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Distro Release 3.1 (Okt '18)

Open Social
Open Social Open Social • 15 January 2019

What has been improved? 

Guests can enroll in events without an account

In our last 3.0 release, we made it possible for community ‘guests’ to enroll in events without creating a community account. We’ve now made this a site-wide setting. This means you can enable or disable this feature for new events and determine whether a user is able to override this site-wide setting on a per-event basis.

 


 

Private messaging inbox is more flexible!

We used to only allow the 30 most recent threads in your private messaging inbox. But that wasn’t fair if you had more than 30! Therefore, we switched to a pagination view instead so you can see all your threads.

 

Improved unpublished comments

Unpublished comments received a great new look in 3.0 but this wasn’t the case yet for unpublished comments on posts. They felt left out. So, now all the comments on the platform have the same recognizable look when they're unpublished.

 

 

Deleted user’s name updated

Whenever a user deleted his or her account (we’re not sure why they would but ok), the name would change to Anonymous. In some cases, it would show 'Anonymous (not verified)'. We made this more consistent, meaning the '(not verified)' addition will not be shown anymore.

 

Informational blocks are all the same!

When you create a stream on a landing page, the informational blocks such as "New groups" now look the same as they do on the default Open Social streams. As it belongs.

 

Bug fixes

 

  • Moving content improved: We fixed a bug that caused moving content between groups to result in the item not showing on the group stream page
  • No background enforced for login icon: We no longer enforce a background color on the mobile user login icon. This makes it possible to use a white navigation bar in Open Social with this icon on mobile layouts.
  • Delete group message improved: Correct grammar is now used for the message that is shown when you are about to delete a group.
  • Landing buttons are clickable: Buttons with anchor tags in the hero section on landing pages only work when you click on the text inside of the button. If you click just outside of the text (but still on the button), nothing happens. Now, wherever you click, it will work.