Foundations Vol.4 brings enhanced collaborative features to LegendKeeper! This update brings an activity feed, in-project chat, overhauled version history, a view-as feature, and some changes to dice.
Activity feed
The activity feed keeps a running log of changes in your project, giving you a birds-eye view of what other collaborators in your project are up to.
New pages, edits to maps, timelines and calendars, property changes, and new members joining all show up here, grouped by how recent they are. If you only care about the people side of things, the Social tab filters the feed down to member and project events.
Chat
Every project now has its own members-only chat, accessible in the top-right corner.
Type @ to link a page in chat. Page mentions show up as cards with the page's cover image. React to messages with emoji, and roll dice right in the conversation (more on that in a sec).
View As
Project admins can click their Avatar in the top right to use the View As feature. This lets you preview the project how a member would see it.
Version history
Version history got a full overhaul. LegendKeeper now saves versions of your pages automatically on the server: after you stop editing for a couple of minutes, and at least every 20 minutes during a long session. That covers every kind of tab, so pages, boards, maps and timelines all get restorable history you can step through.
You can still save a version by hand before a big rewrite, and automatic versions are kept for 90 days. This feature replaces the previous version history feature, which was somewhat limited in scope.
Dice
In the TTRPG software space, everyone pretty much uses the same dice rolling library called dicebox. Dicebox is great, don't get me wrong, but here at Team LK, we love to be extra. Justin has been flexing his 3d skills and developing his own custom dice engine for the past 6 months, and we unveil it today!
The new dice tray sits right on the chat input. Pick your dice style, add a modifier, roll with advantage or disadvantage, and choose who gets to see the result. GMs can also post a roll request: a card that asks everyone to roll, with an optional threshold check. Results land on a live-sorted leaderboard so it's easy to see your high-rollers.
Activity feed, chat, and dice are all optional features. You can disable them in your project's Integrations settings menu.
Help Center
I've put together a library of micro-videos for LegendKeeper how-tos, trying to cover as many features as possible. Anything from simple page creation, to banners, autolink, etc: Each gets a short video to use as a reference.
So that's Foundations Vol. 4; a bunch of stuff to improve collaboration in your projects. As for the next update, honestly I don't have the foggiest idea. It's really an internal war trying to decide what comes next. A lot of layers to these kinds of decisions.
Anyways...
Check out the full changelog here!
By Braden Herndon
