Changelog

Visual Workflow Builder

🆕 Features

• Migrated our data pipelines to a new visual workflow builder (next-workflow-builder), so provider imports and processing steps are composable, individually retryable nodes on a canvas instead of hand-edited code.
• Moved all existing plugins over to the new workflow package, unifying how every provider integration runs.

🔧 Platform

• Raised step maxDuration to 300s for long-running imports.
• Added a missing YouTube plugin and whitelisted the required environment variables and routes.

Smarter Automated Imports

🆕 Features

• Added scheduled imports for Tixr events and YouTube content, keeping listings and videos fresh automatically.
• Expanded venue coverage with a France nightclubs dataset.
• Surfaced richer automation detail in the admin — trigger type, schedule (humanised via cronstrue), visibility, last-run date, and node ID columns.

🔧 Platform

• Adjusted the proxy/middleware to allow the workflow runtime's /.well-known/workflow endpoint.

🛠️ Fixes

• Resolved a type issue and several layout glitches in the schedule views.

Next-Generation App Foundations

🆕 Features

• Began rolling out the next-generation consumer app — a ground-up rebuild of the EDMDb experience on a faster, more modern stack. First foundations are in place and actively evolving.
• Added a card view to the events list and a missing Sign In button in the header.
• Improved event-list filtering with proper city-bounds and session handling for the count query.

🛠️ Fixes

• Squashed a batch of layout and import bugs across the app and admin surfaces.
• Added Claude context files to streamline ongoing development.

Admin CRUD & Automation Visibility

🆕 Features

• Rounded out admin content management with a create-genre page, an image uploader, and sortable column headers across list views.
• Added an automation page that lists every cron job and its schedule, backed by a new jobs-listing endpoint — full visibility into what runs and when.
• Added quick external links to Google Analytics and Google AdSense from the admin shell.

🛠️ Fixes

• Fixed the DateField to handle non-string values correctly.
• Resolved back-button behaviour and added missing build dependencies.

A Brand-New Admin Dashboard

🆕 Features

• Shipped a new admin dashboard built on Refine + shadcn/ui, replacing the older tooling with a faster, cleaner content-management experience — quick navigation, a welcome overview, theme toggle, and resource views for every content type.
• Added a socials column to data-table views and a blog-posts resource.

🔧 Platform

• Migrated venue-events, episodes, and playlists sync workflows out of the admin and into the automation service, with a new Cron Inspector UI for at-a-glance schedule health.
• Began the move to Next.js 16, modernising the rendering stack across apps.

🛠️ Fixes

• Restored missing menu tooltips when the sidebar is collapsed and fixed several build issues during the migration.

Meet the EDMDb MCP Server

🆕 Features

• Launched the EDMDb MCP server — connect your favourite AI assistant directly to the platform's data. The marketing site now has a dedicated MCP section with a setup guide, live demo, and interactive video previews.
• Added a per-artist upcoming-events page with skeleton loaders and refactored event-data handling.
• Added a web-app manifest and richer metadata for improved PWA install and home-screen support.

⚡ Performance

• Enabled the React Compiler in the Next.js build for faster client rendering.
• Wrapped the theme provider in Suspense and trimmed unused dependencies and analytics.

🎨 UI/UX

• Introduced brand colours, reusable utility classes, and improved alias handling across the marketing surface.

Skiddle Integration & Secure Sign-In Foundations

🆕 Features

• Added a full Skiddle integration — artists, events, festivals, and editions — bringing in venue, performance, and socials data, plus public-API search wired into the editions import flow.
• Added venue linking for Skiddle with slug matching and batching so imported events attach to the right venues automatically.

🔐 Behind the Scenes

• Laid the groundwork for a more secure account system with new Better-Auth schema tables and migrations.

🛠️ Fixes

• Corrected country-code extraction in Skiddle imports by using the proper countrycode field.
• Fixed venue short-link resolution.

