June - July 2021

DATE: July 15, 2021

AUTHOR: OpenWeb Team

New Features

Personal notifications received in real-time will now prompt a temporary slider popup. Users can control which notification types to receive in this way through the notification settings menu.

More notifications now automatically surface in the Notifications menu as the user scrolls down.
The Notifications menu now changes height according to the content.
Unregistered users now see a message in the notifications menu inviting them to sign up.

You can now customize the appearance of Community Question, including alignment, font weight, color, and size.
Journalists can now create Community Questions, providing another way for writers and community members to engage—and to gain valuable data.

Added ability to approve or reject “Publish and Moderate” messages from Conversation.

When a staff member reports a message from the conversation the messages will automatically move to pending for review.

Added a new configuration for Rich Text formatting ("Aa") and disable completely from iOS mobile.

Broadcast messages were redesigned, and are now integrated into the rest of our Notifications offering.
Broadcasts now take up less real estate, and automatically disappear if users don’t interact with them.

The below issues have been resolved.

Users cannot scroll up/down Community guidelines modal (Mobile).
Social reviews empty state opens an empty tooltip.
Various Community Guidelines bugs (alignment, loader).
In some cases, clicking on 'Reply' caused infinite load (Mobile).
Various translation bugs (Russian, Hebrew, German).
Online indication is cut on the conversation.
When redirected to a comment, the brand color is too opaque.
Removed 'Mark all as read' option when there are no notifications.
Popup notifications settings option not appearing for all users.
Unread notifications badge not syncing when there are multiple bell menus on the same page.
Notification counter badge not clearing when a user logs out.