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Release Notes

September 2026

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AUTHOR: OpenWeb Team

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

Enhancements

Admin Panel

Added UX refreshers to the Admin Panel, including:

  • Expanded pagination controls and added a direct jump-to-page option to streamline navigation across large data sets.

  • Removed character limit restrictions on search inputs to accommodate longer queries, URLs, and entity identifiers.

  • Added informative tooltips to provide clear context whenever an article title or associated metadata is missing.

  • Open "View all from user" in a new tab from the Admin Panel

  • Added User ID as a search option

  • Defaulted search scope to "All" queue

  • Made handles clickable to open user's comment history (comment card, @mentions, reporters)

  • Made scroll indicator on "More" dropdown always visible

  • Renamed "AI Moderation Assist" to "AIDA" and hid 3 tags

  • Introduced our first ever “Ask AI” feature to the conversation. Partners can enable on demand.

Bug Fixes

Social

  • Resolved an issue on mobile web views where opening the GIF search/picker modal caused it to render in the wrong position and overlap page elements in comment editor and forum placements.

  • Fixed an issue where some registered users were showing as guests for a short period of time due to caching issues.

    • Fixed an issue where some messages were disappearing from Live Blog

Admin Panel

  • Fixed an issue where comments with multiple reports were showing wrong counters.

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