Dice & Viberate Data Integrations

🆕 Features

• Added Dice as a new data source across artists, venues, and venue-events imports — more accurate event listings and ticket links from one of the fastest-growing ticketing platforms.
• Added Viberate integration for importing festival editions and venue events, widening lineup and programming coverage.
• Wired Dice into the find-extra-channels and artist-import tooling so existing profiles automatically pick up newly available links.

🛠️ Platform & Reliability

• Added a health-check API with live database-connection validation for faster incident detection.
• Introduced letter-based batching to the link-missing command for more reliable large imports.

Festival Editions Sync & Music Week Montréal

🆕 Features

• Launched a festival editions synchronization API with a scheduled cron so edition lineups, venues, and ticket links stay continuously up to date.
• Added the Music Week Montréal event widget with full event details and assets.
• Introduced a socials section in the app config, surfacing our Facebook presence across the platform.

🎨 UI/UX & SEO

• Added structured data to the landing page layout for richer search-engine results.
• Improved venue and edition pages with updatedAt timestamps for clearer "last refreshed" context.

🛠️ Fixes & Adjustments

• Correctly handle falsy capacity values when importing editions from Resident Advisor.
• Fixed file insertion order and Viberate channel handling during imports.

Widgets, Landing Refresh & Tracked Links

🆕 Features

• Introduced Ultra Europe 2025 and Top 100 DJs voting widgets.
• Implemented tracked external link component to support analytics tracking.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Updated landing page layout and structure, including renamed sections and cleaner widget grouping.
• Refined event page structure for better readability and performance.
• Updated home visuals and removed unused CTA assets.
• Improved image handling and spacing across homepage and widget sections.
• Adjusted link layout and behavior for external event links with improved metadata support.

🛠️ Fixes & Adjustments

• Updated prop types for better consistency in navigation links.
• Ensured all components and list items use unique keys.
• Slight zoom adjustment on static maps for improved visual framing.

Tomorrowland Widget & UI Alignment

🆕 Features

• Added Tomorrowland 2025 widget with dedicated visuals and event highlight.
• Introduced floating Ko-fi support button for optional contributions.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Aligned link components consistently across pages using layout adjustments.
• Updated container components with unified bottom spacing for visual balance.
• Improved venue layout and handled empty social link sections more gracefully.
• Adjusted styling in festival lists and typography for consistency.
• Remove borderRadius override for more natural component display.

🛠️ Fixes & Adjustments

• Improved event toggle behavior in follow buttons with better interaction feedback.
• Renamed default layout components for clarity and structure.
• Corrected URL prefix in festival listings for more accurate linking.

Widget Refresh, Map Upgrades & UI Fixes

🆕 Features

• Added Tomorrowland widget redesign and new CardHighlight UI component.
• Integrated SpotifyConnect as a new sync widget.
• Included venue data in user history aggregation for richer context.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Refreshed follow button with new icon set using MaterialSymbols.
• Improved artist header layout and responsive behavior across devices.
• Applied layout polish and enhanced spacing across venue and artist views.
• Updated provider icons, typography, and visual feedback elements.
• Assigned unique keys in venue lists for better list rendering stability.

🗺️ Map & Platform Updates

• Upgraded Mapbox GL and React Map GL dependencies for better performance and visual accuracy.
• Cleaned up legacy error pages and unified venue data loading with user session support.

🛠️ Fixes & Adjustments

• Addressed layout issues with row direction in artist headers.
• General cleanup and UI refinements throughout hub and venue modules.

Provider Icons & Layout Polish

🆕 Features

• Added color support for music providers on the socials page.
• Canonical URLs now applied across all pages for improved SEO.
• Added scroll-to-top behavior when navigating between artist sections.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Replaced custom icons with unified provider icons for a more consistent look.
• Improved image handling in livestream lists with avatar-based display.
• Polished artist page layout with refined spacing and margin adjustments.
• Updated favicon and added optimized app icons for better cross-platform support.
• Minor visual tweak: Seal icon now hidden on smaller screens.

