Upcircle Hack 3.3

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Description

Upcircle is a better way to recycle. It is a place where anyone can contribute old items or recyclables to creators who will reuse, recycle or upcycle them. Discover meaningful initiatives by artists, communities or businesses who transform your trash away from the landfills; find out recycling options for various items. You can also create your own projects to source for items or list items to give away!

As a user of the Upcircle community, you can:

- Contribute items you no longer need to others who need them (e.g. plastic packaging to pre-loved clothes and toys)
- Create projects to crowdsource for your projects
- List items that you would like to give away
- Build a profile and following for your creations and contributions

As a creator, you are able to:
- Manage and track contributions to your projects
- Build a following of regular contributors for your projects
- Notify contributors and followers of project updates and new initiatives
- Share your projects through other platforms to obtain contributions

Join us today - Contribute or request items away from landfills!

Version history

3.3

2022-11-10

- Updates to private communities features
- Bug fix for chat loading

3.2

2022-10-29

- Prompts to activate notifications for project owners to enable better app experience for project users
- Improved search function
- Modified display of projects on user profiles
- Improved flexibility to manage texts for projects published

3.1

2022-09-02

- Optimised search function to include locations
- Improved chat sorting algorithm
- Fixed Facebook login
- Capture photos directly from Image library
- Fixed project draft saving function to write over saves
- Minor UI adjustments

3.0

2022-08-05

This is the release of Upcircle 3.0 with a revamped user interface and added features for usability.
- Newly added feature for users to list items to give away
- Ability to edit projects that have been published
- Introduction of filtering projects by material categories
- A more intuitive project management interface for project creators
- Hyperlink functions incorporated into all text descriptions and profile bio

2.3

2022-02-24

# Added
- Private communities
- Broadcast to private community members

# Changed
- Fully sourced items are now shown by default

# Removed
- Pop up warning on first contribution

2.2

2021-12-16

# Added
- email consent checker
- deep linking for project sharing
- character limit for input

# Changed
- swapped project and contribution view

# Fixed
- logout crash
- add project crash

2.1

2021-08-24

# Added
- Message send button
- Message trimming

# Changed
- Default filter in contributor summary set to 'All'

# Fixed
- Message not sending with keyboard (replaced with send button)
- Message assigned to wrong sender
- Message overwrite
- Logout crashes
- Missing notification

1.3

2021-07-27

Added
- ability to delete project drafts
- chat messages allow highlight for copy
Fixed
- no longer creates empty chats
- if email address is in use alert for FB login
- chat was not working for some projects
- incorrect tally of contributed items when browsing different projects
- deleting of contributed items
Changed
- reduce compression rate of images to support better quality uploads
- server region
- chat input is now expandable
- default tab on home page set to Popular

1.2

2021-07-02

# Added
- update checks and notifications

# Fix
- notifications loading

1.1

2021-06-30

Added
- tooltips added to onboarding screens
- access to message contributors from contributors list
- badge to display unread messages on app open
- welcome message from Upcircle
- display of additional details for item contributions and collection points
- minor UI fixes
- validation checks
- 'pax' added as unit option
Removed
- project terms, replaced with alert checks
- hid location and added bio
- fully sourced section
Fixes
- logout crash

1.0

2021-05-30