The FirstVoices development team has been working hard on the new release, which sees the launch of a number of new features, as well as solutions to bugs and glitches on the site. In addition, we’ve also published many new articles on our Knowledge Base. All of these updates have been prompted by the hard-working Language Teams and community members, whose valuable feedback, ideas and suggestions have been crucial in making FirstVoices a better platform.
If you have questions about any of the updates listed below, or have ideas for ways to improve FirstVoices, please contact us at: support@fpcc.ca
New features
Updated search features
Users can now search for words and phrases in a variety of new and improved ways.
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Default search | The standard FirstVoices search function. This will do a full-text search on the word and definition fields (excluding literal translation) AND an approximate search on each field individually. |
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Approximate search | This allows the user to only receive results that approximately match their search. |
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Exact search | This allows the user to only receive results that match their exact search. |
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Contains search | This allows the user to receive results that have their search within words or phrases. |
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Starts with search | This allows the user to receive results that start with their search. |
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Ends with search | This allows the user to receive results that end with their search. |
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Wildcard search | This allows the user to search for a part of a word or phrase, specifying a blank that needs to be filled. Supported wildcards are * which matches any character sequence, and ? which matches any single character. |
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Bug fixes
Parachute game updates
Fixes include:
Characters that include diacritics now render properly
Characters in the game scramble properly
Reloading the page no longer causes it to break
Alphabetization fixes
We’ve made improvements to our sorting mechanism on FirstVoices. These changes will ensure that the default sort order when viewing words/phrases is now based on each individual language's alphabet. Changes to archives will be processed in the next few days as we recalculate sorting for existing data.
Once this is done, archives will alphabetize sort first from language's alphabet, then from Latin alphabet as a backup.
Words with a space in them will show up properly during alphabetization ( for example, the entry 'a bit' will show up before the entry 'another').
Whitespaces are automatically trimmed around entries, so if someone accidentally inputs a space at the beginning or end of an entry, the system will delete it so that it doesn't mess up the alphabetization.
Future improvements will include proper sorting for capitalized words.
Search function updates
Fixes include:
With updated search options, searching for specific strings of letters return more accurate results
More relevant results will appear closer to the top
Previously broken characters now render properly
The ‘Reset Search’ button no longer disrupts subsequent searches
Parts of Speech options now load immediately
Other updates
Browsing for a certain type of media to add to an entry no longer displays the wrong type of media (i.e. browsing for audio will no longer show images)
There are new Parts of Speech options available, including:
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New documentation
Looking for support, or to learn something new? Here is the new documentation that has been added to our Knowledge Base:
Website Speed Updates
Home
Load Time: 30% faster
First Byte: 70% faster
Fully Loaded: 36% faster
Words
Load Time: 28% faster
First Byte: 90% faster
Fully Loaded: 14% faster
Contact us
Send us your questions, concerns, ideas, bugs and feedback at support@fpcc.ca!