March - April 2022

New Features

Notification Webhooks

• Easily monitor message-related events through notification webhooks. This new feature allows you to pull audience activity including:

  • Likes

  • Message approvals

  • Message replies

  • Author and topic follows

  • User mentions

Topic Tracker

• Users can now receive an email notification when a new article on a topic they are tracking is published. Users can adjust their email settings from both the Notification Settings menu (Notification Bell > ⋯ > Notification settings) and within the email notification itself.

Conversation

• Users can indicate the reason for reporting other community member’s comments.

Enhancements

Conversation

• The real-time typing indicator now shows when someone is typing a reply. It also shows when a user is scrolling the Conversation.

Email Notifications

• Unsubscribing from an email points users to a landing page that confirms the successful removal from the mailing list.

Notifications

• Notification settings are now only available through the notification bell menu.

• The following visual enhancements have been made to listed notifications:

  • Increased the size of the unread indicators.

  • Header title has been aligned with the user avatar.

  • Width of the list has been increased (Web only).

Registration

• ReCaptcha v3 protection has been added to the user login process, to prevent bots from logging.

• Added Single sign on support to React SDK

Spotlight

• Updated the text of the comment button in Hebrew.

SDK

• Added API call to set the initial sorting option when opening Conversation

• Added API to set a callback when the user is pressing on the Conversation header

• Added support to customize the like button to “Recommend”, “Upvote/Downvote” and “Heart”.

• Now supports disabling a user’s avatar online indication

• Now supports opening the comment creation screen directly from your application.

• Now supports subscriber badges

Bug Fixes

Conversation

• Users can reply to comments in the Conversation page overlay.

• (iOS) Users can scroll through user profiles and Community Guidelines

Spotlight

• The direction of the action symbol (>) has been corrected for Hebrew.

• The Email Address placeholder text is now translated into the language selected in the Admin Panel.

Admin Panel

• Clicking the Forgot? link on the login screen sends an email with the proper reset password link.

Notifications

• (iOS) Users can scroll through notifications even when the scrollbar disappears.

• All notifications are visible in the notification modal when SafeFrame is enabled.

• Cursor pointer changes to a hand when hovering over a checkbox in Notification Settings.

• After opting out from receiving an author, topic notifications are no longer received.

• Users receive email notifications after resubscribing for email notifications.

• Publisher initials are used as the fallback logo when no publisher logo is available.

• Close icon (X) is visible and clickable on accelerated mobile pages (AMP).

• Done and Cancel buttons are visible regardless of UI language.

Registration

• Text input accepts entry when changing the password from within the user profile.

• Only one registration modal can be opened at a time.

• Reset Your Password title displays in password reset modal.

• During the sign-up process, clicking Create Account creates an account without any browser issues.

• When the Log in modal is opened, no field is the active focus.

Reactions

• Special characters are now supported in the title (question) and reaction options (answers).

• Images in the reaction options properly render.

Topic Tracker

• When a user opts out of notifications via email, the notifications settings UI is updated.

• The Topic Tracker and ad unit load aligned next to each other.

SDK

• Decoding special characters back in comment counters API

• Colors of comment actions (up vote and etc.) when switching between light mode to dark mode and vice versa

• Author profile is truncated when change to landscape mode

• In Landscape, click "View reply", message and line will overlapped