Announcements

- Sign In is now Log In, and Register is now Sign Up
- Logged-out actions (post, vote, join) open Sign Up
- After you log in from a prompt, the page refreshes so you're signed in
- Click a community banner to open it larger
- Communities with no posts for 30 days show a quiet notice, with a Post something link if you can post
- About now says why Smashr exists
- Community type (Public, Restricted, Private) is on About, with a tooltip for who can view, post, and comment
- On a wide screen, community and user About sits in the right column next to Posts
- Post pages show the community's name, description, and type on the right
- Logged-in Home and All have a Create Post card on the right: It's happening. Share it.
- Site title is Smashr - The living room of the internet
- Global rules links open in a new tab
- Rules, flairs, and moderator lists on private communities are only visible to members
- Community owners have every permission in their community
- Expired community bans no longer keep the community looking banned

- SmashrWire is live: Smashr's news desk, posting sourced stories in News, Gaming, Technology, and Science
- SmashrWire is marked as a bot and doesn't comment
- Link previews work on more sites
- Featured communities in the sidebar
- Continue with Email button
- Sign In button uses the Smashr purple
- Ctrl+click (and open-in-new-tab) works on posts, comments, communities, and notifications
- Click an avatar on a user or community page to open it larger
- Avatars are sharper
- Bolder buttons and icons
- Empty home page now points you to /all and browse communities
- New avatars and banners for communities

- Android app is now live
- Push notifications added on Android
- Creating a post or community now takes you to the new page (and keeps working after you go back)
- Request-to-join is available on communities that require approval
- YouTube embeds show a proper cover image
- Toggle layout fixed
- Community tools layout cleaned up
- New History page
- Stronger password requirements
- Sign-in tokens now stored in cookies on web and mobile
- Security and privacy hardening across the stack
- Validation and error messages aligned between client and server
- Infinite feed retries cleanly when a request fails
- Better appearance in Google Search
- Assorted reliability and performance clean-ups under the hood

We are working hard to bring new features, performance and stability.

A bug that blocked registration is fixed. New accounts should work again.

This is what’s on the site right now (amongst others).

Posts and comments
• Text, link, and image posts
• Edit, delete, vote, share, bookmark, report
• Markdown
• Content warnings
• YouTube links play in place
• Sort posts by hot, new, top
• Nested comments
• Sort comments by best, new, old, top
• Lock a post so it can’t take new comments

Communities
• Browse, create, join, leave
• Public, restricted, and private
• Image, banner, description, rules, flairs
• Moderators, member roles, ownership transfer
• Join requests (for private)
• Bans
• Pin posts
• Approve or remove posts and comments

Accounts
• Sign up, sign in, password reset
• Profile image and bio
• Change email or password, delete account
• Notifications
• Direct messages
• Content filters (hide or cover warnings)
• Your posts, comments, votes, and bookmarks (private) on your profile
• Light, dark, or device theme

Site
• Home (joined communities) and All
• Search posts and communities
• Works on phones
• Site rules, legal pages, contact

And we're just getting started.

Users can now send each other direct messages.
Currently supports sending messages and inbox feature. Outbox will be added.

* Create text post
* Create link post
* Create image post (support for drag & drop)
* Edit post
* Markdown support for posts
* Report post
* Mark post as nudity, violence or spoiler
* Upvote and downvote a post
* Sort posts by hot, new and top
* Share post
* Approve or remove a post
* Pin a post to the top of a space
* YouTube integration
* View post reports (moderator)
* Infinite scrolling for posts
* Nested comments
* Comment on a post
* Reply to a comment
* Report a comment
* Edit a comment
* Delete a comment
* Upvote and downvote a comment
* Approve or remove a comment
* Sort comments by best, new, old and top
* View comment reports (moderator)
* Infinite scrolling for comments
* Browse spaces
* Join spaces
* Leave spaces
* Create a space
* Edit space details (inc image)
* Edit space default content warnings
* Delete a space
* Manage space members
* Assign roles to space members
* Ban a user from a space
* Unban a user from a space
* Transfer space ownership
* Moderate posts (by reported, approved, removed, unmoderated)
* Moderate comments (by reported, approved, removed, unmoderated)
* Infinite scrolling for spaces
* Create account
* Change account password
* Reset account password
* Edit profile (inc avatar)
* Edit prefered content settings
* Notifications
* Contact dialog
* Dark theme, light theme, device theme
* Mobile support
* Developer API
* ..

This fixes an issue that could occur when redirecting to an URL with a special character in it.
Pre-existing notifications have been removed.

In our most recent website update, we're excited to unveil the addition of nested comments.
We've opted for a sleek flat design that features a vertical trail of parent comments, deviating from the more conventional tree structure.
This design choice comes with several advantages over the traditional tree format:

* Simplified navigation: A flatter structure makes navigation less complex
* Vertical scanning: Users can easily scan downward instead of horizontally
* Reduced cognitive load: The page is visually lighter, enhancing the user experience
* Seamless vertical scrolling: Users can scroll smoothly through comments
* Improved hierarchy tracking: It's easier to keep track of your position in the comment hierarchy
* Avoidance of excessive indentation: The design prevents endless indentation, keeping discussions on screen
* Contextual presentation: Each comment brings its context along
* Independent comment sorting: Users can sort comments independently of the entire tree
* Detailed comments: The flat design allows for more detailed and on-topic comments
* Easy external linking: Effortlessly link to a specific comment using external URLs
* Mobile optimization: Flat design ensures a smooth and user-friendly commenting experience on mobile devices.

For further insights on the discussion surrounding flat and threaded designs in web discussions, explore these related articles:

* https://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design/
* https://blog.codinghorror.com/discussions-flat-or-threaded/
* https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/1712/what-is-a-good-way-to-display-infinite-nested-comments

..but depending on authentication status now shows posts from all spaces or only posts from joined spaces

🚀🚀🚀

We used to have a dialog to preserve scroll position when navigating back in the browser but it has now been solved in a different way.

It's free real estate! (especially important on mobile)

* Added markdown support
* Done

Changes made this month:

* Refactored REST API (Not public yet)
* New permission system (enabling you to e.g., create posts while not being a member of a space)
* Server side rendering & hydration (Only for webcrawlers for SEO reasons)
* Set up a reverse proxy.

Yeah we got to do some marketing

Edit: And I see some text formatting would also be nice

You can now check out the owner, administrators, and moderators of a space in the About-tab.