July 2025

What's new in July: Key product updates, and improvements.

Enhancements

Ads

• Added configurable setting to control how long a display ad shows before switching to video

Reactions

• Launched the Reactions as Polls feature, enabling publishers to collect reader sentiment through a single-vote system with configurable placement. Users can change their vote, and results remain visible on return visits, helping boost engagement and retention.

Admin Panel

• Updated frontend to support both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the block input field.

• Added confirmation modals when switching conversation policy between Strict and Default from the article and comment cards to prevent unintentional changes.

• Released a new version of the Spam Similarity model with improved indexing, multilingual support, faster detection, and better coverage of emerging spam trends. The recommended rejection threshold is 92%.

Bug Fixes

Conversation

• Fixed issue where read_batch_size was ignored when switching between sorts, causing default values to be used instead of the configured value.