Wannonce roadmap

1. In progress Since 13 October 2026

   Version 3.6 — Rounds 21 and 22, new pages and two new services

   Since 13 October: the existing areas taken further, pages written to make each service known, and two new services being prepared, the WMaps directory and the WForum forums, closed until they are opened.

   • Deals: paged lists, a page per town and category, merchant statistics over the period of their choice compared with the previous one.
   • Chat: who reacted to a message is shown, a button leads to the first unread message; in France, a long page presenting the chat.
   • Dating: a match only knows the profile's first name, never the account name; a block made from dating only applies in dating; eight pages per kind of encounter and a dating page for every French commune.
   • Site: the About page rewritten for members, an editorial on the entrance page, service blocks on every home page, sign-in and sign-up pages that explain why an account is worth it, « classifieds » in the titles of listing pages.
   • Towns: titles that name the three kinds of authors.
   • WMaps (being prepared): shops and services of every town collected within a monthly budget, a directory by region, department, town and district with a map, a page for each place with phone, website and opening hours, members' reviews and photos, places claimed by their owners.
   • WForum (being prepared): forums by theme and a forum for every place, threaded replies and votes, live debates that freeze into a topic when they end, moderation.
2. Done 11 October 2026 – 12 October 2026

   Version 3.5 — v3 sprint, third series (rounds 16 to 20) and the Towns area

   Since the night of 11 to 12 October: every screen of the earlier rounds reviewed in a browser, accessibility and performance measured again, and a new area being built, residents' reviews of their town.

   • Platform: first continuous integration run on Postgres, safer offline app and update notice, performance budget met on 46 pages, database connections kept open, translations of the new keys reviewed.
   • Deals: city pages and adjustable radius, merchant statistics with export, dates readable before signing in, accessibility checked on 23 screens.
   • Chat: email summary of followed rooms, room usable with a keyboard and a screen reader, list of blocked members, “the site is not responding” page.
   • Dating: voice reply repaired (microphone allowed), accessibility of the filters and the moderation queue, lighter images, first name of the profile in a match conversation.
   • Guides: newsletter preview, test send and figures, unsubscribing per topic, drafts saved automatically with a signed preview, review list, reminders before publishing.
   • Towns (in progress): residents' reviews of their town, marks out of 10 per criterion, read before publication, votes and reports; rankings and a monthly honours list, lists by region and county, search by name or code, map.
   • Added on 12 October — Towns: three reviewer profiles (resident, visitor, worker) with a summary for each, overviews written by an AI and labelled as such (off by default), a campaign inviting members to rate their town, a writing helper for reviews, “the town in figures” from open data; platform: services menu on phones, data repairs applied at deployment, legal pages per language (a translation stays a draft until it has been reviewed).
3. Done 11 October 2026

   Version 3.4 — v3 sprint, second series (rounds 11 to 15)

   On 11 October: the same method, five more rounds over the five lanes, merged lot by lot.

   • “About” and “Roadmap” pages.
   • Platform: plurals of several languages, CSP without inline styles, size limits of listings and imports, 320 px thumbnails, local SEO of cities and regions, review of Postgres portability.
   • Deals: several addresses and a map on the deal page, payment authorised then captured when the voucher is issued, limit checked again at payment, team roles, deals sold by date.
   • Chat: 44 px targets, presence shared between servers, “Online” dot outside the chat, 320 px photos, shield adjustable room by room, search indexes.
   • Dating: picks of the day, photo actions, 30-second voice reply, safety reminder and feedback after a date, deck filters, moderation queue tools.
   • Guides: wider figures pages, search in subheadings and the glossary, one page per brand, one page per glossary term, links between guides, listings and deals.
4. Done 11 October 2026

   Version 3.3 — Depth (v3 sprint, rounds 2 to 10)

   The night of 10 to 11 October, five lanes in rotation.

