Did you know that May 5-7th is the start of summer according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar? Lixia (立夏) is the 7th solar term, which divides a year into 24 solar terms. Lixia begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 45° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 60° around May 21st.
New under and on the hood of the ARK – many thx to Helena, Lukas and Sonia for making this possible:
- Discourse integration: ARK users can now use Discourse forum and chat features, integrated in ARK via the Forum tabs and chat buttons. Users added to commons/communities/ecoregions are automatically added to the corresponding Discourse categories and chats
- New Feed feature showing new Discourse topics, POIs, species, commons, communities, ecoregions, users, activities, best practices, and quests. ARK mentors can access a feed dashboard with stats and links to new content pending review
- Multiplayer quests: Users can become the leader of a multiplayer game, or leave the game
- New QR code to join a quest easily, displayed in quests lists and quest detail page
- ARK mentors can now edit all quests, stops, and questions
- Added Bioregional Identity tab to the new course dashboard
- Improved question titles in the downloadable quest work sheets
- Improved map tiles cache performance
- Quests with related data can now be deleted
- New activities/events participation tickets have free price by default
- Improved link in the new mappings notifications to ecoregion mentors
- Added Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Vietnamese locale support
- Translation updates
- Bug fixes