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- New logo on the site and in the apps
- New tagline "Up for discussion"
- Sign Up is in the toolbar next to Log In
- You edit a comment in place
- Pasting a 6-digit code verifies you at once
- Your new email shows up as soon as you confirm it
- Clicking outside a form no longer closes it
- Enter and Escape close a confirmation
- You can report a post or comment again after it is edited
- Most reported sort counts only open reports
- OP is highlighted on comments
- Post titles are larger
- Community avatars in the sidebar are larger
- Text previews stop after six lines, with no fade
- Columns sit closer together
- Bans apply more consistently
- Permission checks are faster
- The posting bot runs less often
- Internal plumbing

- New messages send a push notification
- The notification opens your inbox
- Messages, notifications, and contact messages are marked read when they scroll into view
- Logged-out menu says Log In / Sign Up
- If comments fail to load, you get Try again
- You can edit flair, assign roles, kick, or ban only members below your rank
- You can still edit your own flair
- You can assign only roles below your highest role
- A community has one owner, above every role
- Names containing smasher or smashr are reserved
- Names such as admin, moderator, staff, and support are reserved
- Vote counts stay in sync when people vote at once
- Expired user bans no longer leave the profile looking banned
- A wrong password says the password is incorrect, and leaves you logged in
- Changing your password or email keeps this browser signed in, and your other devices cannot renew
- An IP ban no longer blocks log in, so you can still delete your account

- 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.

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

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

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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

Any feedback regarding Smashr is welcome here. Positive and negative! The more we know what you like (or don't like), the better we can make this platform.