coralproject/talk v4.0.0

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IMPORTANT!

Upgrading to 4.0.0 from any previous release requires a database migration and changes to your site's embed code. You will need to follow the instructions here to upgrade. We advise you to test this release thoroughly before deploying to a production environment.

If you have any questions or need assistance, reach out to our team by logging a support ticket.

Features & Enhancements

• Major refactor of user roles, statuses and attributes to allow for better user management, including banning/unbanning flows, suspending/unsuspending flows, managing flagged usernames/changing of usernames, and managing of roles and role permissions (commenter, staff, moderator, and administrators) (ref: #1154) 💫
• Improved User Search in the Community page by supporting it via GraphQL (ref: #1244) 🕵️‍

New Plugins

• Released the Custom Asset ID plugin from The Register-Guard to enable custom lazy id's - thank you, Register-Guard! 💖

Plugin Support

• Add doNotStore param for our Toxic Comments plugin
  • Defaults to true, meaning Jigsaw will not store your comment text. Change this to false to help Google Jigsaw improve its toxicity models.
  • Settable as environment variable TALK_PERSPECTIVE_DO_NOT_STORE
  • Docs: https://coralproject.github.io/talk/additional-plugins/#talk-plugin-toxic-comments
• Add plugin context to plugin functions to allow access to properties like the current Talk version

Dev Support

• Refactor of flags/locales so flags are properly translated and managed (ref: #1045)
• CSS improvements & i18n fixes so emails are properly translated and you can override CSS on the admin pages (ref: #1237)
• Introduced flag and action caching on a per user basis to save on some of those database queries
• Add Safari support to Browserstack for cross-browser testing
• Optimize bundle size by leveraging lodash es6 modules
• Rewrote package scripts, please visit our technical documentation for updates

Translations

• Thank you to our amazing community for providing new translations!
  • Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

Fixes

• Mark single dangling comments
• Reflow when switching from single mode to multi mode
• Scroll to selected comment when switching from single mode to multi mode and vice versa
• Banning, Suspending, and Rejecting a username updates live on the comment stream for the commenter
• Styling and copy fixes
• Firefox specific UI fixes