- Overall UI/UX
- Polished theme
- Numerous styling changes made throughout the whole theme for consistency including color, white space, alignment/grid, visual hierarchy
- Single, standardized, font, chosen for readability on all devices
- Source Sans Pro
- TinyMCE updated
- Seamless Plugin-based extensibility (via IEmbeddableContentFragmentType plugins)
- Preview support (see how rich content will be processed and rendered before publishing)
- Find and replace
- Special character insertion
- Consistent and touch friendly editing experience
- Much faster
- Translated in all supported language pack languages
- Optional enablement for mobile devices
- Polished theme
- Contextual Management panels
- Full management experience in the front UI
- Searchable
- Unbranded
- Extensible
- Mobile-friendly
- Editing experience
- Full theme management support within the front UI
- Better separation of contextual (this group) vs default editing
- All pages have descriptive titles and descriptions to better identify the purpose of the page (useful when editing platform-defined pages).
- Improved export support (export an entire customized group UI from the front UI in a single click)
- Improved import support (import only the pieces of an import file instead of all-or-nothing)
- Improved management of platform-defined and custom pages
- Edit header, page, and footer at once
- Stage changes and review before publishing or publish immediately
- Preview staged changes across multiple browser/devices before publishing
- As edits are made on one device, all previewing devices update and see the changes immediately
- Responsive options for widgets
- Improved layout region identification when dragging/dropping
- Forum improvements
- Improved thread list
- Improved thread list design to show more information without overwhelming
- “Frequently Asked Questions” and forum overviews (name, description, thread details) on thread list sidebars
- Improved thread
- Improved thread design to enhance readability of replies and to make it easier to reply
- Sticky thread sidebar including answer state, related questions, tags, links
- Sticky thread/content titles in the banner
- “I Have this question too” functionality
- Adds threads to new “My Questions” page in user profile
- Thread/reply notifications
- “Frequently Asked Questions” is based on thread votes
- “This helped me”
- answers voted into suggested and verified states by the community
- Removed the deleted forum
- Simplified move, join, split, and delete processes
- Can use url
- Improved thread list
- User engagement improvements
- Reply & comment buttons show to anonymous users
- Gallery improvements
- Drag and drop multiple files
- SEO
- Meta, Open Graph
- Blog, media, wiki, content pages
- Self referencing canonical urls
- Review of all <h1> references - tweaks made
- Featured Content
- Time period
- Targeted/Scoped: Feature across site or group
- Feature more types of content - addition of ideas and events
- Core API
- Leaderboards
- Site or Group level
- Date ranges
- All time, specific, rolling intervals
- Role filtering
- Allow exporting to CSV
- New API
- Ordering/Sorting
- New API to allow retrieval of individual applications
- Extended to all content and application api APIs
- REST
- Public API
- Ordered Lists - Group, forum and leaderboard lists
- New API to allow retrieval of individual applications
- Administration panels (new Control Panel)
- Simplified
- Site-wide settings only
- Settings grouped by functionality (settings + relevant plugins)
- Unbranded
- Searchable
- Extensible
- Responsive
- Simplified
- Moderation
- Overall new UI combining all moderation functionality (abuse + SPAM + moderation) with full workflow including automated expunging and notifications
- One place to review all content requiring moderator intervention (can be viewed globally, by group, by application, and/or by a specific author)
- Option to view content that is possibly abusive
- Option to view content that is actively in the abuse workflow but not yet requiring moderator review (content that will take care of itself otherwise)
- Moderators can immediately identify content as abusive (which hides the content and starts the abuse workflow)
- Auto-expunge after 60 days (configurable)
- Improved wiki abuse workflow now managed through the combined moderation UI
- Enable moderation of all content by a user throughout the site or within specific supported applications (blogs, forums, media, OAuth client)
- Moderators can shortcut any step in the abuse/moderation process (approve abusive content awaiting appeal, deny previously approved appeals, force content into the abuse queue)
- Content will show up “Under review”
- Denied moderated content enters the abuse workflow (where the author can provide a textual appeal)
- Reputation data for the author and abuse reporters is now included when reviewing abusive/moderated content.
- Moderation permission now at application level so can configure roles to manage abuse
- Abuse identification automation
- Incorporates all old SPAM rules and is extensible to add more capabilities
- Includes automated detection of abusive users with eventual automated removal
- Reviews all content supporting abuse tracking, not just specific types
- Content flagged as abusive or moderated by automation clearly identifies the automation/reason the content was flagged in the moderation queue (answering “why is this here? what do I need to adjust if we have a lot of false positives”)
- Overall new UI combining all moderation functionality (abuse + SPAM + moderation) with full workflow including automated expunging and notifications
- Ideation
- New notifications - Status change, comment
- Custom Statuses with optional reassignment
- Moderation
- Webhooks
- Specify exactly which events you want data for
- Failure management: if remote url is unresponsive, we hold those messages and deliver in order when the url becomes responsive again.
- Hash-signed data delivery for sender verification.
- Monitoring
- Tracing Panel
- Review performance and identify issues
- Trace data can be exported for review or support
- Trace other users via impersonation (even if the impersonated user doesn’t have permission to trace)
- New About Panel with exportable diagnostics
- New Exceptions panel (with plugin-specific exceptions) with export options
- Tracing Panel
- Email Digest
- Chronological
- Comprehensive
- Widget Management / New Widget Studio
- Completely rewritten integrated widget development environment featuring:
- Staged widget editing with automatic saving
- Fast, synchronized editing across multiple windows
- Multi-tab interface supporting editing of multiple components of multiple widgets simultaneously
- Tree view of all widgets and widget components
- Preview support across windows/devices
- Fast search across all widget names, descriptions, and attachment names for efficient widget navigation
- Full-screen widget editing
- Live, visual, diffing of widget changes between factory default and edited and staged and non-staged widget versions
- Simplified import/export of widgets and translations -- changes are imported into staging for review before publishing
- Full suite of keyboard shortcuts
- Auto-highlighting code editor / viewer made available throughout the UI, including Widget Studio, theme editing, and as a file viewer for source code, logs, and other textual file types
- Developer Mode
- Enables extension developers to create/edit their factory default widgets using the widget editor.
- Exposes other developer-oriented tools in the administration UI.
- Theme upgrade Improvements
- Preview
- Widget Diffing
- Performance improvements:
- Socket Framework improvements - server improvements and cross-tab connection sharing
- Plugins can now render content using widgets (as all of our management/administration UI does) and optionally enable editing of that UI.
- Improved error messages
- Critical error messages are restyled to look more modern
- New “browser not supported” messages are shown to unsupported browsers to help users download updated browsers.
- General API Improvements(Not Related to New Features)
- APIS to Get LikedItems And Sort By Like Counts
- REST API to upload temporary files into CFS as a whole or in chunks
- Authentication
- Version 2 of the SSO Plugin APIs - Simplified Interface and can be done with supported APIs
- User Deletion Updates
- Can now fully delete users and their contents
- Added new system account “FormerMember” if you want to preserve content but not effect an active user
- Can no longer assign content to anonymous, use Former Member instead