Changelog

Improving the main pages lobby layout (implements #55, addresses #53)

Emphasizing more on the players rather then the session id in the public lobby list

Properly generating meta tags for private sessions

Keep private lobbies private and only show them once ingame

Properly cutting off public match history at 500 and not 100

Keep date time format the same between ssr and hydration and then use local formatting

Re-match sometimes failing

Do not fetch account preferences when logged out

Several minor front end build errors

Moved the ?join=<sessionId> handing to the server

Updated the sitemap.xml

Applied tailwind shorthand suggestions

Do inject page metadata directly in the routes instead of patching the HTML via regex

Using the same query logic for the API and the SSR

Disabled query retries on failures

Instantly removing empty lobbies if a client had been connected previously

Only emitting partial lobby updates to greatly decrease bandwidth usage

Adding a rules page to explain the games rules

While in-game do regular connection testing and add an indicator on an unstable connection

Instantly connect to the server and do not wait for the first render

Adding 'playing live' and most recent 10 games to the profile screen

Added a zen mode to hide ELO and ELO adjustments in game (implements #46)

Allowing for shift + left click to draw on the game board (implements #45)

Range of aspect rations on landing page causes lobby card spill (fixed #51)

Invalid re-hydration issues and improper SSR query data values

Properly showing max ELO per bucket in ELO rating graph rather then match end ELO results

Hide ELO adjustments for spectators in the ingame HUD

Tile piece symbols not shown in sandbox (fixes #42)

Sharp spike/cutoff to current ELO for the ELO chart in the profile page

Do not allow username overrides

Do not highlight admin controls when visiting the admin stats page

Adding support for bots in sandbox mode

Reverting COPY --partents change as the GitHub docker version seems outdated

New users ELO not starting at 1000

Adding a README.MD for the seal bot engine

Write a database migration to fix the ELO for new users

Displaying the ELO on ranked games

Displaying the ELO gain / loss for ranked games

Link the player profiles in the game hud player list

Allowing spectators to join finished sessions as well as long a player is still connected

Adding a player disconnected icon in the player list

Displaying if the game is rated and the time control in the game info screen

Several small UI improvements making the UI more responsive

Keeping the chatbox open accross re-matches

Using tailwind 4.2 and fix automatic class generation

Only allow for local game lines within the board

Linking the player profiles in the replay viewer

Adding an ELO graph on the profile page

Allowing keyboard move navigation in the replay viewer

Add a game start, win and loose sound

General match history not showing properly when logged in

Elo changes not stored in game history

Properly removing players on socket disconnect instead of marking them as disconnected

Name prefixing guests again

Properly map chat messages on rematch

Ranked matches not counting towards ELO

Improved network footprint for cell placements

Improved network footprint for player / spectator joins and leaves

Proper session route handling and improved live game client handling (removed AI slop)

Improved network footprint for lobby updates

Improved network footprint for chat messages

Do not log the whole board state every time on game finish

Limiting the history API to 500 games

Updated the tests and made the lobby create backdrop work

Calculate the ELO ranking adjustment at the beginning of the game and some code cleanup

Cleaned up debug logging

Blocking joining own casual lobbies by default

Adding memeber since and last seen to the profile page

Highligh the winning cells in a position (implements #5)

Adding chats to the game (implements #37)

Allowing highlighing individual cells and enforce straight lines (#41)

Fixed lobby screen resizing when matches change

Adding front end UI tests for some main components

Improved script bundling to improve page load times

Adding public player profiles

Adding some more profile statistics

Introducing proper migration management

Adding an active game history and user count to the admin statistics

Adding HTML meta tags for sandbox URLs

Allowing finished game positions to be analyzed in the sandbox

Adding position import and export for sandbox mode

Adding an 'undo move' button to sandbox mode

Adding a welcome modal to sandbox mode

Add a sandbox mode for local play where you control both players

Prevent gameplay after a winning position in sandbox mode (fixes #43)

Overflowing buttons for mobile devices

Sandbox incorrectly rejecting finished games

Inproperly reading account preferences

Tile piece markers setting not being applied to the replay viewer (fixed #40)

Properly fetching all commits to generate a proper changelog

Dockerfile builds

Pulled out all utility functions and grouped them together

Collected all API queries / updates at one point

Improved shutdown logic and removed obsolete terminal handler

Improved backend session manager logic

Adding pino-pretty to the docker container

Highlight breaking changes in changelog and sort changelog by kind

Enforcing conventional commits to aid changelog generation via husky

Added a server wide concurrent game cap to avoid server overload

Automatically placing a hex at 0,0 on game start if enabled via account preferences

Adding a little 'new features' hint within the main landing page screen

Adding a changelog page

Re-adding the 'leaderboard' button for mobile devices on the landing page

Adding support for tile pice markers (implements #10)

Adding account preferences

Improved sign-in button for mobile devices

Do not re-fetch existing sessions and instead rely on the ws events

Do not flicker 'disconnected' badge due to SSR on page visit

Adding a robots.txt and sitemap.xml

Do keep the sessions query accross hydration and only update by the web socket client

Pretty print in prod docker and use logs file to actually inspect log details

Implemented lcoal drawing (#36)

Add SSR

Made the spectator finish screen more readable and indicate which player won and if a rematch is available (implements #32)

Properly show the game type in the review player

Made the match history mobile friendly

Add total time played to the admin statistics site

Cache queries

Add a way for admins to terminate sessions

Adding an error screen on app errors

Adding a version hash at the bottom of the site

Adding statistics on your own profile page

Introducing an ELO system (#25)

