-Backend design still being discussed. Supposed to be finalized this week. - Kevin T doing awesome work starting front end, - Kelly and Yu exported design to Zeplin- need to confirm all there. - still need Google Tags, - will be tricky to get all done by Sept 21 but if we can get a backend to work then possible. > dependent on email notifications

• Kevin demoed the direct message in the dev environment.
• Mobile View Question Discussion: Continue to have the model for sending the initial message > Confirm Screen > View Message > Taking user to direct message
• The frontEnd is ready and ready to work on BackEnd. (Backend meeting with Josh, Luis, and Nicholas)
• Emily is working on pivoting to make sure direct messages can be separated by the Post.
• Emily/Tejas is working with backend engineering development to understand the level of effort.
• Emily is trying to see if a very interim messaging feature can be released before the launch date, but long term solution is still yet to develop.
• Emily has completed writing user stories for the backend.
• Backend, Architecture, and Data Modeling are still in Progress.
• Direct Messaging > Core Functionality and Direct Messaging > Notifications can be two separate tracks.
• Resources are all good now. PMs are discussing with Engineers to make a solid decision on the development.
• Zayd did a demo on Thursday with socket.io
• Emily to share the meeting notes with channel
• Meeting with Kelly, will be including non mvp features
• Blocking users, content moderation, active status, editing and deleting messages to be part of MVP.
• The messaging feature is under testing by QA and the FE needs help. Arshpreet will be helping with FE.

10/31/2020

• Mobile frontend implementation ready.
• QA in progress for build branch
• Merge on Stage by Nov 15