qubbit changelog
What changed on qubbit, newest first: new tools and reports, things that work better, and fixes.
v0.13.0 ·
Before any analytics or advertising cookie is set, a banner now asks: Accept all, Reject all, or Choose one of the two. Advertising lets OpenAI see when a visit from one of its ads leads to a sign-up. Change your answer any time from Cookie settings in the qubbit menu.
Open PrivacyWhen you subscribe or manage your digest, you can now choose the time it arrives (08:00 by default) and your time zone, which is filled in from your browser. If you subscribed earlier, it keeps arriving at 08:00 UTC until you change it.
Open Changelog digestThe new Privacy window says what is collected, why, who else handles it, how long it is kept and which cookies are used. It opens from the qubbit menu and from beside every form that asks for your address or a message.
Open PrivacyA new What's new window lists the changes you would notice in each release, newest first, and you can filter them by area. Open it from the desktop or the qubbit menu.
Open What's newEach digest now includes a small image that records the first time you open it, to see whether digests get read. The links in it are not tracked.
Open Changelog digestEach day on the news page now has one card per source, with its updates sorted under the same topic groups as the digest and each GitHub release on one line. Above the days, the total shows a count per source.
Open Shopify newsIf an address bounced or marked our emails as spam before, the digest and keep me posted forms now say so and ask for another address, instead of asking you to try again.
Pages and Theme Check reports now load their font from qubbit itself, so opening them no longer sends your IP address to Google Fonts.
An address that receives nothing, because its sign-up was never confirmed, it unsubscribed or our emails to it kept failing, is now deleted 30 days after its last change. This covers the digest and news sign-ups.
Open Changelog digestThe questions you ask Ask AI are now deleted 12 months after you ask them.
Open Ask AITheme Check said your theme is deleted after the scan, but the uploaded file was kept. It is now deleted 30 days after the upload, and the page says so. Your report stays until you ask for it to be removed.
Open Theme CheckAsk AI can no longer read the email and postal addresses of stores and app vendors, so its answers never show them. The reports that count them are unchanged.
Open Ask AIv0.12.0 ·
The Apps tab has a new report that counts the apps launched on the App Store each month. Only apps listed today are counted, so delisted apps are left out.
Open Ecosystem reportsSources with more than a dozen categories now have a search box in the picker. It opens the groups that match, and pressing Enter no longer submits the form.
Open Changelog digestEach digest now starts with how many updates there are and where they come from, followed by one section for merchants and one for developers. A section with nothing in it is left out.
Open Changelog digestUpdates from sources with categories are now boxed by the topic groups you ticked, with anything else under Other. Each GitHub release takes a single line. The plain-text email follows the same layout.
Open Changelog digestWhen you subscribe or manage your digest, sources are split into For merchants and For developers, and categories sit in foldable groups such as Checkout & payments. You can tick or clear a whole group at once.
Open Changelog digestThe Shopify Changelog is now the first source in the picker, the news filters and the digest, followed by the developer sources.
Open Changelog digestThe App launches, Vendor evolution and Stores created over time charts now show months with nothing in them as 0, so gaps no longer look shorter than they are.
Open Ecosystem reportsWith your system in dark mode and the site switched to light, checkboxes, scrollbars and other controls were drawn dark. An empty checkbox looked like a filled square.
A single App Store listing with a launch date written like Sept 5, 2020 could break both app timelines.
Open Ecosystem reportsThe Apps section heading was missing from the reports list.
Open Ecosystem reportsIt mixed version numbers from every theme together and did not tell you anything useful. The Themes tab keeps its other seven reports.
Open Ecosystem reportsv0.11.1 ·
The keep me posted form and the digest sign-up now check for bots before sending a confirmation email. Most people see nothing, and a click is asked for only now and then. The digest form allows five sign-ups an hour per address.
v0.10.3 ·
On a phone, the menu bar shows only the qubbit menu, and the other menus open inside it. The bar no longer runs into the theme switch.
On a phone, the desktop icons now appear once every window is closed, in a three-column grid that scrolls when the screen is short.
v0.10.1 ·
Ask AI now runs on a quicker model, so answers come back faster.
Open Ask AIAsk AI no longer refuses questions as over its daily limit while actual use is well under it.
Open Ask AIv0.10.0 ·
The digest sign-up form has an optional box for occasional qubbit news. The digest's confirmation link confirms it too, and leaving it empty changes nothing.
