Published: 03.11.2024
It's been an eventful month in the Community. I continue to develop a new version of the service and periodically post screenshots with descriptions in our Discord community. If you haven't joined us there yet, here's a link to the invite - https://discord.gg/neejaHuAR4. And for those who don't use Discord, here's a short list of already implemented functionality: basic login/registration by invitation; change of languages and themes; "Profile" pages (with the ability to see all your sessions on other devices and "logout" if necessary, improved version of "pause"), "Developer Profile" ("swap" your list of applications for quick interaction with our network) and "Email Subscription". I have also already implemented administrative management of entities such as invitations, developers and applications. I wrote new code to retrieve data from pages using a headless browser instead of the classic HTTP client, which allowed me to retrieve much more data and even data that was previously inaccessible. At first I tried using Puppeteer, but it was quite slow and I switched to Playwright, which is more complex to implement but more optimized. This is just a brief and cursory overview of the major development work on the new version over the last month, but in reality, to get one of these features to work properly, I had to create a lot of additional ones. To get a button click on the frontend to do the right job on the backend you have to write more than a thousand lines of code with different processes running in different microservices written in different programming languages, something like that.
Statistics. In the last month, 53 new users joined us and 70 new apps were added to our network promoting mobile apps on Google play and App Store. In total, we were able to complete 956 tasks, 697 of which were "Install" tasks.
Congratulations. This month many of you got new achievements and so I would like to congratulate you all once again and wish you further success and fast growth of loyal audience for your apps. And so let's get started, congratulations to users: "BrainBrew Studio, flyxiaonaitang, Frank Koenig, INNOCENT MUHAVI, Paranoid EXP, Walo de Cole, Boluwaji Akinsefunmi, Zealous Foundry, Chakshu Software Creation, Senyuk, Game4You2" for getting their first achievement "+10 Installations" for promoting their own apps. I would also like to congratulate users: "flyxiaonaitang, BrainBrew Studio, Denis" for getting the achievement "+25 Installations". Special congratulations to users: "Éric Binger, McTUR Games, Vince Vector, tony, Vibhanshu Obrawal" for getting the achievement "+50 Installations". And the most significant achievements, congratulations to users: "Alexander Freyer, Peteratus" for getting the "+100 Installations" achievement, as well as user "Mendroid.net" for getting the "+200 Installations" achievement and user "Kyo" for getting the "+400 Installations" achievement. I am very happy that the Community has helped all of you in promoting your apps and I wish you success and keep the momentum going.
Development of the new version. The next stage in the development of the new version will be the creation of the task system, this is a large amount of work as this system overlaps with various additional systems. I will give more details in Discord, when I will publish screenshots with part of the work done. That's all for today, see you in a week.
Always with you, your dedicated admin at the FriendlyHelp Community))