Posted by Commodore Jennifer Ward (Academy Commandant) in TECH Report - December 2024 and Year In Review

Posted by Vice Admiral Jack D (President) in TECH Report - December 2024 and Year In Review

Posted by Fleet Captain Nathan Miller (TECH Lead / EGO) in TECH Report - December 2024 and Year In Review
Happy New Year STF!

This past year has been a busy one for TECH. Highlights include:

• Doubling server RAM and vCPUs
• Tech stack software updates to modern LTS versions
• 60+ Exodus version updates
• Hundreds of feature updates and bug fixes
• Updates to the TECH bylaw
• Two new members to TECH
• Three new Discord moderators
• New custom Discord bot
• Exodus and Discord integration
• New email SMTP provider
• Enhanced IP bot filters
• Updated pingable Discord ship roles

Some of the Exodus updates include:

• Launch of the new Library
• Launch of the new Academy application to manage graduates and mentors
• Fancy editor for Posts, Library Articles, and News Items
• Site and Ship Announcements
• On-site messaging
• Character signature system
• Post Tag system
• Discord and email notifications
• Updates to the PDept application process
• PDept/Academy Mentor integration
• Open position list
• Player profile search
• Site theme support
• And many, many more!

My personal thanks go out to the rest of the TECH team, Matt Evans and Clayton Strong, who handle a lot of the day to day TECH tasks. You keep this site running.

Thank you to the many people who have helped test features and fixes this year, including Jenn W, Lindsay B, Steve Johnson, Mika Jackson, Amdirgol S, Tom Hillman, Tejay Fairfax, Jack D, Sage Pennington, and probably many more that I am forgetting. Thank you for helping make this site better.

New Exodus Update

Just rolled out an update with a couple of fixes

Version	Summary	Requestor	Description
1.21.9	Public Library & Reply Button Fixes	Steve Johnson, Jack D	Library is now accessible to non-logged in users Fixed Post Reply button so it now works after doing a date or topic search

Welcome to 2025, STF (2401 in-game)!

Nathan
TECH Lead

Thanks for all the hard work, TECH! It’s great to see the site come on so far over the last year.

Yours,

Jack

Thank you TECH for all your amazing work! You all have accomplished so much in a year!!!

Cmdre Ward, Academy Commandant

Seconded! We’ve gotten huge QOL improvements for both the club at large and PDept specifically - very much appreciated.

Amdirgol, PDir