These are the patch notes for Spectrum Alpha 0.3.5.
New Features
- New User Forums Settings!
- You can now select your preference for how threads are sorted (hot, last-activity, top, new) in channels via the Settings.
- You can now select your preferred thread view mode (nested, classic) via the Settings.
- You can now select your preference for how thread replies are sorted (top, new, old) via the Settings.
- The forum category default sort setting has been removed and is replaced by a user-specific setting.
- The thread type chosen in previous Spectrum versions has been replaced by a user-specific setting pair (sort and view mode)
- Threads will now persist your preferred view mode and sort if you change it from your user-specific setting.
- A new forum category level setting allow you to enforce that threads must be created with a tag.
- Roles: Community admins can now set specific roles to be tracked for display in the threads list
- Forums: Threads list will now indicate which threads contain posts made using tracked roles in that community (Staff posts will be marked in the SC public community)
- Forums: You can now bookmark forum tags directly to your sidebar!
- Forums: You can now browse the tags available for each forum category and community index
- Bookmarks: You can now edit your bookmark aliases by visiting the "Manage Bookmarks" view.
- Search: New filters are now available to search by author and role within your communities.
Improvements
- Categories: Improvements to the forum category threads list to include yellow unread markers in a tighter interface
- Categories: More responsive layout for threads list on thinner window sizes
- Categories: Major improvements in loading speeds for forum category thread listing
- Threads: Spectrum now tracks if you read each reply in a thread and will display a yellow unread marker to indicate a reply you have never read
- Threads: Spectrum will now properly propagate the OpenGraph images if a thread has a media preview when using permalinks
- Search: UI is now available also on mobile and tablet size displays
- Lobby: Presences are now rendered using virtual lists to allow fast display of large groups (no more: Too many users to display)
- Emoji: Data set was upgraded to include Unicode 9 / Emoji 4
Bug Fixes
- Spectrum no longer tries to apply style on link, emoji and mention entities
- Sidebar: Communities are no longer partially obscured when the list is expanded
- Lobby: Inline styles are now allowed within /me command
- Lobby: Ensure the message is saved after editing even if only the styles where modified
- Lobby: Fixed issue that prevented using up arrow to edit the last message a second time
- Threads: Posting a reply to a thread will now properly mark the thread as read up to your reply.
- Threads: New reply bar will now properly update once a thread is read fully
- Forum: Editing a thread OP or reply no longer resets the thread last-activity in the category
- Categories: Fixed misbehaving navigation bar and sticky header on iOS
- Categories: Fixed sort selector rendering on Internet Explorer
- Embed: GIPHY is now a supported .gifv source
- Search: You are no longer obligated to provide a search term for results to be fetched
- Image modal should now be centered properly on mobile screens
Known Issues
- The search indexer is currently re-indexing all messages to fix a problem with badly reported authors. It should be done in the next hour!
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