v2.14.4

• Fix bug adding chatbots
• Pressing enter multiple times now results in more space in your comment
• We show an error when comments fail to save
• Add h1 back to formatting tools.

v2.14.3

• fix for voting after your stance was revoked, but the poll was open to anyone in the group
• update version number in app :)

v2.14.2

• Add API endpoint for managing group members
• Fix "remove self" from poll
• Gem and Npm updates
• Add a rough importer for SQL from "mybb" forum software

v2.14.1 bug fixes for chatbots

• Chatbots add help link
• fix linking to tags
• add category tags to group menu
• locales update
• break chatbot notification into it's own background job, so retry does not resend emails

Chatbots and Thread templates

This release includes the first public release of our Chatbots system:

• There are chatbots for Slack, Matrix, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams and Discord.
• The notifications the bot sends to the channel look great, and use ASCII art to display poll graphs.
• You can choose to notify the bot as you would notify other people in the group.

This also includes Thread templates

• Any thread you can view, you can "Make a copy" which opens the "New thread" form prefilled with the context and tags etc of the thread you are copying.
• You can mark threads as being "Templates"
• If you have threads marked as "Templates" then when you click "New thread" you'll see a list of templates to start your new thread with.

Wow.

Other stuff:

• We block nasty websites from appearing in the automatic link previews with a domain blocklist
• The usual gem and npm updates. And small bug fixes we've done along the way.

2.13.2 - Fix bug voting on poll when not directly invited to do so

This release fixes a problem with polls where "anyone in the group can vote" but if people are not specifically invited, they may have a problem voting.

v2.13.1 bugfix for polls with hide results until_vote

This fixes a bug where voting on a poll with hide_results="until_closed", where you vote, then the results disappear from screen.

Also

• bug fix for case where some translations were not applied
• bug fix for converting wysiwyg to markdown
• translations updates and more

Poll results, email templates and chatbot upgrades

This release came about as we prepare for much better chatbot support in Loomio. It feels like a big clarification of a bunch of code and templates.

We simplified the generation of poll results so that it's easier to implement views for the chatbots.
You will notice:

• Poll results now include an "undecided" column, so it's easy to see who is yet to participate
• We now display individual bar charts along side the options, rather than the bar across the top of results.
• Email templates show much richer poll results - and look almost identical to in-app results
• Email templates now render nicely in Microsoft Outlook
• There are way fewer translation strings in the app - making it a bit easier to translate Loomio
• Email templates now include group cover photo and logo

We've also upgrade the import/export group data functions of Loomio.

• When you export your data from loomio.org to your own server, ids are rewritten - preventing a nasty id collision bug
• You can now import from your own server, to loomio.org or another bigger server if you get tired of running your own host
• We correctly handle importing attachments and file uploads from the origin server, so the export process is complete now.

Other improvements:

• SSR pages now auto detect light or dark mode, so there is no flash of white when loading a Loomio thread in darkmode.
• Fixed a bug with the API so notifying people on new discussions and polls works correctly
• Rewritten how we manage sequence_id generation in threads, it's more reliable and does not use redis. Instead an atomic update via postgresql.

Added a chatbot function, which is switched off currently, but allows us to manage multiple chatbots via the loomio_channel_server. This should make it fairly easy for us to add a Chatbot that can relay notificaitons to your chatroom just as you would notify any particular person from the app. More coming soon.

Thanks for reading :)

v2.12.2

Fixes a bug where version records (edit history of comments, discussions, polls etc) was being deleted during the daily cleanup.

v2.12.1

• Improved API documentation
• Improved sequence id management for thread items (replace Redis sequence with Postgres sequence)
• Gem updates