The Week That Was - Issue #10

Alex Powell
Alex Powell
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I'm Back!

So in case you weren't aware I was out -- but now I'm back. We had lots of great meetings from GDC and a stellar event. @ben_harpe & @JoeF did an amazing job!

New Hire in Marketing

Welcome @adlaisalcedo to the Marketing team. He's also a spin instructor at ELMNT studio in N.D.G and blogs at adlaisalcedo.com

Site of the Week

This is from @BrigitteP. They did the design themselves and escaped from the dreaded VB, which was full of spam. We'll be working with them on a success story.

Release notes for 2.6

Here are the new Features. Thanks to @linc for putting this together.

  1. Category Following
         * Users may now "Follow" categories.
         * Recent Discussions page may be filtered to only show discussions from followed categories.
         * This feature must be enabled in the Dashboard.
         * Enabling it adds a new menu to the Recent Discussions page, so theming conflicts should be checked.
         * We removed the old "Mute" function for categories to make room for this new feature.

  2. Hero Image addon
         * Adds theming functionality to easily add a large custom image per page.
         * See notes at https://docs.vanillaforums.com/help/addons/hero-image/

  3. API v2 new endpoint support for the following features:
         * Badges
         * Polls
         * Q&A
         * Ideation
         * Ranks
         * Search

Changes:

  • Add Analytics.Data.View permission to grant non-administrators analytics view access.
  • API change: A discussion that is an Idea or Question can no longer be updated or deleted from the discussion endpoint. It must use the new Ideation or Q&A endpoints. This prevents loss of data integrity for their current status.
  • API: Add pagination information to response headers for multiple endpoints.
  • API: Add filtering by archived status to categories endpoint.
  • Allow the API v2 to authenticate with API v1 access tokens.
  • API docs: Parameters of type 'enum' now correctly list all values that are accepted.
  • Fix image upload button not always appearing in Advanced Editor and Signature editing.
  • Fix filter menus showing for guests on Recent Discussions and categories root.
  • Add "none found" message to category pages with no categories.
  • Fix image cropper overflow when editing avatars.
  • Fix discussion Q&A status for edited and deleted comments.
  • Fix Keyword Blocker setting updating user as insert user when editing post.
  • Fix broken links to theme documentation from dashboard.
  • RoleTracker: Move Untrack option into a popup.
  • Reactions: Fix text truncation on profiles.
  • Update redirection after adding a category.
  • Fix redirect to after deleting group discussion.
  • Improve UX when attempting to join a group without being signed in.
  • Update System user's default avatar.
  • Accessibility improvements.
  • Security enhancements.

Pet of the Week

This is my dog Finnegan. He thinks he is a puppy. Which doesn't work, when he tries to crawl on your chest!

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