Major updates
- MainCross Installable Webapps (MCiW) form factor has moved out of beta after being progressively released with incremental features over the past 1 year. Read more in the product story. #InstallableWebapps
- Payments have moved out of beta. Two Payment Gateways are supported - Razorpay in India and Stripe worldwide. #Payments are used across the platform for a variety of uses - Event ticketing, Paywalled channels and ad-hoc payment collections.
- Post URLs follow a uniform format of /p/<slug>-<encoded string> for future proofing. The earlier post URL formats have been retired.
- However - ALL earlier post URLs will continue working as before. The canonical link tag for posts served on the old URLs are set to the corresponding new URL.
- When a crawler fetches a page using the old URL for a post, it will see the canonical link and associate the old page with the new.
- The Testimonial & Team profile components from the #ComponentLibrary can be fully styled like blurbs - border, color, background. See examples of component styling here.
- Contextual help resources now open within the app, instead of launching the help page externally. This leads to a better user experience since the help page opens in a modal and the user does not lose the context by launching an external browser or new browser tab.
- Featured page fonts can be overridden with any font sources from the fontsource.org service.
- 2 fonts can be set - one for headings and titles, and one for all the text, only on Featured pages.
- This setting is available under Hero Dashboard > Network dashboard > Visual config
- This feature is in beta.
- Conversation derived authoring tools (ie Update, Question, Event, Scan and Form post types) store a single draft per post type on the local device, eg one can simultaneously have an Update and Event post in draft.
- Drafts are automagically stored based on activity - no user intervention is needed.
- The draft is persistent across open/close of the site / app / browser / browser tab, device sleep, or even a crash etc.
- Whenever the authoring tool is reopened, the earlier draft is automatically loaded.
- The draft can be discarded by clicking the Trash icon on the toolbar at the top.
- This feature is in beta.
- Web Push, a protocol to allow push notifications in a browser and MCiW environments (like mobile app push notifications), has been released in early access.
- Footer component has been further enhanced and now allows 2 lines of text, copyright message, social icons and statutory pages links. Read more in the help article.
Issues fixed
- Channel Actions (ie in-page navigation) menu strip released in last version was not working for private channels.
- Moderator Actions > Moderate tab (still in beta) was not allowing certain actions correctly:
- All unpublished posts (whether unpublished in Moderated Channels or Ghost Posts) should allow deletion
- Only unpublished posts in Moderated Channels should allow Publishing, not Ghost Posts.
- If a post edit is in progress, and one uses browser back instead of the Cancel button, then the "Create a new post" selector screen would pop up.
- Correctly set the width and height of the Image Editor widget in the Form Designer.
UI changes
- "Help center" button has moved from the Navigation column to logged in menu to save space.
- The statutory pages links on the Navigation column are more compact and sleeker to save space.
- Article and Page authoring tools also have a toolbar at the top