🥁 Worker check-in

[richjensen]

3 hour prep
3 hour f2f chat with angel

[piper]

Been tracking most of my progress from the past few days here:

Minimal Mobile Stream App

Greetings all. Here is a quick and minimal phone app that used react native to port Resonate’s stream repository to mobile: stream-app Here’s a screen recording of it in action: Stream-App Screen Recording A Public TestFlight iOS Build is available for external testing. An Internal Google Play Android Build is available for internal testing. The Expo Project Page permits testing with the Expo Go client. It’s not perfect, and it will only ever be as good as the stream repository is in dealin…

That being said, here’s a brief synopsis:

• Successfully requesting tracking permissions from the user, allowing us to publish on Apple Mac Store, as we use cookies to log users in, etc.
• Many fixes for the Status Bar and getting the color to match device preference and look good with both light and dark modes on the Resonate UI
• Public TestFlight for iOS available: Join the Resonate Co-op beta - TestFlight - Apple
• Internal Testing for Android available: Anmelden – Google Konten
• Improved UX and iOS Cookie Policy text to be clear and to the point
• A potential solution to appropriate metadata lacking in Now Playing/Control Center on iOS, not to mention enhancement to the web player itself

[remst8]

30 minutes - various upload coordinator emails & activities.

[piper]

• Updated: Inform users that cookies are currently necessary to login: stream!179
• Complete: Theme defaults to Auto instead of Light stream!182
• More thoughts and musings regarding the status of the Minimal Mobile Stream App
• After some revision to the Cookie Policy screen (discussed in the bullet point above), I’m hoping that much of the work to get this initial app will be complete, and I’ll have time to focus on core quality of life Player issues such as Re-ordering tracks in a playlist. I’d given this an attempt back before the the app idea and realized it would take a decent bit of digging to figure out so I’d put a pin in this one to get the app underway. Excited to circle back to it, as it will really enhance the Player experience.

[remst8]

• 1.5 hours - processing music upload submissions
• 15 minutes - upload coordinator emails

[remst8]

1.5 hours - processing music upload submissions

Soundtrack: Murray Royston-Ward - Nabulsi

[piper]

• Submitted build 1.1.0 to Android and Apple stores per latest feedback for the React Native WebView app, fixing shared cookies which could keep users logged in even after they’d logged out
• Added issues to https://github.com/resonatecoop/stream based on feedback from the forum
• Tried to figure out how to hide the login button for users already on login page (beta/src/components/header/index.ts L220 should be the spot to do it, but window and location are undefined in that area of code it seems)

[Hakanto]

• Working on an organizational concept which ties together the forum’s layout, team formation processes, worker membership processes, and establishment of a grievance committee.
• Attended to Twitter on and off from 12pm-7pm, posting and answering questions

Appreciate y’all for checking in and inspiring me to follow up.

[Hakanto]

• went to community call
• had a meeting with an advisor from United States Federation of Worker Co-ops
• did design updates in the forum
• finished writing a vision for collaboration among members in the forum
• ate zucchini salad

[remst8]

2 hours - processing music upload submissions

[remst8]

1.5 hours - processing music upload submissions

[piper]

• Released 1.1.1 of stream-app, changelog here
• Made Log in to listen to full track bar a clickable link
• Minor update to fix link height on player login screen

[remst8]

1.5 hours - processing music upload submissions

[remst8]

~2 hours spread through the day - processing music upload submissions.

[richjensen]

Big days monday 7 hrs tuesday 5hrs wednesday 10hrs prepping for and participating in Board/fundraising meetings - one-on-one consulting with directors and team leaders

Call today with OpenCollective - Board communications - 8 hrs total.

[piper]

It’s been a very involved week over here. Here’s a shortlist of some accomplishments:

• Back button for Android testing began with the latest implementation of the stream-app
• Fix iOS back arrow size for tags, artists, labels, releases, login pages - Fixed the remaining tiny arrow icons for iOS.
• iOS/mobile only Trackgroup back arrow, menu icons size fix - fixed tiny menu ellipse and back arrow icons in a way that didn’t cause errors for certain trackgroups.
• Disable zoom in on inputs when pressed for mobile devices - this was an annoying bug where clicking to log in would zoom the user in slightly on mobile and then after logging in they’d stay zoomed in and not realize it, clipping the right side of the screen.

And here are some more recently submitted but not yet merged solutions (some may need a bit more review before being merged, not sure):

• Pressing a track’s title plays/pauses track, clicking artist goes to artist page - I’m really, really excited about this change. This also changes your cursor to a column resize pointer for the track seeker (changing the time of the currently playing track), and a row resize pointer for the volume controller (informing the user which way to move the mouse to affect the control, be it vertical or horizontal).
• Notify user when credits are low per some community feedback, a nice little indicator to let folks know they’re previewing the current track because they’re low on credits.
• Clicking tag in search toggles search off - this is another huge improvement, especially for mobile, but also for desktop, and makes the search bar behave way more like you would expect it to. This also improves the “hit box” for the search box drastically, augmenting the area vertically and horizontally a user can click to get back in and use the search box again.

[remst8]

~45 minutes processing music upload submissions.

[richjensen]

Monday: Worker retrospective / Finance Team sessions prep and notes - 3 hours total

[richjensen]

Worker Retrospective and Finance Team sessions monday - 3 hours

[piper]

Hey all, checking in with a few updates:

• We’ve received a bunch of great feedback for the Minimal Android and iOS react-native-webview stream-app and I’ve responded. One great thing about this is the majority of the feedback is things that we’ve figured out how to fix and were already set to be taken live soon (fixes for the web player, which will then fix things for mobile web browser users and the users of the stream-app).
• We’ve created GitHub project boards for a lot of our highly active main focuses (at least the ones that I know enough about to organize):
  • The beam Project Board
  • The stream-app Project Board
  • The Open Sourcing Project Board

Project boards enable a lot of features, including automation. Newly created issues are automatically added to the To do column, are moved to the In progress column when a pull request is linked and/or if review is requested. They move to the Done column after the pull request’s code is merged, automatically closing the linked issue.

They can also give everyone involved a clue as to what’s being currently worked on, where our current priorities are (typically higher priority items would be moved up to the top of the column). Also, it’s rewarding and encouraging watching the Done column outweigh the columns further to its left, and more properly celebrates our accomplishments.

With respect to the the web player, we merged a good bit of fixes in the past week that fix arrow icon sizes and hid the notification settings on iOS, since the setting didn’t do anything (unsupported by Safari).

Development on the beam player is moving quickly as well. With respect to feature parity, it exceeds the web player in some ways, and I’m really enjoying how responsive it is on my machine.