is in Dark Mode as well!
Privacy Policy / Terms of Service
For legal reasons, we have supplied a Terms of Service to MESA Connect.
You may find it here:
https://mesaconnect.io/support/terms
...the Terms of Service is also subject to change in the near to far future.
Visit us at Valencia Campus MESA at 1 PM for the first look at MESA Connect & MESA Mobile! We can not wait to see and meet you guys :)
-Joshua Rashtian
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Alpha Version 5 + Preparing For Beta
Joshua Rashtian
August 21, 2024
0:48 AM
Welcome back to school everybody! We are very excited to be back at MESA with every single one of you! We have some exciting news around Alpha Version 5! Although unfortunately there isn't many crazy fixes or any major changes, we are continuing to optimize and improve the exprience for the Beta Release, which will be arriving within the next few months. We would like to thank all of you for your patience!
Changelog:
More consistant UI, specifically with Inputs
Made more responsive for small / vertical displays (50% finished)
Navigation bar improvements, with Loading Animation to help indicate if you clicked a page
Mobile Page
This does not sound like a lot of major changes, however, these all contribute massive amounts to the push for a Beta Release. We still do not recommend using MESAConnect Website on Mobile, as we are still working on getting ready for the official release, and it is all about the small details and polish to get this app up and running. We can not wait to roll out the Beta Version to all of you!!!
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Alpha Update 4
Joshua Rashtian
July 9, 2024
11:15 PM
Hello To Everybody! We hope you all are having a great summer vacation and relaxing to your heart's content! After 3 weeks, we have come back with Alpha Update 4. Although we haven't added a lot of new stuff in this Update, this update focusing on Bug Fixes and general missing fixes that have been needed to improve the experience.
We have several small to big bug fixes to go into, as well as helping the Web Version communicate with Mobile a little bit better.
So, what small changes have we added or fixed?
Backend - Database Changes will no longer allow you to create an event where the end time is greater then the start time.
Mobile - View Replies
Mobile Backend - Created A Smoother Developer Exprience
Mobile - Fixed Modal / Stack Screen Structure
Web & Mobile - Edit Bio For Your Profile! Edit by clicking the Bio on your page on Mobile or Web.
Events - Remodeled Event & Minor Visual Polish to Page
Community - Post A Wim from Community Page
Landing Page - Fixed header color at top
Learning Lab - Huge Class Picker Changes
Learning Lab - Poll Creator Visual Overhall
Learning Lab - Creator Landing Page Visual Overhall
Web - General Visual Unionization - Bringing many components together
Web - Dark Mode Implemented 50%-60%
Web - Helped Mobile Optimization
News - Page Now Optimized for Mobile
Although these are some of the general updates, we do have some huge updates to Profile Page:
Relations Page! View your followers and who you are following in one place.
Change Major after User Creation
Create Your Bio (Web and Mobile)
Created Events Now At The Bottom of Your Profile
All of these smaller changes are designed to make the App feel much smoother and allow for much more of a fluid feel. You may notice some aspects feel more smooth and modern. Outside of these small changes, we plan to release into a Public Beta by August / September, and allow MESA Students to test and play with the basic components. We hope to build more features and build the ultimate digital suite for all MESA Students to make STEM as enjoyable and immersive as possible!
Alpha Update 5 will hopefully be much greater, however, our Beta Update will be much greater. We thank you for your continued support and patience! :)