   • Platform: instant suggestions across the site, phone search with a filter sheet, axe audit, security review, strict CSP enforced, SEO audit, performance budget over 36 pages.
   • Deals: “around this deal” block, deals by city, category and budget alerts, deduplicated views, offer to the members who saved a deal, deals by time slot.
   • Chat: followed keywords, suggested rooms, advanced search, go to a date, timed pins, reminders, drafts across devices, keyboard shortcuts.
   • Dating: two-sided icebreaker, like a photo or an answer, reorder and crop photos, best photo first, picks of the day, dates written out in the 24 languages.
   • Guides: price chart and highest record, private sellers and professionals apart, prices by brand and model, volume and turnover, neighbourhood guides, video on click, newsletter themes.
   • Review of every journey at 390, 768 and 1,280 px; full suite green: 251 unit tests and 624 integration tests.
5. Done 10 October 2026 – 11 October 2026

   Version 3.2 — Tools (v3 sprint, round 1)

   The evening of 10 October: tools for merchants, moderators and members.

   • Deals: autonomous merchant, team roles, refund retries, guest checkout.
   • Chat: sanctions, filter of disguised contact details and images, several photos per message.
   • Dating: warnings and appeals, weighted reports, date sharing, no-show reports, caution about a phone number given too early.
   • Guides: editorial reliability (checked external links, orphan guides, review dates, correction note).
6. Done 5 October 2026

   Version 3.1 — One site (lot X)

   The evening of 5 October: moving from one area to another without searching.

   • One notification centre and one preferences page, live header badges.
   • Personal home for members and an installable app (PWA).
   • Links between the areas and one search across the whole site.
7. Done 30 September 2026 – 10 October 2026

   Version 3.0 — The Rust rewrite and the production base

   30 September to 10 October 2026: wannonce rebuilt in Rust with Loco.rs, first the classifieds site, then the four areas, and finally a reliable production base.

   Phase v1: the classifieds site rewritten

   The base of the rewrite

   30 September 2026 · Already in the first commit of the repository

   The first commit of the Rust repository: the core of a classifieds site rebuilt with Loco.rs, for the whole of Europe.

   • Listings: posting with or without an account, photos, fields specific to each category, moderation; search by keyword, place, radius, price and filters; accounts, messaging, favourites, reports.
   • 31 European markets with addresses per language and country (/fr-fr/, /de-at/…), a tree of places (French municipalities and European cities), place × category pages at every level, hreflang, structured data, sitemaps.
   • Interface and categories in the 24 languages, prices and dates by language, emails in the member's language.
   • Email alerts, approximate map, email and SMS verification, Google and Facebook sign-in, anti-spam.
   • Paid options through Stripe, invoices and EU VAT, professional accounts with a shop, credits and promo codes.
   • GDPR and DSA: account export and deletion, consent, notices of illegal content, transparency report; automatic moderation; two-factor authentication.
   • Step-by-step posting, instant search, real estate, car, job and holiday rental verticals; professional feeds, REST API v2, blog and newsletter; admin with roles, indicators and A/B tests.

   Going online

   30 September 2026

   The evening of 30 September: the site takes its production shape.

   • Deployment in Docker containers on a Ploi server.
   • Continuous integration: clippy without warnings and the whole test suite, on SQLite and then also on Postgres.
   • Reference data shipped in the image, without demo accounts; multilingual demo listings and a data loader.
   • Public addresses without the listening port behind the proxy (canonical, hreflang, sitemaps, emails).

   Ready for production

   1 October 2026

   The night of 1 October: everything needed to take the load.

   • Pre-generated, compressed sitemaps; precomputed place × category counts.
   • Postgres full-text search and production indexes.
   • Rate limits per IP address; photos on S3 storage and backups copied off the server.
   • Monitoring: metrics, Sentry, health alerts; email bounces and complaints set aside.
   • Playwright journeys, accessibility audit and budgets in CI; a k6 load scenario.

   Still open: legal validation of the terms and the real keys (payment, SMS, search engines).

   Real time and transactions

   1 October 2026

   The morning of 1 October: the site comes alive.

   • Notification centre and web push notifications.
   • Real-time messaging with read receipts and photos.
   • Search within the map area, “photos first” posting on a phone, natural-language suggestions.
   • Secure payment between private sellers with delivery (Stripe Connect), invoice of the protection fee, printable shipping slip.