Open Changelog digestThe keep me posted cards on the home and report pages now email you a confirmation link, and news starts only after you click it. You can sign up even if you already get the digest or unsubscribed before.
Ticking or clearing qubbit news on the manage page takes effect at once, and the box is ticked only when you have agreed to it.
The unsubscribe link in a qubbit news email stops only the news, and your digest keeps coming. Stop all emails on the manage page ends both.
When the subscribe or manage form has a problem, the window scrolls to the first error. Errors about sources or frequency also show under the Subscribe button, where screen readers announce them.
Open Changelog digestv0.9.2 ·
Open the new Feedback icon on the desktop, or Feedback in the qubbit menu, to tell us what you think. Add your email if you want a reply.
Open Feedbackv0.9.1 ·
The map's country panel now always has a scrollbar and a More below button while there is more further down. It scrolls with the keyboard, and each country opens at the top.
Open World mapv0.9.0 ·
Each question, its answer and the query behind it are now saved, linked only to random ids for the chat and the browser. No IP address or other details about you are stored, and saving never slows an answer.
Open Ask AIv0.7.0 ·
Digest emails now work with your mail app's own unsubscribe button, which stops them right away.
If you mark the digest as spam, or your address stops accepting mail, you are unsubscribed automatically.
v0.6.1 ·
Updates a feed publishes late now go into your next digest instead of being skipped, the same digest is never sent twice, and a problem with someone else's email no longer holds up yours.
v0.4.0 ·
A new Ecosystem menu opens the report: totals and country counts for Shopify shops, apps and themes, with highlights. The data is refreshed every week, and shops, apps and themes no longer listed are removed.
Open Shopify ecosystemSee shops, apps or themes per country on a map you can search and zoom. Click a country to open its details.
Open World mapBrowse reports on Shopify stores, apps and themes, each shown as a chart or a table.
Open Ecosystem reportsAsk a question in plain English and get the answer as a chart or a table, with the query it ran. You can ask ten questions every ten minutes, and your questions are never sent to analytics.
Open Ask AIOn a phone, the dock scrolls sideways when too many windows are open.
v0.3.0 ·
Two new windows with a form each, in the dock and on the desktop, or in the qubbit menu on a phone. A bug report also sends your browser and the page you were on. Leave your address if you want a reply.
Open ContactThe menu bar shows your date and time in your own time zone, next to the theme switch. A phone shows only the time.
The site now has its own icon, a white q on teal, in browser tabs and on phone home screens.
The icon under the pointer grows, its neighbours grow less, and they shrink back smoothly, much like on macOS. App names show as soon as you point at an icon.
The dock is smaller on a phone, so it fits on a narrow screen with every window open.
Every window already has its own minimize, maximize and close buttons.
A daily or weekly email could only report incidents that were already over. If you had it ticked, your other sources stay as they are.
v0.2.0 ·
Every page opens in its own window, with a menu bar at the top, shortcuts on the wallpaper and a dock at the bottom. Each page still has its own link.
Open WelcomeYou can move, resize, minimize, maximize and close windows, and windows in the background keep their page. On a narrow screen a window fills the screen.
The dock shows one icon per open window, in the order you opened them, and magnifies icons on hover unless your system asks for reduced motion.
The light theme shows misty mountains by day, and the dark theme shows the same scene at night under the moon and stars.
Open About from the desktop, the dock or the qubbit menu to read about Bogdan: profile, contact links, certifications, skills and selected projects.
Open About BogdanBackground windows are out of the tab order, a window takes focus when you open it, and only the active window is read out.
Moving to another window while a form is sending, such as a theme upload, now lets it finish.
Windows open with their close button visible, and windows you moved are pulled back inside when the browser gets smaller.
When a page fails, the error shows in that window only. Your other windows, and anything you typed in them, stay as they were.
v0.1.0 ·
qubbit.com now opens on a home page with all the tools and a sign-up for the changelog digest, instead of going straight to Theme Check.
Open WelcomeRead every Shopify update the digest collects, and filter it by source, area and period.
Open Shopify newsThe site now counts page views and how the tools are used. No email addresses are sent and no profile is built about you.
Clicking an old confirmation email, or a mail scanner opening it, could sign you back up after you had unsubscribed. Old links now say they are no longer valid.