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Velocity5.0

Event management and virtual conference platform for academic and scientific events

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Near-daily one-line releases, steadily removing friction from event setup and attendee use

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◆Current state
Fourwaves ships an academic-conference platform and publishes a dated changelog entry almost every weekday, each carrying exactly one change in a single clean sentence. Titles are bare dates, so every headline has to be rewritten from the body. The current run mixes small UI repairs with real structural work on how event pages are addressed.
◆Where it's heading
Two threads are visible. Organiser-side work is tightening the event builder — guarding against deleting fields still in use, defaulting the program to a sensible date, cleaning up content-block layout. Attendee-side work is removing small indignities: muting microphones on join, letting visitors self-register from the sign-in page, fixing mobile messaging. Nothing here is directional; it is a team paying down friction one item at a time, which is why sparks are rare on this feed.
◆Prediction
Expect the same one-change-per-day cadence to continue across both threads, with payment and registration plumbing the likeliest area for a larger item given the recent Authorize.net and checkout work.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Event homepages now served at the event root URL

    Event homepages are served directly at the event's root address instead of redirecting to a /pages URL. A small structural change with real consequences for link sharing and search indexing — more than the cosmetic fixes that surround it in this window.

  2. 5d ago

    Fix: wide content no longer stretches neighbouring blocks

    Layout repair in the page builder where oversized content in one block distorted the others. Part of the steady content-block cleanup.

  3. 6d ago

    Fix: mobile back arrow in new conversations

    The back arrow did nothing when opening a first conversation with a new contact on mobile. A defect fix on the attendee messaging surface.

  4. 8d ago

    Program defaults to the most relevant date

    The program view now opens on the most relevant date even when a day has no sessions, rather than stranding attendees on an empty schedule.

  5. 13d ago

    Participants join conversations muted by default

    Microphones are muted on entering a conversation. A default change rather than a feature, and the kind of small correctness that decides whether virtual sessions feel usable.

  6. 14d ago

    Link editor fix in text blocks

    The link editor showed the previously selected link when a different link was clicked. Editor defect fix in the same content-block area as the later layout repair.