I’ve upgraded the forum. Let me know if there are any major issues.
New in Version 1.8.0
- “Get a room” reminder sent once per topic, to any user who replies to the same user in that topic 3 times in a row.
- Timed re-open (automatic re-open after cooldown period of close)
- Allow new signups to change their email address as well as resend confirmation, in case they typoed their signup email
- Congratulations emails to new users who get a number of likes by established users, and new users who read a lot of topics/posts in their first few days
- Forward multiple emails to Discourse, staging unknown emails as new users and attaching matching existing users by email
- Rebuild user prefs page to use subtabs
- Specify email address in PM to field
- Basic internal search stats in admin dashboard
- Refactor topic performance to support topics with 100k posts+ without serious performance impact
- Implement mini-onebox for internal links (replace with title)
- Support converting pre-moderated posts to PMs
- Skin tone support for emoji
New in version 1.7.0:
- Revamped, simpler categories page with hybrid latest panel
- Add group avatar logos to group settings
- Add passive dim red line to topic lists, indicating time of last visit
- Add quick search setting for large sites
- New site setup wizard UI experience
- Advanced search UI
- Attempt to onebox all URLs by default
- Support alternate URL schemas if allowed such as ftp://, steam:// etc
- Topic title on scroll up (or expanding progress bar) in mobile
- Specify a default sort order per-category
- Allow self oneboxing of login required sites
- Extend blacklist censor words to support regular expressions
- Allow groups to be specified via SSO
- Warn when mentioning a @user in a topic they can’t see (a PM for example) and offer to invite them
- Completely reworked summary (digest) email format
- “Safe Mode” or disable all third party plugins and customizations with one click, for easier troubleshooting
- Move “Discourse Links Category” into core as a bundled feature
- Add shadowbox and help text for new users’ first notification
- whisper feature no longer experimental
- Upgrade Ember to latest version
- Add official iOS and Android “apps” that are browser bundles
- Display name for groups and self-invite on group page if allowed
- Forward single emails to Discourse and have them work as expected
