Project Information of Kontext, including UI design,user manual, schedule, etc.
Kontext Help Centre is Online
To help Kontext users to use Kontext website easily, a shiny new help centre is now live. Go to the following page to view Kontext help documentation. Help Centre info At the moment, only high-level user guidelines are published. More and more details will be added gradually.
Kontext platform is now upgraded to the latest .NET 5 from .NET 5 preview versions as at 2020-11-12. The upgrades include: ASP.NET Core Projects: from ASP.NET Core 5 preview extensions to .NET 5 built-in stack. Azure DevOps Build Pipeline Azure App Services Regards, Kontext Admin
"Welcome to Kontext" Email Notifications
From 2020-06-27, Kontext will send out one "Welcome to Kontext!" email notifications to users for the following scenarios: when users register as a local user successfully and email is activated. when the first time users log in with Google and Microsoft accounts to register as a new site user.
From release 0.7.4, Kontext users can now easily log in/sign up with Google or Microsoft accounts. To log in using your Google or Microsoft accounts, simply click Log in button on the top navigation bar. Alternatively, you can find these options on log in page or any column article page ...
Azure DNS is now in Use on Kontext
In the past few months, Kontext's DNS server was not very stable as it went offline several times accidentally. When the DNS server is down, our domain (kontext.tech) cannot be parsed successfully to the IP address of Azure App Service (the service that hosts this website); thus it became ...
Kontext Dark Theme Mode is Available
From release v0.6.0 , dark theme mode is supported on all pages on Kontext. Follow the following steps to switch to Dark Theme mode. On the right top nav bar, click the sun icon ( ) . From the dropdown menu, toggle Dark theme button. Dark theme mode is then enabled ...
From release v0.6.0, Kontext website now runs from a package (zip file) in Azure App Services. This ensures storage (incl. database storage, blob storage for uploaded files) is separated from the application and the application itself is read-only. In Azure DevOps release pipelines, it can ...
Kontext v0.6.1 System Architecture
From release v0.6.1, Kontext platform is server-less and cloud native with horizontal scalabilities.
Notification Email Address Change Notice
In the past months, this website has been using the following Email address to delivery all the notification messages to the website users such as registration confirmation email, comment email and so on. no-reply[at]kontext.tech However, I recently found that messages are sometimes lost ...
HTTPS is now enabled in this website
To provide better security, Kontext is now fully HTTPS enabled. You can view the SSL certificate in your browser:
