coralproject/talk v3.5.0

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Features

• Introducing In-Stream Moderation 🎈
  • Now Moderators can easily accept, reject, or feature comments, as well as ban users, directly from the comment stream on the article
  • This is available by adding the plugin talk-plugin-moderation-actions to your plugins.json file
• The Flagged Username queue now has a count so Moderators can have a better idea of how much activity is happening there
• New Moderator labels make make it easier to moderate at a glance (ref: #971):
  • Reply label shows if a comment is a reply
  • Premod label shows if a comment is currently in a pre-mod state
  • History flag label shows if a comment is flagged because of a user's history (e.g. they are below the Trust threshold)
  • Suspect flag label shows if a comment is flagged because it has one or more suspicious words
  • User flag label shows if a comment was flagged by a fellow reader

Plugins

• We're introducing 2 new non-default plugins:
  • talk-plugin-remember-sort saves the last user sorting choice into pymStorage and loads it before render, so the reader can keep their last sort saved as they peruse articles
  • talk-plugin-deep-reply-count counts replies as all replies in a thread by adding a new field to the graph deepReplyCount which can be used by plugin authors to craft plugins to display this information
    • Warning: this plugin could impact the performance of sites with many levels of nesting; it not recommended for any site exceeding 3 levels deep of commenting; please test extensively before deploying to a production environment

Dev Support

• Continued work to migrate fully from REST APIs to GraphQL
• Replace all React.PropTypes with PropTypes to support newer versions of React
• Add optional TALK_HELMET_CONFIGURATION environment variable setting (addresses #962)
• Adds support for new static root configuration:
  • TALK_STATIC_URI (optional) - Used to set the uri where the static assets should be served from. This is used when you want to upload the static assets through your build process to a service like Google Cloud Storage or Amazon S3 and you would then specify the CDN/Storage url (default process.env.TALK_ROOT_URL)
  • TALK_DISABLE_STATIC_SERVER (optional) - When TRUE, it will not mount the static asset serving routes on the router (default FALSE)
• Add support for a new runtime variable that is injected to the client to specify a different root url to use for subscriptions:
  • process.env.TALK_WEBSOCKET_LIVE_URI when set should point to the endpoint (path included) to the web socket server
  • Example, the Talk API is being served out of https://sitea.com; specifying TALK_WEBSOCKET_LIVE_URI=wss://siteb.com/api/v1/live will allow you to have the server use that instead
  • Warning: if used without managing the auth state manually, auth cannot be persisted
• Introduce init property for plugins that is called with the context and resolved before render
• The bootstrap service now accepts a preInit and init option; use new bootstrap options to load config before rendering the embed
• Implement a introspection service with an isValidEnumValue method
• Implement pymStorage that uses the localStorage of the parent and is available on the context

Fixes & Enhancements

• If a comment is approved and then edited, the status on the comment should be reset to before it was approved; rejected comments should stay rejected
• Fix issue with "Staff" users not getting a "Staff" badge
• Fix off-topic checkbox not un-checking itself after submitting a comment
• Fix issues with the highlighting of banned and suspect words/phrases in the Mod queues
• Fix notifications no longer showing
• Replaces the hard-coded string, "All Comments", with a translation string on the All Comments Pane Tab