🛠️ Fixes & Adjustments

• Fixed logo rendering issues in layout.
• Removed unused functions and simplified data fetching for cleaner performance.

Artist SEO + Anonymous Layouts

🆕 Features

• Added public artist pages optimized for LLM and search engine visibility.
• Introduced canonical URLs and robots meta tags for improved SEO.
• Integrated structured data into artist profiles to enhance discoverability.
• Dynamic sitemap support for artists added to improve search indexing.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Updated layouts to differentiate views for anonymous and authenticated users.
• Refreshed artist pages with improved spacing, responsive design, and simplified headers.
• Streamlined component structure across artist-related pages for visual consistency.

🛠️ Fixes & Adjustments

• Removed unused visual elements and layout wrappers for leaner rendering.
• Improved metadata fallback handling for incomplete content.
• Minor refinements to spacing and section layout across pages.

Landing Refresh, Structured Data & SEO Enhancements

🆕 Features

• Added structured data for artists, podcasts, events, festivals, venues, and more to enhance search engine visibility.
• Enabled sitemap and SEO metadata support across key pages.
• Watchlist now includes podcast frequency for improved tracking.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Refreshed landing page with updated layout, responsive images, and clearer marketing text.
• Improved visual consistency across sections, buttons, and navigation.
• Enhanced accessibility with better semantic structure and keyboard navigation.
• Applied visual cleanups by removing unused visuals and outdated elements.

🛠️ Fixes & Adjustments

• Improved handling of missing or incomplete content.
• Removed unused sections from navigation.
• General visual polish and responsiveness updates.

Feed Enhancements + Responsiveness

🆕 Features

• Added location-based filtering to personalized feeds.
• Introduced infinite scroll for the feed with cleaner logic.
• Enabled avatar upload and session sync in account and onboarding flows.
• Added AdminEditButton for quick content editing across multiple entity types.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Refined feed card layout with better truncation and responsiveness.
• Updated feed header and settings styling for mobile usability.
• Enhanced Card components with responsive borderRadius and improved spacing.
• Refactored side navigation with better styling and MUI List usage.
• Switched episodes route to card-based layout with pagination.

🛠️ Fixes & Optimizations

• Modularized feed components and extracted type definitions.
• Optimized podcast filtering by excluding entries without images or episodes.
• Simplified updateUserProfile with cleaner session handling.
• Made OAuth debug logging configurable via AUTH_DEBUG environment variable.
• Refactored SoundCloud/Spotify/Mixcloud OAuth link process.

User Feed Settings + UI Optimizations

🆕 Features

• Added user feed settings with modal UI and customizable filters.
• Introduced language selection dropdown in account settings.
• Added support for user-specific preferences via new settings schema.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Improved loading states across feed and settings views.
• Standardized spelling in UI (e.g., “favourites” → “favorites”).
• Enhanced layout and modularization of feed components.
• Minor layout adjustments for responsiveness and consistency.

🛠️ Fixes & Optimizations

• Refactored feed queries and caching logic for better performance.
• Optimized location-based logic with caching and cleaner data access.
• Improved error handling for auth redirects and fallback routes.

Feedback Safari + Mobile

🆕 Features

• Added calendar page with filters, events, and layout.
• Introduced recently viewed section with slider/list.
• Implemented genre and artist filters for podcasts, artists, and venues.
• Added watchlist module for editions and festivals with toggles and empty states.
• Introduced "See all" buttons and improved slider navigation.
• Integrated metadata and SEO improvements across pages.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Replaced inline alerts with reusable Empty components.
• Improved empty/no results states across lists.
• Enhanced mobile styles, spacing, and hiding of unused elements.
• Added loading components and better list rendering optimizations.
• Updated various icons, menu items, and layout responsiveness.
• Added pagination and styling updates to sliders and tabs.

🛠️ Fixes & Optimizations

• Fixed mobile rendering issues, padding, and responsive visibility.
• Resolved follow button loading state and updated type="search" for inputs.

Initial Release

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