coralproject/talk v3.7.0

v3.7.0 Hacktoberfest Edition 🎃

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A very special thank you to everyone who contributed during Hacktoberfest! 😻💻

Check out our amazing contributors! (And psst... you can be one too!).

Plugins

• Introducing our Slack Notifications plugin! 🔔
• Adding talk-plugin-slack-notifications and configuring the TALK_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL will enable posting of all new comments to a given Slack channel, so small newsrooms and blogs can monitor incoming comments via Slack
• Warning This plugin is not meant for newsrooms/blogs that receive a lot of comments
• Special thanks to @vickychijwani for contributing this awesome plugin (ref: #1057)
• Much more sophisticated Slack support coming soon... stay tuned!

Features

• No more confusingly empty spaces before the comments arrive. We've added text for when there aren't comments yet (default: "There are no comments yet, why don’t you write one?") and for when there were no comments left after the comments stream is closed (default: "There were no comments on this article.")
• Moderators can now bulk approve/reject comments from the User History view
• Adds support to handle long usernames in Community > People
• Enhancements to the Community Search
• Enhancements to pagination on the Community and Stories tabs
• Responsive support for Admin, including a new style for Viewing Options in the moderation view
• New shortcuts for Searching (ctrl+f) and Switching Queues (t) when moderating comments
• Adds support for TALK_DEFAULT_LANG environment variable, so a default language for Talk can be set, in case your users don't have their browsers set correctly
• Clearly notifies a commenter when their reporting action has failed
• Adds ability to Resend Email Verification if a commenter didn't receive the email
• Edit Window timeframe now displays in minutes and seconds instead of just seconds
• Don't allow users to ignore staff members
• Don't allow blank comments via multiple newline characters

Dev Support

• Adds support for Nightwatch and Browserstack for full end-to-end testing and cross-browser testing by running yarn e2e; to run Browserstack tests locally, you will need to run yarn e2e-browserstack and set these environment variables:
  • BROWSERSTACK_USER
  • BROWERSTACK_KEY
  • More details and documentation here: #1090
• Configure page refactor adding ConfigureCard component and adminModerationSettings, adminTechSettings, and adminStreamSettings slots
• Creation of default Dropdown and Option components for Coral UI
• Adds support for ES6 Modules and Tree Shaking
• Adds NSP support for automated security testing

Translations

• Talk now supports Danish! 🇩🇰
• Updated and improved Portuguese translations

Fixes & Enhancements

• Fixes styling issue with "Other" report text box
• Better error messaging for comments that are only one character long
• Reduce Moderator notifications to only show when comments currently displayed are featured, accepted, or rejected by other mods
• Loads username from graph and not auth to fix issue with My Profile showing wrong username/user ID
• Fixes bugs with config and setup
• Fix bug showing incorrect Reject Rate
• Configure page styling fixes
• Updated copy from "Flagged Usernames" to "Reported Usernames"
• Fixes Shortcuts help menu not dismissing
• IE11 fixes for edit message and buttons
• Fixes styling for Forgot Password flow
• Fixes admin nav width
• More cross-browser fixes for Safari, Firefox, and IE