   Europe, trust and professionals

   1 October 2026

   1 October: crossing borders and equipping the community.

   • Listings visible in neighbouring countries, local search engines.
   • Public profiles, seller levels, blocking, help centre, identity verification.
   • Professional tools: contacts, teams, scheduled bumps, calendar, sources of views.
   • Steering: in-house audience measurement, A/B test results, revenue, exports.

   Finishing phase v1

   1 October 2026

   The afternoon of 1 October.

   • WebP copies of photos, sharing images per category, index coverage followed in Search Console.
   • Several shops per account, OAuth2 for the API, stemmed search, optional semantic search.
   • Localized guides for five more markets, categories hidden per country, regional vocabulary, a listing language filter in multilingual countries.
   • Packaged mobile app, visual regression tests, OpenTelemetry traces, rate limits shared through Redis.

   Phase v2: the four areas

   Four areas

   1 October 2026

   The evening of 1 October, around the listings.

   • Members' chat: public rooms per language, live messages.
   • Free dating, profiles to swipe, a match then a private conversation.
   • Deals sold as vouchers.
   • Guides with a table of contents, reading time, related guides and a feed; one roadmap per area.

   Rounds 1 to 3 of the areas

   1 October 2026

   The evening of 1 October, one agent per area and a merge after each round.

   • Deals: clearer cards, sorting, printable voucher with a QR code, refunds, after-sale (expiry, gifting), merchants, category alerts, upcoming deals, reviews and statistics.
   • Chat: unread private messages, photos, reactions, replies, mentions, slow mode, automatic filter, mutes, report reasons, log, rules to accept, pins.
   • Dating: interests, identity badge, undo, pause, likes received, moderated photos, profile prompts, intent, report queue and safety page.
   • Guides: covers, callouts, FAQ, theme and author pages, key takeaways, tables, sources, votes, scheduling, links to listings, checklists, local guides.

   Rounds 4 to 7 of the areas

   1 October 2026 – 2 October 2026

   1 to 2 October: a UX review of every screen, then depth.

   • Deals: saved deals, deal of the day, merchant and budget alerts, no more overselling, automatic refund, merchant tools, deals near you.
   • Chat: rooms by city and category, room proposals, shield, notification levels, daily digest.
   • Dating: after the match, safety reminder, opening question, privacy and control, shared availability.
   • Guides: city guides in figures, price and region guides, weekly records, newsletter, glossary, seasonal calendar, price confidence.
   • Listings lead to the room of their city and to the guide of their city.

   Rounds 8 to 10 of the areas

   2 October 2026 – 4 October 2026

   2 to 4 October: second UX review, security, finishing touches.

   • Second UX review of each area.
   • Security and robustness review of each area; emails and structured data escaped everywhere; nothing of a private conversation on the lock screen.
   • International entrance at the root of the site, market name in the titles, breadcrumbs from the entrance.
   • Finishing touches, leftovers and documentation of each area.

   UX, mobile and performance loop

   4 October 2026 – 5 October 2026

   4 to 5 October: five rounds over five lanes, measured on screenshots.

   • Screenshot and measurement script, no more horizontal overflow, 44 px targets.
   • One-row header on phones, flags in a single image, minified scripts, cached menu.
   • Chat room and dating deck full screen on phones, photos in WebP and at the right size.
   • Guides served fast and easy to read on phones and tablets.

   Lot P: the production base (5 and 10 October)

   • Mailer with one-click unsubscribe on bulk mails.
   • Quality review of the translations in the 22 languages other than French and English.
   • One database per test, a CI job on Postgres, a Postgres audit of the code.
   • Backups with a restore test, health probes, Health page, alerts, performance budget in CI.
   • Race-free invoice numbers, clean backfills, duplicate index removed.

   The exit condition of v3.0 is not reached yet: the suite ran on Postgres for the first time on 11 October (676 of 679 integration tests passed, the fixes not run again yet) and no real phone has seen the site.

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