Changelog 0003: The winds of change

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Two orders of business this week:

We were at Sync Conf! Look for a wrap-up blog post in the next couple days.

This week is “pay down the technical debt” week at Moment!

Because of (2) we’re mostly-invisibly retooling how state management works in the frontend, so that we can ship you more stuff, faster, with higher quality.

Have you ever noticed the Moment Desktop App is extremely chatty on the network? Sometimes CPU looks a little higher than it should be? You get logged out at weird and random times? All of these are for the same reason: our creaky, ancient, spaghetti-like Frontend State Management (FSM™️) system. And replacing it will make the app faster, more reliable, and easier to develop against.

Stay tuned for the next couple weeks, as we have some very big features to talk about…