Release notes - Beta 1.9
This quarter we have many more people moving conversations into action with Socialroots. This has resulted in a lot of necessary scaling and performance improvements (detailed below), as well as some helpful new features – check it out!
New Features:
Emojis! 🫳 🎤
By popular demand, you can now leave as many emojis as you want on any note or note reply! You can search by keyword, select from various skin tones, and hover to see everyone who ‘emoted’ with any given emoji.
This critically boosts the effectiveness of asynchronous communication!
In-app Invitation Notifications
So you’re the kind who likes to get involved with a bunch of stuff, but keep missing sub/group invitation emails? No worries! Now you can find all your pending invitations with a green dot over your Workspace icon, where you can manage membership in all your Groups. Either accept or ignore invitations to clear the notification.
Changes to what supporters can do
With more customers onboarding their large networks, we have made some changes to the Supporter permissions to prevent misuse of actions. Specifically, Supporters can no longer:
- Edit key links,
- Invite people.
Both changes apply at both the group and subgroup levels.
Bug fixes and improvements:
Improving Visual Accessibility
Our ancestors weren’t known for spending hours every day staring at glowing boxes of pure-black on pure-white, and as you may expect, research has shown that extreme color contrast like this can contribute to fatigue and headaches. Since we’re coordinating through screens, we have softened contrast to help your experience to be as pleasant as screen time can be. If you’re still getting headaches, try drinking more water 😀🚰
Performance improvements
This quarter, we’ve put a lot of time into improving response times and scaling our services. This is an ongoing effort, but we made a few significant updates to support performance for larger numbers of people in groups and notes.
In-app Notifications Improvements
Improved in-app notifications enable users to see the most current information for new notes, and reduce the overall amount of notifications that are repetitive.
Email Summary Notifications Improvements
We reduced the email summary notifications to only include new items that others sent.
Persistent draft reply
Occasionally, if you scrolled off the screen in a note modal reply, you could lose your draft text. We’ve addressed this, so your draft will persist if you accidentally close the modal, and the modal won’t close due to text highlighting anymore - phew!
"About" pages are called "Settings" now
In Groups and Subgroups, Leaders could change the information and privacy setting in a page called “About (Sub)Group”. We have now renamed this to “(Sub)Group Settings” and dressed it up with the good old cog icon, so it’s more intuitive to find.
Better layout for mobile users
Certain mobile devices were having trouble sending replies or using Action Request buttons due to less-common screen dimensions. We have widened our visual coverage to support more Samsung users. But, fun fact: you still can’t take a Note 7 on an airplane - sorry Samsung fans!