New Features/ Enhancements
- Alternative Homepage
We've added a new (and optional) functionality that allows you to set a different homepage for logged in users and non-logged in users. In combination with the Landing Page feature, this gives you the freedom to share different information with both types of users.
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/admin/config/alternative_frontpage |
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More info |
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- Improved Landing Pages
Site managers can now feature basic pages, book pages, and other landing pages on a landing page. Moreover, you can even choose to highlight members in the ‘featured’ section of a landing page.
We’ve also improved the visual layout of the landing pages in order to create a more visually-appealing page. Moreover, we created a new design for the ‘featured items’ on landing pages, including a new landing page icon for these ‘featured items’.
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/node/add/landing_page |
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- Multi-Language Feature
Open Social now supports multiple languages other than English. When multiple languages have been enabled, each user can choose their preferred interface language in their settings. This means the menu, interface texts (such as ‘write a comment’), and emails will be translated. At this moment, only Dutch and English are available, but we plan on expanding to more languages soon.
Here’s what can be translated: Site managers can customize and translate the emails they send to their users (when users create new accounts or need a password reset, for example).
On top of that, site managers can translate the menu links into other languages.
And last, but not least, the stream and notifications that users receive in emails and the notification center will be available in their preferred language.
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More info |
https://lets.getopensocial.com/manual-translate-menulink |
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- Searching for Usernames Improved
We have improved the ability to search for another user. When searching for another user’s name (e.g. “Robert”) in the ‘all search’ tab, the username is now more likely to appear compared to other content on the platform that also includes this name.
- Private message email notification settings
it is now possible to set the frequency of email notifications for new private messages you received via the settings on your profile.
- Searching for usernames on search all tab
Searching for a user’s name (e.g. “Robert”) now results in a higher chance of a showing the member compared to other content on the search all tab.
- Enable tagging per content type
Site managers can now enable/disable the tagging for each of your content types. The landing page is disabled by default.
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/admin/config/opensocial/tagging-settings |
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More info |
https://lets.getopensocial.com/manual-turn-on-off-content-tagging |
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Bug fixes
- Email notification link to posts in a group and
- E-mail notifications related to activity in groups did not have a correct URL for the group
When you are a member of a group, and you receive a notification about a new post or other new activity in this group, the word ‘post’ is now clickable. In some cases, the link to the group was not also working, which has been corrected as well.
- When using the @mention feature, the list of names where cut off
This happened on the bottom of the page when you mentioned someone in your comment. There was no scrolling mechanism which made it difficult to find the right person. Now, the list is completely visible on both the browser and mobile version.
- When viewing the featured content section of a landing page in firefox, the layout was broken.
This is fixed now
- Posts in a public group will always have public visibility
Previously, when you created a post in a public group, the visibility of this post was not always set to ‘Public’. There was a bug that caused the visibility to be set to “Community” instead. This has been fixed.
- Commenting with an iPhone
When users used an iPhone to place a comment, the iPhone keyboard used to block the comment field. This has been fixed.
- Navigation bar icons are all clickable
In certain versions of Internet Explorer (incl. MS Edge), the navigation icons were not clickable. In other browsers this issue did not occur. It has now been fixed.
- Disabled tagging feature
On sites where the tagging feature was disabled, the tag filter was still visible on the search pages. This has now been removed.
- Always use consistent notification messages for activities related to posts
There was some inconsistency in the notification messages related to post activities. In some cases we used the term ‘photo’ instead of ‘post’. We decided to change this to ‘post’ always.
- Links in the stream did not persist the language code
When the site was configured to detect language based on the URL code this language code was not added to all the activities in the stream.