Kallax.io May Milestone!

This may be the best month for Kallax.io so far! This month 939 users signed up and brought in 164046 board games to the platform. 261 board game nights have been planned using the game event feature in may alone and we have been busy improving the platform with a total of 7 releases this month!

For the first time in the projects lifetime (4 years and 2 months) we are not only fully funded by donations - we even made a profit of $1! Thanks to this months supporters ieatbunnies12, nate, JohnR234, SonnySN, and kage.

The "profit" goes into supporting operating costs for June - which means that together with reoccurring donations we are 6% covered already!

May Development Summary

Here is a summary of what changes in the month of May! You can always keep updated on our development log/blog - House Rules

Search

• May 5th | added ability to filter on expansions and base games
• May 5th | added ability to filter on game designer
• May 5th | added ability to filter on game artist
• May 5th | fixed tooltip bugs that made it show immediately on hover
• May 8th | added random game picker
• May 26th | added SSR support for custom searches
• May 29th | added full SSR support for search

Collection Editor Viewer

• May 5th | added game type (base/expansion/standalone) column
• May 5th | added comment column
• May 5th | added language column

Collection

• May 5th | added ability to sort by added on date
• May 29th | made comments and languages visible in public folders

Game Information

• May 5th | added expansions

Events

• May 20th | added hauling list functionality
• May 20th | fixed datetime to support timezones
• May 20th | enabled auto-archiving of events
• May 25th | added hauling list filters
• May 25th | added host/organizer to event information
• May 26th | added event clone feature
• May 29th | added limited seats feature
• May 29th | added vote visibility settings
• May 29th | added SSR support
• May 31st | re-introduced archived events page
• May 31st | made archived events read-only
• May 31st | limited poll-voting to attendees
• May 31st | limited hauling list to attendees

Technical

• May 8th | improve e-mail delivery
• May 26th | updated deployment scripts
• May 31st | enabled HTTP/2

Chat

• May 31st | added (experimental) global chat

Minor Changes

• May 5th | added option to log out from menu
• May 5th | updated MudBlazor
• May 5th | update authentication changes
• May 20th | added scroll-to-top animations on pagination
• May 20th | added ellipsis to all headers

Upcoming Development

We have a lot of plans for Kallax and rely on user feedback to prioritize it. Please do not hesitate to contact us on Discord, BoardGameGeek or Reddit.

Events

We will continue improving the event feature. Our goal here is to eventually be able to support discoverable events so that you can find board game events near you.

Places / Cafés

As part of the event feature we want to explore adding board game cafés on the platform. We are running some early testing with a few select cafés to scope out what is needed. The vision here is that places integrate into search and events, so you can create and event at you local café or search their collection if you are meeting friends there.

Cafés are a whole other beast which requires a lot of feature for bulk-managing large collections. These features will be made available to everyone as they are developed, as many private users of Kallax also have quite impressive collections!

Chat

We are in early testing here! The next step is allowing events to have associated chats embedded on the event page. Standalone chat rooms are also being considered so you can easily open up a new room.

You can try out the experimental chat feature here.

Thanks to the community!

Lastly, a heartfelt thanks to everyone who have given Kallax a try and especially to those who take time to write feedback and report bugs!

Also a huge thanks to everyone who helps split the hosting bill with us. We spend every penny, and often a bit more, on improving the site for everyone.

We switched from cloud to dedicated hosting in April. It did increase our operating cost but came with the benefit of predictable pricing and being able to do things like reserving 1024 connections to a chat feature.

Our dedicated server is located in France with content permanently replicated on SSDs across 15 locations worldwide* to ensure fast, reliable access no matter where you are.

*Edge-Tier PermaCache managed by Bunny CDN: Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Prague, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Seattle, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg