Tech Releases: June 2022

English Product Launch. Talkkaround Teacherless Games.

You speak, we listen. The Beepboop team has got your back and we are bringing you tons of product updates on the regular. Keep your feature requests and bug reports coming to amigos@beepboop.us.

• June 30, 2022: Speak App v5.1.2

  • Add Topic Tree and Study functions for English learners

  • Adjust logic for matching newly-registered students with ongoing classes

  • Fix bug when users load tabs with expired login sessions

• June 24, 2022: Speak App v5.1.0 and 5.1.1

  • Under-the-hood work to support multiple languages on the app

  • Allow Spanish-speaking students to register for English classes

  • … More to come on this soon!

• June 10, 2022: Talkkaround Game App v0.0.11:

  • Warn users when connection is unstable

  • Disable game buttons after click (until turn ends or action can be taken again)

  • Ensure that only one user attempts to join an offer to play

  • Security updates

• June 10, 2022: Speak App v5.0.15

  • Minor styling fixes on the vocabulary review page

  • Improved error handling and logging so we can more quickly investigate and solve bugs

  • Security updates

• June 6, 2022: Talkkaround Game App v0.0.10:

  • Show a message in the lobby and on the post-game screen when someone is waiting to play

  • Show how many users are playing right now in the lobby

  • Prevent the play screen for a complete/expired game from loading

  • Fix a bug that could sometimes cause duplicate games to be created

• June 2, 2022: Speak App v5.0.13

  • Students can now set the topic for classes ahead of time

    • cost: $2

    • from the confirmation page after they book a class

      • only displays the “Set Topic” button if

        • class doesn’t already have a module set

        • class is a Drill

        • class starts more than 101 minutes from now

      • student has 10 minutes to finish their purchase before the attempt is cancelled

      • topics dropdown for them to choose from

        • initially populated from Wish List

        • if <10 topics on Wish List, the dropdown is filled up with 10 random topics

    • upon successful completion of Stripe payment flow

      • student is redirected to “payment is processing” screen

      • as soon as we receive a message from Stripe that the payment succeeded

        • the student sees “payment successful”

        • the topic is successfully set for that lesson

        • nobody else can set the topic for that lesson

• June 1, 2022: Talkkaround Game App v0.0.9:

  • Fix bug when handling malformed query strings

  • Remove dependency on user’s device time being correct

  • Close race conditions in game start that could result in a player being “stranded” and unable to start the game