Leaderboard names truncation on Firefox (fixes #39)

Exposing GITHUB_SHA to the build docker to be embedded into the app

Text overflow in account profile page

Hide change log notice for new users

Assuming all users have preferences

Removed the silly changelog read timestamp display in account preferences

Visually hide not-yet implemented move conformation preference

Always use the top 10 leaderboard data event for self to keep consistency with the update interval

Store user registration timestamp and last time he has been active

Switching the default lobby time control to match based instead of turn based

Using a more advanced UI layout with multiple pages

Indicating wins/looses in own games overview

Implemented #30 (show the time control in the match review)

Implemented #31 (show own place on the leaderboard)

Implemented #27

Making the server the authoritive for highlighted cells while in game

Moved the finished game components into own files which also fixes the game canvas not being updated on resize

Improved and speed up drawing logic

Using cron to schedule server tasks and fix lobbies not getting removed if nobody ever joined the lobby

Client now waits with initiating a join until full initialization to avoid double joining

Enforcing the hex place radius on the server

Misplaced admin back button

Clients getting moved to spectators as they reconnect without the server noticing the disconnect first

Properly describing /session/:sessionId and /?join=:sessionId in URL previews

#28 (do not invalidate react queries when site goes in background)

Typo in 'hexagonal'; oh well...

Do not load the leaderboard in the admin stats page

Logging socket connect/disconnect as debug

Updated the README.MD

Adding a LICENSE

Reduce lobby information payload and broadcast the lobby info only every second

Force websocket connection and drop polling support

Adding some more options in the admin area

Implemented a simple leaderboard

Adding an admin stats page

Allowing for more zoomed-out board states

Adding an UI hint to login to see own matches

Implemented #22 (add an archive of own games)

Improved record history format

Improved on reconnect handling and session management

Adding the react compiler to minimize re-renders

Substancially reworking the data flow between be and fe

Using react-router for the front-end and improved URL layout

Keep the session id the same on re-match, keeping the original invite link alive

Showing private games once they're playing

Implemented #20 (add a 'surrender' button)

Showing time control in URL previews

Using zod for data verification

Save player profile ids in the game history

Showing player names in the lobby and the in game HUD

Adding accounts and links with Discord

Adding an hrefon review game to allow the games to open in a new tab

Spectator auto following ra-matches

Implemented #21 (indicate the session id ether in the URL or the HUD)

Implemented #19 (in spectator mode, indicate the players turn color in the top HUD)

Implemented #3 (allowing for different time controls)

Adding lobby create options

Inserting proper metadata depending on the routes

Adding a proper style to the default browser scrollbar

Adding different layers of server shutdown

Switch player sides on accepted re-matches

Implemented #9 (add audio / sound)

Also showing running games to spectate

Adding SEO tags

Improved landing screen mobile visibility

Implemented #16 and fixed #15. Make the archive page mobile friendly

Making the HTTP server dir configureable

Adding a status command to the terminal

Implemented #4 (highlight most recent placed tiles)

Properly clear the reconnect timeout after re-connect

Properly applying logging levels

Invalid shrinking on username overflow in ingame HUD

Backend single file build not working due to cjs Discord module

Do not shrink the user avatar

#18 (in spectator mode, the most recently placed tiles are not highlighted)

Overflow on main page on multiple live games

Removed $ texts for players waiting

Docker container serving an invalid directory

#14 (the waiting screen text incorrectly mentions 'five in a row'

#13 (games are not displayed properly when ended by disconnection)

Improve shutdown/restart wording

Disable the edit user name button visually (temporary)

Changed the default game clock to turn based

Graying out the time control

Implemented #8 (support for schedule server restarts)

Saving server logs

Adding a proper server shutdown

Implemented #11 (allow for site reloads / socket.io reconnects)

Using 'pino' for backend logging

Properly structure the backend

Using react-query for server queries

Using Zustand for the front end state holding (vibe-coded)

Adding the GitHub link in the footer

Explicitly use @inject everywhere as vite does not emit decorater metadata

Eqal handling of player join / player leave event handling

Let the gateway map sockets to participants instead of re-using the socket id

Building the devel branch as well

Adjusted some logging levels

Remove 'service' entry from logger

Moving the server config into its own class

Adding a game review button at the end of a match

Adding a rematch system

Adding a history for past games

Adding a spectator mode for already started games

Removed loosing screen clutter

Updated to six in a row and not five

Split up the game screen component a little bit

Adding a GitHub workflow

Adding a docker build

Adding metrics to the server

Improved mobile layout

Adding support for mobile devices

Adding win condition so the game is actually playable (vibe-coded)

Only show disconnected from server indicator (vibe-coded)

Reporting errors via toasts (vibe-coded)

Overlaying win/loose screen (vibe-coded)

Adding a turn timeout (vibe-coded)

Improved game HUD (vibe-coded)

Starting with an initial one turn move

Adding a turn system (vibe-coded)

Improved game HUD (vibe-coded)

Vibe-coded a hexagonial board

Improved visual styling for lobby & waiting screen

Vibe-coded a 2d board state

Vibe-coded a simple lobby system

Vibe-coded the initial setup

Do not use the same player color

Proper move timeout

Tiles place on mobile while resizing

Reverting the move time

Proper container naming

Some minor fixes and general improvements

Performance issues when dragging the board (vibe-coded)

Updated the README.MD

Making the mobile hud closeable

Some minor UI changes

Adding a copyright (vibe-coded)