January 2023

As we begin the new year, we've been busy squashing bugs and improving the performance and stability of our platform.

Enhancements

Ads

• Sticky ad container animation now renders only once per second to improve performance.

• Ads config script fetching mechanisms have been improved to reduce failed OWA-GW requests.

Conversation

• Localized separators have been added to numbers according to the UI language of the site.

Bug Fixes

Ads

• Sticky ad container is triggered also when the ad is ≤ 50% viewable.

Conversation

• Long comments are truncated with a Read More... call to action.

• (Safari) The Cancel and Save buttons appear immediately when editing a comment.

• (Safari) The text editor is in focus when the Reply button is clicked.

• The Report option has been removed for featured messages for all users.

• Padding under user-uploaded images in the Conversation has been restored.

• After muting a user, the confirmation prompt directs users to the privacy menu to unmute.

Reactions

• The data-theme implementation code attribute allows you to override the default theme.

User Profile

• The ow-open-module function allows the triggering of the User Profile from external call to actions.